Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form

Ideas, Discourse, Praxis and Worldwide Transfer

Paul Jenkins, Harry Smith

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9780415586924
• eBook ISBN: 9781317599609
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

The global application of Enlightenment-derived concepts to create social order through urban form suggests that we believe we know how to create a (future) ordered environment. But these notions of order and disorder need interrogation, especially as the world rapidly urbanises.

Not only have such approaches failed to produce more social order, but it has become clear that the imposition of these ideas in cities of the South cuts across alternative systems of social and cultural order and creates new disorder. Thus, if we are serious about forms of urban order, then it is time to rethink what we mean by order in the fi rst place. As this provocative and timely book shows, what we think of as urban order is partial and restricted, and what we perceive as disorder usually masks underlying orders of social nature.

The book is intended for architects, urban designers, planners and urban scholars, as well as urban policymakers, managers and residents, to consider a different approach to emerging urban space and form, starting from an understanding of the cultural imaginaries and social constructs that underpin the production of most urban fabric and engaging with these concepts and organisational forms to improve urban life for the majority.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of acronyms and abbreviations
• 1 The beginnings of ordering urban space and form in the modern era
• 2 Aspiring to polite society: the transfer of Enlightenment urban design to Rio de Janeiro
• 3 Garden city planning is translated into São Paulo
• 4 The functional city and Brasília
• 5 Functionalism translated into Brazil and then re-exported: Curitiba
• 6 Parallel innovations in urban space and form: Alphaville in Brazil and New Urbanism in the United States
• 7 Innovations in engaging with urban disorder in Brazil: slum upgrading
• 8 A change of focus from physical to social urban order in Brazil: the right to the city and participatory planning
• 9 New forms of urbanism re-exported: gated communities, waterfronts and consumerism-oriented order in Angola
• 10 Understanding order and disorder in urban space and form: discourse and praxis
• Index