Shannon Bassett (Re)stitch Tampa is a design research platform which includes essays and design proposals from the international design ideas competition (re)stitch Tampa. Discourse framed by the underlying themes of the competition, examines (re)designing the city with natural systems and envisioning a new design for the city’s civic realm through connective urban landscape hybridized with ecological infrastructure which (re)stitches the city back to its river. This publication critically examines these issues through essays, in addition to showcasing selected competition entries, the results of (re)stitch Tampa. The discourse distills the design schemes and examines their possibilities as viable alternative urban models for development, which reconsider the relationship of landscape to the city and urban redevelopment. Shannon Bassett is an architectural and urban designer. Her research, teaching, writing and practice operate at the intersection of architecture, urban design and ecological systems.
[RE]STITCH TAMPA
sign research platform which includes essays osals from the international design ideas STITCH TAMPA. Discourse framed by the mes of the competition, examines (re)designing tural systems, addressing climate change and d designing for resiliency. The project envisions the city’s civic realm through connective urban dized with ecological infrastructure which city back to its river.
(Re)Stitch Tampa: Designing the Post-War Coastal American City through Ecologies
[RE]STITCH TAMPA
Designing the Post-War Coastal American City through Ecologies Shannon Bassett
Shannon Bassett (ed.) 8 x 10.45 in. / 20,3 x 26,5 cm. Soft Cover / 200 pages ISBN English 978-1-940291-52-9 Publication date Spring 2017 $34.95 / 30€ / £27 Related Titles Projective Ecologies ISBN English 978-1-940291-12-3 Total Landscape ISBN English 978-1-940291-29-1 The Petropolis of Tomorrow ISBN English 978-0-989331-78-4
Urban Design & Landscape
86