Trends in Urban Design: Insights for the Future Urban Professional

✍ Scribed by Rob Roggema

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Series: Contemporary Urban Design Thinking
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Urban planning practice will undergo significant changes in the upcoming decades, due to major changes and challenges the world has to deal with, such as loss of biodiversity loss, climate change impacts, agricultural transformation, water management issues and health. The way the urban professional has to relate to this new order is explored in this book by collecting a series of conversational chapters with local, regional, national and international experts in the fields of urban planning and design, urban and building development, building and construction industry, architecture, governments and academia. The unification of a desirable future with real world processes such as economic and decision-making practice is key. Moreover, the attitude of the future urban professional will more and more shift from an expert in a specific field to a communicative advisor in complex processes.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
About the Editors
Chapter 1: Future Talks
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Situation Is Dire, But Is This Felt?
1.3 Idealism and Realism
1.4 Results
1.4.1 Urgent Issues and Themes
1.4.2 Processes, Methods, and Approaches
1.4.2.1 Design Studio ‘Apocalypse Now’
1.4.2.2 Teaching the Region
1.4.2.3 Landscape-Driven Design
1.4.2.4 National Area-Development
1.4.2.5 Through Scales, Times, and Dimensions
1.4.2.6 Indigenous Knowledge and Traditions
1.4.2.7 Socially Driven Urban Development
1.4.2.8 Economic Mechanisms
1.4.2.9 Materials and Raw Materials
1.4.3 Competences and Skills
1.5 Application in the Region North-Holland
1.6 Designing a Regional Studio
1.7 Methodology
References
Chapter 2: Oral Learning
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Learn to Love the Ocean
2.3 Oral Teaching and Learning
2.4 Zero-Carbon in 2040
2.5 Time
References
Chapter 3: Teaching the Region
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Urgency
3.3 The City Is Not Dead
3.4 Define the Brief
3.5 To Control or Not to Control?
3.6 Teach a Region
3.7 Teaching by Surprise
3.8 Taking Pilots to the Next Level
References
Chapter 4: Shaping Urgencies
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Urgency
4.3 Understanding Connections
4.4 What Is Our Task?
4.5 Coastal Delta
4.6 Climate Urgency
4.7 Designing the Urgency
4.8 To Frans
4.9 Friends of
References
Chapter 5: Thinking Along
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Biodiversity
5.3 Climate
5.4 Drinking Water
5.5 Agriculture
5.6 Peat
5.7 City
5.8 Energy
5.9 Solving Capacity
5.10 Predictive Capacity
5.11 Good Time
References
Chapter 6: Beyond Pilots
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Craftsmanship and Urgencies
6.3 Red Engine
6.4 Shared Responsibility
6.5 Reflection
6.6 The Future of Project Development
6.7 Forum and Little C
References
Chapter 7: Thinking in Improbabilities
7.1 Introduction
7.2 It’s Going to Get Busy
7.3 Systems Thinking vs. Living Environment
7.4 Money Is Not the Problem
7.5 Black Swans
7.6 Scenarios Inside Out
References
Chapter 8: Waterlander
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Temptation
8.3 Letting Nature Do the Work
8.4 Sea Level
8.5 Snowball Effect
8.6 Win-Win
8.7 Blissful Sobriety
8.8 It Will Not Always Be Like This
References
Chapter 9: Design for Emergencies
9.1 Introduction
9.2 “In Times of Emergency, Let Nature Rule”
9.3 Blurring Disciplines
9.4 Learning from Landscape
9.5 Climate Literacy
9.6 Teach the Challenge
9.7 Manchester Man
9.8 Groningen and Shenzhen
References
Chapter 10: In Solidarity
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Embrace the New Landscape
10.3 Shrugging
10.4 Availability
10.5 To the Optician for a Vision?
10.6 Good Ancestor
10.7 Area Deputies
10.8 One Big Table
References
Chapter 11: From Home
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Nature Policy Is Waiting to Be Re-enriched
11.3 A Shift in Context
11.4 Localization
11.5 Walking Outside
11.6 Freedom of Choice
References
Chapter 12: It’s the Stupid Economy!
