Urban Planning For The City Of The Future

Author : Peter Karl Kresl
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847204332

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Planning Cities for the Future by Peter Karl Kresl Pdf

The book delivers an inspiring, first-hand insight into the state of urban competitiveness and how cities may make the best use of it. . . Kresl gives a well-informed insight into urban problems and related strategies, based on a carefully deployed comparative approach. Markus Hesse, Growth and Change This volume delves into issues overlooked in many texts about the EU and will be useful for courses in European and international studies and local government. Recommended. G.T. Potter, Choice Peter Kresl brings unique and invaluable empirical evidence, from the early 1990s through to 2005, to examine the relationship between urban competitiveness and economic-strategic planning for ten internationally networked cities within the EU. Planning Cities for the Future links the study of urban economic competitiveness with urban planning and is able to ascertain the crucial factors for success in this area of public policy. These factors include effective governance, leadership and monitoring of performance. The author also reveals how economic turbulence macro-economic stagnation, the emergence of competitors such as China and Central Europe and the introduction of the euro for example all have distinct impacts on the economic development of cities. He also suggests that today s economic strengths may create tomorrow s social pathologies, a fact which city planners must always keep in mind. Peter Kresl s book offers examples of cities that got it right and others that did not. Scholars and researchers interested in public sector economics, urban economic development and planning as well as city planners themselves will find much to interest and stimulate them in this book.

Author : Kheir Al-Kodmany,Mir M. Ali
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Mateusz Laszczkowski
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785332579

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'City of the Future' by Mateusz Laszczkowski Pdf

Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city’s longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.

Author : Tigran Haas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architects and community
ISBN : 0847831116

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New Urbanism and Beyond by Tigran Haas Pdf

Author : Tigran Haas
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780847838363

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Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond by Tigran Haas Pdf

The city in the twenty-first century faces major challenges, including social and economic stratification, wasteful consumption of resources, transportation congestion, and environmental degradation. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities and major metropolitan areas, and in the next two decades the number of city dwellers is estimated to reach five billion. This puts enormous pressures on transportation systems, housing stock, and infrastructure such as energy, waste, and water, which directly influences the emissions of greenhouse gases. As the long emergency awaits us, urgent questions remain: How will our cities survive? How can we combat and reconcile urban growth with sustainable use of resources for future generations to thrive? Where and how urbanism comes into the picture and what “sustainable” urban forms can do in light of these events are some of the issues Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond explores. With more than sixty essays, including contributions by Andrés Duany, Saskia Sassen, Peter Newman, Douglas Farr, Henry Cisneros, Peter Hall, Sharon Zukin, Peter Eisenman, and others, this book is a unique perspective on architecture, urban planning, environmental and urban design, exploring ways for raising quality of life and the standard of living in a new modern era by creating better and more viable places to live.

Author : Leonie Pearson,Peter Newton,Peter Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135071455

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Resilient Sustainable Cities by Leonie Pearson,Peter Newton,Peter Roberts Pdf

Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world’s people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live in and technology we use will all determine how sustainable our cities will be. Bridging the increasing divide between cross-disciplinary academic insights and the latest practical innovations, Resilient Sustainable Cities provides an integrated approach for long term future planning within the context of the city as a whole system. In the next 30 years cities will face their biggest challenges yet, as a result of long term, or ‘slow burn’ issues: population growth will stretch to the breaking point urban infrastructure and service capacity; resource scarcity, such as peak oil; potable water and food security, will dramatically change what we consume and how; environmental pressures will change how we live and where and; shifting demographic preferences will exacerbate urban pressures. Cities can’t keep doing what they’ve always done and cope – we need to change current urban development to achieve resilient, sustainable cities. Resilient Sustainable Cities provides practical and conceptual insights for practitioners, researchers and students on how to deliver cities which are resilient to ‘slow burn’ issues and achieve sustainability. The book is organized around three overarching themes: pathways to the future innovation to deliver the future leadership and governance issues The book includes a variety of perspectives conveyed through international case studies and examples of cities that have transformed for a sustainable future, exploring their successes and failures to ensure that readers are left with ideas on how to turn their city into a resilient sustainable city for the future.

