TY - BOOK AU - Tang, Bo TI - Ecological Urbanism SN - 9783037784679 U1 - ARCH PY - 2017/// CY - . PB - Routledge KW - Architecture KW - Physical & Cultural Topography KW - Urban Metabolisms N1 - It’s about the ways in which city residents can learn through making to engage with the dynamic process of creating their own city. It looks at the nature and processes involved in loosely fitting together elements made by different people at different scales and times, with different intentions, into a civic entity which is greater than the sum of its parts.It provides a new take on the subject of architecture, defined as the study and practice of fitting together physical and cultural topography. It provides a comprehensive view of how the fourth dimension of time fits loosely together with the three spatial dimensions at different scales within the human horizon, so as to layer meaning and depth within the places and metabolism of the city fabric ER -