ISBN:
9781000366556
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (485 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
307.1/16
Keywords:
City planning-Environmental aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design explores contemporary research, policy, and practice that highlight critical aspects of strategy-making, planning, and designing for contemporary regions--including city-regions, bioregions, delta regions, and their hybrids.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsement -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Intellectual Underpinnings and Practices -- Introduction: The Resurgence of Regional Design -- Why Now -- History and Evolution of Regional Design -- Current Concepts and Practices in Regional Design -- The Design of Regional Governance -- Conclusion -- Outline of the Book -- Notes -- References -- 1 The Emergence of Regional Design: Recovering a Great Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Tradition -- The Sources of Regional Design -- Regional Design in Outline -- What is a Region? -- Types of Regions -- A Region is a Network of Components -- Metropolitan Regions -- Corridor Regions -- Rural Regions -- Hybrid Regions -- Communities of Place -- The Hierarchy of Communities of Place -- Cities -- Regional or Corridor Centers -- Towns -- Villages -- Hamlets -- Linkages -- Linkage Density and Capacity -- Combining Linkages -- Growth-leading Linkages -- Environs -- Metropolitan Environs -- Corridor Environs -- Rural Environs -- The State of the Art -- Implications of the Regional Design Imperative -- Note -- References -- 2 European History and Traditions: Revisiting the European Spatial Development Perspective -- Introduction -- EU-level Regional Design -- The ESDP: No Masterplan -- Territorial Cohesion: Waning Ambitions -- Conclusions: A Design Cloud -- Notes -- References -- 3 The Ecological Underpinnings of Regional Design -- Prelude: Regional Design Before Ecology -- Origins: Designing with Nature -- Advances: New Ecological Regionalism at the Turn of the Century -- Promise and Prospect: Ecology, Regionalism, and Design in the Anthropocene -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 Contemporary Theory for Regional Design -- Introduction.
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