The city in history: its origins ... Edge city. "Edge city" is an American term for a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown (or central business district) in what had previously been a residential or rural area.
The term was popularized in the 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier by Joel Garreau, who established its current meaning while working as a reporter for the Washington Post. Garreau argues that the edge city has become the standard form of urban growth worldwide, representing a 20th-century urban form unlike that of the 19th-century central downtown. EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature (9780865715523): Richard Register. Sustainable city. A sustainable city, or eco-city is a city designed with consideration of environmental impact, inhabited by people dedicated to minimization of required inputs of energy, water and food, and waste output of heat, air pollution - CO2, methane, and water pollution.
Richard Register first coined the term "ecocity" in his 1987 book, Ecocity Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthy Future.[1] Other leading figures who envisioned the sustainable city are architect Paul F Downton, who later founded the company Ecopolis Pty Ltd, and authors Timothy Beatley and Steffen Lehmann,[2] who have written extensively on the subject. The field of industrial ecology is sometimes used in planning these cities. There remains no completely agreed upon definition for what a sustainable city should be or completely agreed upon paradigm for what components should be included.
It is estimated that over 50%[4] of the world’s population now lives in cities and urban areas. Practical achievement[edit] The Smarter City. Skip to main content Welcome to TheSmarterCity Airports Energy Safety Healthcare Retail Traffic Services Education Development Communications Rail Introduction Healthcare Education Traffic Airports Rail Energy & Utilities. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a 1961 book by writer and activist Jane Jacobs.
The book is a critique of 1950s urban planning policy, which it holds responsible for the decline of many city neighborhoods in the United States.[1] Going against the common wisdom of the age, it proposes new ideas that it says would ensure organic vibrancy in urban America. Contents[edit] In their place Jacobs advocated "four generators of diversity": "The necessity for these four conditions is the most important point this book has to make.
In combination, these conditions create effective economic pools of use. " (p. 151) The conditions are: Her aesthetic can be considered opposite to that of the modernists, upholding redundancy and vibrancy against order and efficiency. Legacy[edit] The book continues to be Jacobs' most influential, and is still widely read by both planning professionals and the general public. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (9780671888251): James Howard Kunstler. Eco-Cities: Urban Planning for the Future. Treasure Island: A polluted military base is being transformed intoa dense green neighborhood.
View images from the plans for this city Today it is an almost completely paved naval air base built atop earthen material dredged from the San Francisco Bay in the 1930s. By 2020 it is scheduled to become one of the most sustainable communities in the U.S. According to a master plan from the engineering firm Arup, the 400-acre island would be home to 6,000 new apartments and condominiums surrounded by large buildings along the San Francisco coastline. The homes—and the adjacent businesses they supported—would get 50 percent of their power from renewable resources, including solar electricity and solar water heaters. Even so, the development would not be entirely environmentally friendly, at least in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.
Dongtan: One of the earliest eco-cities announced may take longer than anticipated to complete. View images from the plans for this city. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (9780684868769): Steven Johnson.