Main entry:

Desimini, Jill, author.

Title & Author:

Cyclical city : five stories of urban transformation / Jill Desimini.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
©2021

Description:

xii, 279 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 x 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-263) and index.
Introduction: the underlying conditions -- Stormwater: 350 years of hydrology in Philadelphia -- Gleiswildnis: 200 years of ecology in Berlin -- Hortas: 500 years of agronomy and landscape planning in Lisbon -- Speelplaatsen: 100 years of play in Amsterdam -- Fallow land: 150 years of disinvestment in St. Louis -- Conclusion: the common project.

Summary:

"As cities evolve and resources shift with time, spaces within those cities are often left fallow and abandoned. Cyclical City tells the stories behind these sites, from Philadelphia's Liberty Lands park to Lisbon's Green Plan, and it looks at the ways in which these narratives can be leveraged toward future engagement and use. Jill Desimini posits a fundamental role for spatial design practice to transform abandoned urban landscapes through time. She argues for approaches that promote the specific affordances of the land itself (hydrology, vegetation, topography, geology, infrastructural capacity, occupation potential); the importance of cyclical change; and the particularities of the cultural, political, and physical context. These themes are explored in five cities-Philadelphia, Berlin, Lisbon, Amsterdam, and Saint Louis-and across centuries, from periods of great upheaval to ones of relative stability and even economic growth. Desimini considers what landscape-driven design can bring to cities losing people and economic resources, how design practice can be more inclusive in a context of market failure, and the ways in which abandoned landscapes can become our commons"-- Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9780813946320 hardcover
0813946328 hardcover
electronic book
9780813946337

Subject:

Land use, Urban Case studies.
Urban renewal Case studies.
Terrain vague.
Utilisation urbaine du sol Études de cas.
Rénovation urbaine Études de cas.
Terrains vagues.
raw land.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General.
Land use, Urban
Urban renewal

Form/genre:

Case studies
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325584
Call No.: 325584
Copy: 1
Status: Available