Urban Design, Planning and Housing

A journey around the world of sustainable urban design.

How our future cities challenge sustainability and how to tackle this issue and improve the quality of urban life. Cutting-edge research and new approaches from the field of New Urban Science

Covers the intensive development of small towns in China and Korea. This title examines the impact of the economic crisis on small towns and the development of the Slow City movement.

Examines various key topics of urban commons theoretically and empirically through a wide spectrum of international case studies providing perspectives from a variety of cities as diverse as Berlin, Hyderabad and Seoul.

Combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that urban intensity determines the success of housing. This book provides a typology of housing according to the ways in which diversity and density are created.

The two authors of the MIT based Senseable City Lab show how Big Data change reality and, hence, the way we deal with the city. They demonstrate how the Lab interprets digital data as material that can be used for the formulation of a different urban future. This book looks at the negative aspects of the city-related data acquisition and control.

Presenting the results of a major research project supported by the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, encompassing a wide range of artistic and scientific approaches and design options for the future of public space.