Remaking cities : an introduction to urban metrofitting

Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Preface
List of figures
Introduction
	Remaking: the project of metrofitting
	Repair and metrofitting
	Environmental impacts
	Contexts: time, space, image
	Perspectives
	Change and a return to metrofitting
PART ONE Contexts of Change The Limits of How We See Cities Today
	1 Cities now
		Seeing the city
		The fate of cities: seeing dangers
		Danger and uncertain futures
		City of fear
	2 Understanding the city as a designing event
		The event
		Ungrounding the event of the city
		Unsettlement returns
		Thinking towards a metabolic event
		Metrofitting, metabolism and event
	3 What designs a city?
		Design in a context of failed foresight
		The top ten
		So what has really designed the city?
		Beyond history: what will now design the city?
		Metrofitting: the space is everywhere
		Ontological space
		Metrofitting spaced
	4 The city, humanity and time
		In the first place there was Uruk
		Colonial cities, the colonial matrix and the future
		Space, power and the colonial city
		Metrofitting: a reconnecting
	5 Urban imperatives in the face of change
		Megaregions: the inside and the outside
		Megacities
		Questions of fear, questions of defence
		The megacity battleground in the age of unwinnable wars
		The geopolitical drift
	6 New imaginaries and the city
		There is something wrong out there!
		Buildings as image
		Where can thinkers of imagination take us now?
		Imagination, imaginaries and the city
	7 Other worlds are coming
		Destruction
		Protection in the face of destruction
		A conviviality: rediscovery and recreation
	8 Post-sustainability
		The education of education
		The future, the Sustainment, culture
		The Sustainment and the future of cities
PART TWO Contexts of Action
	9 Metrofitting: Take two
		Framings
		The ‘hard’ edge: metrofitting and the instrumental perspective
		The ‘soft’ edge: metrofitting, culture and perception
	10 Metrofitting, thinking otherwise and a new foundation of change
		On design
		Practice and the agency of the visible invisible
		Bourdieu, technology and habitus
		Metrofitting, habitus and time
	11 Unlearning and learning
		Learning in the shadow of teaching
		Anthropocentrism: learning for unlearning
		Breaking out of striated space and the borderlands
	12 Metrofitting and the de-signing of design
		Ontological design
		Design in time: a developed reiteration
		Elimination by design7
		Design intelligence8
		Convergence
		Technological unthinking
	13 Metrofitting and urban design fictions
		Prospects and possibilities
		Against utopias/dystopias
		Seeing cities, design and fiction
		The city, being and time
		Design fiction and the imperatives
		Frames of fictions
		Fictions, writing and remaking
	14 Space, time, dwelling and movement
		The re-marking of space and ways it is understood
		Reconfigured notions of ‘the event’ of space and the city
		Matter in time
		Time, city and world
	15 Metrofitting and being in the city
		Being in the City
PART THREE Introduction to the Case Studies
	16 Cincinnati case study
		Introducing Cincinnati
		Why Cincinnati?
		Understanding local contextual complexity
		The workshop
		Final focus of the event: what is resilience?
		On reflection: what was learnt at the workshop?
		Appendix
	17 New Cairo case study
		New Cairo in context
		Forces of change
		Introducing New Cairo
		Of place
		Traffic without enforced law, transport and the people
		The women, the young and the old
		What is broken?
		New Cairo and metrofitting
Selected bibliography
Index