Author : Carlo Ratti,Matthew Claudel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Lowdon Wingo Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134000654

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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

Author : Jeffrey Hou,Benjamin Spencer,Thaisa Way,Ken Yocom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317619918

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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 : Karl Besel,Viviana Andreescu
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780761861669

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Back to the Future by Karl Besel,Viviana Andreescu Pdf

This book explores new urbanism and urban revitalization within the context of public policy developments. Back to the Future examines the historical roots and the beginnings of new urbanism and illustrates how this movement has become a nationwide trend in response to changing demographics and the real estate crisis.

Author : Stephen Read,Jürgen Rosemann,Job van Eldijk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135159573

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Future City by Stephen Read,Jürgen Rosemann,Job van Eldijk Pdf

This text focuses on cities as the dominant form of human settlement for the future, examining the transformation that is happening in urban connobations worldwide today. The last few decades have seen a rate of change and growth in cities that has never been seen before, resulting in giant metropoles with over twenty million inhabitants. This book tackles the causes of these changes, and looks at how the planning and design of cities can shape the urban future.

Author : Susan Flynn,Richard Hayes
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781804552155

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Urban Planning for the City of the Future by Susan Flynn,Richard Hayes Pdf

Aided by an ambitious multifaceted lens, this book builds a compelling, comprehensive case-study of a small, modern European city that can serve as a laboratory for future urban planning elsewhere.

Author : Mike Jenks,Nicola Dempsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Jordan Yin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118101674

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Urban Planning For Dummies by Jordan Yin Pdf

How to create the world's new urban future With the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning—the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially—has become an increasingly vital profession. In Urban Planning For Dummies, readers will get a practical overview of this fascinating field, including studying community demographics, determining the best uses for land, planning economic and transportation development, and implementing plans. Following an introductory course on urban planning, this book is key reading for any urban planning student or anyone involved in urban development. With new studies conclusively demonstrating the dramatic impact of urban design on public psychological and physical health, the impact of the urban planner on a community is immense. And with a wide range of positions for urban planners in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors—including law firms, utility companies, and real estate development firms—having a fundamental understanding of urban planning is key to anyone even considering entry into this field. This book provides a useful introduction and lays the groundwork for serious study. Helps readers understand the essentials of this complex profession Written by a certified practicing urban planner, with extensive practical and community-outreach experience For anyone interested in being in the vanguard of building, designing, and shaping tomorrow's sustainable city, Urban Planning For Dummies offers an informative, entirely accessible introduction on learning how.

Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781789141047

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Future Cities by Paul Dobraszczyk Pdf

Though reaching ever further toward the skies, today’s cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, social division, and urban warfare all endanger our metropolitan way of life. The fundamental tool we use to make sense of these uncertain city futures is the imagination. Architects, artists, filmmakers, and fiction writers have long been inspired to imagine cities of the future, but their speculative visions tend to be seen very differently from scientific predictions: flights of fancy on the one hand versus practical reasoning on the other. In a digital age when the real and the fantastic coexist as near equals, it is especially important to know how these two forces are entangled, and how together they may help us best conceive of cities yet to come. Exploring a breathtaking range of imagined cities—submerged, floating, flying, vertical, underground, ruined, and salvaged—Future Cities teases out the links between speculation and reality, arguing that there is no clear separation between the two. In the Netherlands, prototype floating cities are already being built; Dubai’s recent skyscrapers resemble those of science-fiction cities of the past; while makeshift settlements built by the urban poor in the developing world are already like the dystopian cities of cyberpunk. Bringing together architecture, fiction, film, and visual art, Paul Dobraszczyk reconnects the imaginary city with the real, proposing a future for humanity that is firmly grounded in the present and in the diverse creative practices already at our fingertips.