Jonathan Jae-an Crisman Livres

Exploring the intersection of poetry and urban design, this work delves into the essence of what defines a city through narratives of place and spontaneous encounters. It emphasizes the importance of immediate experiences in shaping urban environments, offering both reflective insights and practical approaches to incorporate storytelling into the design process.

Drawing on the history of architecture, media theory, cultural anthropology, and urban studies, Best Practices pairs photographic documentation with extensive captions and citations to define a territory within the margins between the sanctioned and unsanctioned, the regulated and unregulated, the tasteful and tacky, the novel and the nonsense.