CITY BUILDING. NINE PLANNING PRINCIPLES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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- EAN: 9781568988818
- ISBN: 978-1-56898-881-8
- Editorial: PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
- Año de la edición: 2010
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Páginas: 304
- Materias:
urbanismo
planificación, ciudad y ordenación territorial
metrópolis, megalópolis
new towns, nuevas ciudades, ciudades satélite
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City Building is organized into three parts. Part 1 examines the past and defines the current practice of city building, addressing its shortcomings and proposing a comprehensive framework for rethinking the approach to cities in the future. Part 2 translates this framework into nine best-practice principles that are common to successful, livable, urban environments: sustainability, accessibility, diversity, open space, compatibility, incentives, adaptability, density, and identity. These principles are illustrated in a global portfolio of city building projects, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, that show how best practices have been applied successfully'and sometimes not so. Part 3 makes the case that, far from being the problem, cities, properly organized, can be a mechanism for sensible, sustainable uses of increasingly scarce resources. The book concludes with a call for a national planning process and a comprehensive framework for settlement.