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How can we in an urban context reconcile design with evolution? Designers are generally educated to offer a certain, controlled view of the world, seeking definite solutions, whereas the city tends to represent collective human life and be unharnessed in its growth and contractions. Throughout history, human habitats have largely been the consequence of organic growth the layering of many hands rather than the result of a single grand design. But in todays worldwide climate of accelerated urbanisation, the need for architects and designers to engage with the city in flux is more compelling than ever. Cities with their urban populations are accreting and evolving in the developing world with a super-charged energy and diversity all of their own. The speed and complexity of current change is not just unsurpassed for our species, but unprecedented in life on earth. Meanwhile, long-established cities in the developed world continue to need to adapt in order to remain liveable for their own ever-growing populations. Here Sir Terry Farrell, who has built an international career as an architect-planner, encourages other planners and architects to follow the biologists

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Author

Farrell, Sir Terry

Publisher

Wiley Professional Development (P&T)

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781118487303

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Architecture, Sociology