Urban design futures / edited by Malcolm Moor and Jon Rowland.

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxon: Routledge, 2006.Description: xvii,198 pISBN:

9780415318785

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DDC classification:

307.1216 URB

Contents:

Territories of urban design / Alex Krieger -- Globalising urban design / Tony Lloyd-Jones -- It's sprawl, but it's MY sprawl / Harriet Tregoning -- Civitas : traditional urbanism in contemporary practice / Paul Murrain -- The planning system and the delivery of design quality / John Punter -- The ART of city building / David Rudlin -- Life, spaces, buildings -- and in said order, please / Jan Gehl -- The insecurity of urbanism / Tim Stonor -- The street / Adriaan Geuze -- Asian commercialism and the discovery of place : the Lan Kwai Fong story / Alex Lui -- The social dimension of urban design / Ken Worpole -- Men shouldn't decide everything : women and the public realm / Mardie Townsend -- Post moderm movement : the 'inscribed' city / Alain Cousseran -- Animal urbanism and homeopathic architecture / Lucien Kroll -- What is the 'new ordinary'? / Bill Dunster -- A vertical theory of urban design / Ken Yeang -- The brand new authentic retail experience : the commercialization of urban design / Richard Rees -- Place, experience, movement / Andrew Cross -- Lower Lea Valley olympic and legacy masterplans / Jason Prior -- Giving meaning to the experience economy / John Worthington -- Ground Zero / Thom Mayne.

Summary: 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

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Territories of urban design / Alex Krieger --
Globalising urban design / Tony Lloyd-Jones --
It's sprawl, but it's MY sprawl / Harriet Tregoning --
Civitas : traditional urbanism in contemporary practice / Paul Murrain --
The planning system and the delivery of design quality / John Punter --
The ART of city building / David Rudlin --
Life, spaces, buildings --
and in said order, please / Jan Gehl --
The insecurity of urbanism / Tim Stonor --
The street / Adriaan Geuze --
Asian commercialism and the discovery of place : the Lan Kwai Fong story / Alex Lui --
The social dimension of urban design / Ken Worpole --
Men shouldn't decide everything : women and the public realm / Mardie Townsend --
Post moderm movement : the 'inscribed' city / Alain Cousseran --
Animal urbanism and homeopathic architecture / Lucien Kroll --
What is the 'new ordinary'? / Bill Dunster --
A vertical theory of urban design / Ken Yeang --
The brand new authentic retail experience : the commercialization of urban design / Richard Rees --
Place, experience, movement / Andrew Cross --
Lower Lea Valley olympic and legacy masterplans / Jason Prior --
Giving meaning to the experience economy / John Worthington --
Ground Zero / Thom Mayne.

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

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