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Autonomous Urbanism: Towards a New Transitopia

English

By (author): Evan Shieh

Automated vehicles (AVs) are beginning to appear on our roads. Their arrival represents the next disruptive technological innovation to our mobility systems. In a moment in which the contemporary conversation around driverless technology largely neglects its longer-term spatial implications, this book argues that AVs offer a major opportunity to rethink the design and evolution of our citys built environments with profound implications on urban life, infrastructure, and form since automobiles replaced horse-powered travel and changed the design of cities in the prior century. Driverless vehicles also carry with them however, the distinct risk to reinforce many of the negative externalities brought by 20th-century automobile-based urbanism including urban sprawl, mono-functional mobility infrastructures, traffic congestion, and environmental degradation. Instead, this book proposes a vision for our cities in which AVs have been used to spur a mobility paradigm shift from private automobile use towards automated mass transit and mobility as a serviceusing the city of Los Angeles as a testbed.

To take up these charges, this book is structured through two companion volumes: one that deploys the unique format of a graphic novel to depict a narrative experience of this future city through the eyes of the everyday public, and one that lays the framework for that speculative future to potentially occur, grounding it in our recent urban mobility history, transportation policies, and typological spatial implications at multiple scales. In envisioning this potential urban future and delineating the foundational design and policy steps towards achieving it, this book contends that there is hope in transitioning cities from the Autopias of today, to the Transitopias of tomorrow. This is a big shift. Are cities and their inhabitants ready?

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: Oro Editions
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781957183633

About Evan Shieh

Evan Shieh is an architect urbanist researcher and educator. He is an assistant professor of architecture at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) where he teaches as a full-time faculty member and is also the director of Emergent Studio a design and research office operating at architecture's intersection with urbanism landscape and infrastructure. Shieh is a graduate of Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Design from which he holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design. 

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