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Aim
12.3 Thinking a Bit More About Resilience
12.4 An Emergency of Weaknesses and Prospects
12.5 The Operating Conditions
12.6 The Challenges for Design Teaching
12.7 The Professional Citizen
12.8 Delusion
12.9 Questioning the Brief
12.10 City as a System Not as a Collection of Objects – Assemblage Theory
12.11 Flexibility, Multiuse
12.12 Hope and Values
References
Chapter 13: Waterman
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Together and Quick
13.3 Flooding
13.4 Thirst
13.5 All Year the Flax-Dam Festered
13.6 Salty Tongues
13.7 NL DNA
13.8 Space on the Long Term
13.9 Development Tasks
References
Chapter 14: Cultivating Urgencies
14.1 Introduction
14.2 The Confluence
14.3 Triplet
14.4 Cultivating Urgencies
14.5 Self-Conscious Region
14.6 Jewels
14.7 Faster, Nicer, Cheaper
14.8 Pixel Planet
References
Chapter 15: EnergyRich
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Affordability and Ambitions
15.3 Leading Role
15.4 Energy-Neutral
15.5 Support
15.6 Upscale in Thinking
15.7 Unequivocally Sustainable
15.8 Wouldn’t It Be Nice…
References
Chapter 16: Elusive City
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Elusiveness
16.3 Vocality
16.4 Public Space
16.5 More Space for Water
16.6 Thinking in Three Dimensions
16.7 Content and Perspective
16.8 Designing with Nondesigners
References
Chapter 17: Shaping Communities
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Deposit
17.3 From Region to Home
17.4 Systems Thinking in Four Dimensions
17.5 Does Architecture Still Belong to the Architect?
17.6 Space and Matter
17.7 Studio for Designing Research
17.8 Building of Communities
17.9 Master Builder
References
Chapter 18: Thinking Freedom
18.1 Introduction
18.2 From Inhabiting to Living
18.3 Reorienting the Process
18.4 Optimism Against All Odds
18.5 Financing It Is the Easy Part
18.6 Free Thinking
18.7 Oosterwold
References
Chapter 19: Decultivating the Netherlands
19.1 Introduction
19.2 Climate as a Driving Force
19.3 Reversed Engineering
19.4 Nature-Rich Living
19.5 Switch in Thinking
19.6 Preventative Thinking
19.7 Decultivating
19.8 Advisor with a Smile
References
Chapter 20: All Adaptive
20.1 Introduction
20.2 Climate Adaptation
20.3 Every Project Adaptive
20.4 Force and Temptation
20.5 A New Way of Thinking
20.6 When Are we Adaptive?
20.7 Sustainable Land, Roads, and Waterways
20.8 Environmental Management
References
Chapter 21: We Learn from Our Mistakes
21.1 Introduction
21.2 Types of People
21.3 Adapting = Surviving = Adapting
21.4 Teaching from Practice
21.5 Going Against the Norm
21.6 Building with a Focus on Raw Materials
21.7 Local Raw Materials
21.8 Connecting Design Phases
21.9 With an Open Wallet
Reference
Chapter 22: Stuck
22.1 Introduction
22.2 Governance and Reality
22.3 Rail and Infrastructure
22.4 Intensities
22.5 Planning and Design
22.6 Anglo-Saxon or Rhineland Model
22.7 Financial Roots
22.8 A Better Life for Everyone
Reference
Chapter 23: The Art of Improvisation
23.1 Introduction
23.2 Improvise, People!
23.3 Government of Participants
23.4 Inextricable Tangles
23.5 Professional Pitfall
23.6 Absorb Knowledge Quickly, Then Lots of Time for the Game of Participation
23.7 Berlage Is the Key
23.8 Two Study Specializations
References
Chapter 24: Pride in Quality
24.1 Introduction
24.2 Social Value
24.3 A Small Lament
24.4 Enlightened Development
24.5 Leading Role of the Government
24.6 National Vision, Regional Program, Local Implementation
24.7 Have Guts, Inspire, and Integrate
24.8 Eem Valley City
References
Chapter 25: Growth Means Life
25.1 Introduction
25.2 Investing in People
25.3 Craftspeople and Free Thinkers
25.4 Learning Through Investigating
25.5 Turning Point
25.6 Undividing
25.7 Predicting with Data
References
Chapter 26: The Future Is (Im)possible
26.1 Introduction
26.2 Looking Far into the Future Helps
26.3 Research-Plan-Strategy
26.4 The City as a Solution
26.5 Programmatic Mixing and Intensification
26.6 People in the Mix
26.7 Disruptive Development
26.8 Conditions
26.9 Lab Rat
26.10 Research by Design
References
Index