Business as unusual : radical ideas for cities / Julian Bolleter.
| Author/creator | Bolleter, Julian author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Radical ideas for cities. |
| Contents | Body: alternative urbanisms. Bunnings-lite urbanism -- Car-phobic urbanism -- Charter urbanism -- Deregulation urbanism -- Donga urbanism -- Dumb urbanism -- Edible urbanism -- Effluent urbanism -- Enlightenment urbanism -- Eternal urbanism -- Fair-go urbanism -- Hamlet urbanism -- Incentive urbanism -- Inside out urbanism -- Island urbanism -- Kibbutz urbanism -- Lifeboat urbanism -- Laneway urbanism -- Modern urbanism -- National park urbanism -- Nature-play urbanism -- Radburn urbanism -- Resignation urbanism -- Shame urbanism -- Supergraphic urbanism -- Symbolic urbanism -- Tax-break urbanism -- Tinder urbanism -- Undercover urbanism -- Woollies-lite urbanism -- Conclusion: towards business as usual. |
| Abstract | "When planning thinking collapses into prescriptive dogma, it becomes challenging to imagine alternatives to business as usual and possible innovations wither on the vine. This book trawls through the archives for long-forgotten, sometimes dangerous, ideas and draws upon unfashionable or emerging theories and techniques for innovation to penetrate beyond business-as-usual approaches. It opens a conversation through a series of hand-drawn diagrams of alternative ways of dwelling in Australian cities, which have applications in sprawling cities worldwide."-- Publisher's description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN | 9781760803308 |
| ISBN | 1760803308 paperback |
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