1st Edition

Concurrent Urbanities Designing Infrastructures of Inclusion

Edited By Miodrag Mitrasinovic Copyright 2016
224 Pages 153 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 153 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 153 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Design has been employed as an agent of social and political change, and a catalyst for spatial and urban transformations in cities across the world. Concurrent Urbanities argues for the centrality of designing in the conceptualization and production of inclusive and participatory urban space, by bringing together civic and urban activists, urbanists, designers and architects committed to... Read more

1. Preface: We are here 2. Where is Our Civic Imagination? —Teddy Cruz 3. Walking Out of the Contemporary — Lorenzo Romito 4. Walks On the Wild Side —Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen 5. Hester Street Collaborative: Developing a Model for Community-Led Design —Anne Frederick 6. Images of the City: The Work of the Center for Urban Pedagogy —Christine Gaspar 7. Citizen Collectives, Co-Design and the Unforeseen Future(s) of the Post-Socialist City —Ivan Kucina 8. Cohabitation Strategies: Socio-spatial approaches, practices, and pedagogies with a dialectical perspective —Gabriela Rendon 9. Citizenship by Design —Kadambari Baxi and Irene Cheng 10. Urban Method Acting —Tobias Armborst 11. Building Community Capacities through Design: Amplify New York —Lara Penin 12. Design Action—Deborah Gans 13. The Center for Recreation and New Media in Novi Sad —Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss 14. Urbanization, Design and Civil Society Miodrag Mitrasinovic

Biography

Miodrag Mitrašinović is an architect, urbanist, and author. Miodrag is an Associate Professor of Urbanism and Architecture at Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA, where he has served as Dean of The School of Design Strategies (2009-12), and Chair of Urban and Transdisciplinary Design (2007-09). He is the author of Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space (Ashgate 2006), co-editor of Travel, Space, Architecture (with Jilly Traganou, Ashgate 2009), and editor of Concurrent Urbanities (Routledge 2015). His first two books received Graham Foundation Grants in 2004 and 2006 respectively. His professional and scholarly work has been published internationally.