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100	1		_aFry, Tony _910399
245	1	0	_aRemaking cities : _ban introduction to urban metrofitting _cTony Fry
260			_aLondon : _bBloomsbury Publishing Plc, _cc2017.
300			_aix, 265 p. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine 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.
520			_a"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 fragmented and inadequate. Fresh thinking is needed. In Remaking Cities, renowned design theorist Tony Fry brings a conceptual design perspective to the challenge of urban sustainability and resilience. In a typically far-sighted and provocative work, Fry presents ideas and actions for 'metrofitting' - a new kind of practice in architecture and urban design. Metrofitting expands the technological concept of retrofit up to the city scale, placing social, cultural, political and ethical concerns at its heart. Metrofitting is not about visionary technology, it is about transforming existing cities by combining available resources with human creativity, prompted by new thinking about new and old urban problems. It requires overcoming outmoded Eurocentric assumptions of what constitutes a city, rethinking their forms and structures, and understanding their metabolic processes and social and economic functions. This book provides conceptually strong practical approaches that will ultimately change the whole way we view cities and the way the urban future is designed. Illustrated with international case studies of metrofitting in action, Remaking Cities will provoke and stimulate debate among architects, urban designers, and anyone concerned with the urban environment and social and cultural change."--
650		0	_aUrban ecology (Sociology) _96587
650		0	_aSustainable urban development _96586
650		0	_aCity planning _xSocial aspects _915483
650		7	_aARCHITECTURE _xGeneral _915484
650		7	_aARCHITECTURE _xUrban & Land Use Planning _915485
650		7	_aARCHITECTURE _xSustainability & Green Design _915486
650		7	_aDESIGN _xHistory & Criticism _915487
650		7	_aCity planning _xSocial aspects _915483
650		7	_aSustainable urban development. _96586
650		7	_aUrban ecology (Sociology) _96587
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