Urban design futures

✍ Scribed by Malcolm Moor; Jon Rowland; Ebooks Corporation

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Urban Design Futures puts forward a series of provocative scenarios for the directions in which urban design could evolve. These scenarios take the form of a series of 'think-pieces' on different aspects of urban design by leading practitioners and theorists. Essays from an international group of authors review progress and explore emerging ideas. Should urban design anticipate the future rather than recreate the past? What are the new driving forces that will shape urban living and urban design in the future? This book explores new concepts and points the way towards a series of urban design paradigms for the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET. Read more...

Content: Introduction / Malcolm Moor --
Part One. Urban Design Comes of Age: The Bigger Picture. 1. Territories of Urban Design / Alex Krieger --
2. Globalising Urban Design / Tony Lloyd-Jones --
3. It's Sprawl, but it's MY Sprawl / Harriet Tregoning --
4. Civitas: Traditional Urbanism in Contemporary Practice / Paul Murrain --
5. The Planning System and the Delivery of Design Quality / John Punter --
6. The ART of city building / David Rudlin --
Part Two. Connecting Social Spaces: Creating the Public Realm. 7. Life, Spaces, Buildings, and in Said Order, Please / Jan Gehl --
8. The Insecurity of Urbanism / Tim Stonor --
9. The Street / Adriaan Geuze --
10. Asian Commercialism and the Discovery of Place: The Lan Kwai Fong Story / Alex Lui --
11. The Social Dimension of Urban Design Ken Worpole --12. Men Shouldn't Decide Everything: Women and the Public Realm / Mardie Townsend --
13. Post Modern Movement: The 'Inscribed City' / Alain Cousseran --
14. Animal Urbanism and Homeopathic Architecture / Lucien Kroll. Part Three. Sustainability Through Technology: Creating New Typologies. 15. What is the 'New Ordinary'? / Bill Dunster --
16. A Vertical Theory of Urban Design --
Ken Yeang --
Part Four. Networks Expand Choice: New Frameworks for Urbanism. 17. The Brand New Authentic Retail Experience: The Commercialization of Urban Design / Richard Rees --
18. Place, Experience, Movement / Andrew Cross --
19. Lower Lea Valley Olympic and Legacy Masterplans / Jason Prior --
20. Giving Meaning to the Experience Economy / John Worthington --
21. Ground Zero / Thom Mayne --
Conclusion. Urban Design Futures / Jon Rowland.
Abstract:

Presents essays to review progress and explore emerging ideas: Should urban design reflect the future rather than recreate the past? What are the driving forces that shape urban living and hence urban design in the future? This book explores various concepts and points the way towards a series of urban design paradigms for the 21st century. Read more...