Massive Small: The Operating Programme for Smart Urbanism - Softcover

Campbell, Kelvin

 
9780956860002: Massive Small: The Operating Programme for Smart Urbanism

Synopsis

So…. top-down, command-and-control doesn’t work for us any more, does it? Those in power tell us that bottom-up localism is the better way of addressing the sustainable growth and change of our cities, towns and neighbourhoods. They may be right. Despite the boom of recent years, we haven’t delivered the quality of place we all wished for. This paper will show why we haven’t had much success. It will show how we can learn from self-organising systems that we can find in traditional cities, in nature and in the Web, to develop a new and evolving paradigm. It will also show how new thinking has been applied in recent initiatives. It will also show how our behaviours in urban planning, design and delivery will need to change to meet our new urban challenges.

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