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System City
Michael Weinstock
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Description for System City
Paperback. A radical shift is taking place in the way that society is thinking about cities, a change from the machine metaphors of the 20th century to mathematical models of the processes of biological and natural systems. This book focuses on the design of the thousands of new cities needed for an expanding world population. Series: Architectural Design. Num Pages: 136 pages, Illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: AMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 274 x 211 x 11. Weight in Grams: 584.
A radical shift is taking place in the way that society is thinking about cities, a change from the machine metaphors of the 20th century to mathematical models of the processes of biological and natural systems. From this new perspective, cities are regarded not simply as spatially extended material artefacts, but as complex systems that are analogous to living organisms, exhibiting many of the same characteristics. There is an emerging view that the design of the thousands of new cities needed for an expanding world population are to be founded on intelligent and inhabited infrastructural systems or ‘flow architectures’ of ... Read more
A radical shift is taking place in the way that society is thinking about cities, a change from the machine metaphors of the 20th century to mathematical models of the processes of biological and natural systems. From this new perspective, cities are regarded not simply as spatially extended material artefacts, but as complex systems that are analogous to living organisms, exhibiting many of the same characteristics. There is an emerging view that the design of the thousands of new cities needed for an expanding world population are to be founded on intelligent and inhabited infrastructural systems or ‘flow architectures’ of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Series
Architectural Design
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781118361429
SKU
V9781118361429
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About Michael Weinstock
Michael Weinstock is Director of Research and Development and Director of the Emergent Technologies and Design programme in the Graduate School of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He has taught at the AA since 1989 in a range of positions from workshop tutor through to Academic Head. Over the last decade his published work has arisen from ... Read more
Reviews for System City
“Personally, I found several of the ideas presented in the book relevant for my own research, and possilbe sources of cross-fertilization.“ (Environment & Planning B: Planning & Design 2015, 1 January