This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong's urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism.
The authors describe how the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong came about; how the forest of towers are in fact vertical culs de sac; and how the city might become truly 'volumetric' with mixed activities through multiple levels and 3D movement networks incorporating 'town cubes' rather than town squares.
For more information, visit the authors' website: http:...
This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong's urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social an...
To the first-time Western visitor the Japanese city often appears chaotic and baffling -- even intimidating. In this new edition, Barrie Shelton develops his earlier interpretation of why Japanese cities look the way they do, contrasting Japanese and Western ways of thinking about space. Placing less emphasis on the correlation, or 'meeting', between Japanese urban form and recent Western-generated urban design theory, he looks more on Japanese urban design models as worthy of 'translation'. New illustrations and updated text add much to this highly readable book, while a major case study of...
To the first-time Western visitor the Japanese city often appears chaotic and baffling -- even intimidating. In this new edition, Barrie Shelton devel...
This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism.
The authors describe how the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong came about; how the forest of towers are in fact vertical culs de sac; and how the city might become truly volumetric with mixed activities through multiple levels and 3D movement networks incorporating town cubes rather than town squares.
For more information, visit the authors' website: http:...
This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social an...
