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Designing our way to a better world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fisher, Thomas, 1953- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Design > Human factors.
Quality of life.
Social systems.
ARCHITECTURE > Urban & Land Use Planning.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
ARCHITECTURE > Criticism.
Table of Contents:
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  • Introduction
  • Part I. Invisible Systems
  • 1. The Design of the Invisible
  • 2. Design Thinking
  • 3. The Logic of Creativity
  • Part II. Education
  • 4. Creative Education
  • 5. Schools and Communities
  • 6. Reconstructing Design Education
  • Part III. Infrastructure
  • 7. Fracture-Critical Failures
  • 8. Over-Extended Infrastructure
  • 9. Designed Disasters
  • Part IV. The Public Realm
  • 10. The Infrastructure of Health
  • 11. Healthy Landscapes
  • 12. Viral Cities
  • Part V. Politics
  • 13. Designer Politics
  • 14. The Politics of No
  • 15. Politics: Right and Wrong
  • Part VI. Economics
  • 16. An Opposable Economy
  • 17. A Third Industrial Revolution
  • 18. Meta-design
  • Part VII. Beliefs
  • 19. Community Resiliency
  • 20. Evolutionary Transformation
  • 21. Spatializing Knowledge
  • Postscript: A Past and Possible Future
  • Notes
  • Index.