Urban flotsam : stirring the city

Chora - Raoul Bunschoten, Takuro Hoshino, Helene Binet

ISBN 10: 9064503877 / ISBN 13: 9789064503870

Editore: Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2001

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Chora - Raoul Bunschoten, Takuro Hoshino, Helene Binet. Urban flotsam : stirring the city. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2001. Hardback, Fine. Grey cloth, decorated in black, with lighter grey lettering to front and spine. Binding strong and tight. 448pp., colour and b/w photographs and illustrations throughout. Contents clean and bright. The manner in which global trends affect cities and increase instability is like letting a rising river loose on a house. Global trends create urban flotsam that forms a second skin of the earth. How is this visible and how can it be useful in urban planning? This book answers questions through examples. It contains a manifesto for a general debate of issues, a poetic setting of the theme of the second skin and case studies undertaken in urban situations. With splendid photographs and magnificent conceptual maps and diagrams, the book balances between urban theory, urban pedagogy and urban poetry. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Codice articolo ABE-1704405043336

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Titolo: Urban flotsam : stirring the city

Casa editrice: Rotterdam: 010 Publishers

Data di pubblicazione: 2001

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Fine

Edizione: 1st Edition

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The manner in which global trends affect cities and increase instability is like letting a rising river loose on a house. Global trends create urban flotsam that forms a second skin of the earth. How is this visible and how can it be useful in urban planning? This book answers questions through examples. It contains a manifesto for a general debate of issues, a poetic setting of the theme of the second skin and case studies undertaken in urban situations. With splendid photographs and magnificent conceptual maps and diagrams, the book balances between urban theory, urban pedagogy and urban poetry.