Cities design and evolution /
Idioma: Inglés Detalles de publicación: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY Routledge 2009.Descripción: 342 p. 21 cmISBN:- 9780415423298 (pb : alk. paper)
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- HT166.M2593 2009
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Why does modern planning sometimes create urban environments that are less attractive and functional than the 'organic urbanism' of traditional cities? Cities Design and Evolution takes up the challenge of this question, investigating 'how cities are put together', both in the sense of how the parts are organized in relation to the whole, and how they are created or evolve over time.
Cities Design and Evolution offers an engaging and original narrative that interprets planning philosophies from Modernism to New Urbanism, organic theories from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier, and evolutionary thinking from Charles Darwin to Richard Dawkins. The book develops a new evolutionary perspective that recognizes both the 'designed' and 'organic' nature of cities, and provides a rationale and impetus for fresh approaches to urban planning and design.
In what is the first book to significantly apply modern evolutionary thinking to urbanism, Cities Design and Evolution promises to stimulate thought, debate and action concerning the nature of cities and future urban planning. The book should appeal to all who are interested in cities, in design and in evolution.
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references( p.[307]-330 ).
Introduction -- Planning at the crossroads -- Understanding urbanism -- Learning from science and nature -- This book -- Cities, planning and modernism -- City planning -- Modernist city planning -- Post-modern urbanism -- Conclusions -- Articulating urban order -- Urban units -- Urban syntax -- The nature of urban order -- Conclusions -- The social logic of urban order -- Buildings -- Cities -- The streets -- Conclusions -- The kind of thing a city is -- Metaphors and models -- Emerging perspectives -- The city as ecosystem -- Conclusions -- Emergence and evolution -- Emergence -- Evolution -- Conclusions -- Emergent urban order -- Urban emergence -- Street patterns -- City forms -- Conclusions -- Cities in evolution -- The evolution of cities -- Modernism in evolution -- 21st century evolving urbanism -- Planning, design and evolution -- Creation, development or evolution -- Space, time and civics -- An evolutionist approach -- Conclusions -- Understanding cities and urbanism -- Implications for practice and research -- Reflections on evolution -- Beyond cities, design and evolution.
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- 1 Introduction
- Introductory Text
- 1.1 Cities in Transition
- 1.2 The Challenge
- 1.3 A Theory of Urban Evolution
- 1.4 This Book
- 2 The Anatomy of the City
- Introductory Text
- 2.1 The City Plan
- 2.2 Building Blocks of the City
- 2.3 Top Down v. Bottom Up
- 2.4 Discussion
- 3 Urban Creation and Evolution
- Introduction
- 3.1 Models of City Design
- 3.2 The Organic Metaphor
- 3.3 Modes of Urban Creation
- 3.4 The Spectrum of Determinism
- 4 The City as Design Object
- Introductory Text
- 4.1 Cities of the Imagination
- 4.2 Cities as Symbols
- 4.3 Cities as 'Works of Art'
- 4.4 Discussion
- 5 The City as Societal Machine
- Introductory Text
- 5.1 Cities and Peoples
- 5.2 Social and Cultural Expressions
- 5.3 Political and Economic Expressions
- 5.4 Discussion
- 6 City Physiology
- Introduction
- 5.1 A Structural Analogy
- 5.2 Engines of Urban Structure
- 5.3 The Transport Modulor
- 5.4 Discussion
- 7 Urban Morphology
- Introductory Text
- 7.1 Urban Patterns
- 7.2 Form and Formation
- 7.3 Emergent Features
- 7.4 Discussion
- 8 Urban Genetics
- Introductory Text
- 8.1 The Possible, the Actual and the Probable
- 8.2 Entropic Probability
- 8.3 Matching the Actual and the Theoretical
- 8.4 Discussion
- 9 Evolutionary Design
- Introductory Text
- 9.1 Towards an Organic Approach
- 9.2 Possible Urban Programs
- 9.3 Urban Outcomes
- 9.4 Implications for Urban Design and Planning
- 10 Conclusions
- Introductory Text
- 10.1 The Nature of the City
- 10.2 Buildings and Cities
- 10.3 Design and Emergence
- 10.4 Cities Design and Evolution
Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics
Stephen Marshall is a senior lecturer at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. He research and teaching focuses on transport, planning and urban design and their inter-relationships in the form of streets, urban structure and urban morphology.