Designing Disorder
Experiments and Disruptions in the City
By Pablo Sendra, Richard Sennett | Publisher: Verso Books
About the book
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.
Editions of Designing Disorder
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781788737807
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781788737838
- EBook
- ISBN 9781788737821
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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.
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What is Designing Disorder about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Designing Disorder?
Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning > Regional and area planning > Urban and municipal planning and policy
Where can I read a sample of Designing Disorder?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781788737807
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Designing Disorder?
Pablo Sendra, Richard Sennett
Who is the Publisher of the book Designing Disorder?
Verso Books
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Designing Disorder is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781788737807) and paperback(ISBN 9781788737838) and ebook(ISBN 9781788737821)
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