Designing Sustainable Cities

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Designing the Sustainable City -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Missing in Action ……… -- 1.2.1 Radicality -- 1.2.2 Integrality -- 1.2.3 Exploratory -- 1.2.4 Designerly -- 1.3 Neglected Concepts -- 1.3.1 The City as a Superorganism -- 1.3.2 Urban Metabolism, Closing Cycles of Flows -- 1.3.3 Becoming Regenerative, Making Use of Indigenous Knowledge -- 1.3.4 Design-Led, Underpinned with Monitored Data -- 1.4 The Great Divide(s) -- 1.5 Aspects of Sustainable City Design -- 1.5.1 Abstract Overarching Concepts -- 1.5.2 Concrete Monitoring of Sustainability Performances -- 1.5.3 Technocratic Underpinnings -- 1.5.4 Aesthetics of Beauty and Appreciated Cities: Design -- 1.6 Fields of Integration -- 1.6.1 Abstract Aesthetics -- 1.6.2 Technocratic Abstractions -- 1.6.3 Concrete Aesthetics -- 1.6.4 Technocratic Concreteness -- 1.7 Designing a Sustainable City -- 1.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: The Role of Indigenous Paradigms and Traditional Knowledge Systems in Modern Humanity's Sustainability Quest - Future Foundations from Past Knowledge's -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Sustainability -- 2.3 Ecological Sustainability -- 2.4 Traditional Knowledge Systems -- 2.5 Relation to the Land -- 2.6 Moving into New Territory -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Born, not Made. Designing the Productive City -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Ecological Footprint -- 3.3 Bio-based Urbanism -- 3.4 Ecological Synergy -- 3.5 Holistic Thinking -- 3.6 In the Mood for Change -- 3.6.1 Nelson, Lancashire -- 3.6.2 Fast-Food in Space -- 3.6.3 Algae Arrays in Liverpool -- 3.6.4 The Sunflower House -- 3.6.5 Biospheric Project -- 3.6.6 Food-Producing Facade -- 3.6.7 Whitefield, Nelson -- 3.6.8 CityZEN -- 3.6.9 Design for Future Climate -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References.