The Urban Improvise: Improvisation-Based Design for Hybrid Cities

Acknowledged authors Kloeckl, Kristian wrote The Urban Improvise: Improvisation-Based Design for Hybrid Cities comprising 240 pages back in 2020. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0300243049 and 9780300243048. Since then The Urban Improvise: Improvisation-Based Design for Hybrid Cities textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price or rent at the marketplace.

A book for architects, designers, planners, and urbanites that explores how cities can embrace improvisation to improve urban life

The built environment in today’s hybrid cities is changing radically. The pervasiveness of networked mobile and embedded devices has transformed a predominantly stable background for human activity into spaces that have a more fluid behavior. Based on their capability to sense, compute, and act in real time, urban spaces have the potential to go beyond planned behaviors and, instead, change and adapt dynamically.

These interactions resemble improvisation in the performing arts, and this book offers a new improvisation-based framework for thinking about future cities. Kristian Kloeckl moves beyond the smart city concept by unlocking performativity, and specifically improvisation, as a new design approach and explores how city lights, buses, plazas, and other urban environments are capable of behavior beyond scripts. Drawing on research of digital cities and design theory, he makes improvisation useful and applicable to the condition of today’s technology-imbued cities and proposes a new future for responsive urban design.