Infra Eco Logi Urbanism - A Project for The Great Lakes Megaregion

RVTR, a design research practice with studios based in Toronto and Ann Arbor, have undertaken a multi-faceted investigation into possible urban futures for the Great Lakes Megaregion of North America. The study is based in the proposition that by investigating interdependent agents, material flows and policies, and by focusing on "back of house" activities of cities and their support systems-such as infrastructures, logistics and ecologies-, architects can conceive new distributed urban architectures that have the potential to actively transform the future of cities, settlement patterns and metropolitan life. Utilizing tools of urban analysis and formal intervention, RVTR aim to re-conceptualize future boundaries, governance, politics, economies and public architecture.
Infra Eco Logi Urbanism presents comprehensively RVTR's findings and proposals. Around 100 images, visualizations and graphics illustrate the text. The book also features essays situating the historical development of the region around transportation, and investigating possible future worlds and utopias within the context of the specific project and more broadly the practice of design-research.

About the author

Geoffrey Thun is an Associate Professor at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, and a founding partner of RVTR. Kathy Velikov is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, a registered architect and a founding partner of RVTR. Dan McTavish is a Lecturer in Architecture at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, and a design/research associate at RVTR. Colin Ripley is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University, a registered architect and founding partner of RVTR. Foreword by Robert Fishman, afterword by John McMorrough.

Summary

Ein Manifest für integrierte, vernetzte urbanistische Planung in Megaregionen

Product details

• Authors: Robert Fishman, John McMorrow, Dan McTavish, Colin Ripley, Geoffrey Thün, Kathy Velikov
• Assisted by: Dan McTavish (Editor), Geoffrey Thün (Editor), Kathy Velikov (Editor), Robert Fishman (Foreword), John McMorrow (Afterword)
• Publisher: Park Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2015
• EAN: 9783906027722
• ISBN: 978-3-906027-72-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 609 g
• Illustrations: 111 farbige und 31 s/w-Abbildungen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Raumplanung, Ökologie, Städtebau, Stadtplanung, Architektur, Urbanistik, USA, Infrastruktur, Kanada, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), Ontario, Great Lakes, Mittlerer Westen, Landschaftsplanung, Urbanismus, Große Seen, auseinandersetzen, Midwest, spatial planning, Ripley, Colin, Velikov, Kathy, RVTR, McTavish, Dan, Fishman, Robert, McMorrough, John, Thün, Geoffrey, Landscape planning