Lucius Burckhardt Writings. Rethinking Man-made Environments [electronic resource] : Politics, Landscape & Design
Fezer, Jesko.
Schmitz, Martin.
Dordrecht : Springer,
2012.
Design for a democratic society was a matter of urgency in bombed-out postwar Europe. Swiss sociologist, journalist, professor and founding father of strollology Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) pioneered the interdisciplinary analysis of man-made environments, and thereby highlighted both the visible and invisible aspects of our cities and social relations. Acutely aware of how our interventions and decisions shape the world, and how the changing world in turn, shapes us, his life-long focus was not only the prerequisites of architecture, urban planning and design but also their long-term impact
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; The Work of Lucius Burckhardt; The Car and the City; Democratic Urban Planning; Science and Design; The State of Architecture; The Process of Planning and Building; The Citizen and the City; Design Processes; Invisible Design; Open-ended Teaching Practice; A Problem-oriented Approach; Everyday Culture; Taking A Stroll; Urban Planning and Democracy (1957); Ulm Anno 5. The Curriculum of the Ulm School of Design (1960); Building-A Process with No Obligations to Heritage Preservation (1967); How are decisions reached?; Overtaxed architects
The quest for concrete individual successesDisregard of development; Our demand: versatile uses; The shifting concept of design; Do not patronize the user!; On the Value and Meaning of Urban Utopias (1968); The utopian moment; Utopias 1958-68; Utopia and decision-making; From Design Academicism to the Treatment of Wicked Problems (1973); Problem-oriented training and methodical design; Who Plans the Planning? (1974); Defining the problem; Collective decisions; The voices of the pawns on the drawing board; Planning is not autonomous; Family and Home-Two Adaptable Systems (1975)
Mobile and fixedBuilding allegedly solves problems; Housing is an institution; The wrong home set-up; Truce; Now use the hobby room; Housing is a language; A sewing machine in a symbolic grid; I sit here when I read; Presentation of self in everyday life; Speechlessness; Housing is a system; Carpet dealers; Where does one find greenfield sites?; Urban Design and Its Significance for Residents (1975); Gardening-An Art and A Necessity (1977); The necessity of dealing with nature; Creating robust, extensive landscapes; Why Is Landscape Beautiful? (1979); Utility and beauty; The role of ruins
On the Design of Everyday Life (1979)Design Is Invisible (1980); Dirt (1980); What Is Livability? On Quantifiable and Invisible Needs (1981); The Night Is Man-made (1989); Architecture-An Art or A Science? (1983); A Critique of the Art of Gardening (1983); Fake: The Real Thing (1987); Aesthetics and Ecology (1990); A Walk in Second Nature (1992); The Sermon (1994); Strollological Observations on Perception of the Environment and the Tasks Facing Our Generation (1996); Wasteland As Context. Is There Any Such Thing As The Postmodern Landscape? (1998)
On Movement and Vantage Points-the Strollologist's Experience (1999)Biography; Bibliography; Index
Design for a democratic society was a matter of urgency in bombed-out postwar Europe. Swiss sociologist, journalist, professor and founding father of strollology Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) pioneered the interdisciplinary analysis of man-made environments, and thereby highlighted both the visible and invisible aspects of our cities and social relations. Acutely aware of how our interventions and decisions shape the world, and how the changing world in turn, shapes us, his life-long focus was not only the prerequisites of architecture, urban planning and design but also their long-term impact
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City planning -- Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects.
Urban ecology (Sociology).
Urban ecology (Sociology)