Beschreibung:
Drawn from a lifetime's experience of shared city-making from the bottom up, within rapidly expanding urban metabolisms in Delhi, Mumbai, Agra, Kathmandu, West Africa and London, Loose Fit City is about the ways in which city residents can learn through making to engage with the dynamic process of creating their own city.
AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations and Credits00 IntroductionPart One: Context01 The Idea of Loose Fit02 Dimension and Fit03 The Remoteness of Mass Production and PlanningPart Two: Practice04 Exploring Loose Fit Within the City: Survey and IntentArchitect as Detective and Storyteller05 Fabricating Within the City: Process and ProductArchitect as MakerPart Three: Timely City-Making06 Form, Familiarity, Fit, Urban Order and the Human Horizon07 Loose Fit CityGlossaryBibliographyIndex