Manual for Designing Urban Imaginaries Colombia

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<p>What does it mean to reimagine the cities of tomorrow? How do we create urban environments that empower the many, rather than enrich the few? The <b>Manual for Designing Urban Imaginaries Colombia</b> is grounded in experimentation and aims to confront one of humanity's most pressing challenges: the complexities of transformation in an urban age.</p><p>Situated at the nexus of urban research, design, and activism, the present volume focuses on Colombia's rapidly urbanizing areas, where decades of armed conflict and forced displacement from neighboring Venezuela have given way to new waves of social and environmental issues. In such a challenging sociopolitical context, this manual-emerging from research by building at the ETH Zurich under the frame of the Colombia Urban Transformation Program-explores the spaces where architectural practice and design thinking meet the hopes, needs, and perceptions of communities. The concept of the "urban imaginary"-denoting the desires of the collective-is evoked as a means of developing strategies for marginalized voices, so as to shape the future of their built and natural environments.</p><p>The manual demonstrates that true transformation is possible when alliances are forged, when diverse actors meet at a common table to negotiate, deliberate, and build solutions together. It also underscores that design and multiple forms of knowledge-scientific, cultural, and lived-must converge if we are to address the paradox of hyper-diversity and inequality that defines so many urban contexts.</p><p>For anyone navigating the complexity of an urbanizing Earth, the <b>Manual for Designing Urban Imaginaries Colombia</b> is a call to action. It reminds us that each and every street corner and urban periphery holds the potential to inspire transformation, and that reimagining urban life is not just an architectural endeavor-it is a deeply human one. Though grounded in Colombia, the manual's lessons extend to global areas grappling w

Artikeldetails

EAN

9783966800204

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

173 x 241 x 34 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

ArchiTangle GmbH