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The urban design of impermanence

The urban design of impermanence

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The urban design of impermanence

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The notion of impermanence underlies, to a significant extent, the urban design language of Hong Kong. The city?s intensely urban environment has long reflected embedded patterns of change and temporality in both its physical and cultural dimensions ? a forever reconstructed city of dislocation, adaptation and imagination. These aspects are intrinsically interwoven within the street and spatial patterns, producing a special sense of immediacy and transience insinuated with the fabric and memory of the city. This collection of sketches, illustrations and writing reflects the evolving character and personality of Hong Kong ? an informality in the way its older streets, urban places and spaces are used, which encodes the ?every day? experience of the city through events, uses, display and communication; a profusion of visual incidents and expression; and an intensity of fragmented features that exude Hong Kong?s high density urban values.

Material Language: English with Chinese summary

Weight 0.5000 kg

Size 192 pages, 200 black and white illustrations

Made In Hong Kong

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Peter Cookson Smith

Dr Peter Cookson Smith is an architect, planner and urban designer. He is a director of URBIS, the firm he founded in Hong Kong in 1977, one of the first planning, environmental and landscape design consultancies in Asia. Over the past 25 years the firm has won more than 50 local and international awards for their work in Hong Kong and China.