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New Towns for the Twenty-First Century : A Guide to Planned Communities Worldwide /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Peiser, Richard B. (Editor), Forsyth, Ann, 1963- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Series:City in the twenty-first century book series.
Subjects:
Planned communities.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • New Towns for the Twenty-First Century
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Part I Overview of New Towns in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
  • Introduction
  • 1 A Brief History of New Towns
  • 2 The Promises and Pitfalls of New Towns
  • 3 Quality of Life in New Towns: What Do We Know, and What Do We Need to Know?
  • Part II New Towns Around the World
  • United States
  • 4 New Towns in the United States
  • 5 Development Lessons from Today's Most Successful New Towns and Master-Planned Communities
  • 6 New Towns as Laboratories for Local Governance
  • Asia
  • 7 New Towns in East and Southeast Asia
  • 8 A Governance Perspective on New Towns in China
  • 9 New Towns in China: The Liangzhu Story
  • 10 Successes and Failures of New Towns in Hong Kong
  • 11 Right Place, Right Time: The Rise of Bundang
  • 12 New Towns in India
  • Elsewhere
  • 13 European New Towns: The End of a Model? From Pilot to Sustainable Territories
  • 14 Governing an Adolescent Society: The Case of Almere
  • 15 Ex Novo Towns in South America: A Genealogy
  • 16 New Towns in Africa
  • Part III Lessons on How to Build New Towns
  • 17 Why Is It So Difficult to Develop Financially Successful New Towns?
  • 18 Organizing and Managing New Towns
  • 19 Reflections from International Practice
  • Paul Buckhurst (Perkins Eastman Architects, New York)
  • Tony Green (The Pinehills)
  • Todd Mansfield (Crescent Communities)
  • Pike Oliver
  • Jamie von Klemperer, Gene Kohn, and Elie Gamburg (Kohn Pedersen Fox)
  • Part IV New Town Futures
  • 20 The Twenty-First-Century New Town: Site Planning and Design
  • 21 Environmental Concerns and New Towns: Four Paths
  • 22 Regional New Town Development: Strategic Adaptation to Climate Change
  • 23 New Towns in a New Era
  • Appendix 1 Location Maps for New Towns and Planned Communities
  • Appendix 2 New Towns Inventory
  • References
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.