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• Title:Infra eco logi urbanism : a project for the Great Lakes megaregion / Geoffrey Thün [and three others] ; with contributions from Robert Fishman and John McMorrough.
  
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• Author/Creator:Thün, Geoffrey, 1967- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Fishman, Robert, 1946- author.
  McMorrough, John, writer of afterword.
  University of Michigan. A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, sponsoring body.
  
• Published/Created:Zürich : Park Books, [2015]
  

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  • Call Number: NA9103 .T48 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Great Lakes (North America)
  Regional planning--Great Lakes (North America)
  
• Description:203 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:The Great Lakes Megaregion is the largest and most populated network of metropolitan regions in North America. With an estimated population of sixty million, its territory encompasses major urban areas, including Chicago, Detroit, Windsor, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Buffalo, and Montreal. It also boasts a significant cache of natural resources including one-fifth of the world's fresh water by surface area as well as thriving agricultural and manufacturing industries and numerous major research universities. The culmination of a recent project by the design firm RVTR, Infra Eco Logi Urbanism considers the role of design in shaping the future of the Great Lakes Megaregion. In order to envision regional possibility in an age of renewable energy, escalating mobility, and increasing urbanization, the project assembles regional maps, design propositions, photographs, related architectural projects, and critical writings, all of which explore the region's key challenges. Rounding out the volume is a foreword that explores the role of transportation infrastructure in the development of the region and an afterword that situates this project within the broader architectural project of imagining possible future worlds. -- Amazon.com.
  
• Notes:Statement of responsibility of contributors from preliminary page 2.
  "In 2013, 'Infra Eco Logi Urbanism' was synthesized as a solo exhbition."--Page 202.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:3906027724 paperback
  9783906027722 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 0. Introduction
  Speculative Urbanism and The Future of Regions
  SCALING UP
  Essay by Robert Fishman
  1. Frame: Conceptual Geography
  Design Operations After Territory
  System: Networks and Sheds - Regional Cartographies
  Structure: Physical Artifacts of the Urban
  Code: Policies, Protocols, Practices
  Intervention: Systematic Leverage
  2. Form: Fragmentary Utopistics
  Utopian and Utopistic Forms
  Fragmentary Utopistics: Three Cases
  3. Figure: Toward A Megaregional Public
  Conduit Urbanism: Structuring the Common
  Constructing Discourse: Exhibition and Debate
  ATONING FOR EDUCABILITY THROUGH DELICATE BEAUTY
  Afterword by John McMorrough.