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World cities and urban form : fragmented, polycentric, sustainable? / edited by Mike Jenks, Daniel Kozak & Pattaranan Takkanon.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Case studies.
- City planning.
- Cities and towns--Growth--Case studies.
- Cities and towns.
- Cities and towns--Growth.
- Urban policy--Case studies.
- Urban policy.
- Metropolitan areas.
- Metropolitan areas--Case studies.
- Sustainable development--Case studies.
- Sustainable development.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 373 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Summary:
- The book brings together theory and practice in the current debate about polycentric development at the urban regional and city scale. At the regional scale, new research and theory shows the forms metropolitan regions might take to enhance sustainability. At the city scale, case studies based on the latest research and practice from Europe, Asia and North America, show how both planning and flagship design can propel cities into world class status, and also improve sustainability.
- World Cities and Urban Form explores the tension between polycentric development and urban fragmentation, not just physically, but also in a wider cultural, social and economic context. Drawing on examples of cities that for one reason or another have entered the world's consciousness, the book presents new information and ideas that may resonate widely across the sector, and that will help to guide the world's major cities towards more sustainable urban forms.
- Contents:
- Introduction : world cities and urban form / Mike Jenks, Daniel Kozak and Pattaranan Takkanon
- What is a "world class" city? : comparing conceptual specifications of cities in the context of a global urban network / Ben Derudder and Frank Witlox
- Globalisation and the forms of cities / Peter Marcuse
- The world city hypothesis revisited : export and import of urbanity is a dangerous business / Darko Radovic
- Sustainability and the "world class" city : what is being sustained and for who? / Judy Rogers
- Polycentrism and "defragmentation" : towards a more sustainable urban form? / Mike Jenks and Daniel Kozak
- Promoting sustainable urban form : implementing urban consolidation policies around the Helsinki metropolitan region / Olli Maijala and Rauno Sairinen
- Spatial disparities based on human and social capital / Natasa Urbancikova and Oto Hudec
- The model Barcelona : 1979-2004 and beyond / Jaume Carne and Aleksandar Ivancic
- Sustainable "world class" cities and glocal sprawl in Southeast Asian metropolitans / Sidh Sintusingha
- Quality of life and spatial urban forms of mega-city regions in Japan / Kiyonobu Kaido and Jeahyun Kwon
- Global integration, growth patterns and sustainable development : a case study of the peri-urban area of Shanghai / Jiaping Wu
- Taichung the waiting metropolis and its campaign towards a "world class" city : a case of glocollision, glocoalition or glocalisation? / Shih-wei Lo
- "World class" Vancouver : a terminal city re-imagined / May So
- Planning a "world class" city without zoning : the experience of Houston / Zhou Qian
- Aspects of urban fragmentation
- Assessing urban fragmentation : the emergence of new typologies in central Buenos Aires / Daniel Kozak
- Tracking sustainable urban forms and material flows in Singapore / Perry Pei-Ju Yang
- The right to the city : stakeholder perspectives of greater Cairo metropolitan communities / Wael Salah Fahmi
- "World class" living? / Nuttinee Karnchanaporn and Apradee Kasemsook
- Bangkok's struggle to achieve a successful transportation system / Wapen Charoentrakulpeeti and Willi Zimmerman
- To be or not to be a "world class" city? : poverty and urban form in Paris and Bucharest / Oana-Liliana Pavel
- Inner truth of the slums in mega cities : a scenario from India / Vijay Neekhra, Takashi Onishi and T. Kidokoro
- Conclusion : the form of cities to come? / Mike Jenks, Daniel Kozak and Pattaranana Takkanon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415451840
- 0415451841
- 9780415451864
- 0415451868
- OCLC:
- 191898095
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