The New Companion to Urban Design

Herausgeber: Banerjee, Tridib; Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia

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Produktbeschreibung

The New Companion to Urban Design continues the assemblage of critical ideas about urban form and design that began with the Companion to Urban Design. With contributions from a new set of contributors this sequel offers a more comparative perspective representing multiple voices and perspectives from the Global South.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 716
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1252g
• ISBN-13: 9781032475523
• ISBN-10: 1032475528
• Artikelnr.: 74386463

Autorenporträt

Tridib Banerjee holds the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning at USC's Price School of Public Policy. His research and writings focus on the design and planning of the built environment and their human consequences. Urban Design: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies (a four-volumed edited collection, 2014) is his most recent publication. Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is Professor of Urban Planning and Associate Provost for Academic Planning at UCLA. She is the author of multiple articles on urban design, coeditor of Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities (2006), Companion to Urban Design (2011), and Informal American City (2014), and coauthor of Urban Design Downtown (1998), Sidewalks (2009), and Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
INTRODUCTION: challenges and aspirations of urban design
PART I: COMPARATIVE URBANISM
Part I.I Arguments and observations
1: Comparative urbanism: design in translation
2: Fishbowl city: postcolonial Los Angeles and the philosophy of the urban
Part I.II Regional experiences
3: Globalization, resiliency, and change: Latin American urban design in the 21st century
4: Spatial justice and urban design: the case of Southern African settlements
5: The fading pulse of place: Eastern Mediterranean cities in the neoliberal era
6: Un-cities: the urbanism of rapidly growing cities in the Gulf region. PART II: CHALLENGES
Part II.I Claims and conflicts
7: Immigrants, mosques, and religious pluralism: challenges for urban design and planning
8: Claiming ordinary space in the cosmopolitan grid: the case of Singapore
9: Designing for difference in Barcelona's el Raval
Part II.II Informality
10: Informal settlement as a mode of production
11: The new geographies and spatialities of informality
12: Urban informality and the city at night
13: Urban design and informal urbanism: case studies from Delhi and Mumbai
14: The everyday exceptionalism of temporary settlements: the role of urban design response
Part II.III Explosive growth versus shrinkage
15: The insurmountable opportunities of explosive growth: urban design in China
16: Urban space design for hybrid and high-density environments
17: Shrinking cities, shrinking world: urban design for an emerging era of global population decline
18: From abandonment to urban qualities? Urban design strategies for shrinking cities in Germany and the US
19: Designing the shrinking city
Part II.IV Large-scale development
20: The design of large-scale redevelopment projects
21: From town hall to town plan: the case of Byblos, Lebanon
Part II.V Gentrification and displacement 22: Inner-ring suburban retrofit and neighborhood change in the post-suburban era
23: Unsmart outcomes of the smart city initiatives: displacement and peripheralization in Indian cities
Part II.VI Mimesis and simulacra
24: Between simulation and authenticity: the question of urban remaking
25: Glocalizing themed spaces: the creation of urban spaces in China, Asia, and other regions
26: Travels in duplitecture
27: Improvised urbanism in the design of India's unauthorized colonies. PART III: ASPIRATIONS
Part III.I Resilience and sustainability
28: Pursuing resilient urban design: equitably merging green and gray strategies
29: Reducing vulnerabilities through urban design: interventions for resilience in communities at risk
30: Planning the risk city: emerging practices
31: The potential of SITES for urban design
Part III.II Health
32: Refocusing planning and design to maximize public health benefits
33: A new health urbanism
34: Complete and healthy streets
Part III.III Conservation/restoration
35: Broadening heritage conservation through urban design: perspectives from Asia
36: Heart of Shenzhen: the movement to preserve "Ancient" Hubei village
37: Planning modernity in Kabul: urban design as developmental politics
Part III.IV Justice 38: Justice and urban design
39: Toward transformative urban and spatial change: views from Jakarta
Part III.V Intelligence
40: Tarzan vs. IBM: value paradigms of urban technologies
41: Smart citizens, participatory urbanism, and the future of city design
42: Designing the cities within emerging geographies: the work of Senseable City Lab
43: Intelligence for place-making and social inclusion: critiques and alternatives to India's Smart Cities Mission
Part III.VI Mobility and access
44: Accessibility-oriented urban design
45: Mobility, accessibility, and urban form
46: Modernism, pedestrians, and public space: a century of North American street design
47: Aerial mobility, transport infrastructure, and urban design in Asian cities
Part III.VII Arts and Culture 48: Designing the inclusive city: urban cultures, street arts, and public life
49: Painting insurgent artscapes
50: Urban design and public art on Instagram. Epilogue
Index.