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Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xi |
An Introduction to City Building | |
The Millennial City | p. 1 |
The Missing Elements of City Design | p. 4 |
A Brief (and Personal) History of Urban Design Theory and Practice | p. 9 |
The Role of Design in Today's City Building | p. 14 |
Nine Principles for Twenty-First-Century City Building | |
Introduction | p. 27 |
Sustainability | p. 28 |
Committing to an Environmental Ethic | |
Creating a Framework for Sustainable Settlement | p. 32 |
Choosing the Right Future | p. 37 |
Expanding a City/Sustaining Green | p. 44 |
Guiding a Nation to a Post-Petroleum Future | p. 50 |
Accessibility | p. 56 |
Facilitating Ease of Movement | |
Locating Corridors to Preserve a Downtown | p. 63 |
Creating Essential Access to Major Development | p. 66 |
Planning for Ferry Transit | p. 71 |
Learning from Mistakes: Mixed-Access Streets versus Transit Malls | p. 76 |
Unblocking Movement | p. 80 |
Restoring Access, Reversing Vacancy and Decline | p. 83 |
Diversity | p. 88 |
Maintaining Variety and Choice | |
Bringing Diversity to the Capitol | p. 93 |
Designing Diversity into City Expansion | p. 96 |
Creating Variety within Uniform Residential Regulations | p. 101 |
Identifying the Special Qualities of a Place | p. 104 |
Building-in Diversity | p. 108 |
Open Space | p. 112 |
Regenerating Natural Systems to Make Cities Green | |
Greening the World's Densest City | p. 118 |
Unpaving a River | p. 121 |
Topping Off the Burnham Plan with a Green Roof | p. 125 |
Developing a Public Greenbelt and Shoreline | p. 130 |
Compatibility | p. 134 |
Maintaining Harmony and Balance | |
Protecting Heritage While Creating Identity | p. 140 |
Protecting Heritage While Managing Density | p. 144 |
Retaining a Rural Landscape | p. 147 |
Reviving Block Patterns and Building Types | p. 149 |
Incentives | p. 152 |
Renewing Declining Cities/Rebuilding Brownfields | |
Restoring a River (and Regenerating a City) | p. 156 |
Rebuilding Downtowns in a Suburban Context: Good Intentions Get Snagged | p. 161 |
Incentivizing a Brownfield | p. 164 |
Adaptability | p. 168 |
Facilitating "Wholeness" and Positive Change | |
Planning for Continuous Change | p. 175 |
Guiding and Anticipating Growth with Principles | p. 178 |
Recovering a Diamond in the Rust (Belt) | p. 183 |
Fitting Inside with Outside | p. 187 |
Working toward a Flexible Campus | p. 190 |
Density | p. 192 |
Designing Compact Cities with Appropriate Transit | |
Using Brown, Saving Green: Urban Density for Regional Renewal | p. 195 |
Accepting Density and Height | p. 202 |
Taking Advantage of Existing Infrastructure | p. 206 |
Identity | p. 210 |
Creating/Preserving a Unique and Memorable Sense of Place | |
Developing Identity in Response to Climate | p. 219 |
Responding to Climate and Culture | p. 225 |
Creating a New Downtown Identity | p. 230 |
Harnessing the Potential of the Waterfront | p. 234 |
The City of the Future/The Future of the City | |
The City Is the Solution (Not the Problem) | p. 239 |
A New Urban Model | p. 239 |
A Developmental Moore's Law | p. 240 |
Learning from Asia | p. 240 |
The Need for a Framework for Settlement | p. 241 |
Refocusing Planning Theory and Practice | p. 245 |
Rethinking Single-Purpose Design Education and Problem Solving | p. 245 |
A Call for National Plans | p. 246 |
Conclusion | p. 246 |
Project Credits | p. 247 |
Index | p. 254 |
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