Urbanismo ecológico borns with the necessity of dealing with urbanism from an ecological approach as a practical and imaginative method to face the reality of the city, and constitute, therefor, a deliberate bet to settle definitely the "ecological urbanism" concept through the summary of a number of key texts about the matter.
Urbanismo ecológico gathers together different articles from a homonymous symposium which took place in 2009 at the Graduate School of Design in Harvard University, as well as from other essays, speeches and classes linked with this research line supported by the renowned american university. The book, edited by Mohsen Mostafavi and Gareth Doherty, begins from an interdisciplinary approach where converge the vision of architects, town planners, designers, theorists, economists, engineers, artists and scientists, among other specialties. The result is a large vision which contributes to draw a pluralistic image, complex and full of hints which the urban system achieve when it is studied from an ecological point of view.
Mohsen Mostafavi is dean and professor at the Alexander and Victoria Wiley of Projects at Graduate School of Design in Harvard University. He has took part in the jury of the Aga Khan Prize in Architecture and in the juries of Holcim Foundation and Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal. Among his books it could be pointed out La superficie de la arquitectura (2002), Approximations (2002), Landscape Urbanism (2004) and Structure as Space (2006).
Gareth Doherty is PhD candidate at Graduate School of Design in Harvard University, where he is currently developing an ethnographic study of contemporaneous landscape and urbanism in Baréin. Editing and founder of New Geographies magazine, he has been awarded with an special distinction because of his work as teacher in Harvard.
Size.- 16.5 x 24 cm.
Number of pages.- 655 pages.
Binding.- Cantoné
Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2014, ISBN 9788425227424.
