Title & Author:

Shaping cities : emerging models of planning practice / edited by Mohammad Al-Asad and Rahul Mehrotra.

Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH, [2016]
©2016

Description:

157 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Farrokh Derakhshani -- Towards new models of planning practice / Mohammad al-Asad, Rahul Mehrotra -- Power, rights, and emerging forces: new models of urban planning practice in China / Weiwen Huang -- Medellin redraws its neighborhoods: social urbanism, 2004-11 / Alejandro Echeverri -- Seeding: an architecture of the city / Christopher C.M. Lee -- The city campus: models of planning processes / Dennis Pieprz -- Future heritage / Aaron Tan -- The evolution of Abu Dhabi city's urbanization and the sustainability challenge / Kais Samarrai -- Planning for sustainable growth in Singapore / Lim Eng Hwee -- Constructing urban landscapes: new infrastructures / Bruno De Meulder, Kelly Shannon -- Afterword / Mohsen Mostafavi.
Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Summary:

"Today's urban environments face ever-increasing flows of human movement, natural disasters, and iterative economic crises. In response, city planning has developed innovative, hybrid forms that go beyond conventional ways of planning. Integrating practices of other disciplines, planning has become increasingly intricate and at the same time dependent on the cross fertilization of data, ideas, and actions across economies, societies, and geographies. This richly illustrated book of edited essays aims at introducing new approaches towards the planning of cities across the world, including Central and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Covering demographically, politically, culturally, and socially diverse regions, it not only examines the use of conventional planning tools, but also explores more experimental and cross-disciplinary approaches of urban planning." -- Back cover.

ISBN:

9783775742368
3775742360

Subject:

Urban ecology (Sociology)
City planning Environmental aspects.
Écologie urbaine.
urban environments.

Added entries:

Al-Asad, Mohammad, editor.
Mehrotra, Rahul, editor.
Derakhshani, Farrokh, writer of foreword.
Mostafavi, Mohsen, writer of afterword.
Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Organization), issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294955
Call No.: BIB 240885
Status: Available