Smart design : disruption, crisis, and the reshaping of urban spaces / Richard Hu

"This book tackles the emerging smart urbanism to advance a new way of urban thinking and to explore a new design approach. It unravels several urban transformations in dualities: economic relationality and centrality, technological flattening and polarisation, and spatial division and fusion. These dualities are interdependent; concurrent, coexisting, and contradictory, they are jointly disrupting and reshaping many aspects of contemporary cities and spaces. The book draws on a suite of international studies, experiences, and observations, including case studies in Beijing, Singapore, and Boston, to reveal how these processes are impacting urban design, development, and policy approaches. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated many changes already in motion, and provides an extreme circumstance for reflecting on and imagining urban spaces. These analyses, thoughts, and visions inform an urban imaginary of smart design that incorporates change, flexibility, collaboration, and experimentation, which together forge a paradigm of urban thinking. This paradigm builds upon the modernist and postmodernist urban design traditions and extends them in new directions, responding to and anticipating a changing urban environment. The book proposes a smart design manifesto to stimulate thought, trigger debate, and, hopefully, influence a new generation of urban thinkers and smart designers. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners in the fields of urban design, planning, architecture, urban development, and urban studies"--.

Medienart:

Buch

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

London New York, NY: Routledge ; 2022

Reihe:

Routledge research in planning and urban design

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hu, Richard [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

978-0-367-42176-2

978-1-032-13223-5

BKL:

74.72 / Stadtplanung / kommunale Planung

Themen:

COVID-19 (Disease)
City planning
Smart City
Smart cities
Urban policy

Anmerkungen:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Umfang:

xii, 167 Seiten

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

1760528625