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Este artigo apresenta uma visão geral sobre o New Urbanism - um movimento urbanístico com a grande influência no planejamento e na arquitetura americanas. Este advoga um retorno a formas tradicionais do urbanismo e oferece um conjunto de princípios projetuais e urbanísticos para as mais diferentes escalas. O artigo discute algumas das lições apreendidas na última década pela ação desse movimento e os princípios adotados para sua implementação. ; This article provides an overview of new urbanism, a new influential movement in planning and architecture in the United States that is making a visible impact on the way american towns and cities are built. New urbanism challenges the current development practices in the US which have contributed to urban sprawl, inner city decay, degradation of natural resources, and loss of community identity. It advocates a return to the timeless goals of traditional urbanism and offers a complex set of design principles and public policies to guide development at all scales of the built environment: from the small scale (building, block, street) through the intermediate scale (neighborhood, corridor, district) to the large scale (region, city and town). The article discusses some of the lessons learned from this movement in the last decade, showing why it has gained wide support among professionals, developers, politicians and the general public, and why its principles have been adopted for planning and development of new settlements and redevelopment of existing urban areas.

Bringing together a range of leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this edited collection examines innovative urban redevelopment projects around Europe and North America which are at the forefront of this new urbanism and which are here termed 'New Downtowns'. It introduces this term and concept and asks key questions about the futures of cities, such as how cities might achieve a sustained urbanity, what strategies might be deployed to do so, and how market forces might be co-opted for collective interests?

Introduction: new urbanisms, new citizens -- Towards the interdisciplinary study of children and sustainable urbanism -- Sustainable urbanisms in policy and practice -- Living with sustainable urban technologies -- Sustainable mobilities -- Constituting communities: welcoming, belonging, excluding -- Vital politics: children and young people's participation in public space and local decision-making -- Making space for vitality in sustainable urbanisms: childhood and play -- Conclusion: towards a theory of children and sustainable urban vitalities.

"Urban living has dramatically changed over the past generation, refashioning children's relationships with the towns and cities in which they live, and the modes of living within them. Focusing on the global shift in urban planning towards sustainable urbanism - from master planned 'sustainable communities', to the green retrofitting of existing urban environments - Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments offers a critical analysis of the challenges, tensions and opportunities for children and young people living in these environments. Drawing upon original data, Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments demonstrates how the needs, interests and participation of children and young people often remain inferior to the design, planning and local politics of new urban communities. Considering children from their crucial role as residents engaging and contributing to the vitalities of their community, to their role as consumers using and understanding sustainable design features, the book critically discusses the prospects of future inclusion of children and young people as a social group in sustainable urbanism. Truly interdisciplinary, Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments forms an original theoretical and empirical contribution to the understanding of the everyday lives of children and young people and will appeal to academics and students in the fields of education, childhood studies, sociology, anthropology, human geography and urban studies, as well as policy-makers, architects, urban planners and other professionals working on sustainable urban designs."--Provided by publisher

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview -- Chapter 2. Economic, Social, and Political Dimensions of the Rental Housing Crisis -- Chapter 3. Why Rents Rise -- Chapter 4. Pros and Cons of Rent Control -- Chapter 5. Invisible Jail: Providing Housing and Transportation for the Elderly and Disabled -- Chapter 6. HOPE VI: A Dream or Nightmare? -- Chapter 7. Renewing and Remaking New Orleans -- Chapter 8. University Partnerships to Reclaim and Rebuild Communities -- Chapter 9. Housing Opportunities for Everyone -- Appendix. Why Cities Need Affordable Housing: A Case Study of Houston -- Notes -- References -- About the Authors -- Index

With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material and covers key topics on Chinese urban development.

1. New downtowns : a new form of centrality and urbanity in world society / Ilse Helbrecht and Peter Dirksmeier -- 2. Planning urbanity : a contradiction in terms? / Loretta Lees -- 3. Public space for the 21st century / Jan Gehl -- 4. Waterfront redevelopment : global processes and local contingencies in Vancouver's False Creek / David Ley -- 5. Planning for creativity : the transformation of the Amsterdam eastern docklands / Robert Kloosterman -- 6. From the old downtown to the new downtown : the case of the south Boston waterfront / Susanne Heeg -- 7. Grasping, creating and commercialising trends, styles, and 'zeitgeist' : the role of urbanity with regard to working in flexible, specialised project networks as illustrated by the media industry / Ivo Mossig -- 8. Major town planning projects in urban renaissance : structuring property sales for future urbanity? / Maike Dziomba -- 9. Neighbourlines in the city centre : reality and potential in the case of the Hamburg HafenCity / Ingrid Breckner and Marcus Menzl -- 10. Assessment of the effects of the built environment for the organisation of social processes / Thomas Perry -- 11. Can urbanity by planned? : comments on the development of public spaces in the HafenCity of Hamburg / Claus-C. Wiegandt -- 12. The virtue of diversity / Rolf Lindner.