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Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General

Planning Wild Cities - Human-Nature Relationships in the Urban Age (Paperback): Wendy Steele Planning Wild Cities - Human-Nature Relationships in the Urban Age (Paperback)
Wendy Steele
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges and opportunities of wild cities in a climate of change. A key focus of the book is exploring the nexus of possibilities for wild cities and the eco-ethical imagination needed to drive sustainable and resilient urban pathways. Many now have serious doubts about the prospects for humanity to live within cities that are socially just and responsive to planetary limits. Is it possible for planning to better serve, protect and nurture our human and non-human worlds? This book argues it is. Drawing on international literature and Australian case examples, this book explores issues around climate change, colonization, urban (in)security and the rights to the city for both humans and nature. It is within this context that this book focuses on the urgent need to better understand how contemporary cities have changed, and the relational role of planning within it. Planning Wild Cities will be of particular interest to students and scholars of planning, urban studies, and sustainable development, and for all those invested in re-shaping our 'wild' city futures.

Design First - Design-based planning for communities (Paperback): David Walters, Linda Brown Design First - Design-based planning for communities (Paperback)
David Walters, Linda Brown
R1,670 Discovery Miles 16 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of urban design and physical place-making to planning problems. Design First uses case studies from the authors' own professional projects to demonstrate how theory can be turned into effective practice, using concepts of traditional urban form to resolve contemporary planning and design issues in American communities. The book is aimed at architects, planners, developers, planning commissioners, elected officials and citizens -- and, importantly, students of architecture and planning -- with the objective of reintegrating three-dimensional design firmly back into planning practice.

Writing Spaces - Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960-2000 (Hardcover): C. Greig Crysler Writing Spaces - Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960-2000 (Hardcover)
C. Greig Crysler
R4,214 Discovery Miles 42 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Writing Spaces examines and compares discourses of architecture, urbanism and the built environment between 1960 and 2000, a period in which economies and cultures in the world became ever more interdependent; in which technologies revolutionised production and communications, and when the social and spatial organisation of built environments and cities were massively transformed.

As a response to these developments, social theory has been recast, arguing that space is the medium of social change and hence political struggle.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203402685

Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design - From the river to the project (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Roberta Ingaramo,... Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design - From the river to the project (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Roberta Ingaramo, Angioletta Voghera
R3,902 R3,702 Discovery Miles 37 020 Save R200 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book combines urban planning and architectural tools in an attempt to overcome the limitations of sectoral measures. In this perspective, it offers a forum for the debate of different approaches used by schools of planning and architecture. It explores strategies by drawing from the potential contributions of cognitive models for decisions, the role of utopian thinking and retrofitting actions and their interconnectedness, the role of cultural legacy for urban and landscape design, the design perspectives about public spaces, and the role of architecture design and urban and regional planning for landscape quality. The book also discusses on design as a process of decision-making that operates as an act of empathy that aligns with human and ecological values - emotional, physical and socio-cultural. Each planning and design act has different possible effects able to help making clear strategic and local actions, contributing to community empowerment and to landscape and local governance. Design activity along the river and multiple experiences (design processes, urban fringe design, agri-urban models, river parks, UNESCO sites, River Contracts, greenbelts and ecological networks), through reflection on design roles, helping to understand the design process and its results at different scales. Roberta Ingaramo, architect, PhD, is Assistant Professor in Architectural and Urban Design, Department of Architecture and Design (DAD), Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy), Master in Conservation of Historic Towns and Buildings, Katholieke Universiteit (Belgium). [email protected] Angioletta Voghera, architect, PhD, is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Inter-university Department of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning (DIST), Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy). [email protected]

Livelihood and Wellbeing in the Urban Fringe (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Nasrin Banu, Shahab Fazal Livelihood and Wellbeing in the Urban Fringe (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Nasrin Banu, Shahab Fazal
R3,658 Discovery Miles 36 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents a detailed study on Aligarh's urban fringe, focusing on the livelihood of the villagers who have lived there for generations, and on that of the migrants residing in the villages. As a Class-I city, located in the most populated state (Uttar Pradesh) of India, Aligarh has gained in importance due to its proximity to the national capital (New Delhi) and Uttar Pradesh's industrial cities (Kanpur and Ghaziabad). The 2011 census showed that of the total population of the district, 33.1 per cent was urban (872,575 residents). Projections by the Town and Country Planning Department suggest that the city will have some 1.2 million inhabitants and there will be a need for another 64,000 houses. Thus, the city will expand extensively into its urban fringe, which is expected to entail large-scale transformations. The expansion of the city will significantly influence nearby villages in terms of land use and population, both physically and socio-economically.

