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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Urbanism: The ingredient of great places -- Cities -- Antwerp -- Bordeaux -- Bristol -- Budapest -- Freiburg -- Glasgow -- Gothenburg -- Hamburg -- Helsinki -- Lisbon -- Lyon -- Manchester -- NewcastleGateshead -- Oslo -- Valencia -- Towns -- Bury St. Edmunds -- Cambridge -- Chester -- Chichester -- Derry~Londonderry -- Falmouth -- Galway -- Hebden Bridge -- Richmond -- Scarborough -- Shewsbury -- Stirling -- Stroud -- Totnes -- Westport -- Neighbourhoods -- Accordia, Cambridge

Earth scientists now argue that the current geological era should be re-named the anthropocene to better reflect the impact of humans in reshaping planetary ecology. Urbanism encompasses the social, economic and political processes most closely linked to the rapid transformation of habitats, destruction of ecologies, over use of materials and resources, and the production of pollutants and carbon emissions that threaten planetary terracide. Consequently, the key concern for 21st-century global urbanism is to critically understand the wider societal and material implications of strategic responses to the pressures of climate change, resource constraint and their interrelationships with the global economic crisis. Eco-cities, eco-towns, eco city-states, floating cities and the like represent particular, and increasingly pre-eminent, forms of response. These types of response appear to promote the construction of ecologically secure premium enclaves that by-pass existing infrastructure and build internalised ecological resource flows that attempt to guarantee strategic protection and further economic reproduction. If this is so this raises difficult issues as to what is left for those outside of these privileged enclaves. The search for more equitable and just forms of response requires understanding what types of alternatives to such bounded and divisible ecological security zones could be developed that contribute towards the building of more inclusive collective planetary security. In this respect, the aim of this paper is to ask: what styles of urbanism do these transformations contribute to the production of, what are the consequences of these emerging styles and what alternatives to them are being constructed?

"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Title" -- "CONTENTS" -- "Foreword Delta Urbanism" -- "Preface Safe and Sustainable Delta Cities" -- "Introduction How to Deal With the Complexity of the Urbanized Delta" -- "PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE DUTCH DELTA" -- "Chapter 1: The Dynamics of the Dutch Delta" -- "Chapter 2: Draining, Dredging, Reclaiming: The Technology of Making a Dry, Safe, and Sustainable Delta Landscape" -- "Chapter 3: The Making of Dutch Delta Landscapes" -- "Chapter 4: Composition and Construction of Dutch Delta Cities" -- "Chapter 5: Governing a Complex Delta" -- "PART TWO: REINVENTING THE DUTCH DELTA" -- "Chapter 6: From West to East: Integrating Coastal Defense, Water Management, and Spatial Planning" -- "Chapter 7: The Southwest Delta: Toward a New Synergy" -- "Chapter 8: Delta City Rotterdam: Where It All Comes Together" -- "References" -- "Index

"'Integral Urbanism' is an ambitious and forward-looking theory of urbanism intended for planners and architects looking for new models to improve the quality of urban life. The model that Ellin proposes stands as an antidote to the problems engendered by modern and postmodern urban planning and architecture: sprawl, anomie, a pervasive culture (and architecture) of fear in cities, and a disregard for environmental issues. Moving away from the escapist and reactive tendencies of modern and postmodern planning, Ellin champions an 'integral' approach, arguing that we should work towards the re-integration of urban milieus that planners and architects typically conceive of as being separate from each other. Hers is a fundamentally ecological approach, looking at places as parts of larger settings and environments. In designing cities, planners and architects need to consider what surrounds the site in order to see that the barriers between spaces are, in reality, porous. Then we can re-conceptualize how we design urban space, integrating seemingly incongruous small sites as well as larger regions."--Publisher description

Ecological Urbanism: The Nature of the City asks the questions that are important inside and outside the built environment professions: what are climate change, urbanisation and ecology doing to the theory and practice of urban design? How does Ecological Urbanism figure in this change? What is Ecological Urbanism? In answer, this book is neither definitive - impossible when a subject is still in motion - nor encyclopaedic - equally impossible when so much has been written on almost every aspect of these essays. Instead, it seeks to rebalance the ecological narrative and its embryonic modes of

'Paradoxical Urbanism takes us far away, through competing versions of history, different cities read by different disciplines, takes us into many possible pasts and futures. By doing so, the book asks awkward questions about our cities now—and in the new, C-19 now and whatever might follow, these awkward, complex questions are more pressing than ever. Malcolm Miles sets out a persuasive and pressing case for an alternative and contemporary urban imaginary.' —Dr Stephen Walker, Head of Architecture, The University of Manchester 'Malcolm Miles has a very nuanced way of writing. His books are never about convincing the reader to a particular argument, instead he prefers to look for cracks in existing discourses and build intricate hypotheses. This beautiful book distinctively discusses the anti-urban tendencies inherent in modern urban theories and practices. It is written for independent thinkers and is a great intellectual pleasure to read.' —Dr Krzysztof Nawratek, School of Architecture, The University of Sheffield Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and the effects of industrialization; and an instrumentalism by which the humane vision becomes prescriptive and anti-democratic. Malcolm Miles argues that these two currents undermine modernism's progressive vision. This book examines the roots of modernist urbanism in the seamless, self-contained systems of Cartesian space; and identifies contradictions within modernist urbanism in its instrumentalism and reliance on de-politicised professional expertise. Miles adroitly reviews the postmodern culture of industrial ruinscapes; and posits that if cities are to be places of proximity, diversity, mobility and agency, this will require a move from modernist instrumentalism to a creative and radically democratic co-production of the built environment.

[EN] This paper considers the first stage of Nova Huta New Town built near Krakow in the 1950s. In contrast to UK and US new settlements of the post war period it is a high density apartment block development which was ignored in the literature for more than half a century because its design, based on a system of streets, is in contrast with contemporary forms of development, either low density garden city or higher density free standing apartment blocks. A discussion of its neglect and the recent rediscovery of its qualities, both in Poland and by exponents of the US New Urbanism (part of the Urban Morphology spectrum somewhat neglected by ISUF) leads to a systematic investigation of the development, its influences and how this project conceived in a radically different political and economic context, matches or departs from the tenets of the Charter for the New Urbanism. The extent to which the context has determined the differences leads to a conclusion discussing the enduring qualities and contemporary relevance of inherited urban forms. ; Agata Kantarek, A.; Samuels, I. (2018). Nowa Huta, Krakow, Poland. Old Urbanism, New Urbanism?. En 24th ISUF International Conference. Book of Papers. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 1105-1114. https://doi.org/10.4995/ISUF2017.2017.6463 ; OCS ; 1105 ; 1114

The formation of transnational urban spaces is a relevant and challenging field of interdisciplinary research, which deserves much more debate in order to deepen our understanding of generating and restructuring urban spaces under conditions of contemporary globalisation processes. This edited collection reflects current studies on the relation of transnationalism and urbanism. Scholars from disciplines including Geography, Ethnography and Urban Planning discuss theoretical approaches, methodology and case studies on processes of the production of urban spaces through global economic value.

What if instead of designing our built environment around the concept of commuting to and from "work," we built around a concept of hana—and by extension ʻohana?