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City Form, Economics and Culture

For the Architecture of Public Space
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
81 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am31.05.20201st ed. 2020
This is a book about how cities occupy space. Critically, we point out that a desirably denser city must rely on public transport, and we also study how a less-dense city can be made to work with public transport.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextThis is a book about how cities occupy space. Critically, we point out that a desirably denser city must rely on public transport, and we also study how a less-dense city can be made to work with public transport.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-981-15-5739-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2020
Erscheinungsdatum31.05.2020
Auflage1st ed. 2020
ReiheSpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
Seiten81 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht154 g
IllustrationenVI, 81 p. 21 illus., 12 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.16206778

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction.- Why cities exist?- Cities are more important than ever.- Public goods, externalities and the city.- Governing for the public good: the problem of city governance and planning.- Growth and shape of the pre-industrial city.- The raise of the rail-based mechanical city.- Motorisation and the city: America leads the world.- The Japanese experience: the raise of the minimal car use megalopolis.- Following America, not Japan: car dependent emerging megacities.- Motorisation and de-motorisation in Europe.- Conclusions.mehr

Autor

Associate Professor Pablo Guillen works at the School of Economics of the University of Sydney in Australia. He holds a PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Business School. His research deals with experimental and behavioural economics, focusing on market design and bounded rationality. He is co-author of the book "La caja de memoria de Bogdan Bogdanovic" (with Ursa Komac).
Ursa Komac is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and Technology and the Director of Academic Programs in Architecture at the Western Sydney University. Her research deals with architecture and the city, with a focus on public space and heritage. She holds a PhD from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. She published a book on Bogdan Bogdanovic (joint with Pablo Guillen). Recently she was a Visiting Research Fellow at Tokyo University of the Arts.