Public and Private Spaces of the City (Hardcover): Ali Madanipour Public and Private Spaces of the City (Hardcover)
Ali Madanipour
R5,097 Discovery Miles 50 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The subdivision of our social world and the spaces we inhabit into public and private spheres is one of the key features of how a society organises itself. This affects individuals' mental states and experiences, regulates their behaviour, and superimposes a long-lasting structure onto human societies. This book sets out to find out how and why social space is subdivided in this way and to explore the nature of each realm as defined by spatial and symbolic boundaries.

To understand this division, the investigation is conducted along three scales: spatial scale (body, home, neighbourhood, city), degrees of exclusivity and openness (from the most private to the most public), and modes of social encounter and association with space (personal, interpersonal, impersonal). We start from the private, interior space of the mind and move outwards to the extensions of the body in space, the personal space. Then we visit the home, the domains of privacy, intimacy and property, followed by interpersonal spaces of sociability among strangers, communal spaces of the neighbourhood, the material and institutional public sphere and the impersonal spaces of the city.

As the shape of the city and the characteristics of urban life are influenced by the way public and private distinction is made, the role of urban designers becomes ever more significant. By establishing a flexible and elaborate boundary between the two realms, urbanism can be enriched, where the danger of encroachment by private interests into the public realm and the threat of public intrusion into the private sphere are both minimised and carefully managed.

Planning, Sustainable Urbanisation, and the Commonwealth - The Commonwealth Association of Planners, Past, Present and Future... Planning, Sustainable Urbanisation, and the Commonwealth - The Commonwealth Association of Planners, Past, Present and Future (Hardcover)
Cliff Hague, Clive Harridge, Bryce Julyan, Ruiz Nik, Ian Tant
R4,049 Discovery Miles 40 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

--The book could be used at undergraduate and postgraduate levels on urban and regional planning programmes, but could also feature in some urban geography programmes and international studies. --The book would have widespread international appeal reflecting its focus on the Commonwealth and its authorship by world renown academics, thought leaders and distinguished practitioners from 9 countries.

Urban Futures - Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities (Hardcover): Tim Hall, Malcolm Miles Urban Futures - Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities (Hardcover)
Tim Hall, Malcolm Miles
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and events or sites of occupation, in which meanings are constructed in many ways. The contributors draw on their specialist areas of research to inform current debate, but they also speculate as to how cities will be shaped in the 21st century.
Specific areas of research include homeless people's organisations and restoration ecology in brownfield sites in the USA, post-industrial urban landscapes, post-industrial economics, tourism and cultural planning. The book allows each writer to state their own conclusions, but together they suggest that tomorrow's cities will, while remaining locations of difference and contestation, be rapidly evolving systems in which dwellers assume increasing responsibilities and power.

Cities Without Cities - An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt (Paperback, English language ed): Thomas Sieverts Cities Without Cities - An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt (Paperback, English language ed)
Thomas Sieverts
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This book investigates the characteristics of today's built environment: no longer simply a city but increasingly large conurbations made up of a number of development clusters, linked by transport routes. The diffusion of the once compact city into a city web, the 'meta city' is mirrored by changes in society from communities with strong social cohesion and interest in their towns and cities to individuals pursuing their own goals, with global social links and little interest in their own town or city other than the quality of their personal space.
The account is complex and on a number of levels; social, philosophical, economic and environmental. The difficulties in managing or even controlling the city web, divided arbitrarily into areas of limited size and political power, are enormous. Areas compete with each other rather than co-operate. The book provides a better understanding of this new type of urban form and argues for a change in planning systems for better management.

