AUTONOMOUS URBANISM
EVAN SHIEH
“Autonomous vehicles offer a major opportunity to rethink the design and evolution of our city's built environments, with important implications on urban life and mobility since automobiles replaced horse-powered travel and changed the design of cities in the prior century.”
“Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are appearing on our roads, representing the next technological disruption to our mobility systems. While their long-term spatial implications remain largely underestimated, this book argues that AVs offer a major opportunity to rethink our city’s built environments – with profound implications on urban life since automobiles replaced horse-powered travel and changed the design of cities in the prior century. However, driverless vehicles also risk reinforcing many of the negative effects of auto-based urbanism including urban sprawl, single-function infrastructure, congestion, and environmental degradation. Instead, this book proposes a driverless mobility paradigm shift that moves cities away from automobile dependency towards automated mass transit and mobility as a service – using the city of Los Angeles as a testbed.
In this two-volume set, one book depicts the narrative experience of this future city through the format of an architectural graphic novel. The other lays the framework for that speculative future, grounding it in urban mobility history, transportation policies, and multi-scalar spatial typologies. By envisioning this future guided by design and policy actions, this book contends that cities can transition from the Autopias of today, to the Transitopias of tomorrow. This is a big shift. Are cities and their inhabitants ready?”
“Shifts the contemporary conversation around driverless vehicles towards one in which technological advances are fore-fronted by the public good—one that transitions cities dependent on the motorized, private vehicles of today, to cities designed for shared, multi-modal, and automated vehicles of tomorrow.”
“Calls on us as a society to reexamine the interdependent relationship between our mobility and urban form, our mobility and infrastructure, our mobility and urbanization, and most importantly, our mobility and our societal ambitions.”
“Offers an alternative form of visual communication, an architectural graphic novel that challenges the reader to consider how their own mobility choices and behaviors shape urban space and the experiences they engender.”
Selected Works
Drawing CodesEXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS OF ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION
FLUXArchitecture in a Parametric Landscape
FLUX - Ila + AndrewArchitecture in a Parametric Landscape
New Investigations in Collective FormNeeraj Bhatia
Tatiana Bilbao EstudioBenjamin Wilke
Autonomous UrbanismEvan Shieh
WAY BEYOND BIGNESSProject type
Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational DesignDaniel Cardoso Llach and Theodora Vardouli
Living + Dying INbetweenPeter Zweig
Silt Sand SlurryRob Holmes, Brett Milligan, and Gena Wirth
G. E. KIDDER SMITH BUILDSProject type
NUCLEAR CHRONICLESDESIGN RESEARCH ON THE LANDSCAPES OF THE US NUCLEAR HIGHWAY
Environmental Activism by DesignColeman Coker, Sarah Gamble, Katie Swenson , and Thomas Fisher
Designing for EmpathyAybars Aşçı
Designing for Empathy - Aybars AşçıAybars Aşçı
Johnston MarkleeBenjamin Wilke
Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of ArchitectureCarl Lostritto
New Investigations in Collective FormNeeraj Bhatia + The Open Workshop
Source Books in Architecture 16Tatiana Bilbao
Environmental Activism by DesignColeman Coker + Sarah Gamble
Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational DesignDaniel Cardoso Llach + Theodora Vardouli
CITIES OF REPETITIONHONG KONG’S PRIVATE HOUSING ESTATES
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