Fast-Forward Urbanism: Rethinking Architecture's Engagement with the City
April 2011
By Dana Cuff and Roger Sherman
In the wake of recent failures in America's urban infrastructure, an emerging group of activist designers are calling on architects to rethink their relationship to the city. For them, the future of the American city lies not in modernism's large-scale master plans or new urbanism's nostalgic community planning. Instead, they favor working with the realities of urban space, finding hidden opportunities in what already exists in our cities; they eschew monolithic, top-down approaches. Fast-Forward Urbanism presents a mixture of essays, opinions, and design projects by well-known architects and theorists including Stan Allen, Will Alsop, Lars Lerup, and Keller Easterling. Equal partstheory and practice, their ideas lay the groundwork for the next American metropolis. Fast-Forward Urbanism will be a useful tool for designers as well as anyone working in the federal recovery effort, from policy-makers to engineers to builders to planners.
- 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
