The largest art : a measured manifesto for a plural urbanism

Ryan, Brent D. 1969- (author.).

Summary: Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture - large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed; indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation. In 'The Largest Art', Brent Ryan argues that urban design encompasses more than architecture, and he provides a foundational theory of urban design beyond the architectural scale. Ryan looks at three well-known urban design projects through the lens of pluralism: a Brancusi sculptural ensemble in Romania, a Bronx housing project, and a formally and spatially diverse grouping of projects in Ljubljana, Slovenia.0.

Record details

ISBN: 9780262036672
ISBN: 0262036673
Physical Description: print
regular print
xiv, 364 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Unitary architecture, plural cities -- Five dimensions of plural urbanism -- Three pluralist projects -- Three plural urbanists -- Designing pluralist urbanism : urban design scenarios for three places -- Principals and potentials of plural urbanism.