This book tackles the emerging smart urbanism to advance a new way
of urban thinking and to explore a new design approach. It unravels
several urban transformations in dualities: economic relationality
and centrality, technological flattening and polarisation, and
spatial division and fusion. These dualities are interdependent;
concurrent, coexisting, and contradictory, they are jointly
disrupting and reshaping many aspects of contemporary cities and
spaces. The book draws on a suite of international studies,
experiences, and observations, including case studies in Beijing,
Singapore, and Boston, to reveal how these processes are impacting
urban design, development, and policy approaches. The COVID-19
pandemic has accelerated many changes already in motion, and
provides an extreme circumstance for reflecting on and imagining
urban spaces. These analyses, thoughts, and visions inform an urban
imaginary of smart design that incorporates change, flexibility,
collaboration, and experimentation, which together forge a paradigm
of urban thinking. This paradigm builds upon the modernist and
postmodernist urban design traditions and extends them in new
directions, responding to and anticipating a changing urban
environment. The book proposes a smart design manifesto to
stimulate thought, trigger debate, and, hopefully, influence a new
generation of urban thinkers and smart designers. It will be of
interest to scholars, students, and practitioners in the fields of
urban design, planning, architecture, urban development, and urban
studies.
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