Small Scale: Creative Solutions for Better City Living
October 2010
By Keith Moskow, Robert Linn
Think big, design small. This is the rallying cry of a new generation of architects and artists who aim to improve the lives of city-dwellers through small-scale public design projects. Using the city as an open-source platform for ideas, these visionaries create urban interventions" to address problems specific to urban life. Small Scale presents fifty ingenious yet simple projects ranging from the purely conceptual to the fully realized. From a bridge that curls up into itself when not in use, to a stacked rental car dispenser, to a bus-stop like shelter that uses bright lights to treat seasonal affective disorder in the winter, these projects energize our cities leftover spaces and help us imagine the future of our urban infrastructure.
The projects in Small Scale are organized into three sections: those that provide practical services, those that share information, and those that simply delight. Each project is eminently achievable and most do not require many permits or much government oversight or tremendous use of natural resources; indeed, some suggest solutions to the larger problem of energy consumption. Designed by both well-known and up-and-coming architects and artists including Diller Scofidio + Renfro, H weler + Yoon Architecture, Morphosis, Studio Olafur Eliasson, and many more, the projects in Small Scale reflect the promise of new ideas, new materials, and new technologies."
- Bracket 2: Goes Soft
- Cities: X Lines: Approaches to City and Open Territory Design
- City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch
- City Transformed: Urban Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century
- Collage City
- Combinatory Urbanism : A Realignment of Complex Behavior and Collective Form
- Critical Spatial Practice #6: The Roundabout Revolutions
- Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto For Manhattan
- Designing Cities
- Event Cities 02
- Event Cities 03
- Event Cities 04
- Fast-Forward Urbanism: Rethinking Architecture's Engagement with the City
- Garden Cities of Tomorrow
- Going Public: Public Architecture, Urbanism And Interventions
- Heterotopia and the City: Public Space in a Postcivil Society
- La rue est à nous... tous! ( The street belongs to all of us! )
- Made in Tokyo: Guide Book
- Masterplanning the Adaptive City: Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century
- Measuring The Non-measurable 02: Tokyo/bangkok/singapore
- Measuring The Non-measurable 03: Mn'm Workbook 1
- Measuring The Non-measurable 04: Mn'm Workbook 2
- Measuring The Non-measurable 05: Post-souvenir City
- Measuring The Non-measurable 06: Subjectivities In Investigation Of The Urban
- Measuring The Non-measurable 07: Mn'm Workbook 3
- Measuring The Non-measurable 08: In The Search Of Urban Quality
- Megastructure Reloaded: Visionary Architecture and Urban Planning of the 1960s Reflected by Contemporary Artists
- Monu #13 Most Valuable Urbanism
- Monu #14 Editing Urbanism
- Monu #15 Post-ideological Urbanism
- Monu #16 Non-urbanism
- Monu #17 Next Urbanism
- Monu #18 Communal Urbanism
- Monu #19 Greater Urbanism
- Monu #20 Geographical Urbanism
- Monu #21 Interior Urbanism
- Monu #22 Transnational Urbanism
- New City Spaces
- Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City
- Public Space
- Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modeling in Architecture, Urban Design and City Theory
- S,M,L,XL
- Self-Sufficient City
- Small Scale: Creative Solutions for Better City Living
- Sociopolis Project for a City of Future
- System City: Infrastructure and the Space of Flows
- The City In The City: Berlin: A Green Archipelago
- The City, Seen as a Garden of Ideas
- The Death And Life Of Great American Cities
- The Endless City: The Urban Age Project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society
- The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles
- The Public Chance: New Urban Landscapes
- The Self-Sufficient City: Internet has changed our lives but it hasn't changed our cities, yet.
- The Superlative City: Dubai and the Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-First Century
- Urban Future Manifestos
- Urban Intensities: Contemporary Housing Types And Territories
- Urban Solutions: Building Solutions, Green Solutions, Culture and Research
- Urbanity: Twenty Years Later: Projects for Central European Capitals
- Verb Connection
- Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader (The ACSA Architectural Education Series)
- Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society
