Urban design continues to grow and mature as a field of study, research, and professional endeavour. This welcome collection of both invited and published essays is panoramically broad and comprehensive in its scope. Combining essays from both practice and academia, this volume includes some of the most significant texts on urban design from the last two decades, a period of transformational growth in the field and exponential growth in the metropolis.

Notes on contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xxi
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Urban Process	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Observations
The virtues of cities	p. 6
Working cities: Density, risk, spontaneity	p. 12
Meaningful urban design: Teleological/catalytic/relevant	p. 14
Mathematics of the ideal roadtrip	p. 24
City walking: Laying claim to Manhattan	p. 34
Preservation, re-use, and sustainability
Green Manhattan	p. 45
Stewardship of the built environment: The emerging synergies from sustainability and historic preservation	p. 57
DROSS; Re-genesis of diverse matter	p. 61
The shared global ideology of the big and the green	p. 69
Community
Levittown retrofitted: An urbanism beyond the property line	p. 75
The mnemonic city: Duality, invisibility, and memory in American urbanism	p. 80
Mapping East Los Angeles: Aesthetics and cultural politics in an other L.A.	p. 87
Celebrating the city	p. 96
Skid Row, Los Angeles	p. 98
Urban Form	p. 103
Introduction: Further thoughts on the three urbanisms	p. 105
Everyday urbanism, landscape urbanism, and infrastructure
Everyday urban design: Towards default urbanism and/or urbanism by design?	p. 115
Without end: Mats, holes, and the promise of landscape urbanism	p. 120
Boston's New Urban Ring: An antidote to urban fragmentation	p. 127
Infrastructure for the new social compact	p. 138
New urbanism
Whatever happened to modernity?	p. 155
The town of Seaside: Designed in 1978-1983 by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co.	p. 168
The impact of ideology on American town planning	p. 176
New Urbanism as a counter-project to post-industrialism	p. 185
Integrating urbanisms: Growing places between New Urbanism and Post-Urbanism	p. 194
Post urbanism
Rem Koolhaas's writing on cities: Poetic perception and gnomic fantasy	p. 203
"Bigness" in context: Some regressive tendencies in Rem Koolhaas' urban theory	p. 220
Habraken and Koolhaas: Two Dutchmen flying over Bijlmermeer	p. 229
Heterotopias and Urban Design	p. 237
Urban Society	p. 245
Introduction	p. 247
The public realm
Big Brother is charging you	p. 250
Communitas and the American public realm	p. 254
Contesting the public realm: Struggles over public space in Los Angeles	p. 271
Action space	p. 281
The inscription of "public" and "civic" realms in the contemporary city	p. 291
Globalism and local identity
Zone	p. 297
Dis-assembling the urban: The variable interactions of spatial form and content	p. 303
Tropical Lewis Mumford: The first critical regionalist urban planner	p. 313
The luxury of languor	p. 324
Technology
Technoscience and environmental culture: A provisional critique	p. 333
Technology, place, and the nonmodern thesis	p. 345
Immanent domain: Pervasive computing and the public realm	p. 360
City of dreams: Virtual space/public space	p. 372
Index	p. 383
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.