{"product_id":"digital-cities-isbn-9780470773000","title":"Digital Cities","description":"Guest-edited by Neil Leach  \u003cp\u003eWhat is the impact of digital technologies on the design and analysis of cities? For the last 15 years, the profound impact of computer-aided techniques on architecture has been well charted. From the use of standard drafting packages to the more experimental use of generative design tools and parametric modelling, digital technologies have come to play a major role in architectural production. But how are they helping architects and designers to operate at the urban scale? And how might they be changing the way in which we perceive and understand our cities? \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures some of the world’s leading experimental practices, such as Zaha Hadid Architects, R\u0026amp;Sie(n), Biothing and Xefirotarch.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTakes in exciting emerging practices, such as moh architects, kokkugia and THEVERYMANY, and work by students at some of the most progressive schools, such as the AA, Dessau Institute of Architecture and RMIT.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributors include: Michael Batty, Benjamin Bratton, Alain Chiaradia, Manuel DeLanda, Vicente Guallart and Peter Trummer.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Editorial (\u003ci\u003eHelen Castle\u003c\/i\u003e).  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Digital Cities (\u003ci\u003eNeil Leach\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParametricism: A New Global Style for Architecture and Urban Design (\u003ci\u003ePatrik Schumacher\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExperiments in Associative Urbanism (\u003ci\u003eTom Verebes\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChlorofilia, the Los Angeles Jungle (\u003ci\u003eNeil Leach featuring Hernan Diaz Alonso\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI’ve Heard About … (A Flat, Fat, Growing Urban Experiment) Extract of Neighbourhood Protocols (\u003ci\u003eFrançois Roche\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Digital Breeder for Designing Cities (\u003ci\u003eMichael Batty\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Limits of Urban Simulation: An Interview with Manuel DeLanda (\u003ci\u003eNeil Leach\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSwarm Urbanism (\u003ci\u003eNeil Leach\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMorphogenetic Urbanism (\u003ci\u003ePeter Trummer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDigital Towers (\u003ci\u003eNeil Leach\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpatial Design Economies (\u003ci\u003eAlain Chiaradia\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHyperhabitat: Reprogramming the World (\u003ci\u003eNeil Leach featuring Vicente Guallart\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eiPhone City (\u003ci\u003eBenjamin H Bratton\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJan Kaplick´y (1937–2009): Homage to an Extraordinary Life of Unfulfilled Dreams and Major Successes (\u003ci\u003eIvan Margolius\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterior Eye\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlice Tully Hall, New York (\u003ci\u003eJayne Merkel\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBuilding Profile\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Feildbarn (\u003ci\u003eDavid Littlefield\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUserscape\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLighting Up (\u003ci\u003eValentina Croci\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYeang’s Eco-Files.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeawater Greenhouses and the Sahara Forest Project (\u003ci\u003eKen Yeang and Michael Pawlyn\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnit Factor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParallel Indexing: Infrastructure and Space (\u003ci\u003eHolger Kehne and Jeff Turko)\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMcLean’s Nuggets (\u003ci\u003eWill McLean\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpiller’s Bits.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParallel Biological Futures (\u003ci\u003eNeil Spiller\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSite Lines\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFREEZE: A Celebration of Design in the Modern North (\u003ci\u003eBrian Carter)\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e Neil Leach is Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Brighton, and visiting professor at the University of Southern California. He has also taught at the Architectural Association, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell University, Dessau Institute of Architecture and SCI-Arc. He is the author, editor and translator of many books, including \u003ci\u003eRethinking Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge 1997), \u003ci\u003eThe Anaesthetics of Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press, 1999), \u003ci\u003eDesigning for a Digital World\u003c\/i\u003e (John Wiley \u0026amp; Sons, 2002) and \u003ci\u003eDigital Tectonics\u003c\/i\u003e (John Wiley \u0026amp; Sons, 2004), and was co-curator of the ‘(Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture’ exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing in 2008.  Guest-edited by Neil Leach  \u003cp\u003eWhat is the impact of digital technologies on the design and analysis of cities? For the last 15 years, the profound impact of computer-aided techniques on architecture has been well charted. 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