Everyday Urbanism (Michigan Debates on Urbanism) | 
| Authors: Margaret Crawford, George Baird
Creators: Doug Kelbaugh, Michael Speaks, Rahul Mehrotra
Publisher: University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 80
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1891197347
Dewey Decimal Number: 720
EAN: 9781891197345
ASIN: 1891197347
Publication Date: February 15, 2005
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Description: Everyday Urbanism is one of three books in the "Michigan Debates on Urbanism" series that also features New Urbanism and Post Urbanism. Each book represents a distinct, inevitable, but still-emerging paradigm in contemporary urbanism, and is an elaboration on public debates held at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning during the winter of 2004. In this volume Margaret Crawford, co-author of Everyday Urbanism and Professor of Architecture at Harvard University, is the protagonist. She presents the case for an informal, bottom-up urbanism that celebrates and builds on everyday, ordinary life and reality, with little pretense about the possibility of a tidy or ideal built environment. Michael Speaks, Graduate Program Director at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and a widely published author, is the respondent. Rahul Mehrotra, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Michigan and award-winning Bombay designer, introduces and moderates the exchange.
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 Everyday life as a form of urbanism September 11, 2005
Everyday Urbanism draws attention to the otherwise neglected ways of promoting street-life and the informal economy, especially in the US where there is an increasing need with the fragmentation of the urban/suburban fabric and economically declining, though often socially strong and active as in the case of LA neighborhoods.
The collection of essays range from cases in LA where it successfully occurs,innovative design ideas towards stimulating street-life, vendoring and its accessories, to sustainable informal trash recycling systems in LA neighborhoods, to careful observation methods which may inform local level urban design and planning.
It is a unique text in terms of introducing this idea of being aware of and celebrating everyday life (especially in the western world) within the design disciplines of architecture, urban design/planning and landscape architecture.
 excellent September 4, 2000
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
An excellent introduction to the thought of urban conception as a way of life, or even better of living. Michel de Certeau and the others would love to read it.
Urbanism investigated March 23, 2000
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
Everyday Urbanism is a wonderful collection of thoughts, projects and stories about the contemporary urban life in America (more specifically Southern California). Rather than speak about grand utopian visions, Everyday Urbanism investigates specific urban conditions. Each author brings their own perspective and dimmension to this interesting and entertaining compilation.
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