Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City by Sennett, Richard

Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781788737807)

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Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City by Sennett, Richard

Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City

$24.95
Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City by Sennett, Richard

Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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Rethinking the open city

Planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? Can disorder be designed?

Fifty years ago, Richard Sennett wrote his groundbreaking work The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. The need for the Open City, the alternative, is now more urgent that ever. In this provocative essay, Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennett propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the life of our cities. What the authors call 'infrastructures for disorder' combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism in order to develop places that nurture rather than stifle, bring together rather than divide, remain open to change rather than rapidly stagnate.

Designing Disorder is a radical and transformative manifesto for the future of twenty-first-century cities.

Author: Richard Sennett, Pablo Sendra
ISBN-10: 1788737806
ISBN-13: 9781788737807
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.80d
By Richard Sennett
By Richard Sennett
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Pablo Sendra is Lecturer in Planning and Urban Design at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. He combines his academic career with professional practice in urban design. He is Co-founder of the urban design practice Lugadero and Co-founder of Civicwise. He co-edited and co-authored, respectively, the books Civic Practices and Community-Led Regeneration. He is part of the City Collective for the journal City.

Richard Sennett's first book was The Uses of Disorder in 1970. His other books include The Fall of Public Man, Flesh and Stone and Respect, as well as the recent Homo Faber trilogy: The Craftsman; Together; Building and Dwelling.

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