Title & Author:

Megacities : exploring a sustainable future / edited by Steef Buijs, Wendy Tan, Devisari Tunas ; contributing authors: George Brugmans [and others].

Publication:

Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 2010, ©2010.

Description:

379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-370).
[I.] Defining megacities : Megacities, world cities and global cities / Peter Hall -- Urban economics and fading distances / Saskia Sassen -- Regional urbanization and the future of megacities / Edward Soja -- Defining megacities / Editors -- [II.] Identifying megacities : [1.] Economy : Softnomics of the sustainable city / Pieter Tordoir -- Infrastructure: the glue of megacities / Kingsley E. Haynes -- Megacities: lands of hope and glory / Peter Nijkamp -- [ 2.] Environmental : Toxic ecology: the struggle between nature and culture in the suburban megacity / Lars Lerup -- Low entropy urbanism / John Thackara -- Perspective of metropolitan agriculture / Peter Smeets -- [3.] Social : Megacities and the welfare state / Richard Sennett -- Possible urban worlds / David Harvey -- Identity in the city / Deyan Sudjic -- Three pillars of megacities / Editors -- [III.] Organizing megacities : The spaces of utopia / David Harvey -- City or polis? Profitable politics ... or the end of the political / Erik Swyngedouw -- Urbanizing Singapore: optimizing resources / Liu Thai Ker -- How desirable is a fully planned metropolitan system? / Zef Hemel -- Governance of infrastructure / Kingsley E. Haynes -- Governance of megacities / Editors -- [IV.] Designing megacities : On architects, bees and 'species being' / David Harvey -- The fragmented city and the role of the architect / Richard Rogers -- Designing megacities / Editors -- [V.] The Dutch context : Deltametropolis, a strategic concept / Dirk Frieling -- The urgency of maintaining the Netherlands / Joost Schrijnen -- Cities do not always matter so much / Paul Gerretsen -- The Dutch context / Editors -- [VI]The future agenda : Making city: towards a new urban agenda / George Brugmans, Joachim Declerck, Henk Ovink -- City duts / Jeroen Kramer.

Summary:

World cities are reaching previously inconceivable sizes and populations, and this escalation of urban quantities and scales has ignited a fascination for the phenomenon of megacities. For the last fifteen years, The Megacities Foundation has encouraged public debate on this development, uniting practitioners from the fields of architecture, economics, geography, sociology and urban planning. This book offers a compilation of the Foundation's best lectures, defining megacities and their processes and systems, and initiating an open-ended public discussion on the evolution, governance and design of these multifaceted, expanding urban territories.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9789064507410 (pbk.)
9064507414 (pbk.)

Subject:

Metropolitan areas.
Sustainable design.
Environmental protection.
Urbanization Environmental aspects.
Sustainable urban development.
Écoconception.
Environnement Protection.
Urbanisation Aspect de l'environnement.
Urbanisme durable.
sustainable architecture.
environmental protection.
Megastadt
Nachhaltigkeit
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Urbanisering.
Miljöskydd.
Sustainability.
Urbanization

Form/genre:

Lectures.

Added entries:

Buijs, Steef.
Tan, Wendy Wanyin.
Tunas, Devisari.
Brugmans, George.
Tan, Wendy

Exploring a sustainable future

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270219
Call No.: BIB 202908
Status: Available