02 / Urban
Books and essays on cities, technology, and the practical conditions of living together.
50 Lenses for Understanding the City. An illustrated overview of the many sides of urban life and the thinkers, past and present, who help us understand them. Fifty short explanations, each with an illustration and two questions to take outside.
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The UrbanAI is making analysis, comparison and scenario-building dramatically cheaper. This book examines what that shift means for urban professionals and public institutions. It focuses on judgement, verification, institutional memory, participation and accountability, and asks how planning organisations can use increasingly capable systems without outsourcing the decisions that give public work its legitimacy.
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Forthcoming. Cities depend on countless small conditions that conventional planning often struggles to see: maintenance, care, social infrastructure, accessible routes, active edges and the capacity to notice everyday problems before they become large ones. The Delicate City explores these fragile foundations of urban life and what it takes to protect them.
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