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Transcending Type: Designing for Urban Complexity
Author(s) -
Shane David Grahame
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1197
Subject(s) - hindsight bias , perspective (graphical) , type (biology) , environmental ethics , sociology , history , architectural engineering , law , computer science , political science , artificial intelligence , engineering , philosophy , geology , psychology , social psychology , paleontology
David Grahame Shane , the author of a major new study Urban Design Since 1945: A Global Perspective , looks at type with the benefit of historical hindsight. Warning against its potential inflexibility and its use over the centuries as a reductive instrument in city creation, he is insistent that type should only be applied if deformed to respond to the informal patchwork of hybrid urban conditions.