Shaping Cities in an Urban Age - Philipp Rode

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Résumé :
By 2050, 2.5 billion more people will be living in cities, with nearly 90 per cent of this growth taking place in Asia and Africa. China alone will be home to nearly 1 billion urban residents by 2030, and India is not far behind. However, nearly 80 per cent of the urban infrastructure that will exist in 2050 has yet to be built . the decisions we make about it in the next decades will affect humankind for generations to come. The Urban Age project has investigated these changes for more than a decade, with two highly influential books, The Endless City (2007) and Living in the Endless City (2011), published as a result. Completing the Urban Age series, this richly illustrated volume brings together authoritative research and fresh insights that explain the complexities of urbanization. With 37 essays by leading policy makers, practitioners and scholars, this volume offers new perspectives on the dynamics of urban change. It tracks how cities such as Addis Ababa, London and Delhi have transformed since 1990 and compares patterns of growth, inequality and energy consumption of other global locations, including New York, Hong Kong and Rio de Janeiro. Shaping Cities in an Urban Age does more than put cities on the map. It identifies current trends that are making them more fragmented, less equitable and environmentally more damaging, and argues powerfully for a more integrated social, environmental and spatial approach that can inform and inspire the city makers who are shaping an increasingly urban world.

Biographie:
Ricky Burdett is professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics (LSE), and director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age project. He is a member of the Mayor of London's Cultural Leadership Board, was chief adviser on Architecture and Urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics, and architectural adviser to the Mayor of London from 2001 to 2006. Burdett was director of the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2006. With Deyan Sudjic he is co-editor of The Endless City (2007) and Living in the Endless City (2011), the two preceding volumes to Shaping Cities in an Urban Age, all published by Phaidon. Philipp Rode is executive director of LSE Cities and associate professorial research fellow at the London School of Economics, where he also runs the Urban Age project with Ricky Burdett. As researcher and consultant he has been directing interdisciplinary projects comprising urban governance, transport, city planning and urban design since 2003. The focus of his current work is on the institutional capacities of cities, and has included co-leading the Habitat III Policy Unit on `Urban Governance, Capacity and Institutional Development. He is author of Governing Compact Cities : How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport (2018).

Sommaire:
Ricky Burdett is professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics (LSE), and director of LSE Cities. He curated the International Architecture Exhibition at the 2006 Venice Biennale, was architectural adviser to the mayor of London from 2001-06, and was chief adviser on architecture and urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics.Philipp Rode is executive director of LSE Cities and an associate professorial research fellow at LSE....