Eco-Urbanity

<p>There is need for change in our currently unsustainable cities. Carefully outlining paths towards better, sustainable ways of urban living, this book proposes a radical change in the ways we conceive and live our urban environments.</p><p>Bringing together diverse cultural and disciplinary views on urban sustainability, eighteen leading academics and practitioners in sustainable architecture and urbanism explore global concerns of sustainability and urbanity.</p><p>This broad range of issues are clearly articulated and linked to concrete places and projects, merging research and cutting-edge design investigations to promote environmentally and culturally sensitive urban futures. </p> <p>Introduction: Towards a Theory of Eco-Urbanity<em> Darko Radovic </em><strong>Part 1: The Compact City, Strategies and Success Stories </strong>1. Eco-Urbanity: The Framework of an Idea <em>Darko Radovic </em>2. The Barcelona Agenda: Reuse, Compactness and Green <em>Oriol Clos </em>3. From Industrial Cities to Eco-Urbanity – The Melbourne Case Study <em>Rob Adams </em>4. The Sustainable City as a Fine-Grained City <em>David Sim </em>5. From the Compact City to the Defragmented City: Another Route Towards Sustainable Urban Form? <em>Mike Jenks </em><strong>Part 2: Other Cultures, Approaches and Strategies</strong> 6. Designing for Shrinkage: Fibercity 2050, Tokyo <em>Ohno Hidetoshi </em>7. Excavating the Lost Commons: Creating Green Spaces and Water Corridors for Eco-Urban Infrastructure <em>Ishikawa Mikiko </em>8. Continuity and Departure: A Case Study of Singapore’s Nankin Street <em>Heng Chye Kiang </em>9. The Cultural Challenge for Sustainable Cities: Coping with Sprawl in Bangkok and Melbourne <em>Sidh Sintusingha </em>10. Geometries of Life and Formlessness: The Theoretical Legacies of Historical Beijing <em>Zhu Jianfei </em>11. Eco-City? Eco-Urbanity? <em>Arvind Krishan </em><strong>Part 3: Other Scales and Sensibilities </strong>12. Eco-Urbanism: An Israeli Perspective <em>Arie Rahamimoff </em>13. Bringing Back Nature and Re-Invigorating the City Centre <em>Kengo Kuma </em>14. Sustainable Design Towards a Positive Spiral <em>Kodama Yuichiro </em>15. Creating a Cemetery: Architecture that Sustains Cultural Forms <em>Naito Hiroshi </em>16. Towards Well-Mannered Built Environments <em>Darko Radovic</em></p>