1st Edition
Climax City Masterplanning and the Complexity of Urban Growth
288 Pages
by
RIBA Publishing
288 Pages
by
RIBA Publishing
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Book Award Finalist for Urban Design Group Awards 2020
Human settlements are the result of a mix of self-organisation and planning. Planners are fighting a losing battle to impose order on chaotic systems. Connections between the process of urban growth and the fields of complexity theory are of increasing importance to planners and urbanists alike; the idea that cities are emergent... Read more
Part 1: The Spontaneous City 1. Cities Without Plans 2. The Natural Town 3. The Spontaneous Slum Part 2: The Designed City 4. The Subtle Art of Master planning 5. In Search of Nowhere 6. Cities from Scratch 7. Room to Expand 8. Boulevards and Dictators Part 3: The Unruly City 9. The Astounding Sprawling City 10. The Incredible Shrinking City 11. The Terrifying Exploding City Part 4: The City and the Planner 12. The Imposition of Order 13. Blue Sky Modernists 15. With the Best of Intentions 16. Shaping the Climax City
Biography
David Rudlin is a planner and currently director of URBED, Chair of the Academy of Urbanism and Honorary Professor at Manchester University.
