Contemporary Urban Design Thinking The Australian Approach /: The Australian Approach. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rob Roggema, editor.
• Editors: Roggema, Rob
• Contents: Intro; Contents; About the Contributors; Chapter 1: Australian Urbanism; State of the Art; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Current Challenges; 1.3 Urban Planning and Design Education; 1.4 New Ambitions; 1.5 The Task Ahead; References; Chapter 2: The Future of Urban Planning in Australia: A Big Deal; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 A New Plan; 2.3 The Best Possible Sydney; 2.4 The Problem; 2.5 The Kind of City People Want; 2.6 Urban Lives; 2.7 The Third City; 2.8 Up-Zoning; 2.9 A Better System: A New Deal; 2.10 Set by Infrastructure; 2.11 Getting Over a Fear of Heights; 2.12 Conclusion; References Chapter 3: How to Design Sydney's Third City?3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 Tensions; 3.1.2 A Never Ending Experiment; 3.2 A Good City Is a Resilient City; 3.3 General Characteristics and Attributes of Resilient Systems; 3.4 The 'Organic' First City; 3.4.1 Learning from Kings Cross; 3.4.2 Good Urbanism at the Local Scale; 3.5 The 'Functionalist' Second City; 3.5.1 Learning from Canberra; 3.5.2 Good Urbanism at the City Scale; 3.6 The Third City; 3.6.1 Principles for the Third City; 3.6.2 Ethos; 3.6.3 Landscape; 3.6.4 Diversity; 3.6.5 Redundancy; 3.6.6 Subsidiarity and Authenticity 3.7 The Good City Is the Resilient City3.8 The Role of Urban Design; 3.9 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Urban Design in the Fragmented City; 4.1 Politics and Dark Matter; 4.2 Planning in an Uncertain World; 4.3 The Challenges for City Governance; 4.4 Rethinking Planning; 4.5 Four Dimensional Design; 4.6 Tactical Urbanism; 4.7 Experiments in City Government and Flexible Strategies; 4.8 Design for London; 4.9 The Implications for Design Education; 4.10 City Government and Universities; 4.11 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Redirecting the City?; 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Post Politics, the Domination of flows and the Individual Versus the Multitude5.3 Scale and Governance; 5.4 Professional Anxieties; 5.5 Case Study: Relationality and the Spatial Framework; 5.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Microeconomic Reform to Create Activation and Improve Liveability; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Bottom-Up Microeconomic Reform; 6.3 Playful City USA; 6.4 Community Gardens; 6.5 Farmers Markets; 6.6 The High Line; 6.7 Summary of Bottom-Up Microeconomic Reform Initiatives; 6.8 The New Western City; 6.9 City Deals; 6.10 Innovation Ecosystems 6.11 Examples of Successful Innovation Ecosystems6.11.1 The University of Cambridge UK, a Public Initiative; 6.11.2 Macquarie Park, Encouraging Collaboration; 6.11.3 South Lake Union, Seattle, Rezoning Catalyst; 6.12 Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: City Resilience and the Sydney Architect; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Resilience Thinking; 7.2.1 From Ecology to City Planning and Design; 7.2.2 What We Mean by City Resilience; 7.3 Sydney's Resilience Journey; 7.4 Resilience in the Third City; 7.4.1 Resilience to What?; 7.4.2 Resilience of What Part of the City System?; 7.4.3 Resilience for Whom? 7.5 The Role of the Urban Designer in City Resilience
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Subjects: 307.1/2160994; Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; City planning -- Australia; City planning; Science -- Global Warming & Climate Change; Science -- Environmental Science; Technology & Engineering -- Construction -- Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; The environment; Sustainability; Building construction & materials; Sociology; Regional planning; Sustainable development; Environmental sociology; Political Science -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development; Regional & area planning; Australia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319919508; 3319919504
• Related ISBNs: 9783319919492
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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