Tigran Haas

Daniel Nilsson

Krister Olsson

Städer präglas idag av starka krafter som globalisering, klimatförändringar, segregation och regionalisering. Över hela världen diskuteras hur dessa utmaningar ska mötas och lösningar formuleras i olika stadsbyggnadsideal – urbanismer. Dominerande i sådana diskussioner är ny-urbanism, post-urbanism, vardagsurbanism, grön urbanism och re-urbanism. I Urbanismer diskuterar etablerade svenska och internationella forskare, planerare och arkitekter vad som kännetecknar – eller bör känneteckna – dagens stadsbyggande. Hur ser önskvärda stadsmiljöer ut och hur bör beslutsfattande i stadsbyggandet organiseras? Vad innebär en hållbar utformning av framtidens städer? Genom att belysa drivkrafter och faktorer som påverkar stadsutvecklingen vill författarna peka på hur och varför staden utvecklas i en viss riktning. De ger också en överblick över trenderna och deras påverkan på svenskt stadsbyggande. Urbanismer vänder sig till alla som arbetar med stadsplanering och stadsutformning, politiskt eller professionellt. Även studerande vid universitet och högskolor och den intresserade allmänheten, stadsborna själva, har stor behållning av boken.

Dagens stadsbyggande i retorik och praktik

Urbanismer

The city in the twenty-first century faces major challenges, including social and economic stratification, wasteful consumption of resources, transportation congestion, and environmental degradation. More than half of the world’s population lives in cities and major metropolitan areas, and in the next two decades the number of city dwellers is estimated to reach five billion. This puts enormous pressures on transportation systems, housing stock, and infrastructure such as energy, waste, and water, which directly influences the emissions of greenhouse gases. As the long emergency awaits us, urgent questions remain: How will our cities survive? How can we combat and reconcile urban growth with sustainable use of resources for future generations to thrive? Where and how urbanism comes into the picture and what “sustainable” urban forms can do in light of these events are some of the issues Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond explores. With more than sixty essays, including contributions by Andrés Duany, Saskia Sassen, Peter Newman, Douglas Farr, Henry Cisneros, Peter Hall, Sharon Zukin, Peter Eisenman, and others, this book is a unique perspective on architecture, urban planning, environmental and urban design, exploring ways for raising quality of life and the standard of living in a new modern era by creating better and more viable places to live.

Rethinking Cities for the Future

Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond

Hans Westlund

Winner of the Regional Studies Association's Best Book Award 2018. In the last few decades, many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and spatial structural change. Today, we find ourselves at the juncture between entering a post-urban and a post-political world, both presenting new challenges to our metropolitan regions, municipalities, and cities. Many megacities, declining regions and towns are experiencing an increase in the number of complex problems regarding internal relationships, governance, and external connections. In particular, a growing disparity exists between citizens that are socially excluded within declining physical and economic realms and those situated in thriving geographic areas. This book conveys how forces of structural change shape the urban landscape. In The Post-Urban World is divided into three main sections: Spatial Transformations and the New Geography of Cities and Regions; Urbanization, Knowledge Economies, and Social Structuration; and New Cultures in a Post-Political and Post-Resilient World. One important subject covered in this book, in addition to the spatial and economic forces that shape our regions, cities, and neighbourhoods, is the social, cultural, ecological, and psychological aspects which are also critically involved. Additionally, the urban transformation occurring throughout cities is thoroughly discussed. Written by today’s leading experts in urban studies, this book discusses subjects from different theoretical standpoints, as well as various methodological approaches and perspectives; this is alongside the challenges and new solutions for cities and regions in an interconnected world of global economies. This book is aimed at both academic researchers interested in regional development, economic geography and urban studies, as well as practitioners and policy makers in urban development.

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