Smart Design Disruption, Crisis, and the Reshaping of Urban Spaces Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design Series
Auteur : Hu Richard
This book tackles the emerging smart urbanism to advance a new way of urban thinking and to explore a new design approach. It unravels several urban transformations in dualities: economic relationality and centrality, technological flattening and polarisation, and spatial division and fusion. These dualities are interdependent; concurrent, coexisting, and contradictory, they are jointly disrupting and reshaping many aspects of contemporary cities and spaces.
The book draws on a suite of international studies, experiences, and observations, including case studies in Beijing, Singapore, and Boston, to reveal how these processes are impacting urban design, development, and policy approaches. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated many changes already in motion, and provides an extreme circumstance for reflecting on and imagining urban spaces. These analyses, thoughts, and visions inform an urban imaginary of smart design that incorporates change, flexibility, collaboration, and experimentation, which together forge a paradigm of urban thinking. This paradigm builds upon the modernist and postmodernist urban design traditions and extends them in new directions, responding to and anticipating a changing urban environment.
The book proposes a smart design manifesto to stimulate thought, trigger debate, and, hopefully, influence a new generation of urban thinkers and smart designers. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners in the fields of urban design, planning, architecture, urban development, and urban studies.
Richard Hu is an award-winning urban planner, and an educator and scholar. His work and interests integrate urban design, urban science, and urban policy to address contemporary urban transformations and challenges, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific area. He is the author of The Shenzhen Phenomenon (2020).
Date de parution : 05-2023
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 11-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de Smart Design :
Mots-clés :
Smart Urbanism; smart cities; Smart Work; urban planning; Smart Design; urban spaces; Smart Space; collaborative spaces; Beijing CBD; Urban Thinking; Sydney CBD; Smart City; Smart City Movement; Innovation Unevenness; Advanced Producer Services; Postmodernist Urban Design; Silicon Valleys; Smart Nation; Urban Design Manifesto; Global Urban System; Macquarie Park; City’s Gdp; City Deals; Smart Transformation; Urban Design; Innovation District; Global Health Crisis; District Hall; Greater Sydney