{"product_id":"measures-and-meanings-of-spatial-capital-isbn-9780262551304","title":"Measures and Meanings of Spatial Capital","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow the built environment, understood as spatial capital, governs both everyday life in cities and urban systems more generally.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an age of social and environmental crises, we need to critically rethink the role of the built environment and how best to put it to work. \u003ci\u003eMeasures and Meanings of Spatial Capital\u003c\/i\u003e presents a new theory of spatial capital, arguing that spatial form is essential for building resilience into highly complex urban systems. Lars Marcus argues that the built environment constitutes a form of capital that enhances other forms of capital in cities (such as social, economic, and ecological capital), if designed with those goals in mind. This represents an important and necessary shift in how we approach urban space in the numerous studies of cities that are conducted in a range of disciplines today, such as urban sociology, urban economics, and urban ecology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn contemporary urban studies, land has oddly lost its position alongside labor and capital as one of the three fundamental production factors in economic theory, but as Marcus shows, misconceptions of land are at the root of social and environmental crises worldwide. By defining the challenges and modeling our use of spatial form to enhance\/improve land, and then synthesizing data into a unified theory of spatial capital, Marcus provides a crucial reframing of how we can best plan and design our cities for the global challenges we are facing.Preface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Towards a Theory on Second Nature\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Challenges—Definition of Spatial Urban Form\u003cbr\u003e1 The Normative Challenge: An Operational Manual for Spaceship Earth\u003cbr\u003e2 The Epistemological Challenge: The Sciences of the Artificial\u003cbr\u003e3 The Ontological Challenge: Notes on the Synthesis of Form\u003cbr\u003eConclusion Part I\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Measures—A Model of Spatial Urban Form\u003cbr\u003e4 Modeling Space: Urban Space as Relative Location\u003cbr\u003e5 Modeling Distance: Urban Space as Cognitive Distance\u003cbr\u003e6 Modeling Attraction: Urban Space as Potential Density and Diversity\u003cbr\u003eConclusion Part II\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Meanings—The Spatial Form of Urban Systems\u003cbr\u003e7 Social Capital: Cities as Landscapes of Varied Copresence\u003cbr\u003e8 Economic Capital: Cities as Landscapes of Varied Markets\u003cbr\u003e9 Ecological Capital: Cities as Landscapes of Varied Biotopes\u003cbr\u003eConclusion Part III\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Synthesis—Spatial Form and Urban Complexity\u003cbr\u003e10 Urban Systems: Cities as Complexity\u003cbr\u003e11 Urban Processes: Cities as Space\u003cbr\u003e12 Urban Form: Cities as Capital\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: A Theory of Spatial Capital\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: The Order of Things\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex“Lars Marcus's groundbreaking work bridges urbanism and economics, identifying spatial configuration—the product of design—as a crucial form of capital to foster resilience and sustainability. Marcus’s new approach to land as capital provides essential insights into today’s complex social and environmental challenges.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alan Penn, Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London\u003c\/b\u003eLars Marcus is Professor in Urban Design at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, and Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300291399909,"sku":"NP9780262551304","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262551304.jpg?v=1767732483","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/measures-and-meanings-of-spatial-capital-isbn-9780262551304","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}