Title & Author:

Messy cities : why we can't plan everything / edited by Dylan Reid, Zahra Ebrahim, Leslie Woo, and John Lorinc.

Edition:

First edition

Publication:

Toronto : Coach House Books, [2025]

Description:

333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Dylan Reid -- Reflections. A farewell to El Gran Burrito / John Kamp and James Rojas -- These walls, these roads / Ameer Idreis -- Living loud: the migration of a steelpan soundtrack / Leslie Woo -- Planning for an unplanned city / Jason Thorne -- Interruptions / Zahra Ebrahim -- Packrat city / Tatum Taylor Chaubal -- Localitits. An argument worth having / Chiyi Tam -- Dixie Road / Fadi Masoud -- A beach like no other / Shari Kasman -- The ballet of the parking lot / Brendan Stetwart and Daniel Rotsztain -- What is safety? / Kimahli Powell -- Why can't we sell stuff anyplace? / John Lorinc -- Desire lines in the sand / Wesley Lincoln Reibeling -- Conjay's first walk home / Tura Cousins Wilson and Shane Lapiste -- Flexible streets / Dylan Reid -- Ecologies. Leave the leaves / Lorraine Johnson -- Non-humans (heard and unheard) / Kite and Robbie Wing -- My teacher / Carolynne Crawley -- Beyond the lawn: meadow or mess? / Nina-Marie E. Lister -- Built forms. Designing our disorder / Cara Chellew -- The collective effervescence of messy parks / Jake Tobin Garrett -- Mexico City's eclectic apartment architecture / Daniel Gordon -- Tower communities are what we make them / Ajeev Bhatia -- Global cities. Rasta Cape Town / Kofi Hope -- Chaotic unregulated Tokyo: the quintessentially messy city? / Andre Sorensen -- The readable city / Shawn Micallef -- City for women and girls / ElsaMarie D'Silva -- A food map of Toronto / Karon Liu -- Sports and spaces / Perry King -- Everything is everything...but the details matter / Alexandra Lambropoulos and Sami Ferwati -- The case against controlling infrastructure / Andrés Borthagaray -- Painting the town / Dylan Reid, Leslie Woo, and Matthhew Blackett -- Urban systems. Banquets and belongings / Sneha Mandhan -- Satisfying our thirst for agency / Colin Ellard -- Industrial land's secret sauce / Karen Chapple -- Thinking twice about consultation / Lorne Cappe -- A lifeline at the door / Dr. Eileen de Villa -- Public health in the post-covid era / Dr. Andrew Boozary -- Another fine mess about regionalism / Sabine Matheson -- We can live with that / Leslie Woo -- Confessions of a first-time parade organizer / Zahra Ebrahim -- Conclusion. Whose messiness is this, anyway? / Zahra Ebrahim, Dylan Reid, Leslie Woo, and John Lorinc.
Issued also in electronic formats.

Summary:

"Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive? Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly managed city or indicators of urban vitality? Messy Cities: Why We Can't Plan Everything argues that spontaneity and urban work-around are not liabilities but essential elements in all thriving cities. Forty essays by a range of writers from around the world illuminate the role of messy urbanism in enabling creativity, enterprise, and grassroots initiatives to flourish within dense modern cities. With pieces on guerrilla beaches, desire lines, urban interruptions, and the inner lives of unlovely buildings written by experts from all walks of life, Messy Cities makes the case for embracing disorder while not shying away from confronting its challenges."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781552455036 paperback
1552455033 paperback
electronic book
9781770568433

Subject:

City planning.
Urban renewal.
Sociology, Urban.
Rénovation urbaine.
Sociologie urbaine.
urban renewal.
urban sociology.

Added entries:

Reid, Dylan, editor.
Ebrahim, Zahra, editor.
Woo, Leslie, editor.
Lorinc, John, 1963- editor

Messy cities : why we can not plan everything

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321925
Call No.: 321925
Copy: 1
Status: Available