The Future Of Urban Form

Author : John Brotchie,Peter Newton,Peter Hall,Peter Nijkamp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351675987

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The Future of Urban Form by John Brotchie,Peter Newton,Peter Hall,Peter Nijkamp Pdf

This book, first published in 1985, explores the ways in which the editors and contributors predicted the urban system, shaped by emerging technologies, would look like, both nationally and internationally. The technological changes covered include automation in the secondary sector, the effects of energy price rises and threats of shortage, and substitution effects in the energy and vehicle technology areas. Social and economic factors discussed include unemployment patterns, urban activities and lifestyles and their interactions. This title will be of interest to students of urban studies.

Author : Kheir Al-Kodmany,Mir M. Ali
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781845644109

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The Future of the City by Kheir Al-Kodmany,Mir M. Ali Pdf

Drawing on the experience of several cities from different parts of the world, this text provides a global perspective on the urbanization phenomenon and tall building development, and examines their underlying logic, design drivers, contextual relationships and pitfalls.

Author : Carlo Ratti,Matthew Claudel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300221138

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The City of Tomorrow by Carlo Ratti,Matthew Claudel Pdf

Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. But their evolution has been anything but linear—cities have gone through moments of radical change, turning points that redefine their very essence. In this book, a renowned architect and urban planner who studies the intersection of cities and technology argues that we are in such a moment. The authors explain some of the forces behind urban change and offer new visions of the many possibilities for tomorrow’s city. Pervasive digital systems that layer our cities are transforming urban life. The authors provide a front-row seat to this change. Their work at the MIT Senseable City Laboratory allows experimentation and implementation of a variety of urban initiatives and concepts, from assistive condition-monitoring bicycles to trash with embedded tracking sensors, from mobility to energy, from participation to production. They call for a new approach to envisioning cities: futurecraft, a symbiotic development of urban ideas by designers and the public. With such participation, we can collectively imagine, examine, choose, and shape the most desirable future of our cities.

Author : Mike Jenks,Nicola Dempsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136401442

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Future Forms and Design For Sustainable Cities by Mike Jenks,Nicola Dempsey Pdf

Concentrating on the planning and design of cities, the three sections take a logical route through the discussion from the broad considerations at regional and city scale, to the larger city at high and lower densities through to design considerations on the smaller block scale. Key design issues such as access to facilities, access for sunlight, life cycle analyses, and the impact of communications on urban design are tackled, and in conclusion, the research is compared to large scale design examples that have been proposed and/or implemented over the past decade to give a vision for the future that might be achievable.

Author : Malcolm Moor,Jon Rowland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134366552

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Urban Design Futures by Malcolm Moor,Jon Rowland Pdf

The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging that are challenging some of the accepted urban design norms; urban design is at a watershed. Urban Design Futures presents essays from an international cast of authors to review progress and explore emerging ideas: should urban design reflect the future rather than recreate the past? What are the new driving forces that will shape urban living and hence 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.

Author : Jeffrey Hou,Benjamin Spencer,Thaisa Way,Ken Yocom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317619925

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Now Urbanism by Jeffrey Hou,Benjamin Spencer,Thaisa Way,Ken Yocom Pdf

After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning. As an alternative approach for rethinking and remaking today’s cities and regions, this book explores the intersections of critical inquiry and immediate, substantive actions. The contributions inside recognize the rich complexities of the present city not as barriers or obstacles but as grounds for uncovering opportunity and unleashing potential. Now Urbanism asserts that the future city is already here. It views city making as grounded in the imperfect, messy, yet rich reality of the existing city and the everyday purposeful agency of its dwellers. Through a framework of situating, grounding, performing, distributing, instigating, and enduring, these contributions written by a multidisciplinary group of practitioners and scholars illustrate specificity, context, agency, and networks of actors and actions in the re-making of the contemporary city.

Author : Elizabeth Burton,Mike Jenks,Katie Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135816995

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The Compact City by Elizabeth Burton,Mike Jenks,Katie Williams Pdf

provides forum for progressing the urban debate demonstrates good design and practice through a variety of case studies offers cross-disciplinary view points

Author : Benjamin N. Vis
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781787351073

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Cities Made of Boundaries by Benjamin N. Vis Pdf

Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. Its vantage is a plea to establish a frame of reference for radically comparative urban studies positioned between geography and archaeology. Based in multidisciplinary social and spatial theory, a critical realist understanding of the boundaries that compose built space is operationalised by a mapping practice utilising Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Benjamin N. Vis gives a precise account of how BLT Mapping can be applied to detailed historical, reconstructed, contemporary, and archaeological urban plans, exemplified by sixteenth to twenty-first century Winchester (UK) and Classic Maya Chunchucmil (Mexico). This account demonstrates how the functional and experiential difference between compact western and tropical dispersed cities can be explored. The methodological development of Cities Made of Boundaries will appeal to readers interested in the comparative social analysis of built environments, and those seeking to expand the evidence-base of design options to structure urban life and development.

