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City Form, Economics and Culture - For the Architecture of Public Space (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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City Form, Economics and Culture - For the Architecture of Public Space (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
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This is a book about how cities occupy space. We are not interested
in architectural masterpieces, but the tools for reinventing city
life. We try to provide a framework for the architecture and design
of public space without aesthetic considerations. We identify
several defining factors. First of all, history as the city today
very much depends on how it was yesterday. The geographical
location and the technology available at a point of time both play
a constraining role in what can be done as well. Culture, in the
form of social norms, laws and regulations, also restricts what is
possible to do. On the other hand, culture is also important in
guiding the ideas and aspirations that together inform what society
wants the city to be. The city needs government intervention, or
regulation, to ameliorate the problem posed by a tangle of
externalities and public goods. We focus on two comparative case
studies: the evolution of urban form in the US and how it stands in
a sharp contrast with the evolution of urban form in Japan. We
emphasise the difference in regulations between both jurisdictions.
We study how differences in technological choices driven by culture
(i.e. racial segregation), geography (i.e. the availability of
land) and history (i.e. the mobility restrictions of the Tokugawa
period) result in vast differences in mobility regarding the share
of public transport, walking and cycling versus motorised private
transport. American cities are constrained by rules that are much
further from the neoliberal economic idea of free and competitive
markets than the Japanese ones. Japanese planning promotes
competition and through a granular, walkable city dotted with small
shops, fosters variety in the availability of goods and services.
We hypothesise how changing regulations could change the urban form
to generate a greater variety of goods and to foster the access to
those goods through a more equitable distribution of wealth.
Critically, we point out that a desirably denser city must rely on
public transport, and we also study how a less-dense city can be
made to work with public transport. We conclude by claiming that
changes in regulations are very unlikely to happen in the US, as it
would require deep cultural changes to move from local to a more
universal and less excluding public good provision, but they are
both possible and desirable in other jurisdictions.
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