04247nam 22007215 450 991033791120332120200705233429.03-319-91950-410.1007/978-3-319-91950-8(CKB)4100000006999285(MiAaPQ)EBC5540872(DE-He213)978-3-319-91950-8(PPN)231463464(EXLCZ)99410000000699928520181003d2019 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierContemporary Urban Design Thinking[electronic resource] The Australian Approach /edited by Rob Roggema1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2019.1 online resource (236 pages)Contemporary Urban Design Thinking,2522-84043-319-91949-0 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. .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.Contemporary Urban Design Thinking,2522-8404Regional planningUrban planningClimate changeSustainable developmentBuildings—Design and constructionBuildingConstructionEngineering, ArchitecturalEnvironmental sociologyLandscape/Regional and Urban Planninghttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J15000Climate Change/Climate Change Impactshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/313000Sustainable Developmenthttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U34000Building Construction and Designhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T23012Environmental Sociologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22160Regional 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.307.12160994Roggema Robedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910337911203321Contemporary Urban Design Thinking2215730UNINA