Post Urbanism & ReUrbanism: Michigan Debates on Urbanism, Vol. 3

by Barbara Littenberg, Barbara Littenberg, Steven D. Peterson

This volume is one of three books in The Michigan Debates on Urbanism, a series that also features Everyday Urbanism & New Urbanism. Each book represents a distinct, inevitable, but still-emerging paradigm in contemporary urbanism, & is an elaboration of public debates held at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning during the winter of 2004. Peter Eisenman, acclaimed NY architect, author & theorist, presents several of his recent projects, including his team's entry for the controversial Ground Zero competition at the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan. This project & the larger body of his work are termed Post Urbanist by the series editor Douglas Kelbaugh. Post Urbanism refers to a critical, post-structuralist project, expressing avant-garde sensibilities & the techno-flow of a globalizing society. Barbara Littenberg & partner Steven Peterson, also well-known design practitioners from NY, present their entry into the Ground Zero competition, as well as other urban design projects that are characterized as ReUrbanism. Each side takes strong exception to the other's work, leading to a heated discussion moderated by Roy Strickland, Director of the Master of Urban Design program at Taubman College.

80 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2005