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Imminent Commons: The Expanded City

Imminent Commons: The Expanded City

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Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (creator), Alejandro Zaera and Jeffrey S. Anderson (editors)
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In light of the increasing disengagement between urban and rural areas, this book address the interdependency of cities with ecological and technological processes outside the purview of traditional urban planning. It compiles a huge amount of essays in regards to the most important topics that cities must address today, such as their connection with global data networks, ecological cycles of resources which supersede the traditional boundaries of urbanism. For this reason, it frames investigation of contemporary urbanism on nine imminent commons grouping the urban commons into resources and technologies lead us to the arcane classification of natural resources: air, water, fire, and earth, the four elements of ancient cosmologies; and five basic technological commons based on expanded human capacities: sensing, communicating, moving, making, and recycling.



 

Author: Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (creator), Alejandro Zaera and Jeffrey S. Anderson (editors)

Publisher: Actar Publishers

Format: Paperback

Pages: 424

ISBN: 9781945150647

Publication Date: December 2017