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List of contents
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword Chapter 1: Introduction: Chasing the Neo-utopian Paradox Chapter 2: Chasing the Awkward City Chapter 3: Chasing #Antidrone Chapter 4: Chasing the Logistical City and Its Spatial Formations Chapter 5: Chasing and Rewiring Resource Territories Chapter 6: Chasing Military Logistics in the Urban Void Chapter 7: Chasing Lines of Engagement Chapter 8: Chasing Strategies for the Post-crisis Chapter 9: Chasing Ambiguous Conditions of Coexistence Chapter 10: Chasing a Genealogy of X Afterword
About the author
Joshua M. Nason, educated at Cornell and Texas Tech, is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington as well as the director of the experimental design research firm Iterative Studio. His teaching, research, and design work explore dynamic and dependent contextual relationships and issues of city identity through analytic mapping processes.
Jeffrey S. Nesbit, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, studies sporadic development, dismantled landscapes, and the evolution of military infrastructure in the 20th century. He is founding director of Haecceitas Studio, a design-research group, director of Seoul Studio, a research program in South Korea, and has taught architecture and urban design at the University of North Carolina Charlotte and Texas Tech University.
Summary
This edited volume provides a collection of innovative design research projects based on shared notions of Chasing the City through three bodies of strategic frameworks: (1) Mapping, (2) Resource, and (3) Typology.
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"Nason and Nesbit have brought together a daring group of thinkers to reimagine the techniques and tools available to urban citizens, and map makers alike, in capturing the urban construct— one that unfolds in front of us as this ubiquitous field of seemingly infinite manipulations and possibilities. Within this context, Chasing the City gives us the unique opportunity to seriously explore the emergent urban landscape in its full capacity." - Petra Kempf, author of You Are the City, Observation, Organization, and Transformation of Urban Settings
"Chasing the City presents a counter perspective on city making. Rather than setting out to impose a mental and physical control on the constantly shifting urban terrains and processes, this edited volume asks the audience to begin by first seeing and investigating the city with the level of rigor and intensity demanded by the rich, complex, layered, incomplete, incongruent, and even contradictory realities of the lived environment. More than looking at the city as-is, Chasing the City offers a critical lens for re-positioning ourselves relative to the city as a dynamic field." - Jeffrey Hou, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle
