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• Title:Local code : 3,659 proposals about data, design & the nature of cities / Nicholas de Monchaux.
  
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• Author/Creator:De Monchaux, Nicholas, 1973- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA9053.E58 D4 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Environmental aspects.
  Greenways.
  Vacant lands.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:239 pages : illustrations (many color) ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:"Praised in the New York Times for its "intelligent enquiry and actionable theorizing," Local Code: Real Estates is a collection of software tools, design proposals, and theoretical arguments about the future of urban infrastructure and architecture. Local Code combines drawings of over five thousand digitally designed and networked microinterventions for vacant lots in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York in the United States, as well as Venice, Italy, with theoretical essays and information graphics. The book's data-driven layout presents a complex, elegant interface to myriad possible future urban landscapes. Local Code presents a digitally driven, networked approach to urban resilience and environmental justice, and argues that we have just begun to discover the full possibilities of computing and design"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781616893804 (paperback)
  161689380X (paperback)
  
• Contents:Foreword / Keller Easterling
  Introduction : Current location
  San Francisco case study
  Fake estates and reality properties
  Los Angeles case study
  Life attracts life
  Venice case study
  The map and the territory
  New York case study
  Conclusion : We are all made of stars.