Regenerating Cities

Author : Maria Elena Zingoni de Baro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030905590

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Regenerating Cities by Maria Elena Zingoni de Baro Pdf

This book sets out the discussion on how cities can contribute solutions to some of the challenges the urbanised world is facing, such as the pressure of growing populations, mitigation of effects of, and adaptation to globally changing environmental, climate and public health conditions. Presenting a detailed explanation of the causes behind the current state of modern cities, the book advocates for a paradigm shift to improve the quality of life of ever-increasing urban inhabitants whilst nourishing the natural systems that sustain human and non-human life in the planet. Recognising the precious role that nature plays in the functioning of cities, it delves into the study of biophilic design and regenerative development. The book argues that these social-ecological design approaches can act as catalysts to develop conditions in urban settings that are beneficial for natural and human systems to thrive and flourish, both in ecosystem services and social-cultural systems. This is particularly relevant for the design of new quality precincts or the regeneration of degraded urban spaces to promote health, wellbeing and urban resilience. A framework is proposed to guide the process of thinking about, designing and building healthier, more liveable and resilient urban environments that raise the quality of life in cities. The method can be used by researchers, practitioners -urban designers, urban planners, architects and landscape architects- interested in developing their work within a social-ecological perspective. It can also be used by local governments and agencies to underpin policy making, and by educational institutions to prepare graduates with necessary skills to respond to current and future built environment challenges.

Author : Michael Parkinson,Bernard J.. Foley,Dennis R. Judd
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : City planning
ISBN : 0719024765

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Regenerating the Cities by Michael Parkinson,Bernard J.. Foley,Dennis R. Judd Pdf

Author : Herbert Girardet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317654100

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Creating Regenerative Cities by Herbert Girardet Pdf

Large, modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they take up only three percent of the world’s land surface, their ecological footprints actually cover the entire globe. Humanity is building an urban future, yet urban resource use is threatening the future of humanity and the natural world. To meet the aspirations of city people in both developing and developed countries, bold new initiatives are needed. Modern cities are an astonishing human achievement. As centres of innovation they are humanity’s cultural playgrounds. Their communication and transport systems have developed a global reach. They are attractive to investors because they can offer a vast variety of services at comparatively low per-capita costs. But are they viable as ecological systems? The planning of new cities, as well as the retrofit of existing cities, needs to undergo a profound paradigm shift. Mere 'sustainable development' is not enough. To be compatible with natural systems, cities need to move away from linear systems of resource use and learn to operate as closed-loop, circular systems. To ensure their long-term future, they need to develop an environmentally enhancing, restorative relationship between themselves and the natural systems on which they still depend. Creating Regenerative Cities is a concise, solution-oriented manual for creating regenerative urbanisation. A wide range of technical, management and policy solutions already exist, but implementation has been too slow and too little, in large part because the kinds of holistic approaches needed are still unfamiliar to fragmented and process-driven urban policy making and governance. Herbert Girardet's 30 years’ experience as an ecologist, thinker, film maker and consultant working around the world has created this unique combination of tried and tested best practices and policies, which outlines the fundamental shifts needed in the way we think about our cities.

Author : David Donnison,Alan Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351035569

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Regenerating the Inner City by David Donnison,Alan Middleton Pdf

Originally published in 1987, Regenerating the Inner City looks at the changes to Glasgow’s East End and how industrial closures and slum clearance projects have caused people to leave. This is reflected across the western world, and causes severe blows to cities where these industries are located. The book draws on Glasgow’s Eastern Area Renewal Scheme, the first big urban renewal project in Britain. The contributors to the volume come from a range of disciplines and form practical conclusions for policy-makers, and community activists. The book uses door-to-door surveys in Glasgow’s east end, and interviews with community groups to gain an authentic understanding of the issue.

Author : Monica Montserrat Degen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Sociology, Urban
ISBN : 9780415397995

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Sensing Cities by Monica Montserrat Degen Pdf

This work identifies an important aspect in the analysis of urban change in the late 20th century by highlighting the significance of the senses in the constitution of urban life.

