Remaking Cities An introduction to urban metrofitting

• Main Author: Fry, Tony (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Bloomsbury Academic 2017
• Subjects: Urban ecology (Sociology); Sustainable urban development; City planning > Social aspects
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Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability - in the face of such problems our current attempts at producing a sustainable agenda for the world's cities appear fragm...

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note:
• Preface
• Introduction Part I: Contexts of Change: the limits of how we see cities today
• 1. Cities Now
• 2. Understanding the City as a Designing Event
• 3. What Designs a City?
• 4. The City, Humanity & Time
• 5. Urban Imperatives
• 6. New Imaginaries & the City
• 7. Other Worlds are Coming
• 8. Post-Sustainability Part II Contexts of Action
• 9. Metrofitting: Take Two
• 10. Metrofitting, Thinking Otherwise
• 11. Unlearning & Learning
• 12. Metrofitting & the De-signing of Design
• 13. Metrofitting & Urban Design Fictions
• 14. Space, Time, Dwelling & Movement
• 15. Metrofitting and Being in the City Part III Introduction to the case studies
• Cincinnati Case Study
• New Cairo Case Study Selected Bibliography
• Index.