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Masterplanning Futures (Hardcover, New)
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Masterplanning Futures (Hardcover, New)
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Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award! In
the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints
realized as physical form through conventional top down processes.
These frequently disregarded existing social and cultural
structures, while the old modernist planning model zoned space for
home and work. At a time of urban growth, these models are now
being replaced by more adaptable, mixed use plans dealing
holistically with the physical, social and economic revival of
districts, cities and regions. Through today's public participative
approaches and using technologically enabled tools, contemporary
masterplanning instruments embody fresh principles, giving cities a
greater resilience and capacity for social integration and change
in the future. Lucy Bullivant analyses the ideals and processes of
international masterplans, and their role in the evolution of many
different types of urban contexts in both the developed and
developing world. Among the book's key themes are landscape-driven
schemes, social equity through the reevaluation of spatial
planning, and the evolution of strategies responding to a range of
ecological issues and the demands of social growth. Drawing on
first-hand accounts and illustrated throughout with colour
photographs, plans and visualizations, the book includes twenty
essays introduced by an extensive overview of the field and its
objectives. These investigate plans including one-north Singapore,
Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, Xochimilco in Mexico City and Waterfront
Seattle, illuminating their distinct yet complementary integrated
strategies. This is a key book for those interested in today's
multiscalar masterplanning and conceptually advanced methodologies
and principles being applied to meet the challenges and
opportunities of the urbanizing world. The author's research was
enabled by grants from the Commission for Architecture and the
Built Environment (CABE), the SfA (the Netherlands Architecture
Fund), the Danish Embassy and support from the Alfred Herrhausen
Society.
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