![]() ![]() The book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts. The Caring City opens up an extensive field of alternatives that ![]() The privilege that productive activities have enjoyed and those who exercise them has led to the denial of the various biological and subjective characteristics of its inhabitants and the multidimensional character of the city, becoming a cultural principle and a political practice. Cities are, nonetheless, a more hostile environment for non-productive activities: being able to choose where to sit and rest, use a public toilet, drink clean water without paying or breathe unpolluted air. This book invites us to rethink architectural and urban models, prioritizing not so much the technical, formal and abstract knowledge sought by urban planners, as the public and civic dimension of citizens’ experience when they try to care for themselves, for each other or for the environment.Īfter decades of industrialization, our cities, in their physical and governmental dimensions, are productivity-oriented places. While the discourses and architectural works presented deal with the specificity of Tokyo, they were carefully selected to formulate together a collection of insights, new perspectives, and speculative experiments in urbanism and architecture that A variety of innovative practices are presented by a diverse group of contributors including renowned scholars, architects, urbanists, and photographers from Japan and the US, and the research team at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Taking the example of Tokyo, it takes up the two major traits in urban transformation – the large-scale development model on the one hand, and the small-scale model of neighborhood development or preservation on the other – and instead seeks alternative ideas and new strategies. ![]() The book questions how “artifice” and the “social world” can be mutually and constructively integrated so that the contemporary urban space can be shared by all. The possibilities of such climate inheritances are narrated in drawing triptychs and mythologies that bequeath other worlds and ![]() In a strategic subversion of the media aura of heritage, DESIGN EARTH casts ten World Heritage sites as narrative figures to visualize pervasive climate risks-rising sea levels, extinction, droughts, air pollution, melting glaciers, material vulnerability, unchecked tourism, and the massive displacement of communities and cultural artifacts-all while situating the present emergency within the wreckages of other ends of world, replete with the salvages of extractivism, racism, and settler colonialism. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites-from Venice flooding to extinction in the Galápagos Islands-have garnered empathetic media attention in a landscape that has otherwise failed to communicate the urgency of the climate crisis. Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy / DESIGN EARTHĬlimate Inheritance is a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. Actar D also co-publishes and distributes books internationally from eVolo and from renowned schools of architecture including Harvard University GSD, Yale School of Architecture, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell, and AA London. In addition to its own publications, Actar Distribution, “Actar D” represents these premier architecture publishers to the book trade in the Americas: AADR, Applied Research + Design, DOM Publishers, and ORO Editions. Through urbanNext, Actar is producing new tools for its global dissemination with new impulses, new proposals, and new goals to expand architecture publishing. Since 2015, Actar’s new digital platform has shaped and expanded architecture and design practices to rethink cities. Actar is focused on the works and research of established and emerging practitioners, professors, thinkers, and innovation centers. Actar Publishers is committed to investigating the culture of the architectural, urbanism and landscape disciplines through innovative design, theory, criticism and pedagogy. ![]()
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