Governance of Europe's City Regions - Planning, Policy & Politics (Hardcover): Tassilo Herrschel, Peter Newman Governance of Europe's City Regions - Planning, Policy & Politics (Hardcover)
Tassilo Herrschel, Peter Newman
R5,085 Discovery Miles 50 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Governance of Europe's City Regions is a structured overview of current debates on cities and regions. It provides an understanding of trends at different spatial scales and explores a range of different European experiences to consider prospects for the effective governance of city regions. Contrasts arise for different economic and spatial contexts, and from the complex interactions of national, regional and local politics and policy.
The book introduces readers to and summarises a wide interdisciplinary literature. It clarifies contemporary debates about regionalism and contributes new insights into the theory of 'new regionalism'. The authors' argue that the city region scale continues to be contested and that no single governance model will fit all experiences. They also assert that there is need for a careful appreciation within city regions of the interactions of local institutions, their constitutional context and their economic prospects.

Landscape Architecture as Storytelling - Learning Design Through Analogy (Paperback): Bob Scarfo Landscape Architecture as Storytelling - Learning Design Through Analogy (Paperback)
Bob Scarfo
R1,083 Discovery Miles 10 830 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Provides a complete, easily replicated design process that sees the designer-as-author, the landscape-as-text, and the participant, user-as-reader. It is also unique in the foundation it sets for learning design, the application of that foundation to doing landscape, architectural or interior design, and the call for landscape architectural design to explicitly address a greater inclusion of people, those left to live with what is designed. Illustrated with locations and landmarks in Canada and the United States. A few are from England, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Italy. They are of readily recognizable features such as walkways, paths, street scenes, and landmarks. Questions and thought-provoking situations provide instructors with discussion points and reader with self-reflective triggers that illuminate their taken-for-granted world.

Urban and Regional Planning (Hardcover, 4th edition): Peter Hall Urban and Regional Planning (Hardcover, 4th edition)
Peter Hall
R5,240 Discovery Miles 52 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
1. Planning, planners and plans 2. The origins: Urban growth from 1800 to 1940 3. The Seers: Pioneer thinkers in urban planning, from 1880 to 1945 4. The creation of the postwar planning machine, from 1940 to 1952 5. National/Regional planning from 1945 to 2000 6. Planning for cities and city regions from 1945 to 2000 7. Planning in Western Europe since 1945 8. Planning in the United States since 1945 9. The planning process Index

Solar Energy Houses - Strategies, Technologies, Examples (Paperback): Anne-Grete Hestnes, Robert Hastings, Bjarne Saxhof Solar Energy Houses - Strategies, Technologies, Examples (Paperback)
Anne-Grete Hestnes, Robert Hastings, Bjarne Saxhof
R3,022 R2,142 Discovery Miles 21 420 Save R880 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Passive and active solar strategies together with the adoption of energy conservation measures and the integration of new materials and technologies can lead to a dramatic reduction of 75-90 per cent in the energy consumption of the buildings. The objective of Task 13 of the IEA's Solar Heating and Cooling Programme was to advance solar building technologies and demonstrate this potential by designing and constructing buildings that met very low energy consumption targets while maintaining a good indoor climate. This revised second edition of this book presents the findings of the Task 13 experts and includes the results of the monitoring programme, conducted to determine the effectives of the techniques and strategies adopted. This new edition also provides a detailed explanation of this research programme in terms of how far the expectations of the Task experts were met and highlights the specific successes and lessons learned from the project.

Urban Regeneration, Community Power and the (In)Significance of 'Race' (Paperback): Paul J. Maginn Urban Regeneration, Community Power and the (In)Significance of 'Race' (Paperback)
Paul J. Maginn
R954 Discovery Miles 9 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The concepts of community consultation and participation have come to dominate academic and policy debate about urban regeneration partnerships. However, there has been relatively little discussion about the nature of 'community power' within regeneration partnerships. Adopting an ethnographic approach in the study of community participation and power and the significance of 'race' in three ethnically diverse neighbourhoods in London, this book highlights that there has been a 'pluralistic turn' in British urban regeneration policy. Local communities, often portrayed as the least powerful partner within partnerships, are shown to use various strategies to influence decision-making, thus giving rise to a new typology of pluralism - 'pragmatic'; 'hyper-' and 'paternalistic'. Furthermore, the significance of 'race' (and racism) within community forums and regeneration partnerships is challenged. The playful use of the term (In) Significance in the title is linked to the argument that, although racism exists, 'race' does not always matter.

