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Designing Sustainable Cities

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  • Sustainable city design
  • Application of innovative design
  • Planning for an uncertain future
  • Linking sustainability, fundamental change and practical application for urban design

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

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Designing the Sustainable City

    • Rob Roggema
    Pages 1-16
  3. Born, not Made. Designing the Productive City

    • Greg Keeffe, Rob Roggema
    Pages 29-52
  4. The Role of Smart City Initiatives in Driving Partnerships: A Case Study of the Smart Social Spaces Project, Sydney Australia

    • Homa Rahmat, Nancy Marshall, Christine Steinmetz, Miles Park, Christian Tietz, Kate Bishop et al.
    Pages 143-159
  5. Sustainability, ReciproCity, Radicality

    • Rob Roggema
    Pages 199-204
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 205-207

About this book

This book emphasizes new ways of designing for a sustainable city and urban environment. From several angles the future of our urbanism is illuminated. From a philosophical point of view, the city is seen as an organism, following complex ecosystemic principles, shining light on indigenous perspectives to become beneficial for sustainable design and core questions are asked whether current architectural practice is really sustainable. Simultaneously concrete practices are presented for cities in transformation, focusing on green infrastructure, smart city principles and health.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Cittaideale, Office for Adaptive Research by Design, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    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 three books on climate adaptation and design, four on Urban Agriculture, and one each about design charrettes, Rio’s FoodRoofs and Design for Recovery in Japan.

Bibliographic Information

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eBook USD 74.99
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Softcover Book USD 99.00
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  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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