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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.
Recoded City examines alternative urban design, planning and
architecture for the other 90%: namely the practice of
participatory placemaking, a burgeoning practice that co-author
Thomas Ermacora terms 'recoding'. In combining bottom-up and
top-down means of regenerating and rebalancing neighbourhoods
affected by declining welfare or struck by disaster, this growing
movement brings greater resilience. Recoded City sheds light on a
new epoch in the relationship between cities and civil society by
presenting an emerging range of collaborative solutions and
distributed governance models. The authors draw on their own fresh
research of global pioneers forging localist design strategies,
public-realm interventions and new stakeholder dynamics. As the
world becomes increasingly digital and virtual, a myriad of online
tools and technological options is becoming available. These give
unprecedented co-creation opportunities to communities and
professionals alike, yielding the benefits of a more open - DIY -
society. Because of its close engagement with people, place and
local identity, the field of participatory placemaking has huge
untapped potential. Responding to the challenges of the
Anthropocene era, Recoded City is for decision-makers, developers
and practitioners working globally to make better and more liveable
cities.
Recoded City examines alternative urban design, planning and
architecture for the other 90%: namely the practice of
participatory placemaking, a burgeoning practice that co-author
Thomas Ermacora terms 'recoding'. In combining bottom-up and
top-down means of regenerating and rebalancing neighbourhoods
affected by declining welfare or struck by disaster, this growing
movement brings greater resilience. Recoded City sheds light on a
new epoch in the relationship between cities and civil society by
presenting an emerging range of collaborative solutions and
distributed governance models. The authors draw on their own fresh
research of global pioneers forging localist design strategies,
public-realm interventions and new stakeholder dynamics. As the
world becomes increasingly digital and virtual, a myriad of online
tools and technological options is becoming available. These give
unprecedented co-creation opportunities to communities and
professionals alike, yielding the benefits of a more open - DIY -
society. Because of its close engagement with people, place and
local identity, the field of participatory placemaking has huge
untapped potential. Responding to the challenges of the
Anthropocene era, Recoded City is for decision-makers, developers
and practitioners working globally to make better and more liveable
cities.
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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