Eco-Urbanity

Towards Well-Mannered Built Environments
Herausgeber: Radovic, Darko

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There is need for change in our currently unsustainable cities. Carefully outlining paths towards better, sustainable ways of urban living, this book proposes a radical change in the ways we conceive and live our urban environments. Bringing together diverse cultural and disciplinary views on urban sustainability, eighteen leading academics and practitioners in sustainable architecture and urbanism explore global concerns of sustainability and urbanity. This broad range of issues are clearly articulated and linked to concrete places and projects, merging research and cutting-edge design investigations to promote environmentally and culturally sensitive urban futures.

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Eighteen leading academics and practitioners in sustainable architecture and urbanism explore global concerns of sustainability and urbanity, developing a logical aim for the responsible practice of urban planning, design, landscape and architecture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 657g
• ISBN-13: 9780415472777
• ISBN-10: 0415472776
• Artikelnr.: 26399576

Autorenporträt

Darko Radovic teaches architecture and urban design at the University of Melbourne. He has taught, researched and practised architecture and urbanism in Europe, Australia and Asia. eco-urbanity was conceived during his professorship at the University of Tokyo's Department of Engineering Centre for Sustainable Urban Regeneration.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Towards a Theory of Eco-Urbanity Darko Radovic Part 1: The
Compact City, Strategies and Success Stories 1. Eco-Urbanity: The Framework
of an Idea Darko Radovic 2. The Barcelona Agenda: Reuse, Compactness and
Green Oriol Clos 3. From Industrial Cities to Eco-Urbanity - The Melbourne
Case Study Rob Adams 4. The Sustainable City as a Fine-Grained City David
Sim 5. From the Compact City to the Defragmented City: Another Route
Towards Sustainable Urban Form? Mike Jenks Part 2: Other Cultures,
Approaches and Strategies 6. Designing for Shrinkage: Fibercity 2050, Tokyo
Ohno Hidetoshi 7. Excavating the Lost Commons: Creating Green Spaces and
Water Corridors for Eco-Urban Infrastructure Ishikawa Mikiko 8. Continuity
and Departure: A Case Study of Singapore's Nankin Street Heng Chye Kiang
9. The Cultural Challenge for Sustainable Cities: Coping with Sprawl in
Bangkok and Melbourne Sidh Sintusingha 10. Geometries of Life and
Formlessness: The Theoretical Legacies of Historical Beijing Zhu Jianfei
11. Eco-City? Eco-Urbanity? Arvind Krishan Part 3: Other Scales and
Sensibilities 12. Eco-Urbanism: An Israeli Perspective Arie Rahamimoff 13.
Bringing Back Nature and Re-Invigorating the City Centre Kengo Kuma 14.
Sustainable Design Towards a Positive Spiral Kodama Yuichiro 15. Creating a
Cemetery: Architecture that Sustains Cultural Forms Naito Hiroshi 16.
Towards Well-Mannered Built Environments Darko Radovic