Seeding Urban Transformation

Seeding Urban Transformation explores opportunities to produce urban life afresh in the fraught presents of ecological fragility, social strain and financial inequity. A collection of case studies across disciplines and geographies, the book focuses on critical and creative provocations that negotiate between the tactical and the systemic, for positive change and urban liveability.

Urban intervention is seen as a story that wavers between the material detail of cities and the dynamics of urban lives. Chapters explore urban analysis and action that push against property and real-estate pre-figurations, explore technologies that coax, co-opt and disrupt, expose overlooked infrastructures. Heterogeneity may resist wholescale development, propagating large scale ripples of positive change that reorient the way the urban is conceived. The authors aim to offer a coherent conversation around precise and punctual urban regeneration undertaken in small-scale and politically astute manners, building knowledge for agents of intervention, such as architects, planners, urbanists and community builders.