Author : Ashutosh Joshi
Publisher : New India Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8189422820

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Town Planning Regeneration of Cities by Ashutosh Joshi Pdf

This Book Would Be Useful For Students At Graduate Level In Architecture And Town Planning And In Particular For Students At The Post Graduate Level In Urban Studies, Written With An Objective To Discuss Various Issues Pertaining To Urban Regeneration Covering Social, Economic And Spatial Aspects Of City Rebuilding. Divided Into Three Parts, The First Part Covers World View On Urban Regeneration And Discusses City Rebuilding Processes In United States, United Kingdom And Europe. It Further Discusses Transportation System And Urban Form Of Cities With Focus On New Urban Centers. Second Part And Third Part Focuses On Drawing And Suggesting Various Regeneration Strategies For Major Cities Of India.

Author : Dan Zuberi,Ariel Judith Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315463711

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(Re)Generating Inclusive Cities by Dan Zuberi,Ariel Judith Taylor Pdf

As suburban expansion declines, cities have become essential economic, cultural and social hubs of global connectivity. This book is about urban revitalization across North America, in cities including San Francisco, Toronto, Boston, Vancouver, New York and Seattle. Infrastructure projects including the High Line and Big Dig are explored alongside urban neighborhood creation and regeneration projects such as Hunters Point in San Francisco and Regent Park in Toronto. Today, these urban regeneration projects have evolved in the context of unprecedented neoliberal public policy and soaring real estate prices. Consequently, they make a complex contribution to urban inequality and poverty trends in many of these cities, including the suburbanization of immigrant settlement and rising inequality. (Re)Generating Inclusive Cities wrestles with challenging but important questions of urban planning, including who benefits and who loses with these urban regeneration schemes, and what policy tools can be used to mitigate harm? We propose a new way forward for understanding and promoting better urban design practices in order to build more socially just and inclusive cities and to ultimately improve the quality of urban life for all.

Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136488580

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Events and Urban Regeneration by Andrew Smith Pdf

In recent years, major sporting and cultural events such as the Olympic Games have emerged as significant elements of public policy, particularly in efforts to achieve urban regeneration. As well as opportunities arising from new venues, these events are viewed as a way of stimulating investment, gaining civic engagement and publicizing progress to assist the urban regeneration process more generally. However, the pursuit of regeneration involving events is a practice that is poorly understood, controversial and risky. Events and Urban Regeneration is the first book dedicated to the use of events in regeneration. It explores the relationship between events and regeneration by analyzing a range of cities and a range of sporting and cultural events projects. It considers various theoretical perspectives to provide insight into why major events are important to contemporary cites. It examines the different ways that events can assist regeneration, as well as problems and issues associated with this unconventional form of public policy. It identifies key issues faced by those tasked with using events to assist regeneration and suggests how practices could be improved in the future. The book adopts a multi-disciplinary perspective, drawing together ideas from the geography, urban planning and tourism literatures, as well as from the emerging events and regeneration fields. It illustrates arguments with a range of international case studies placed within and at the end of chapters to show positive outcomes that have been achieved and examples of high profile failures. This timely book is essential reading for students and practitioners who are interested in events, urban planning, urban geography and tourism.

Author : Rob Imrie,Loretta Lees,Mike Raco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134080755

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Regenerating London by Rob Imrie,Loretta Lees,Mike Raco Pdf

Regenerating London explores latest thinking on urban regeneration in one of the fastest changing world cities. Engaging with social, economic, and political structures of cities, it highlights paradoxes and contradictions in urban policy and offers an evaluation of the contemporary forms of urban redevelopment.

Author : Rana Amirtahmasebi,Mariana Orloff,Sameh Wahba,Andrew Altman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464804748

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Regenerating Urban Land by Rana Amirtahmasebi,Mariana Orloff,Sameh Wahba,Andrew Altman Pdf

Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements. In particular, each case study details the project cycle, from the scoping phase and determination of the initial amount of public sector investment, to implementation and subsequent leveraged private-sector funds. This manual analyzes rates of return on the investments and long-term financial sustainability. Regenerating Urban Land guides local governments to systematically identify the sequence of steps and tasks needed to develop a regeneration policy framework, with the participation of the private sector. The manual also formulates specific policies and instruments for expanding private sector participation; structuring effective administrative and legal frameworks; utilizing land readjustment/assembly methods; determining duration of contracts, adequate phasing, and timeline; and balancing the distribution of risk and sustainability measures.

Author : Robert K. Home
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134563593

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Inner City Regeneration by Robert K. Home Pdf

This book covers all the main aspects of government policy and practice in British inner city regeneration. Chapters deal with the development of policy, agencies for regeneration, housing, social issues. The UK edxperience is compared with that of other countries, particularly the USA, and past achievements and future prospects are considered. This book was first published in 1982.

