Add to ORKGWhen architects, designers, and planners map out the physical space of our urban and regional geography, they also map out the discursive space of our everyday lives. This paper is an exploration of the rhetorical norms implicit in contemporary urban design. I examine three theories of the good city : Jane Jacobs\u27 The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), Christopher Alexander\u27s A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (1977), and Peter Katz\u27s The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community (1994). I close by proposing a set of civic problems shared by designers and rhetoricians
This dissertation brings together three scholarship areas: rhetorical theory and analysis, hostile u...
The role of architect in city-making has been the theme of unsolved debates in urbanism. Committed a...
From the municipal and civic perspective, improving the environment responds to the idea “to make a ...
The city is a complex and nuanced collection of symbols, actions, interactions, and meanings rife fo...
In order to articulate meaning in cities and architecture, I propose a framework of enacted architec...
‘Urbanism’ has become a familar posture among architects, so familiar that it has recently become a ...
The suggestion that cities “speak” has become a growing interest in communication scholarship, yet t...
Cities throughout the United States have attempted to rehabilitate their neglected urban neighborhoo...
This thesis explores urban design competitions, the rhetoric of it and the underlying processes that...
Adopting an impure and contingent conception of urban design as a biopolitical apparatus, along the ...
This article examines the theories of community and urban design proposed by architect Christopher A...
Have we always lived in cities? Even if we have, they have not been the experience of the majority, ...
Let me lay out some premises of what follows. These premises can be known, but they cannot be proven...
Buildings, like people, need to be a part of something larger than themselves, and to be approachabl...
The texts collected are a sample of the topics for study and debate that have been part of the Urban...
This dissertation brings together three scholarship areas: rhetorical theory and analysis, hostile u...
The role of architect in city-making has been the theme of unsolved debates in urbanism. Committed a...
From the municipal and civic perspective, improving the environment responds to the idea “to make a ...
The city is a complex and nuanced collection of symbols, actions, interactions, and meanings rife fo...
In order to articulate meaning in cities and architecture, I propose a framework of enacted architec...
‘Urbanism’ has become a familar posture among architects, so familiar that it has recently become a ...
The suggestion that cities “speak” has become a growing interest in communication scholarship, yet t...
Cities throughout the United States have attempted to rehabilitate their neglected urban neighborhoo...
This thesis explores urban design competitions, the rhetoric of it and the underlying processes that...
Adopting an impure and contingent conception of urban design as a biopolitical apparatus, along the ...
This article examines the theories of community and urban design proposed by architect Christopher A...
Have we always lived in cities? Even if we have, they have not been the experience of the majority, ...
Let me lay out some premises of what follows. These premises can be known, but they cannot be proven...
Buildings, like people, need to be a part of something larger than themselves, and to be approachabl...
The texts collected are a sample of the topics for study and debate that have been part of the Urban...
This dissertation brings together three scholarship areas: rhetorical theory and analysis, hostile u...
The role of architect in city-making has been the theme of unsolved debates in urbanism. Committed a...
From the municipal and civic perspective, improving the environment responds to the idea “to make a ...