2024-11-21T17:30:54-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/85538009/launch-event-tonight-shaping-the-city-refreshes-case-studies-of-contemporary-urbanism Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2013-11-01T18:52:00-04:00 >2013-11-04T21:59:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/hh/hhkqdejtcwqjaaa7.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> Drop by Hollywood&rsquo;s finest art and architecture bookstore, <a href="http://www.hennesseyingalls.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hennessey + Ingalls</a>, tonight for a special event launching <em>Shaping the City</em>, a newly revised edition of contemporary urbanism case studies. The event will also feature a conversation with University of Toronto&rsquo;s Director of Urban Design, and <em>Shaping the City</em>&rsquo;s editor, <strong>Rodolphe el-Khoury</strong>, along with <strong>Qingyun Ma</strong>, Dean of USC School of Architecture. The conversation will also include <em>Shaping the City</em> contributors <strong>Teddy Cruz</strong>, <strong>Victor J. Jones</strong>, and <strong>Paulette Singley</strong>.</p> <p> Archinect picked the brains of el-Khoury and Singley before the launch, here&rsquo;s some tidbits:</p> <p> <strong>Archinect:&nbsp;</strong>What was your contribution to <em>Shaping the City</em>?</p> <p> <strong>Rodolphe el-Khoury</strong>: [Co-author Edward Robbins and I] conceived <em>Shaping the City</em> as a potential textbook that would sample aspects of the city without imposing an overarching conceptual framework on the complex and varied manifestations of urban forms and phenomena.</p> <p> <strong>Paulette Singley</strong>: "Los Angeles: Between Cognit...</p>