Designing disorder : experiments and disruptions in the city
- London : Verso, 2022
- 154 p., 8 unnumbered p.; ill., some color pages 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and, alongside campaigner and architect Pablo Sendra, sets out an agenda for the design and ethics of the Open City. The public spaces of our cities are under siege from planners, privatisation and increased surveillance. Our streets are becoming ever more lifeless and ordered. What is to be done? Can disorder be designed? In this provocative essay Sendra and Sennett propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the social life of our cities. 'Infrastructures of disorder' combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism in order.
9781788737838
Social aspects Public spaces City and town life Architecture Building Closed system Construction City Planning Urban Development Regional Planning Open system Public realm Public space Social interaction Le corbusier Civic infrastructure