Future City

Stephen Read, Jürgen Rosemann, Job Van Eldijk

304 pages, parution le 21/07/2005

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Résumé

This text focuses on cities as the dominant form of human settlement for the future, examining the transformation that is happening in urban connobations worldwide today. The last few decades have seen a rate of change and growth in cities that has never been seen before, resulting in giant metropoles with over twenty million inhabitants. This book tackles the causes of these changes, and looks at how the planning and design of cities can shape the urban future.

Full Contributors:
Stefano Boeri, Ramesh Kumar Biswas, Christine M. Boyer, Lindsay Bremner, Gary Chang, Penelope Dean, Dirk Frieling, Andreas Huyssen, Jim Masselos, NEXT Architects, Stephen Read, Jürgen Rosemann, Saskia Sassen, Richard Sennett, AbouMaliq Simone, Stealth Group, Eric Swyngedouw, Kazys Varnelis

Sommaire

The Form of the Future
From Randstad to Deltametropolis
Remaking Johannesburg
The Construction of Sydney's Global Image
Kuala Lumpur: An allegorical postmetropolis
The Voids of Berlin
Mumbai: Millennial Identities
Capitalism and the City
Exit 'post': The making of 'glocal' urban modernities
Reading the City in a Global Digital Age: Between topographic representation and spatialized power projects
Playing with Information: Urbanism in the twenty-first Century
Los Angeles, Cluster City
Amsterdam: Beyond inside and out
Local navigation in Douala
Hong Kong: The experienced city
Belgrade: Evolution in an urban jungle
Milan: Urban Footnotes
Millennium Tour

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Spon Press
Auteur(s)	Stephen Read, Jürgen Rosemann, Job Van Eldijk
Parution	21/07/2005
Nb. de pages	304
Format	18 x 25
Couverture	Relié
Poids	960g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780415284509