Design has been employed as an agent of social and political change; and a catalyst for spatial and urban transformations in cities across the world. Concurrent Urbanities argues for the centrality of designing in the conceptualization and production of inclusive and participatory urban space; by bringing together civic and urban activists; urbanists; designers and architects committed to exploring designing as a socio-spatial praxis concerned with the reorganization of urban socio-economic systems and relations of power.The blend of first-hand experiences and reflections of the urban practitioners featured reframes design practice beyond the design of physical objects and public amenities; to the design of social protocols; processes; and infrastructures for radically reframing practices of socio-spatial inclusion lsquo;on the ground.rsquo; Through illustrated examples; this book features the work of Stalker and Stealth who employ design to negotiate new social contracts; Teddy Cruzs design of urban political and economic processes; models of urban pedagogy by the Center for Urban Pedagogy; Cohabitation Strategiesrsquo; work on designing urban social cooperatives; and others. Concurrent Urbanities presents a compendium of the emerging models of design-driven urban practice that offers important new insights to professional urban practitioners as well as to students of urbanism; architecture; urban design; and urban and spatial planning.
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