Fast Forward: City Planning in a Hyper Dynamic Age
This edition of the ISOCARP Review is about the extremes of development and the planning response to them. Fast Forward addresses the realities of those extremes and the ways in which different countries and individual cities have sought to cope with them. It features a chapter, Milton Keynes, UK: an exemplary new city outpacing its peers, by John Best and David Hackforth.(ISOCARP Review 08)
International Society of City and Regional Planners, 2012.
pbk 322 pp, illus.
ISBN 978 94 90354 16 9
International shipping: please contact us before ordering.
This edition of the ISOCARP Review is about the extremes of development and the planning response to them. Fast Forward addresses the realities of those extremes and the ways in which different countries and individual cities have sought to cope with them. It features a chapter, Milton Keynes, UK: an exemplary new city outpacing its peers, by John Best and David Hackforth.(ISOCARP Review 08)
International Society of City and Regional Planners, 2012.
pbk 322 pp, illus.
ISBN 978 94 90354 16 9
International shipping: please contact us before ordering.
This edition of the ISOCARP Review is about the extremes of development and the planning response to them. Fast Forward addresses the realities of those extremes and the ways in which different countries and individual cities have sought to cope with them. It features a chapter, Milton Keynes, UK: an exemplary new city outpacing its peers, by John Best and David Hackforth.(ISOCARP Review 08)
International Society of City and Regional Planners, 2012.
pbk 322 pp, illus.
ISBN 978 94 90354 16 9
International shipping: please contact us before ordering.
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Contents
Foreword One Ismael Fernández Mejía
Foreword Two Andrei Golovin
Editorial Shi Nan and Chris Gossop
Introductory Essay. Rapid Urban Change Demands a Theory, Tools and a 'Fast Forward' Planning - An Essay Stefan Rau
Part One. Asia: A Continent of Fast Forward Economies
Hyper and Dynamic Growth in the ASEAN Region and the Emerging Strategy for Bintan Eco-Island (Indonesia) Alfonso Vegara, Mark Dwyer & Maki Kawaguchi
Urbanization and Human Settlements Development in China Mao Qizhi
Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta Region: Planning in a Hyper-Dynamic Context Jimmy C.F. Leung
The New Macau: Challenge and Opportunity in the Wave of Hyper Development Pui Si Natalie Hon
Rapid Urbanization in India: Fissures in Fast Growth Kavas Kapadia
Spatial Trends of Metro Manila during a Period of Rapid Change Arturo G. Corpuz
Part Two. Planning for the Unpredictable
Disaster is the New Norm Edward J. Blakely
Part Three. Europe: Different Experience
High Speed Suburban Decline. The Case of Cities in Eastern Germany Johann Jessen
Urban Transformation, Change, Opportunities. The Case of Nuremberg West, Germany Nadia Alaily-Mattar, Alain Thierstein & Agnes Förster
Eindhoven, 'City as a Lab' - 'Brain-field' for a New Generation Cees Donkers
Milton Keynes, UK: An Exemplary New City Outpacing its Peers John Best & David Hackforth
Towards Sustainability in European Cities - Contrasts between the Overall Effects of European Union Policies and Achievements at the Level of Individual Cities Pierre Laconte
Part Four. Russia: A Country in Transition
Urban Development and Town Planning Policy in Modern Russia Nadezhda Kosareva & Alexander Puzanov
Searching for the Russian Dream: Compression or Expansion of Russia's Living Space? Fedor Kudryavtsev
Moscow Agglomeration Development. The 2012 International Urban Competition Alexander Kolontay