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Engaged Urbanism: Cities and Methodologies
Campkin Ben And Duij
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Description for Engaged Urbanism: Cities and Methodologies
Paperback. How can we understand the variety and dynamism of contemporary cities and urban experience across the globe? BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 301 x 2. Weight in Grams: 790.
Engaged Urbanism showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities. Its authors offer succinct, candid and carefully illustrated commentaries on the trials and successes of risk-taking research, revealing how they collaborate across fields of expertise, inventing or adapting methods to suit bespoke situations. Featuring novel uses and combinations of practice-from activism, architectural design and undercover journalism, to film, sculpture, performance and photography- in a diversity of cities such as Beirut, Johannesburg, Kisumu, London and Rio de Janeiro, Engaged Urbanism demonstrates how some of the greatest challenges for present and future populations ... Read more
Engaged Urbanism showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities. Its authors offer succinct, candid and carefully illustrated commentaries on the trials and successes of risk-taking research, revealing how they collaborate across fields of expertise, inventing or adapting methods to suit bespoke situations. Featuring novel uses and combinations of practice-from activism, architectural design and undercover journalism, to film, sculpture, performance and photography- in a diversity of cities such as Beirut, Johannesburg, Kisumu, London and Rio de Janeiro, Engaged Urbanism demonstrates how some of the greatest challenges for present and future populations ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784534592
SKU
V9781784534592
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99-50
About Campkin Ben And Duij
Ben Campkin is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and Director of UCL s Urban Laboratory. He is the author of Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture (2015), which received the 2015 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Foundation Book Award. Ger Duijzings is Professor in Social Anthropology at the ... Read more
Reviews for Engaged Urbanism: Cities and Methodologies
'In putting all our sensory capacities to work, Engaged Urbanism offers evidence of the efficacy of methodological invention and demonstrates the possibilities researchers, activists, service providers, and policymakers everywhere have available to deepen their understandings of urban life and to work creatively with what is available to them. Participatory photography, art installations, data and spatial mapping, collective writing, undercover detection, ... Read more