Urban Design on the Move
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Author: Socrates Stratis
This title follows a design team’s transformative journey, implementing their Europan 4 winning project at Heraklion’s old city waterfront in Crete, Greece. During the design trajectory, the team mediates several controversies that become decisive for the project’s outcome. Throughout, the author unpacks the team’s diplomacy skills in promoting their idea of a porous city welcoming heterogeneous publics—laying bare the informal and unsaid aspects of the design implementation process.The book - which includes contributions from Hercules, a fictional character and friend of the team - charts the fascinating transformation of the competition’s design strategies into implemented urban practices.
ISBN 9783986121006. JOVIS. pb. 280 pages. 362 colour & b/w ills. 16.5 x 24 cm.
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This title follows a design team’s transformative journey, implementing their Europan 4 winning project at Heraklion’s old city waterfront in Crete, Greece. During the design trajectory, the team mediates several controversies that become decisive for the project’s outcome. Throughout, the author unpacks the team’s diplomacy skills in promoting their idea of a porous city welcoming heterogeneous publics—laying bare the informal and unsaid aspects of the design implementation process.The book - which includes contributions from Hercules, a fictional character and friend of the team - charts the fascinating transformation of the competition’s design strategies into implemented urban practices.
ISBN 9783986121006. JOVIS. pb. 280 pages. 362 colour & b/w ills. 16.5 x 24 cm.
available