Eco-Urbanity: Towards Well-Mannered Built Environments

by Radovic; Darko

• ISBN13: 9780415472784
• ISBN10: 0415472784
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-05-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The seemingly unchecked growth of cities in our increasingly globalized world can all too easily be seen as the cause of the ecological crisis that looms over us all. Urban areas, with their massive consumption of scarce resources and contribution to pollution and environmental damage, seem to be the problem, not the solution.

Author Biography

Darko Radovicacute; teaches architecture and urban design at the University of Melbourne. He has taught, researched and practised architecture and urbanism in Europe, Australia and Asia. eco-urbanity was conceived during his professorship at the University of Tokyo's Department of Engineering Centre for Sustainable Urban Regeneration.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: towards a theory of eco-urbanity	p. 1
The compact city, strategies and success stories	p. 7
Eco-urbanity: the framework of an idea	p. 9
The Barcelona Agenda: reuse, compactness and green	p. 19
From industrial cities to eco-urbanity: the Melbourne case study	p. 33
The sustainable city as a fine-grained city	p. 47
From the compact city to the defragmented city: another route towards a sustainable urban form?	p. 63
Other cultures, approaches and strategies	p. 75
Designing for shrinkage: Fibercity 2050, Tokyo	p. 79
Excavating the lost commons: creating green spaces and water corridors for eco-urban infrastructure	p. 92
Continuity and departure: a case study of Singapore's Nankin Street	p. 103
The cultural challenge for sustainable cities: coping with sprawl in Bangkok and Melbourne	p. 112
Geometries of life and formlessness: the theoretical legacies of historical Beijing	p. 125
Eco-city? eco-urbanity?	p. 141
Other scales and sensibilities	p. 161
Eco-urbanism: an Israeli perspective	p. 163
Bringing back nature and re-invigorating the city centre	p. 176
Sustainable design towards a positive spiral	p. 178
Creating a cemetery: architecture that sustains cultural forms	p. 182
eco-urbanity hypothesis: towards well-mannered built environments	p. 187
Index	p. 192
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