Urban Humanities by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Global urbanism; design; humanities; pedagogy; spatial justice; mapping; artistic practice/artivism; Los Angeles, Mexico City; Tokyo; Shanghai; cities; architecture; design; urban planning; spatial turn; comparative urbanism; transnational urbanism; global cities; right to the city; transnational; critical cartography; mapping; spatial ethnography; filmic sensing; sensory ethnography; essay film; social practice; new media; science fiction; speculative fiction; futurity; future studies; futures; speculation; projection; positionality; interdisciplinarity; contemporary university
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-03-13T00:00:00+00:00

Reimagining the future has also emanated from environ-mentalism most notably demonstrated in Ian McHarg's optimistic ecological approach for landscape architecture beginning in the 1960s (figure 4.3). Another direction for postmodernist utopian thinking is taken by intentional alternative communities such as Christianopolis in Denmark or Burning Man in the Nevada desert. From the perspective of urban humanities, both environmental and communitarian utopian thought hold valuable lessons, but they fundamentally require a tabula rasa model of development from scratch. If contemporary urban utopian thinking can gain traction, the historical lessons suggest that it will take root in existing cities, as a fragment rather than a holistic model. This fragment can be spatial, temporal, or both—and it operates as an experimental model that can grow or spread to other areas.

4.3 The Woodlands, a planned community in Texas designed by McHarg. Credit: Rick Kimpel, 2007. Sourced from Flickr

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