Sustainable Infrastructure Investment - Toward a More Equitable Future (Paperback): Eric Christian Bruun Sustainable Infrastructure Investment - Toward a More Equitable Future (Paperback)
Eric Christian Bruun
R1,122 Discovery Miles 11 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book provides examples and suggestions for readers to understand how public investment decisions for sustainable infrastructure are made. Through detailed analysis of public investment in infrastructure over the last few decades in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Finland, the author explores how the decision-making processes for major public works spending, many of them requiring quite rigorous and detailed computational methodologies, can result in plans that underserve large portions of the population, are inequitable, and fail to efficiently preserve public property. Beginning with some of the commonly offered explanations for the slow pace of investment and repair in a supposedly prosperous society facing serious environmental challenges, the book then explores media's role in shaping the public-at-large's understanding of the situation and the unimaginative solutions put forward by politicians. It continues with some case studies of infrastructure investment, or lack thereof, including an exploration of competing uses for government funds. It concludes with some suggestions. It is aimed at a large readership of professionals, students, and policy makers in political science, urban planning, and civil engineering.

Place Attachment - Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications (Paperback, 2nd edition): Lynne Manzo, Patrick Devine-Wright Place Attachment - Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Lynne Manzo, Patrick Devine-Wright
R1,366 Discovery Miles 13 660 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Following on from the ground-breaking first edition, which received the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award, this fully updated text includes new chapters on current issues in the built environment, such as GIS and mapping, climate change, and qualitative approaches. Place attachments are powerful emotional bonds that form between people and their physical surroundings. They inform our sense of identity, create meaning in our lives, facilitate community, and influence action. Place attachments have bearing on such diverse issues as rootedness and belonging, placemaking and displacement, mobility and migration, intergroup conflict, civic engagement, social housing and urban redevelopment, natural resource management, and global climate change. In this multidisciplinary book, Manzo and Devine-Wright draw together the latest thinking by leading scholars from around the globe, including contributions from scholars such as Daniel Williams, Mindy Fullilove, Randy Hester, and David Seamon, to capture significant advancements in three main areas: theory, methods, and applications. Over the course of fifteen chapters, using a wide range of conceptual and applied methods, the authors critically review and challenge contemporary knowledge, identify significant advances, and point to areas for future research. This important volume offers the most current understandings about place attachment, a critical concept for the environmental social sciences and placemaking professions.

Sustainable Urbanization in India - Challenges and Opportunities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Jenia Mukherjee Sustainable Urbanization in India - Challenges and Opportunities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Jenia Mukherjee
R4,644 Discovery Miles 46 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment. The volume is contextualized against latest theories, debates and discussions on 'sustainable urbanization', the post-2015 development agenda of the United Nations and India's official launching of the 'smart city' agenda. Reflecting on three major components of urban sustainability: investments and infrastructures, waste management, and urban ecologies and environmentalisms, it moves beyond the bi-centric approach of only looking into the differences between the 'developed' and the 'developing' world and reflects on cities across India using polycentric methods and approaches. The Indian urban scenario is extremely complex and diverse, and solutions laid out in official and non-official documents tend to miss these complexities. This volume includes innovative research across different parts of India, identifying city-specific sources of unsustainability and challenges along with strategies and potentials that would make the process of urban transition both sustainable and equitable. Complex explorations of non-linear, bottom-up, multisectoral process-based local urban contexts across north, south, east and west Indian cities in this volume critique a general acceptance of the universalized concept of 'sustainable urbanization' and suggest ways that might be important for transcending inclusive theories to form practical policy-based recommendations and actions.

