Cool Urbanism: The Radiant Exitance City. (3rd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: White, Marcus; Yang, Tianyi
• Other Names: White Marcus guestEditor.; Burry Jane guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 93:Number 1(2023)
• Page Start: 62
• Page End: 71
• Publication Date: 2023-01-03
• Subjects: Analogues Explorer -- Electricity Sector Climate Information (ESCI) project -- Representative Concentration Pathways 8.5 (RCP 8.5) -- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report -- Muswellbrook -- Scone -- Dubbo -- Quirindi -- Parkes -- Forbes -- Tamworth -- Mudgee -- Cowra -- Sydney -- Ville Radieuse -- Le Corbusier -- 1925 Plan Voisin -- The Radiant City -- Unité d'Habitation -- Marseilles -- La Cité Radieuse -- Pruitt‐Igoe social housing project -- St Louis, Missouri -- Jane Jacobs -- The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- transit‐oriented development (TOD) -- Bologna -- Judge Dredd -- John Wagner -- Carlos Ezquerra -- Mega‐City One; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2895
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract: Urban densification is affecting our quality of life – from vitamin D defi ciency due to not enough sunlight reaching us in the tall urban canyons that are created by high buildings, to urban heat islands disrupting our sleep, and many other causes of human irritation. Exploring the Radiant City famously proposed by Le Corbusier in 1930, Guest‐Editor Marcus White, together with Australian architect Tianyi Yang, a researcher and lecturer from Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Melbourne, investigate ways to make the model more workable with pencil‐thin towers.