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Vertical Urbanism: Designing Compact Cities in China book cover

1st Edition

Vertical Urbanism Designing Compact Cities in China

Edited By Zhongjie Lin, José L. S. Gámez Copyright 2018
306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages 197 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 197 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Studies of compact cities have evolved along with the rising awareness of climate change and sustainable development. Relevant debates, however, reveal that the prevailing definitions and practices of compact cities are tied primarily to traditional Western urban forms. This book reinterprets "compact city", and develops a ground-breaking discourse of "Vertical Urbanism", a concept... Read more

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface 



Part I: Framing the Discourse of Vertical Urbanism 
1. Vertical Urbanism: Re-conceptualizing the Compact City 
2. When New Urbanism Gets Old: Cultural Difference in Global City Design 
3. Hong Kong’s Transit-Oriented Podium-Tower Development 
4. City without Landmark: The Soft City for the Ageing Society 
5. From Manhattan-ism to Bigness: Reconsidering an Alternative Urbanism of Rem Koolhaas



Part II: Urban Design and Transformation of Chinese Cities  
6. The City after the City  
7. Urban Regeneration and Public Space Making: Case Study of Urban Design for the North Bund in Shanghai 
8. Urbanism in a Skyscraper: A Study of Vertical Malls in Hong Kong 
9. Deterritorialization and the Collective Memories of Contemporary Shanghai  
10. Restoring Hydrophilic Cities: Strategies of Urban Waterfront Space Classification and Design in Suzhou 
11. Vertical Development and Urban Design: The Jiefangbei Experience



Part III: Compact City and Eco-city 
12. Performance-based Model for Vertical Urbanism 
13. Compact Development in Hong Kong  
14. Spatial Metrics of Urban Form: Measuring Compact Cities in China 
15. Eco-city Planning in China: A Review of Policies and Cases 2009–2015 
16. Living off the Ground: Cautionary Tales from a Small Island  



Part IV Expanding Pedagogical Territory  
17. Experiencing the Compact City: A Pedagogy of Global Engagement 
18. Suzhou Industrial Park High-speed Rail Station Business District 
19. Redevelopment of Xiangmen Area in the Historic Center of Suzhou 
20. Wuyuan Bay Waterfront Redevelopment in Xiamen 



Index

Biography



Zhongjie Lin is Director of the Master of Urban Design Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and cofounder of Futurepolis, a cross-disciplinary design practice. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, he studies modern architectural avant-garde movements, theory and practice of urban design, and contemporary architecture and urbanism in East Asia, and has published extensively in these areas.



José L.S. Gámez is an Associate Professor of Architecture and the Associate Director of the School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research explores the role of community-engaged scholarship in public interest design, the roles of culture and identity in architecture and urbanism, and critical art and design practices.

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