Smart Design

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>