Intelligent Cities - Innovation, Knowledge Systems and Digital Spaces (Paperback): Nicos Komninos Intelligent Cities - Innovation, Knowledge Systems and Digital Spaces (Paperback)
Nicos Komninos
R1,660 Discovery Miles 16 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


At the turn of the century some cities and regions in Europe, Japan and the US, displayed an exceptional capacity to incubate and develop new knowledge and innovations. The favourable environment for research, technology and innovation created in these areas was not immediately obvious, yet it was of great significance for a development based on knowledge, learning, and innovation. Intelligent Cities focuses on these environments of innovation, and the major models (technopoles, innovating regions, intelligent cities) for creating an environment-supporting technology, innovation, learning, and knowledge-based development.
The introduction and the first chapter deal with innovation as an environmental condition, and with the geography and typology of islands of innovation. The next three Parts focus on the theoretical paradigms and the planning models of the 'industrial district', the innovating region', and the 'intelligent city', which offer three alternative ways to create an environment of innovation.

Urbanisation in the Island Pacific - Towards Sustainable Development (Hardcover): John Connell, John Lea Urbanisation in the Island Pacific - Towards Sustainable Development (Hardcover)
John Connell, John Lea
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
1. Introduction: an Urban Pacific
Part One: the Context of Urbanization in the Pacific
2. The Colonial Heritage
3. Population Growth and Migration
4. Economic Development: Towards the City?
Part Two: Urban Issues

5. Managing Urbanization
6. Land and Urban Life
7. Housing and the Urban Environment
Part Three: Sustaining Pacific Urban Society?
8. Living in Town: a Sustainable Future?

Governance of Europe's City Regions - Planning, Policy & Politics (Paperback): Tassilo Herrschel, Peter Newman Governance of Europe's City Regions - Planning, Policy & Politics (Paperback)
Tassilo Herrschel, Peter Newman
R1,766 Discovery Miles 17 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Governance of Europe's City Regions considers the changing role of the European Union in regional issues, explores how national governments have become increasingly involved at the regional scale and examines the constitutional and political contexts in which regional and local governments operate. Detailed case studies of regionals in Germany and England illustrate contrasts in European approaches to the scale of government, and the complex interactions of international, national, regional and local scales of policy intervention. The book offers a unique perspective, which links together an analysis of both regional Europe and the local economic and political factors that shape successful regions.

Social Dynamics of the Urban - Studies from India (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): N. Jayaram Social Dynamics of the Urban - Studies from India (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
N. Jayaram
R4,470 Discovery Miles 44 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume emphasises the sociological view that cities are primarily about people, not places or buildings, and explores the social dynamics of urban space in globalising India. Distinguishing between 'locale' and 'milieu' and the community-cosmopolitanism dialectic in urban areas, it elucidates the thematic for urban sociology today. The chapters explore the various perspectives and processes in understanding the urban predicament in India today. The contributors specifically ask: What are the characteristics of the fastest growing cities in India? What are the forces shaping their forms and processes? Who benefits from what type of livelihood options cities offer? How have city administrations been dealing with mounting demands for housing, energy, and water resources, and problems of mass transportation? What implications do these have for the ecology of the city and the surrounding areas? Given the heterogeneity of urban populations, what social processes are at work and how they affect cit[y]zenship and identity? What aspirations and tensions are expressed among different groups, and what implications do these have for inter-group relations? What challenges do inter-group relations pose for urban planning and administration? The contributors include renowned scholars as also young researchers. They go beyond their disciplinary moorings of economics, history, political science, social work, and sociology, and their trans-disciplinary dialogues carry inputs from policy makers, administrators, and grassroots activists working in urban areas.

Cultural Planning - An Urban Renaissance? (Hardcover): Graeme Evans Cultural Planning - An Urban Renaissance? (Hardcover)
Graeme Evans
R5,246 Discovery Miles 52 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Cultural Planning examines how and why the cultures have been planned and the extent to which cultural amenities have been considered in town planning. The book calls for the adoption of consultative planning policy, distributive models and a more integrated approach to both culture and urban design.

This is the first book on the planning of the arts and culture and the interaction between the state arts policy, the cultural economy and town and city planning. It uses case-studies and examples from Europe, North America and Asia.

