Rapid Urban Development and the Future of Urbanism (interview with MIT's Dean Adéle Naudé Santos) | Interview. Feb 07 This video shows an interview with Adéle Naudé Santos, FAIA, who is an architect and urban designer. Her career combines a professional practice, research, and teaching. She is currently Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as a principal architect in the San Francisco-based firm, Santos Prescott and Associates.
In the interview, Santos discusses her concerns for rapid urban development and the future of urbanism. TweetShare on Tumblr Sontos explains that she is keenly concerned about few processes which have place on our planet in recent decades. Photo from web.mit.edu Santos convinces that combination of these few processes creates a new ecological agenda. Similar Posts: AFRICA: Challenging the urbanization myths | Zambia | Zimbabwe | Economy | Urban Risk.
While the massive sprawl of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, would point to rapid urbanization, its extent is often exaggerated (file photo) LONDON, 6 March 2012 (IRIN) - Africa's cities are growing at a frightening rate, as people flood from the countryside to the towns... It is a commonly held view, but a London-based academic, Deborah Potts, has been challenging this received wisdom, asserting that it is based on flawed data, and the rate of urbanization is much lower than people assume. Potts, a reader in human geography at King's College London, says she first began to have doubts in the mid-1980s, when she was working in Zimbabwe. "We interviewed 1,000 migrants," she told IRIN, "and the majority said they would stay in town for a time, but they would leave at some point in the future because they wouldn't be able to afford to stay.
There's no security net in town. If they got sick, got old, lost their job, they would have to go back to the rural areas. " Vital statistics eb/mw. London in figures - an interactive guide: The knowledge. Untryside planning revolution: 'new city' proposed for Midlands. Most of the growth is predicted to take place outside major cities and will see England’s population rise by 4.4 million — the equivalent of more than half the population of London. London itself would have a “second Docklands” development in the west of the city, said Prof McNaughton. Last week David Cameron said he wanted to see a series of new “garden cities”, together with increased airport capacity. He warned: “We urgently need to find places where we’re prepared to allow significant new growth to happen.”
A senior Downing Street source said last night that while the new planning framework will give “assurances” to people concerned about the future of the countryside, it was “wrong to talk of any concessions”. The plan has faced a wave of protest from organisations including the National Trust and the Campaign to Protect Rural England, but the source said: “This remains an unashamedly pro-growth document. It is still the most radical business deregulation there has ever been.” The Next Big Question Facing Cities: Will Millennials Stay? - Jobs & Economy. Do neighborhoods work like habitat for different kinds of households? City populations have rebounded in the past two decades as people who like city habitats have grown in numbers and in their share of the population. Mostly these are the Millennials - adults roughly 20 to 34-years-old, also known as Generation Y or the Echo Boom - who have delayed childbearing, marriage, and even household formation because of a combination of changing culture and economic necessity.
Urban living makes sense for these young people: compared with suburbs, cities often provide young adults more opportunities to switch jobs, meet friends and potential spouses, enjoy entertainment outside their homes, live without a car, and travel to other parts of the country and world. One of the most interesting questions for cities in the next 10 to 20 years is how many Millennials will stay there. In 1970, half of all women had married before their 21st birthdays, and half of men before they turned 24.
Changing Suburban Demographics Collide With Outdated Zoning Laws.