Underground cities : new frontiers in urban living / edited by Pamela Johnston, John Endicott, Nancy F. Lin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnston, Pamela, editor.

Endicott, John (Engineer), editor.

Lin, Nancy F., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Underground architecture.

Underground areas.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

245 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2020.

Summary:

New ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space. This book explores how these innovations can help to make our increasingly dense, climate-stressed cities both more resilient and more of a pleasure to live in. While it sets out practical design approaches, Underground Cities is not a technical manual. Designed for everyone with an interest in the future of our cities, it is beautifully illustrated and written in an accessible style that draws on the rich tradition of underworlds, both real and imagined, in art, history and poetry. Global in scope, the book ranges across continents as it surveys the vast expansion in the potential of the underground. The opening section, 'A New Frontier', looks at two pioneering cold-climate cities, Montreal and Helsinki, which developed new uses for the underground from the 1960s on. The closing section, 'Looking Forward', offers glimpses of the city of the future - of what we might be able to achieve in the next 50 or 60 years. Focusing on Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, it shows projects that are going deeper, achieving a greater synergy of uses and preparing the way for new urban forms. In between, it reviews a range of innovative ideas and presents buildings and projects by leading international architects and artists, among them Jun'ya Ishigami, James Turrell, Dominique Perrault and Thomas Heatherwick, which highlight the advances in technology that are making it possible to bring the elements of nature - light, air, vegetation - deep underground. Works include a subterranean oasis, a refuge from the desert heat; a museum extension that deploys light and colour to define space; a multi-modal underground transport hub that evokes the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris, but with an added profusion of plants; and a troglodytic house and restaurant, sunk into the earth to create atmosphere.

Contents:

A new frontier. Experimental cities / Pamela Johnston

Montreal : the ville intérieure as prototype for the continuous interior / Mark Pimlott

Helsinki : city of deep collaborations / Ilkka Vähäaho

People-centered Spaces. The resilient city / Will Symons

Homo subterraneus : inhabiting the subsurface / Pamela Johnston

Bringing the elements of nature underground / Lee Barker-Field

ARoS Aarhus : next level extension / Schmidt Hammer Lassen and James Turrell

The Lightwalk, Gangnam International Transit Center (GITC) / Dominique Perrault Architecture

House and restaurant, Yamaguchi / Junya Ishigami + Associates

The Lowline, New York City

Changi Airport, Singapore / John Endicott

Underground farming / Emma Lowry

Moving people, transporting goods. Of loops, pumps, pipes and hype / Carlos Lopez galviz

Underground logistics / Cargo Sous Terrain

New techniques of representation. Reclaiming the subterranean no man's land of Paris La Defense / Monique Labbé, Jean-Pierre Palisse and Jean-François David

Innovative technologies for planning and designing underground space / Thomson Lai and Roger Luo, Jeffrey Chun-fai Wong and Tan Tin-Iun Yeung

Looking forward. Pushing the boundaries of underground space / Peter Ho

Hong Kong : a matter of when, not if or how / John Endicott

Singapore's next frontier : going underground / Teo Tiong Yong

Tokyo : opening Marunouchi to the world / Kentaro Furuya

Reflections for the future / Mohsen Mostafavi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781848223585

1848223587

OCLC:

1198599493