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The Largest Art: A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism

The Largest Art: A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism

The Largest Art: A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism

$44.95

Ryan, Brent D
MIT Press 2017
SKU: S00376

Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture—large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed; indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation. In The Largest Art, Brent Ryan argues that urban design Gibbs Smith encompasses more than architecture, and he provides a foundational theory of urban design beyond the architectural scale. In a “declaration of independence” for urban design, Ryan describes urban design as the largest of the building arts, with qualities of its own.

384 pp. Cl.