Eco-urbanity: Towards the well-mannered built environment Book

Notes on contributors vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: towards a theory of eco-urbanity Darko Radović 1

Part I The compact city, strategies and success stories 7

1 Eco-urbanity: the framework of an idea Darko Radović 9

2 The Barcelona Agenda: reuse, compactness and green Oriol Clos 19

3 From industrial cities to eco-urbanity: the Melbourne case study Rob Adams 33

4 The sustainable city as a fine-grained city David Sim 47

5 From the compact city to the defragmented city: another route towards a sustainable urban form? Mike Jenks 63

Part II Other cultures, approaches and strategies 75

6 Designing for shrinkage: Fibercity 2050, Tokyo Ohno Hidetoshi 79

7 Excavating the lost commons: creating green spaces and water corridors for eco-urban infrastructure Ishikawa Mikiko 92

8 Continuity and departure: a case study of Singapore's Nankin Street Heng Chye Kiang 103

9 The cultural challenge for sustainable cities: coping with sprawl in Bangkok and Melbourne Sidh Sintusingha 112

10 Geometries of life and formlessness: the theoretical legacies of historical Beijing Jianfei Zhu 125

11 Eco-city? eco-urbanity? Arvind Krishan 141

Part III Other scales and sensibilities 161

12 Eco-urbanism: an Israeli perspective Arie Rahamimoff 163

13 Bringing back nature and re-invigorating the city centre Kengo Kuma 176

14 Sustainable design towards a positive spiral Kodama Yuichiro 178

15 Creating a cemetery: architecture that sustains cultural forms Naito Hiroshi 182

16 eco-urbanity hypothesis: towards well-mannered built environments Darko Radović 187

Index 192