ABSTRACT
The New Companion to Urban Design continues the assemblage of rich and critical ideas about urban form and design that began with the Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011). With chapters from a new set of contributors, this sequel offers a more comparative perspective representing multiple voices and perspectives from the Global South.
The essays in this volume are organized in three parts: Part I: Comparative Urbanism; Part II: Challenges; and Part III: Opportunities. Each part contains distinct sections designed to address specific themes, and includes a list of annotated suggested further readings at the end of each chapter. Part I: Comparative Urbanism examines different variants of urbanism in the Global North and the Global South, produced by a new economic order characterized by the mobility of labor, capital, information, and technology. Part II: Challenges discusses some of the contemporary challenges that cities of the Global North and the Global South are facing and the possible role of urban design. This part discusses spatial claims and conflicts, challenges generated by urban informality, explosive growth or dramatic shrinkage of the urban settlement, gentrification and displacement, and mimesis, simulacra and lack of authenticity. Part III: Aspirations discusses some normative goals that urban design interventions aspire to bring about in cities of the Global North and the Global South. These include resilience and sustainability, health, conservation/restoration, justice, intelligence, access and mobility, and arts and culture.
The New Companion to Urban Design is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students interested in cities and their built environment. It offers an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across a range of disciplines including urban design, planning, urban studies, and geography.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|86 pages
Comparative urbanism
part I.I|29 pages
Arguments and observations
part I.II|54 pages
Regional experiences
chapter 3|12 pages
Globalization, Resiliency, and Change
part II|273 pages
Challenges
part II.I|38 pages
Claims and conflicts
chapter 7|11 pages
Immigrants, Mosques, and Religious Pluralism
part II.II|66 pages
Informality
chapter 14|12 pages
The Everyday Exceptionalism of Temporary Settlements
part II.III|64 pages
Explosive growth versus shrinkage
chapter 17|13 pages
Shrinking Cities, Shrinking World
chapter 18|11 pages
From Abandonment to Urban Qualities?
part II.IV|29 pages
Large-scale development
part II.V|30 pages
Gentrification and displacement
chapter 23|15 pages
Unsmart Outcomes of the Smart City Initiatives
part II.VI|43 pages
Mimesis and simulacra
chapter 25|8 pages
Glocalizing Themed Spaces
part III|306 pages
Aspirations
part III.I|52 pages
Resilience and sustainability
chapter 29|12 pages
Reducing Vulnerabilities through Urban Design
part III.II|41 pages
Health
part III.III|42 pages
Conservation/restoration
part III.IV|26 pages
Justice
part III.V|49 pages
Intelligence
chapter 43|11 pages
Intelligence for Place-Making and Social Inclusion
part III.VI|52 pages
Mobility and access
chapter 46|12 pages
Modernism, Pedestrians, and Public Space
part III.VII|40 pages
Arts and culture