designing networks cities presents a sophisticated multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging from years of practice experimentation and research by designers (landscape architects urban planners urban designers and architects) this approach engages with contemporary thought across a number of disciplines to re-invent the entrenched blunt instruments of the city making process. A cry for flexible sharp-instruments in urban design designing networks cities presents a multi-dimensional way of seeing the essential components of the city (form space-time order and aesthetics). It purposefully links traditional architectural design derivation mechanisms to urban design in the hope that cities will not only be pragmatic but also become sophisticated iconographically poetically and syntactically. It provides the tools to enable decision making within a multiplicity of constraints and opportunities: a philosophy of becoming not being; a science of dynamic systems not stasis; and an art of sensations not subjectivity. And finally and most importantly it argues why it is important that cities embrace these multiple dimensions of society on a planet that is facing increasing environmental challenges: an economics focused on equity for all not for some more than others; a politics supporting a genuine representational democracy not one representing the overly influential; and a culture [including history] that embraces difference not one that encourages division. designing networks cities not only provides the means to identify these issues and a methodology to deal with them within a complex emerging co-existence but also demonstrates the development of cities that embrace and respond to the complexities of life in what some are calling the Anthropocene. |Designing Networks Cities Inclusive Hyper-Connected Emergent and Sustainable Urbanism | Landscape & Planning
