Cities design and evolution
By: Stephen Marshall.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780415423298
Subjects: City planning; Cities and towns
Description: "Cities, Design & Evolution offers and engaging and original narrative that interprets planning philosophies from Modernism to New Urbanism, organic theories from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier, and evolutionary thinking from Charles Darwin to Richard Dawkins. The book develops a new evolutionary perspective that recognises both the 'designed' and 'organic nature of cities, and provides a rational and impetus for fresh approaches to urban planning and design."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Planning at the crossroads; title: Understanding urbanism; title: Learning from science and nature; title: This book; title: Cities, planning and modernism; title: City planning; title: Modernist city planning; title: Post-modern urbanism; title: Conclusions; title: Articulating urban order; title: Urban units; title: Urban syntax; title: The nature of urban order; title: Conclusions; title: The social logic of urban order; title: Buildings; title: Cities; title: The streets; title: Conclusions; title: The kind of thing a city is; title: Metaphors and models; title: Emerging perspectives; title: The city as ecosystem; title: Conclusions; title: Emergence and evolution; title: Emergence; title: Evolution; title: Conclusions; title: Emergent urban order; title: Urban emergence; title: Street patterns; title: City forms; title: Conclusions; title: Cities in evolution; title: The evolution of cities; title: Modernism in evolution; title: 21st century evolving urbanism; title: Planning, design and evolution; title: Creation, development or evolution; title: Space, time and civics; title: An evolutionist approach; title: Conclusions; title: Understanding cities and urbanism; title: Implications for practice and research; title: Reflections on evolution; title: Beyond cities, design and evolution.