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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337911203321

Titolo

Contemporary Urban Design Thinking : The Australian Approach / / edited by Rob Roggema

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-91950-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 pages)

Collana

Contemporary Urban Design Thinking, , 2522-8404

Disciplina

307.12160994

Soggetti

Regional planning

Urban planning

Climate change

Sustainable development

Buildings—Design and construction

Building

Construction

Engineering, Architectural

Environmental sociology

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts

Sustainable Development

Building Construction and Design

Environmental Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. Growth of Sydney Metropolitan Region Over Time and Current Urban Design Practices -- 2. The City as an Economic Driver -- 3. 20 Years of Spatial Growth and Planning in Sydney -- 4. The Role of Qualitative Public Spaces -- 5. The Need for Developing Sustainability in Urbanism -- 6. The Concept of the Resilient City -- 7. The Design of the Sydney Green Grid -- 8. Landscapes and a Driver for Urban Design -- 9. The Role of Mobility in Current and Future Cities -- 10. The Relationship between Urbanism and Politics -- 11. How Local



Economics Play a Role in Community Driven Urban Design -- 12. Sustainable Urban Projects and Urban Architecture -- Conclusions. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book is oriented on cities and their role in society, from the public places created in cities to the visionary and more abstract views on large scale developments. The chapter authors argue, each in their own way, how urban design can produce an answer to these questions. Furthermore, detailed insights are given into how current designers, architects, urbanists and landscape architects deal with the contemporary urban problems of our time: climate change, migration, resiliency, politics, environmental change This book includes chapters from leading thinkers in urban design, city development and landscape urbanism fields. The authors have included the most recent insights in urbanism ensuring that this book provides a state-of-the -art text which is both actual and timely.