{"product_id":"understanding-cities-alexander-cuthbert-9780415608244","title":"Understanding Cities: Method in Urban Design","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Cities\u003c\/em\u003e is richly textured, complex and challenging. It creates the vital link between urban design theory and praxis and opens the required methodological gateway to a new and unified field of urban design. Using spatial political economy as his most important reference point, Alexander Cuthbert both interrogates and challenges mainstream urban design and provides an alternative and viable comprehensive framework for a new synthesis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe rejects the idea of yet another theory in urban design, and chooses instead to construct the necessary intellectual and conceptual scaffolding for what he terms 'The New Urban Design'. Building both on Michel de Certeau's concept of heterology - 'thinking about thinking' - and on the framework of his previous books \u003cem\u003eDesigning Cities\u003c\/em\u003e and The \u003cem\u003eForm of Cities\u003c\/em\u003e, Cuthbert uses his prior adopted framework - history, philosophy, politics, culture, gender, environment, aesthetics, typologies and pragmatics - to create three integrated texts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverall, the trilogy allows a new field of urban design to emerge. Pre-existing and new knowledge are integrated across all three volumes, of which \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Cities\u003c\/em\u003e is the culminating text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander Cuthbert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415608244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415608244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.80w x 0.70d","brand":"Alexander Cuthbert","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443468611839,"sku":"9780415608244","price":70.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c7f6ea5b-2fa6-44de-996c-f0e269acd6f8.jpg?v=1777205733","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/understanding-cities-alexander-cuthbert-9780415608244","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}