Working Cities: Architecture, Place and Production

Author:   Howard Davis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138328631


Pages:   270
Publication Date:   17 December 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Howard Davis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.884kg
ISBN:  

9781138328631


ISBN 10:   1138328634
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   17 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction: Beyond the city as object PART 1: THE EVOLUTION OF PRODUCTION SPACE 1. Typologies of capital and control 2. Pre-industrial workshops 3. Factory zones 4. Cities adrift 5. New work in old cities PART 2: THE VITALITY OF CITY LIFE 6. Production and urban complexity 7. The terroir of things 8. Including the maker 9. 'One great workshop': a new industrial urbanism PART 3: MAKING SPACE FOR PRODUCTION 10. Design and policy for the new working city Conclusion: The city in 2050 Bibliography Index

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Working Cities is a spatial, historical analysis of urban industrial production and a rallying cry for the return of production to cities. And while the loss of industrial production in cities is not a new topic for scholars in the social sciences, Davis's book offers a novel perspective by examining the topic through the analytical lens of the built environment. Sharone L. Tomer, Virginia Tech (excerpt from Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments)


Working Cities is a spatial, historical analysis of urban industrial production and a rallying cry for the return of production to cities. And while the loss of industrial production in cities is not a new topic for scholars in the social sciences, Davis's book offers a novel perspective by examining the topic through the analytical lens of the built environment. Sharone L. Tomer, Virginia Tech (excerpt from Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments) I recommend Working Cities to all those who are interested in how architecture and planning can help new forms of production to branch out from the fertile 'asphalt terroir' of our cities. The recent pandemic has only underlined the value of Davis's arguments, reinforcing the shrinkage of global supply chains, and raising new interest in hybrid co-working and living spaces, and in shorter neighbourhood-based commutes. Francesca Froy, University of Oxford (excerpt from Journal of Urban Design review)


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"Howard Davis is Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon. His research is concerned with the relationships between architecture and the contemporary city, focusing on how the form of the city and the architecture of its buildings help enable diversity, economic and cultural sustainability, and resilience. Through his teaching of design studios, lecture courses, and seminars that examine architectural contexts of culture and place, his students view architecture as strongly anchored in the worlds of people, cultures, and geography. Howard Davis has been on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley; Edinburgh University; the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexico; the Bartlett School of Architecture in London; and the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi. His first book, The Culture of Building, was named ""Best Work in Architecture and Urban Studies"" by the Association of American Publishers in 2000. He was named Distinguished Professor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in 2009, and received the University of Oregon's Thomas F. Herman Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2011."

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