Name: Business As Unusual (en Inglés)
SKU: 66541877
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Author: Bolleter, Julian

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University of Western Australia Press

Autor

Bolleter, Julian

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

210

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4x15.6x1.4 cm

ISBN13

9781760803308

Business As Unusual (en Inglés)

Bolleter, Julian (Autor) · University of Western Australia Press · Tapa Blanda

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When planning thinking collapses into prescriptive dogma, it becomes challenging to imagine alternatives to business as usual and possible innovations wither on the vine. Our reaction to out-of-control climate change, mass species extinction and the fracturing of a once egalitarian society is that we build new suburbs like before, just tighter and meaner. This hostile fabric is stranded in the gulf between being leafy and suburban and truly urban and lively. Instead, it is neither and, as such, it is the worst of all worlds. Is that the best we can offer? What about new urban dreams, not a hatchet job on the existing dream? That's where this book steps in. This irreverent, easily digestible and highly visual book trawls through the archives for long-forgotten, sometimes dangerous, ideas and draws upon unfashionable or emerging theories and techniques for innovation to penetrate beyond business-as-usual approaches. Rather than a weighty tome beyond our ever-constricting attention spans, this cheerful and consumable field guide to alternative urbanisms is for informed laypeople, planners, designers, policymakers and politicians alike. It opens a conversation through a series of hand-drawn diagrams of alternative ways of dwelling in Australian cities, which have applications in sprawling cities worldwide. These diagrams have already been trialled on social media, eliciting a storm of noisy commentary. This unique book will appeal to the many frustrated people constricted by or excluded from business-as-usual approaches to urban development. True to form, Julian Bolleter has delivered the perfect combination of provocation, insight, creativity and entertainment. A 'must read' for those who need cheering up from the realities of BAU urbanism. Professor Josh Byrne, Dean of Sustainable Futures, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University