Scaling Infrastructure - Softcover

MIT Center For Advanced Urbanism

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616894164 ISBN 13: 9781616894160

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2016

Synopsis

Scaling Infrastructure presents the proceedings of the second and final conference of MIT's Center for Advanced Urbanism biennial theme of infrastructure. The conference brought together political leaders, engineers, designers, and academics to investigate how critical the issues of appropriate infrastructural investments and scales have become to the future of urbanized territories when faced with new economic, political, and environmental challenges.

This companion volume to Infrastructural Monument explores the phenomenon of growing and shrinking cites in response to population shifts. How do we deal with cities like Detroit, whose once thriving population and economy have been drastically reduced, leaving a city built for a large capacity to adjust to this decline? Or how do cities grow quickly in response to greater demands for housing and transportation?

About this title

About the Author:

The MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism's objective is to become the world's pre-eminent cultural center about the design of metropolitan environments, by articulating methods and projects to integrate separate disciplinary agendas in architecture, landscape ecology, transportation engineering, planning, political philosophy, real estate, and technology, through a most eloquent design culture on scales ranging from the complex infrastructural intersection, to that of a neighborhood, on to the scale of an entire regional system.

Review:

"Overall, Scaling Infrastructure was a powerfully concise book, packed with interesting information that will bounce around in your mind for many weeks after reading it." - Spacing

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1616894164
• ISBN 13: 9781616894160
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180