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UNINA9910465497403321 |
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Titolo |
Emergent urbanism : urban planning & design in times of structural and systemic change / / edited by Tigran Haas and Krister Olsson |
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Farnham, Surrey, [England] ; ; Burlington, [Vermont] : , : Ashgate Publishing Group, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-317-14484-8 |
1-4094-5728-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (202 p.) |
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Collana |
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Design and the Built Environment |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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City planning |
Urban policy |
Urbanization |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part I: The New Urban Context; 2 Alphaville and Masdar; 3 Imagining Biophilic Cities; 4 A Long View at High Speed; 5 Creativity, Diversity and Interaction; 6 Incremental Urbanism; 7 The City Seen; Part II: Processes of Planning and Urban Change; 8 Social Capital in the Age of Megacities and the Knowledge Economy; 9 Cities of Culture and Culture in Cities; 10 The Field of Urban Composition; 11 The Subject of Place; 12 What is Good Urbanism?; 13 The Challenge of Social Sustainability |
Part III: The Urban Product 14 Emergent Urbanism as the Transformative Force in Saving the Planet; 15 Does the City Have Speech?; 16 Planning the Emergent and Dealing with Uncertainty; 17 The Responsive City; 18 The Environmental Paradox of the City, Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Bringing together leading academics from across a range of disciplines, Emergent Urbanism identifies the specific issues dominating today's urban planning and urban design discourse, arguing that urban |
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planning and design not only results from deliberate planning and design measures, but how these combine with infrastructure planning, and derive from economic, social and spatial processes of structural change. Combining explorations from urban planning, urban theory, human geography, sociology, urban design and architecture, the volume provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview |
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