Eco-Urbanity : Towards Well-Mannered Built Environments (Paperback)

Introduction: Towards a Theory of eco-urbanity Darko Radovic Part 1: The compact city, strategies and success stories 1.eco-urbanity: the Framework of an Idea Darko Radovic 2.The Barcelona Agenda: Reuse, Compactness and Green Oriol Clos3.From Industrial Cities to eco-urbanity ? the Melbourne Case Study Rob Adams 4.The Sustainable City as a Fine-grained CityDavid Sim 5. From the Compact City to the Defragmented City: Another Route towards Sustainable Urban Form? Mike Jenks Part 2:Other cultures, approaches and strategies 6.Designing for Shrinkage: Fibercity 2050, Tokyo Ohno Hidetoshi 7.Excavating the Lost Commons: Creating Green Spaces and Water Corridors for eco-urban Infrastructure Ishikawa Mikiko 8.Continuity and Departure: A Case Study of Singapore’s Nankin Street Heng Chye Kiang 9. The Cultural Challenge for Sustainable Cities: Coping with Sprawl in Bangkok and Melbourne Sidh Sintusingha 10. Geometries of Life and Formlessness: The TheoreticalLegacies of Historical Beijing Zhu Jianfei 11.Eco-city? eco-urbanity? Arvind Krishan Part 3: Other scales and sensibilities 12.eco-urbanism: An Israeli PerspectiveArie Rahamimoff 13.Bringing Back Nature and Re-invigorating the City Centre Kengo Kuma 14.Sustainable Design towards a Positive SpiralKodama Yuichiro 15.Creating a Cemetery: Architecture that Sustains Cultural Forms Naito Hiroshi 16.Towards Well-Mannered Built Environments Darko Radovic