City Building

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Architecture

ISBN: 9781568988818
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 304 pages
19,1 x 25,4 cm
colour/black & white
May 2010
€30,00 (excl. VAT)

City Building

Nine Planning Principles for the Twenty-First Century

John Lund Kriken, Philip Enquist, Richard Rapaport

City Building is organized into three parts. Part 1 examines the past and defines the current practice of city building, addressing its shortcomings and proposing a comprehensive framework for rethinking the approach to cities in the future. Part 2 translates this framework into nine best-practice principles: sustainability, accessibility, diversity, open space, compatibility, incentives, adaptability, density and identity. These principles are illustrated in a global portfolio of city building projects, designed by SOM, that show how best practices have been applied successfully – and sometimes not so. Part 3 makes the case that cities, properly organized, can be a mechanism for sensible, sustainable uses of increasingly scarce resources. The book concludes with a call for a national planning process and a comprehensive framework for settlement.