Mapping Urbanities

Name: Mapping Urbanities
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138233607
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Morphologies, Flows, Possibilities

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Mapping Urbanities investigates how mapping can uncover the dynamic forces shaping urban form and space. Focusing on various urban scales, it applies assemblage thinking to explore relations between places, transformations, and multi-scale urban processes from local to regional levels.

Through case studies from 30 cities worldwide, the book analyses mapping of place identities, political conflict, transport, street life, functional mix, and informal settlements, presenting urban mapping as a unique spatial knowledge practice that reveals the city as a space of possibility and transformation.
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Ideal for students, researchers, and professionals in urban studies, geography, and planning interested in innovative methods for understanding and transforming complex urban environments.

Mapping Urbanities explores the potency of mapping as a research method that opens new horizons in our exploration of complex urban environments.

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What is the capacity of mapping to reveal the forces at play in shaping urban form and space? How can mapping extend the urban imagination and therefore the possibilities for urban transformation?

With a focus on urban scales, Mapping Urbanities explores the potency of mapping as a research method that opens new horizons in our exploration of complex urban environments. A primary focus is on investigating urban morphologies and flows within a framework of assemblage thinking – an understanding of cities that is focused on relations between places rather than on places in themselves; on transformations more than fixed forms; and on multi-scale relations from 10m to 100km.

With cases drawn from 30 cities across the global north and south, Mapping Urbanities analyses the mapping of place identities, political conflict, transport flows, streetlife, functional mix and informal settlements. Mapping is presented as a production of spatial knowledge embodying a diagrammatic logic that cannot be reduced to words and numbers. Urban mapping constructs interconnections between the ways the city is perceived, conceived and lived, revealing capacities for urban transformation – the city as a space of possibility.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138233607

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 September 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 10 Line drawings, color; 95 Halftones, color

Contributors:

Edited by Kim Dovey
Edited by Elek Pafka
Edited by Mirjana Ristic

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 929g

Pages: 282

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About the Author

Kim Dovey is Professor of architecture and urban design at the University of Melbourne. His research is broadly focused on theories of 'place' and practices of power, covering a broad range of social issues in architecture and urban design. He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Elek Pafka is Lecturer in urban planning and urban design at the University of Melbourne. His research is focused on the relationship between material density, urban form and the intensity of urban life, as well as methods of mapping the 'pulse' of the city. He has a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Mirjana Ristic is Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Sociology, TU Darmstadt. Her research is focused on political issues in architecture and urban design, including the role of buildings and public spaces in mediating nationalism, conflict, power, violence and resistance. She has a PhD from the University of Melbourne.