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Contemporary Urban Design Thinking

The Australian Approach

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  • Provides insights from leading thinkers in urban design, city development and landscape urbanism
  • Offers a state-of-the-art view on cities and their role in society
  • Reflects current theoretical thinking in urbanism

Part of the book series: Contemporary Urban Design Thinking (CUDT)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Australian Urbanism; State of the Art

    • Rob Roggema
    Pages 1-10
  3. How to Design Sydney’s Third City?

    • Roderick Simpson, Rob Roggema
    Pages 39-70
  4. Urban Design in the Fragmented City

    • Peter Bishop
    Pages 71-93
  5. Redirecting the City?

    • Gerard Reinmuth
    Pages 95-117
  6. City Resilience and the Sydney Architect

    • Hugh Gardner, Georgia Vitale
    Pages 133-147
  7. A Green Grid for Sydney’s Growth

    • Barbara Schaffer
    Pages 149-168
  8. Supporting the Great Urban Energy Transition

    • Andy van den Dobbelsteen
    Pages 169-196
  9. Australian Urbanism: Way Forward

    • Rob Roggema
    Pages 213-221
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 223-228

About this book

This book is oriented on cities and their role in society, from the public places created in cities to the visionary and more abstract views on large scale developments. The chapter authors argue, each in their own way, how urban design can produce an answer to these questions.   Furthermore, detailed insights are given into how current designers, architects, urbanists and landscape architects deal with the contemporary urban problems of our time: climate change, migration, resiliency, politics, environmental change

This book includes chapters from leading thinkers in urban design, city development and landscape urbanism fields. The authors have included the most recent insights in urbanism ensuring that this book provides a state-of-the -art text which is both actual and timely.



 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Design Architecture Building, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, Australia

    Rob Roggema

About the editor

Prof. dr. ir. Rob Roggema is currently Professor of Sustainable Urban Environments. He is a Landscape Architect and an internationally renowned design-expert on sustainable urbanism, climate adaptation, energy landscapes and urban agriculture. He has previously held positions at universities in the Netherlands and Australia, State and Municipal governments and design consultancies. Rob developed the Swarm Planning concept, a dynamic way of planning the city for future adaptation to climate change impacts.
Rob is the leader of the Urban Research Network and focuses in his research on resilient and smart urbanism. He is also leading the Sydney Urban_Institute in Sydney, which will research and implement intelligent solutions for current and future urban problems.
Rob has designed and led over 30 design charrettes around the world, involving communities, academics, governments and industries in design processes for more resilient communities. He has written threebooks on climate adaptation and design, four on Urban Agriculture, and one each about design charrettes, Rio’s FoodRoofs and Design for Recovery in Japan.

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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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Hardcover Book USD 179.99
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