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Future Cities For the first time in human history, more than 50% of the world's population lives in urban regions. Cities are the largest, most complex, and most dynamic man-made systems. They are vibrant centers of cultural life and engines that drive the global economy. Contemporary cities are environmentally, socially, and economically unsustainable. The quality of urban life is threatened by such factors as pollution, rising temperatures, limited resources, congestion, social inequalities, aging of large sectors of the world population, poverty, informality, crime, and economic imbalances. The overall planning of future cities is a challenge that can only be faced by interdisciplinary te...
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Partial contents: Evolvement of Design Attitudes, Instruments & Networks in Design-Driven Studies. Identity in the Digital Age. Subject-Oriented Design. CAAD Meets ICT. Autonomous Mechanisms in Architectural Design. Development of an Urban Database. Global & Local Impacts. Form Follows Media. Cultural Analogy in Design. Peer-to-Peer Computing. Networked Design Coalitions. Software Coping with Contextual Issues. Mediated Discourse. Digital representations in Architecture. Computer-Aided Acting with Regional Heritage. The Magic Place.
This book presents an extensive typology of possible approaches to working with the site. With more than three hundred landscape designs from every time and place, it systematically presents the methods that underpin the processes involved in composing landscapes.