Author : Douglas Farr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118415351

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Sustainable Nation by Douglas Farr Pdf

PROSE Award Finalist 2019 Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence As a follow up to his widely acclaimed Sustainable Urbanism, this new book from author Douglas Farr embraces the idea that the humanitarian, population, and climate crises are three facets of one interrelated human existential challenge, one with impossibly short deadlines. The vision of Sustainable Nation is to accelerate the pace of progress of human civilization to create an equitable and sustainable world. The core strategy of Sustainable Nation is the perfection of the design and governance of all neighborhoods to make them unique exemplars of community and sustainability. The tools to achieve this vision are more than 70 patterns for rebellious change written by industry leaders of thought and practice. Each pattern represents an aspirational, future-oriented ideal for a key aspect of a neighborhood. At once an urgent call to action and a guidebook for change, Sustainable Nation is an essential resource for urban designers, planners, and architects.

Author : Elizabeth Burton,Mike Jenks,Katie Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136804793

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Achieving Sustainable Urban Form by Elizabeth Burton,Mike Jenks,Katie Williams Pdf

Achieving Sustainable Urban Form represents a major advance in the sustainable development debate. It presents research which defines elements of sustainable urban form - density, size, configuration, detailed design and quality - from macro to micro scale. Case studies from Europe, the USA and Australia are used to illustrate good practice within the fields of planning, urban design and architecture.

Author : Aseem Inam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135006396

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Designing Urban Transformation by Aseem Inam Pdf

While designers possess the creative capabilities of shaping cities, their often-singular obsession with form and aesthetics actually reduces their effectiveness as they are at the mercy of more powerful generators of urban form. In response to this paradox, Designing Urban Transformation addresses the incredible potential of urban practice to radically change cities for the better. The book focuses on a powerful question, "What can urbanism be?" by arguing that the most significant transformations occur by fundamentally rethinking concepts, practices, and outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the philosophical movement known as Pragmatism, the book proposes three conceptual shifts for transformative urban practice: (a) beyond material objects: city as flux, (b) beyond intentions: consequences of design, and (c) beyond practice: urbanism as creative political act. Pragmatism encourages us to consider how we can make deeper and more systemic changes and how urbanism itself can be a design strategy for such transformations. To illuminate how these conceptual shifts operate in vastly different contexts through analysis of transformative urban initiatives and projects in Belo Horizonte, Boston, Cairo, Karachi, Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Paris. The book is a rare integration of theory and practice that proposes essential ways of rethinking city-design-and-building processes, while drawing critical lessons from actual examples of such processes.

Author : Emily Talen
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610911764

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City Rules by Emily Talen Pdf

City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle, our communities. Emily Talen demonstrates that regulations are a primary detriment to the creation of a desirable urban form. While many contemporary codes encourage sprawl and even urban blight, that hasn't always been the case-and it shouldn't be in the future. Talen provides a visually rich history, showing how certain eras used rules to produce beautiful, walkable, and sustainable communities, while others created just the opposite. She makes complex regulations understandable, demystifying city rules like zoning and illustrating how written codes translate into real-world consequences. Most importantly, Talen proposes changes to these rules that will actually enhance communities' freedom to develop unique spaces.

Author : Michael Hough
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415043905

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City Form and Natural Process by Michael Hough Pdf

Author : Ying Long,Enjia Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030496180

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Data Augmented Design by Ying Long,Enjia Zhang Pdf

This book offers an essential introduction to a new urban planning and design methodology called Data Augmented Design (DAD) and its evolution and progresses, highlighting data driven methods, urban planning and design applications and related theories. The authors draw on many kinds of data, including big, open, and conventional data, and discuss cutting-edge technologies that illustrate DAD as a future oriented design framework in terms of its focus on multi-data, multi-method, multi-stage and multi-scale sustainable urban planning. In four sections and ten chapters, the book presents case studies to address the core concepts of DAD, the first type of applications of DAD that emerged in redevelopment-oriented planning and design, the second type committed to the planning and design for urban expansion, and the future-oriented applications of DAD to advance sustainable technologies and the future structural form of the built environment. The book is geared towards a broad readership, ranging from researchers and students of urban planning, urban design, urban geography, urban economics, and urban sociology, to practitioners in the areas of urban planning and design.​

Author : Lowdon Wingo Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134000586

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Cities and Space by Lowdon Wingo Jr. Pdf

Discusses aims of urban planning and ways to achieve improved city living. Originally published in 1963