Author : Paul Hawken
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780525508496

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Regeneration by Paul Hawken Pdf

A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. It is the first book to describe and define the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly throughout the world. Regeneration describes how an inclusive movement can engage the majority of humanity to save the world from the threat of global warming, with climate solutions that directly serve our children, the poor, and the excluded. This means we must address current human needs, not future existential threats, real as they are, with initiatives that include but go well beyond solar, electric vehicles, and tree planting to include such solutions as the fifteen-minute city, bioregions, azolla fern, food localization, fire ecology, decommodification, forests as farms, and the number one solution for the world: electrifying everything. Paul Hawken and the nonprofit Regeneration Organization are launching a series of initiatives to accompany the book, including a streaming video series, curriculum, podcasts, teaching videos, and climate action software. Regeneration is the inspiring and necessary guide to inform the rapidly spreading climate movement.

Author : Blair Badcock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444118803

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Making Sense of Cities by Blair Badcock Pdf

In 2000, for the first time, a majority of the world's population was living in cities. The trend towards increasing urbanization shows no sign of slowing and the third millennium looks set to be an unprecedentedly urban one. 'Making Sense of Cities' provides an up-to-date, vibrant and accessible introduction to urban geography. It offers students a sense of the patterns and processess of urbanization and the spatial organisation of cities, recognizing the significance of globalization, economics, politics and culture from a range of perspectives. Above all, it seeks to provide a relevant approach, inviting students to engage with competing theories of the urban and to assess them against the background of their own opinions and personal experience. Examples and case studies are drawn from a range of international settings, from San Francisco to Shanghai, Sydney to Singapore, giving a genuinely global coverage. The book is written in a fresh and engaging stlye, and is fully illustrated throughout. It is designed to appeal to any student of the urban and will be essential to students of geography, urban studies, town planning and land economy.

Author : Malcolm Eames,Tim Dixon,Miriam Hunt,Simon Lannon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119007210

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Retrofitting Cities for Tomorrow's World by Malcolm Eames,Tim Dixon,Miriam Hunt,Simon Lannon Pdf

A groundbreaking exploration of the most promising new ideas for creating the sustainable cities of tomorrow The culmination of a four-year collaborative research project undertaken by leading UK universities, in partnership with city authorities, prominent architecture firms, and major international consultants, Retrofitting Cities for Tomorrow's World explores the theoretical and practical aspects of the transition towards sustainability in the built environment that will occur in the years ahead. The emphasis throughout is on emerging systems innovations and bold new ways of imagining and re-imagining urban retrofitting, set within the context of ‘futures-based’ thinking. The concept of urban retrofitting has gained prominence within both the research and policy arenas in recent years. While cities are often viewed as a source of environmental stress and resource depletion they are also hubs of learning and innovation offering enormous potential for scaling up technological responses. But city-level action will require a major shift in thinking and a scaling up of positive responses to climate change and the associated threats of environmental and social degradation. Clearly the time has come for a more coordinated, planned, and strategic approach that will allow cities to transition to a sustainable future. This book summarizes many of the best new ideas currently in play on how to achieve those goals. Reviews the most promising ideas for how to approach planning and coordinating a more sustainable urban future by 2050 through retrofitting existing structures Explores how cities need to govern for urban retrofit and how future urban transitions and pathways can be managed, modeled and navigated Offers inter-disciplinary insights from international contributors from both the academic and professional spheres Develops a rigorous conceptual framework for analyzing existing challenges and fostering innovative ways of addressing those challenges Retrofitting Cities for Tomorrow's World is must-reading for academic researchers, including postgraduates insustainability, urban planning, environmental studies, economics, among other fields. It is also an important source of fresh ideas and inspiration for town planners, developers, policy advisors, and consultants working within the field of sustainability, energy, and the urban environment.

Author : Peter W. Newton,Peter W.G. Newman,Stephen Glackin,Giles Thomson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811662386

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Greening the Greyfields by Peter W. Newton,Peter W.G. Newman,Stephen Glackin,Giles Thomson Pdf

This open access book outlines new concepts, development models, governance and implementation processes capable of addressing the challenges of transformative urban regeneration of cities at precinct scale.