TY - BOOK AU - Helbrecht,Ilse AU - Dirksmeier,Peter TI - New Urbanism: life, work, and space in the new downtown. SN - 9781409431350 AV - HT170 N49 2012 U1 - 307.3/416 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Urban renewal KW - City planning KW - Central business districts KW - City and town life KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Urbanization KW - Sociology urban N1 - Include index; Contents : List of Figures vii -- List of Tables ix -- Acknowledgements xi -- 1 New Downtowns : A New Form of Centrality and Urbanity in World Society Ilse Helbrecht and Peter Dirksmeier 1 -- 2 Planning Urbanity A Contradiction in Terms? Loretta Lees 23 -- 3 Public Spaces for the 21st Century Jan Gehl 39 -- 4 Waterfront Redevelopment : Global Processes and Local Contingencies in Vancouver’s False Creek David Ley 47 -- 5 Planning for Creativity : The Transformation of the Amsterdam Eastern Docklands Robert Kloosterman 61 -- 6 From the Old Downtown to the New Downtown : The Case of the South Boston Waterfront Susanne Hegg 85 -- 7 Grasping, Creating and Commercialising Trends, Styles and Zeitgeist : The Role of Urbanity with Regard to Working in Flexible, Specialised Project Networks as Illustrated by the Media Industry Ivo Mossig 107 -- 8 Major Town Planning Projects in Urban Renaissance : Structuring Property Sales for Future Urbanity ? Maike Dziomba 121 -- 9 Neighbourliness in the City Centre : Reality and Potential in the Case of the Hamburg HafenCity Ingrid Breckner and Marcus Menzl 133 -- 10 Assessment of the Effects of the Built Environment for the Organisation of Social Processes Thomas Perry 149 -- 11 Can Urbanity be Planned? Comments on the Development of Public Spaces in the HafenCity of Hamburg Claus C. Wiegandt 175 -- 12 The Virtue of Diversity Rolf Lindner 175 -- Index 187 -- ; List of Figures : 3.1 Illustration from New City Life 40 -- 3.2 Federation Square Melbourne a contemporary city space for people 43 -- 3.3 Melbourne street zones 44 -- 4.1 False Creek, Vancouver 52 -- 5.1 Amsterdam docklands 64 -- 6.1 View of the Government Center with harbour in the background 92 -- 6.2 Faneuil Hall Marketplace and Quincy Market 96 -- 6.3 The market for condominiums in downtown Boston (sales between January and June each year ) 101 -- 7.1 Development of turnover in the media industry in Germany in comparison with the gross democratic product (GDP) as indicator for the overall economic development 1980 – 2005 109 -- 7.2 Composition of the project network for the production of a TV movie 114 -- 8.1 Main part of the major project HafenCity (animation) 124 -- 10. 1 Wohn Wissen the analysis tool 153 -- 10.2 Example of micro geographical data: small scale milieu fluctuation 155 -- 10.3 The social milieus 158 -- ; List of Tables : 1.1 Characteristics of the old new downtown 5 -- 1.2 Overview of the stages of development in Kopenhagen Orestad, March 2008 8 -- 2.1 An elastic but targeted definition or urbanity for planners 34 -- 5.1 Total population and share of private housing in the Amsterdam Eastern Docklands 2005 77 -- 5.2 Economic activities in the Amsterdam Eastern Docklands ; total number of workers, firms and share of creative industries 2005 78 -- 6.1 Population development in Boston and the neighbourhood of South Boston 89 -- 8.1 General information on the major project HafenCity Hamburg 123 -- ER -