“I realized that basically the way that cities are being developed is a little broken.”
Recoded City examines alternative urban design, planning and architecture for the other 90%: namely the practice of participatory placemaking, a burgeoning practice that co-author Thomas Ermacora terms ‘recoding’. In combining bottom-up and top-down means of regenerating and rebalancing neighbourhoods affected by declining welfare or struck by disaster, this growing movement brings greater resilience.
In his own words: “Through a combination of essays, cases and voices, the book aims to explore what participatory culture and distributed urbanism can achieve. Its role is not just to be a catalogue, but also to provide a call to action.”
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Routledge (January 14, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1138819808
ISBN-13: 978-1138819801
#RecodedCity is great gift to the #Placemaking movement from the boundless team of @termacora & @lucybullivant: //t.co/c4LNXGcE0t
— Ethan Kent (@ebkent) February 22, 2016
Can’t wait to get home and read my new book #recodedcity #theurbanist #placemaking #buildingcities //t.co/Ti3luXuhHL
— Libby Witherden (@Libbywitherden) February 15, 2016
The DNA of cities is about participation, not buildings – interesting comments from #recodedcity debate by @lucybullivant + @termacora
— wandering curator (@anon_curator) January 11, 2016