TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cuff,Dana
AU  - Loukaitou-Sideris,Anastasia
AU  - Presner,Todd Samuel
AU  - Zubiaurre,Maite
AU  - Crisman,Jonathan
TI  - Urban humanities: new practices for reimagining the city 
T2  - Urban and industrial environments
SN  - 9780262538220 (paperback)
AV  - HT153 .C84 2020
U1  - 306.76 CUF 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Case studies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- 1: Introducing Urban Humanities -- Interlude 1: Mexico City -- 2: The Lineages of Urban Humanities -- Project A: Shanghai -- Project B: Los Angeles -- Interlude 2: Tokyo -- 3: Fused Scholarship: Practices of Urban Humanities -- Project C: Tokyo -- Project D: Shanghai -- Project E: Tokyo -- Interlude 3: Fukushima -- 4: The Practical Future -- Project F: Mexico City -- Interlude 4: Shanghai -- 5: Engaged Scholarship and Pedagogy -- Coda: A Year in the Life of Urban Humanities at UCLA -- Project G: Los Angeles -- Project H: Mexico City Interlude 5: Los Angeles -- 6: Conclusion: Assessing Urban Humanities -- Notes -- References -- Index
N2  - Original, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of the humanities, design, and urban studies. Urban humanities is an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, urban planning, and design. It offers a new approach not only for understanding cities in a global context but for intervening in them, interpreting their histories, engaging with them in the present, and speculating about their futures. This book introduces both the theory and practice of urban humanities, tracing the evolution of the concept, presenting methods and practices with a wide range of research applications, describing changes in teaching and curricula, and offering case studies of urban humanities practices in the field. Urban humanities views the city through a lens of spatial justice, and its inquiries are centered on the microsettings of everyday life. The book's case studies report on real-world projects in mega-cities in the Pacific Rim--Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City, and Los Angeles--with several projects described in detail, including playful spaces for children in car-oriented Mexico City, a commons in a Tokyo neighborhood, and a rolling story-telling box to promote "literary justice" in Los Angeles
ER  -