Author: Mehrotra Rahul
Place: Michigan
Publisher: The University of Michigan
Year: 2005
Volume: I
Pages: 72
ISBN: 9781891197-34-5
Subject: Urbanisation
Sub-Subject: Urban Planning
Keyword: Everyday Urbanism, Michigan Debates on Urbanism, New Urbanism, Informal Urbanism, Urban Spaces
Classification: 711.5
Shelf: C1R4
Accession No: B738
Contents: Foreword, Preface, Introduction, Michigan Debate I: Everyday Urbanism, Every Day is Not Enough, Discussion, Contributors
Abstract: *Everyday Urbanism* is one of three books in the “Michigan Debates on Urbanism” series, alongside *New Urbanism* and *Post Urbanism*. Each book explores a distinct, evolving approach to contemporary urbanism, stemming from public debates at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in 2004. In this volume, Margaret Crawford, co-author of *Everyday Urbanism* and a Professor of Architecture at Harvard University, advocates for a bottom-up, informal approach to urbanism. She emphasizes the importance of embracing everyday life and ordinary, unspectacular urban spaces, suggesting that urban environments should be shaped by real, lived experiences rather than idealized or pre-planned visions. Michael Speaks, the Graduate Program Director at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, responds with his perspectives on urbanism, offering a contrasting view. The conversation is introduced and moderated by Rahul Mehrotra, an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and an award-winning designer from Bombay. The book presents a dynamic debate between these experts, highlighting different paradigms in urban design and planning, with a focus on how urban environments can evolve from the grassroots level rather than through top-down planning processes.