Future City

Stephen Read, Jürgen Rosemann, Job van Eldijk

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781135159573
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The Form of the Future
• Randstad From Randstad to Deltametropolis
• Johannesburg Remaking Johannesburg
• Sydney The Construction of Sydney’s Global Image
• Kuala Lumpur An Allegorical Postmetropolis
• Berlin 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
• Playing with Information
• Los Angeles Cluster City
• Amsterdam Beyond Inside and Out
• Douala Local Navigation in Douala
• Belgrade Evolution in an Urban Jungle
• Hong Kong The Experienced City
• Milan Urban Footnotes
• The Image of Metropolis
• Notes on Contributors
• Index