Concurrent Urbanities: Designing Infrastructures of Inclusion / Edition 1

by Miodrag Mitrasinovic

Overview

Concurrent Urbanities teaches designers how to create social and political change through spatial and urban transformation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138810228
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/17/2015
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Miodrag Mitrašinović is an architect, urbanist, and author. Miodrag is an Associate Professor of Urbanism and Architecture at Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA, where he has served as Dean of The School of Design Strategies (2009-12), and Chair of Urban and Transdisciplinary Design (2007-09). He is the author of Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space (Ashgate 2006), co-editor of Travel, Space, Architecture (with Jilly Traganou, Ashgate 2009), and editor of Concurrent Urbanities (Routledge 2015). His first two books received Graham Foundation Grants in 2004 and 2006 respectively. His professional and scholarly work has been published internationally.

Table of Contents

1. Preface: We are here 2. Where is Our Civic Imagination? 3. Walking Out of the Contemporary 4. Walks On the Wild Side 5. Hester Street Collaborative: Developing a Model for Community-Led Design 6. Images of the City: The Work of the Center for Urban Pedagogy 7. Citizen Collectives, Co-Design and the Unforeseen Future(s) of the Post-Socialist City 8. Cohabitation Strategies: Socio-spatial approaches, practices, and pedagogies with a dialectical perspective 9. Citizenship by Design 10. Urban Method Acting 11. Building Community Capacities through Design: Amplify New York 12. Design Action 13. The Center for Recreation and New Media in Novi Sad 14. Urbanization, Design and Civil Society