Main entry:

Muñoz Sanz, Víctor.

Title & Author:

Reconnecting cities, people, and nature : exercises in urban design / Victor Muñoz Sanz and Robbert Jan van der Veen.

Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, [2025]
© 2025

Description:

127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: The urgency for a radical redesign of our urban environment -- Urban design must change course. Permeable permanence matters ; Spatial needs for non-human companions ; Exercises -- Urban design for social and ecological interplay. Understanding flexibility, adaptation, and reciprocity ; Encompassing bodies and ecosystems ; Exercises -- Urban design remains an unfinished composition. Rhythms of straight lines and colors ; Searching for harmony within infinity ; Recentering the human experience ; Landscape as multifunctional infrastructure ; Exercises -- Change in urban design must come from within. Embracing the tree ; Transforming cities from the inside out ; Exercises ; Biotope City.

Summary:

Reconnecting Cities, People, and Nature is a call to action for urban designers to deeply engage with the living fabric of the city. By working together with humans, non-humans, and allied disciplines, designers can spark a transformation that reshapes cities into thriving, sustainable social and natural ecosystems. Twenty thought-provoking design exercises explore what the city as a complex biotope could be like, inspiring action and creating change. Foreword by Rahul Mehrotra, Twenty exercises based on practice and teaching Hand-drawn illustrations.

ISBN:

3035628041
9783035628043

Subject:

Cities and towns Social aspects.
Villes Aspect social.

Added entries:

Veen, Robbert Jan van der, author.

Exercises in urban design

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325440
Call No.: 325440
Copy: 1
Status: Available