Urbanism For A Difficult Future
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Urbanism For A Difficult Future
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Author : Korkut Onaran
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-29
Urbanism For A Difficult Future written by Korkut Onaran and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-29 with Architecture categories.
Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use planning and urbanism that will enable us to adapt to and survive the consequences of climate change. The book offers strong, straightforward measures for creating a landscape of resilience via pockets of self-sufficiencies. It demonstrates how to secure systems that sustain life (energy, water, food, waste, and production of essential goods) as well as political and social protocols enabling agile decision-making in managing these systems effectively at local levels. It also provides the design principles for creating a built environment that will enable the kind of localization we need for adaptation. The book explores how it is possible to create a life that does not depend on large-scale regional sustenance systems which are likely to be disrupted or fail. This book uncovers how to enable people to be creative, productive, and supportive at local levels, so that we can achieve strong and diverse local economies that can sustain life. It will appeal to students, planners, and policy makers working in environmental studies, environmental engineering, urban and regional planning, architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism.
Now Urbanism
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Author : Jeffrey Hou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-10-10
Now Urbanism written by Jeffrey Hou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-10 with Architecture categories.
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.
Sustainable Urbanism And Beyond
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Author : Tigran Haas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Sustainable Urbanism And Beyond written by Tigran Haas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with City planning categories.
A comprehensive examination of sustainable urbanism principles and practices and speculates about its future
Urban Spaces
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Author : Jacobo Krauel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Urban Spaces written by Jacobo Krauel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
"This collection of outstanding projects for public spaces is an excellent overview of current trends in urban planning; new forms of social existence have led to an increased interest in the definition of urban space. Our cities have already crossed the dividing line between space to inhabit and habitable space and, at present, it is difficult to conceive of a good urban development plan without an equally good plan of the public space involved. This volume has brought together examples of the best in urban design, with the indelible stamp of the most internationally known professionals. Each of them is thoroughly documented and illustrated with full color glossy photographs and drawings, to capture the full scale of the project’s complexities, technical assets and aesthetic innovations. This book, the fruit of a complete case study, will undoubtedly be of the greatest value to all architects, urban planners and students seeking an introduction to the latest tendencies in the field of public space design." -- Links Books.
City Futures
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Author : Doctor Edgar Pieterse
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-04-04
City Futures written by Doctor Edgar Pieterse and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-04 with Political Science categories.
Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented. This book is a powerful indictment of the current consensus on how to deal with these challenges. Pieterse argues that the current 'shelter for all' and 'urban good governance' policies treat only the symptoms, not the causes of the problem. Instead, he claims, there is an urgent need to reinvigorate civil society in these cities, to encourage radical democracy, economic resilience, social resistance and environmental sustainability folded into the everyday concerns of marginalised people. Providing a dynamic picture of a cosmopolitan urban citizenship, this book is an essential guide to one of the new century's greatest challenges.
Megacities
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Author : Steef Buijs
language : en
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Release Date : 2010
Megacities written by Steef Buijs and has been published by 010 Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Architecture categories.
World cities are reaching previously inconceivable sizes and populations. For the last fifteen years, The Megacities Foundation has encouraged public debate on this development, uniting practitioners from the fields of architecture, economics, geography, sociology and urban planning. This book offers a compilation of the Foundation's best lectures, defining megacities and their processes and systems.
The Living City
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Author : David Cadman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-06-21
The Living City written by David Cadman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-21 with Business & Economics categories.
First published in 1990. The options and probabilities for the future of cities are issues of outstanding contemporary importance, both in the developed and developing worlds. The Living City draws together both current mainstream ideas on their futures and various alternative views to enliven the debate and put forward an agenda for sustainable urban development, emphasizing ideas that question the economic imperatives of that development. Certain aspects of city life - the economy of the city, city-countryside relationships, the city as a cultural centre - are selected for study, as the book looks at the historical past and current experiences to speculate on the likely condition of cities in the future. In addition, the book investigates whether the Third World experience of city life is a separate experience or whether there are lessons to be learnt relating to all cities. The book will appeal to professionals in the surveying, planning and architectural fields, as well as students and academics in Planning, Geography, Economics, Architecture, Development Studies and Sociology and anyone interested in issues concerning the city and the environment.
Global Urbanism
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Author : Michele Lancione
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2021-06-21
Global Urbanism written by Michele Lancione and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-21 with Social Science categories.
Global Urbanism is an experimental examination of how urban scholars and activists make sense of, and act upon, the foundational relationship between the ‘global’ and the ‘urban’. What does it mean to say that we live in a global-urban moment, and what are its implications? Refusing all-encompassing answers, the book grounds this question, exploring the plurality of understandings, definitions, and ways of researching global urbanism through the lenses of varied contributors from different parts of the world. The contributors explore what global urbanism means to them, in their context, from the ground and the struggles upon which they are working and living. The book argues for an incremental, fragile and in-the-making emancipatory urban thinking. The contributions provide the resources to help make sense of what global urbanism is in its varieties, what’s at stake in it, how to research it, and what needs to change for more progressive urban futures. It provides a heterodox set of approaches and theorisations to probe and provoke rather than aiming to draw a line under a complex, changing and profoundly contested set of global-urban processes. Global Urbanism is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students in geography, sociology, planning, anthropology and the field of urban studies, for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines and practices which converge in the study of urbanism. Chapter 36 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429259593
Self Sufficient Urbanism A Vision Of Contraction For The Non Distant Future
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Author : Jaime Correa
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2008-11-07
Self Sufficient Urbanism A Vision Of Contraction For The Non Distant Future written by Jaime Correa and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-07 with Business & Economics categories.
SELF-SUFFICIENT URBANISM is the most comprehensive town design mitigation plan available in today's transitional market. Itencourages the creation of sustainable urban villages and rural settlements where almost everything needed for our daily living is found,produced, created, used, re-used and recycled at walking distance from an identifiable center and in closed economic loops. Self-sufficient Urbanism focuses on the "re-localization" of resources, and on the advocacy and development of technologies attempting toeliminate our existent fossil fuel dependency and reduce our current rate of carbon emissions. This introductory pamphlet reviews theexisting universal predicament and offers a positive solution of contraction, simplicity and human dignity.
The Urban Planning Imagination
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Author : Nicholas A. Phelps
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2021-04-13
The Urban Planning Imagination written by Nicholas A. Phelps and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-13 with Social Science categories.
Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods for making decisions and getting things done. This critical introduction uncovers and celebrates this imagination and its creative potential. Nicholas A. Phelps explores the key themes and driving questions in the circulation of planning ideas and methods over time and across spaces, identifying the contrasts and commonalities between urban planning systems and cultures. He argues that the tools for inclusive urban planning are today, more than ever, not solely restricted to the hands of planning bodies, but are distributed across citizens, a variety of organizations (what Phelps calls ‘clubs’) and states. As a result, the book sets the ground for the new arrangements between these groups and actors which will be central to the future of urban planning. By unsettling standard accounts, this book compels us towards more critical and creative thinking to ensure that the imagination, wisdom and methods of urban planning are mobilized towards achieving the aspiration of shaping better places.