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Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City

Pablo Sendra
3.53/5 (122 ratings)
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A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable.

In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and, alongside campaigner and architect Pablo Sendra, sets out an agenda for the design and ethics of the Open City.

The public spaces of our cities are under siege from planners, privatisation and increased surveillance. Our streets are becoming ever more lifeless and ordered. What is to be done? Can disorder be designed? In this provocative essay Sendra and Sennett propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the social life of our cities. “Infrastructures of disorder” combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism in order to develop places that nurture rather than stifle, bring together rather than divide up, remain open to change rather than closed off.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
160 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
Verso
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1788737822
ISBN13:
9781788737821
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Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City

Pablo Sendra
3.53/5 (122 ratings)
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A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable.

In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and, alongside campaigner and architect Pablo Sendra, sets out an agenda for the design and ethics of the Open City.

The public spaces of our cities are under siege from planners, privatisation and increased surveillance. Our streets are becoming ever more lifeless and ordered. What is to be done? Can disorder be designed? In this provocative essay Sendra and Sennett propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the social life of our cities. “Infrastructures of disorder” combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism in order to develop places that nurture rather than stifle, bring together rather than divide up, remain open to change rather than closed off.
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
160 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
Verso
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1788737822
ISBN13:
9781788737821
kindle Asin:

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