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Cities for the New Millennium
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Product Description
This book looks at architecture today as a force for regenerating the culture of cities and the possibilities offered by technical progress for improving cities in the light of increasing concern for a sustainable human environment.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1722073 in Books
- Published on: 2001-08-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 200 pages
Editorial Reviews
Regeneration and Renewal
'This is an interesting collection of papers and is recommended reading for anyone involved in the planning, construction or regeneration of urban areas.'
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'The strength of the book is in the quality and diversity of its contributors... The papers present concise and thought-provoking arguments about the multiplicity of problems, conflicts and solutions in modern urban planning from a range of informed viewpoint.' - Environment and Planning A
'This is an interesting collection of papers and is recommended reading for anyone involved in the planning, construction or regeneration of urban areas.' - Regeneration and Renewal
From the Back Cover
The nature of cities and settlements represents one of the great international challenges of our time. How are we to make the buildings of the future and the communities they must house? Where should we site them: in compact cities or ramifying suburbs, on "brown" or "green" land? Can we arrest urban decline, or should we adjust to it? These are subjects of intense political and public moment. They are also complex questions, bound up with issues of sustainability, infrastructure and movement. They demand interdisciplinary solutions.
Cities for the New Millennium is the outcome of a joint conference held in Salford in July 2000 by the Royal Institute of British Architects and the University of Cambridge's Department of Architecture. It tackles these questions in the light of the Urban Task Force's report about the future of Britain's cities and communities, but sets them in an international and historical context. Professionals architects, engineers and developers as well as academics from differ
