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Garden city mega city
Garden City Mega City is a timely and challenging book for anyone concerned by the global consequences of the unsustainable growth of those cities. City planning and architecture are no longer the preserve of specialists, as the biggest decisions must be made by the community at large. Only two percent of the planet's land area is urbanised, but that two percent consumes eighty percent of our energy. The fossil fuelled energy consumption of our cities is destroying the planet. Garden City Mega City illustrates the depressing realities of life in the mega cities, and documents the ill advised planning decisions that created such blighted environments. But Garden City Mega City also proposes a way to escape what now appears to be an inevitable fate, one of terminal dysfunction. The mega cities have been re imagined as 21st century garden cities...dense and vertical, yet sociable and sustainable. The fundamental strategies and principles of these new garden cities are explained and illustrated, as are WOHA's large scale prototypes, many of which have already been built. The Self Sufficient City, the ultimate 21st century city, is presented in detail. Garden City Mega City includes a Rating Cities set of measurements, which can be used to assess the social and ecological value of urban developments
Garden city mega city
Garden City Mega City is a timely and challenging book for anyone concerned by the global consequences of the unsustainable growth of those cities. City planning and architecture are no longer the preserve of specialists, as the biggest decisions must be made by the community at large. Only two percent of the planet's land area is urbanised, but that two percent consumes eighty percent of our energy. The fossil fuelled energy consumption of our cities is destroying the planet. Garden City Mega City illustrates the depressing realities of life in the mega cities, and documents the ill advised planning decisions that created such blighted environments. But Garden City Mega City also proposes a way to escape what now appears to be an inevitable fate, one of terminal dysfunction. The mega cities have been re imagined as 21st century garden cities...dense and vertical, yet sociable and sustainable. The fundamental strategies and principles of these new garden cities are explained and illustrated, as are WOHA's large scale prototypes, many of which have already been built. The Self Sufficient City, the ultimate 21st century city, is presented in detail. Garden City Mega City includes a Rating Cities set of measurements, which can be used to assess the social and ecological value of urban developments
Garden city mega city
Rethinking cities for the age of global warming
Bingham-Hall, Patrick (author) / WOHA (author)
2016
75, 309 Seiten
Bound tête-bêche
With a two-sided, tête-bêche, one half of the book articulates the problems facing cities in a time of climate change and rapid population growth. Striking photography portrays the depressing realities of the mega cities, such as Mumbai, Manila, Jakarta, and Delhi. The other half of the book explains WOHA’s architectural and planning solutions, which are extensively illustrated with renderings, axonometric drawings, and photographs of completed schemes. --See http://www.archdaily.com/792713/garden-city-mega-city-rethinking-cities-for-the-age-of-global-warming-2016
WOHA—in collaboration with writer and photographer Patrick Bingham-Hall— propose an alternative to the continuing implementation of unsustainable 20th century urban planning models. By using WOHA’s mini-city projects and proposals as prototypes – energy-efficient vertical landscapes with sky villages and sky parks – the book presents a compelling manifesto for densely settled, yet comprehensively green, and ultimately sufficient, cities of the future. nspired by the Garden City movement of the early 20th century, GARDEN CITY MEGA CITY responds to the alarming urban crisis that now threatens all large cities around the globe, and urges the universal reinstatement of a mutually beneficial coexistence between human beings and the natural environment. WOHA’s projects prioritize the re-creation of ecosystems, and have also reintegrated public space and civic culture within the increasingly unpleasant urban fabric of our overcrowded cities. WOHA’s scalable prototypes o er a radical model for mega city planning: not just for the newly massive cities of Asia, but for other such cities around the world. “If mega cities are to avoid potentially terminal dysfunction,” writes Bingham-Hall, “such thinking— whereby environmental prerequisites and human philosophies go hand in hand—is imperative.” --Ibid
Book
English
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