Cultural Planning - An Urban Renaissance? (Paperback): Graeme Evans Cultural Planning - An Urban Renaissance? (Paperback)
Graeme Evans
R1,665 Discovery Miles 16 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Using an historic and contemporary analysis, Cultural Planning examines how and why the cultures have been planned and the extent to which cultural amenities have been considered in town planning. From its ancient roots in the cities of classical Athenian, Roman and Byzantium empires, to the European Renaissance, public culture shows both an historic continuity and contemporary response to economic and social change. Whilst the arts are considered an extension of welfare provision and human rights, the creative industries and cultural tourism are also vital for economic growth and employment in the post-industrial age. However, the new 'Grand Projects', which look to the arts as an element of urban regeneration, tend to be at the cost of both local cultural amenities and a culturally diverse society.
Cultural Planning is the first book on the planning of the arts and culture and the interaction between the state arts policy, the cultural economy and town and city planning. It uses case studies and examples from Europe, North America and Asia.
The book calls for the adoption of consultative planning policy, distributive models and a more integrated approach to both culture and urban design, to prevent the reinforcement of existing geographical and cultural divides.

Digital Urban Acupuncture - Human Ecosystems and the Life of Cities in the Age of Communication, Information and Knowledge... Digital Urban Acupuncture - Human Ecosystems and the Life of Cities in the Age of Communication, Information and Knowledge (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Salvatore Iaconesi, Oriana Persico
R2,923 Discovery Miles 29 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the possibility to observe the lives of cities through ubiquitous information obtained through social networks, sensors and other sources of data and information, and the ways in which this possibility describes a new form of Public Space, which can be used to define new forms of citizenship and participated city governance. The work is the result of years of research across sciences, arts, design, ethnography, cultural geography, performed by multiple researchers, understanding the Relational Ecosystems of cities (the flows of relation, information, knowledge and emotion in the city) and using them to reinterpret the concept of Urban Acupuncture: from the Third Space, Third Landscape and Third Generation City, to the Third Infoscape; from Urban Acupuncture to Digital Urban Acupuncture. The book starts by exploring the many theories and methodologies which have been used to try to capture and use the revolutionary potential found in the daily lives of cities. From De Certeau, to Latour, Bateson, Bhabha, and all the way to Castells, Clement, Boyd, Casagrande. In a progression which moves from the Third Space (Soja, De Certeau), to the Third Landscape (Clement), to the Third Generation City (Casagrande), to the Third Paradise (Pistoletto), the book arrives at a definition of the Third Infoscape, following up on Kevin Lynch: a new legibility and imageability of the city. Its main themes and objectives lie in the desire to observe and understand the radical transformation of the definitions, boundaries and configurations of what we call public and private spaces, in different cultures and communities, in the age of communication, information and knowledge, and to use these understandings to formulate a set of working hypotheses for the positive, constructive, active and participatory usage of these transformed scenarios, contributing to the re-definition of concepts such as citizenship, city-governance, urban planning, civic decision-making, and more. And using, in the process, techniques such as Urban Acupuncture, Actor-Network Theory, Diasporic analysis, Peer-to-peer Urbanism and more. Multiple real-life research scenarios and documented case studies will be used, from 4 continents, coming from our research and from other international contributions.

Future is Urban: Livability, Resilience & Resource Conservation - Proceedings of the "International Conference on Future is... Future is Urban: Livability, Resilience & Resource Conservation - Proceedings of the "International Conference on Future is Urban (ICFU' 21), Dec 16-18, 2021, Ahmedabad, India" (Paperback)
Utpal Sharma, R. Parthasarathy, Aparna
R1,258 Discovery Miles 12 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cities have played an important role in our lives since the dawn of civilization. However, cities are slowly becoming overwhelmed and therefore intervention is desirable towards green, blue and egalitarian nature. Even with current urban issues, we must rise to the occasion as professionals to create cities that are social, cities that take care of the environment, and cities that are digital. Increased citizen participation is indispensable in this process. The 'International Conference on Future is Urban (IFCU' 21) Dec 16-18, 2021, Ahmedabad, India', takes into account Livability, Resilience & Resource Conservation for planning Future and cities in future.

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