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New Urbanism and Beyond
Designing Cities for the Future
Edited by Tigran Haas
Pub Date: April 2008
Format: Hardcover
Category: Architecture
US Price: $50.00
CAN Price: $62.00
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3111-1 (0-8478-3111-6)
Publisher: Rizzoli
Trim Size: 8-1/2 x 11
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About this Book
Best defined as the art of shaping the built environment, urban design seeks to understand and analyze the variety of forces—social, economic, cultural, legal, ecological, and aesthetic—that affect how we live. The complex challenges facing cities today—scarcity of resources, growing economic divisions, and rampant sprawl, among others—are forcing a reconsideration of urban design. New Urbanism, a leading movement within urban design, advocates a return to small-town urban forms: human-scale, pedestrian-friendly streets, a reinvigoration of cities, and a stop to suburban sprawl. This new volume, drawing on a conference and debates at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, comprehensively examines New Urbanism today and speculates about it’s future. With contributions from Christopher Alexander, Leon Krier, Peter Hall, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck, William McDonough, Peter Calthorpe, Jan Gehl, Lars Lerup, Edward Soja, and Saskia Sassen, among others, New Urbanism and Beyond is both a comprehensive primer on urban design and a provocation for practitioners, historians, and citizens everywhere.
Praise
“If I wore a hat, I would enthusiastically tip it to Tigran Haas of the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Haas has assembled one of the most stimulating books yet published about New Urbanism.” ~New Urban News
About the Author
Tigran Haas is the Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
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