Urban Design Futures

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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. BOOK COVER......Page 1 HALF-TITLE......Page 2 TITLE......Page 4 COPYRIGHT......Page 5 CITY PLANNING......Page 6 CONTENTS......Page 7 FOREWORD......Page 8 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 9 CONTRIBUTORS......Page 12 PREFACE......Page 15 ACKNOWLEDMENTS......Page 18 INTRODUCTION......Page 20 PART 1. URBAN DESIGN COMES OF AGE: THE BIGGER PICTURE......Page 36 1. TERRITORIES OF URBAN DESIGN......Page 37 2. GLOBALISING URBAN DESIGN......Page 48 3. IT'S SPRAWL, BUY IT'S MY SPRAWL......Page 57 4. TRADITIONAL URBANISM IN CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE......Page 65 5. THE PLANNING SYSTEM AND THE DELIVERY OF DESIGN QUALITY......Page 69 6. THE ART OF CITY BUILDING......Page 76 PART 2. CONNECTING SOCIAL SPACES: CREATING THE PUBLIC REALM......Page 88 7. LIFE, SPACES, BUILDINGS: AND IN SAID ORDER, PLEASE......Page 89 8. THE INSECURITY OF URBANISM......Page 95 9. THE STREET......Page 102 10. ASIAN COMMERCIALISM AND THE DISCOVERY OF PLACE: THE LAN KWAI FONG STORY......Page 107 11. THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF URBAN DESIGN......Page 113 12. MEN SHOULDN'T DECIDE EVERYTHING: WOMEN AND THE PUBLIC REALM......Page 119 13. POST MODERN MOVEMENT: THE 'INSCRIBED' CITY......Page 125 14. ANIMAL URBANISM AND HOMEOPATHIC ARCHITECTURE......Page 133 PART 3. SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH TECHNOLOGY: CREATING NEW TYPOLOGIES......Page 140 15. WHAT IS THE 'NEW ORDINARY'?......Page 141 16. A VERTICAL THEORY OF URBAN DESIGN......Page 154 PART 4. NETWORKS EXPAND CHOICE: NEW FRAMEWORKS FOR URBANISM......Page 160 17. THE BRAND NEW AUTHENTIC RETAIL EXPERIENCE: THE COMMERCIALISM OF URBAN DESIGN......Page 161 18. PLACE, EXPERIENCE, MOVEMENT......Page 168 19. LOWER LEA VALLEY OLYMPIC AND LEGACY MASTERPLANS......Page 173 20. GIVING MEANING TO THE EXPERIENCE ECONOMY: USING URBAN DESIGN TO RE-ESTABLISH A PLACE IN THE NETWORKED CITY......Page 178 21. GROUND ZERO......Page 189 CONCLUSION: URBAN DESIGN FUTURES......Page 192 INDEX......Page 209