One in every ten people lived in urban areas a century ago. Now, for the first time ever, most people live in cities. By 2050, the United Nations projects, almost three-quarters of the world’s population will call urban areas home. The majority of this growth is centered in struggling, developing countries of the Global South, [...]
Jerilou Hammett and Kingsley Hammett, the editors of “The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World’s Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007), will be taking questions. You may have to read the book first though. It seems to be an interesting read and right up my research alley too. Update: The [...]
I am a self-professed critic of sprawl development which unfortunately isn’t saying much because any urban planner especially in this new age of planning is exactly that. Yet we see sprawling sub-divisions crop up everywhere around us and chances are that we will end up living in one of these cookie-cutter homes that we so [...]
Just when we thought that the nature of our urban spaces has been altered by the changing forms of economy and technology, the manufacturing-based cities make a comeback. In the previous half-century, we moved from a manufacturing-based economy to services-based economy thus altering the form of our cities from being centralized to being disperse. No [...]
The ever-excellent BLDGBLOG will soon be in print format. Geoff Manaugh says the book will be divided up into three major sections – Architectural Conjecture, Urban Speculation, and Landscape Futures covering diverse topics like “plate tectonics and J.G. Ballard to geomagnetic harddrives and undiscovered Manhattan bedrooms, via offshore oil derricks, airborne utopias, wind power, fossil [...]
Holiday season is almost upon us and it is time to get cozy with the books. Here are the top 10 Planning books for this year (click on image to buy) as ranked by Planetizen: Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America By Alan Berger Princeton Architectural Press, 256 pagesBuy this book Green Cities: Urban Growth [...]
I must remember to get this book – Principles of Urban Structures – once I return from India. Blurb from the back cover: “This book explains how cities actually work. It will serve as a guide and inspiration for planners to re-humanize our cities using the latest technologies and recent understanding from science and mathematics.” [...]
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