Author : Marcus White
Release : 2020-02-17
Genre : Architecture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 117/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Death of Urbanism by : Marcus White
Download or read book The Death of Urbanism written by Marcus White. This book was released on 2020-02-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Koolhaas pronounced urbanism dead in 1995. Since then, urban design has struggled to come to terms with this and other losses including environmental stability, af- fordable housing, design control, and urban amenity. This book explores urban design paradigms transitioning through a misappropriation of Kübler-Ross' "five stages of grief" – from pro-sprawl 'denial', NIMBY 'anger', revisionist NewUrban, 'bargaining', 'depressed' starchitects, through to an optimistic manifesto of 'acceptance'.