21st Century Garden City: Creating a Livable Urban Environment

Author: (American) John Ormsby Simonds, translated by Liu Xiaoming, Zhao Caijun, Sun Xiaochun
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Publishing Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The key points of this book are as follows:
It inspiringly analyzes typical urban focusing methods, establishing thought-provoking urban models that start from residential units and expand to neighborhoods, entire cities, and surrounding urban areas. It creates park-like "greenways and blueways" environmental techniques, intertwining parks and water systems within dense urban spaces, allowing cities to "breathe" and significantly improving quality of life. It outlines the considerations for planning and designing residential areas, neighborhoods, urban centers, and extensive urban regions in future cities. It effectively integrates public efficiency into a smoothly operating system that bypasses pedestrian centers. It analyzes ideal urban models on existing urban landscapes and summarizes more feasible future urban models. It uses rich graphic language to express creative solutions from top American urban designers.
About 100 years ago, Sir Ebenezer Howard, a British landscape planner and designer, proposed a revolutionary concept—systematically integrating cities with their surrounding areas. His work, Garden Cities of To-morrow, became a classic in urban planning. Building on Howard's vision and further developing it, Simonds shows us how to combine contemporary urban scholars and other outstanding theories and technologies to construct future cities. Garden Cities of the 21st Century—Creating Livable Urban Environments preserves practical and inspiring answers, using excellent illustrated examples of current urban development to discuss a series of creative design and planning principles. This book is a highly valuable reference for architects, landscape architects, urban planners, engineers, developers, and managers seeking to shape vibrant future cities.
The key points of this book are as follows:
It inspiringly analyzes typical urban focusing methods, establishing thought-provoking urban models that start from residential units and expand to neighborhoods, entire cities, and surrounding urban areas. It creates park-like "greenways and blueways" environmental techniques, intertwining parks and water systems within dense urban spaces, allowing cities to "breathe" and significantly improving quality of life. It outlines the considerations for planning and designing residential areas, neighborhoods, urban centers, and extensive urban regions in future cities. It effectively integrates public efficiency into a smoothly operating system that bypasses pedestrian centers. It analyzes ideal urban models on existing urban landscapes and summarizes more feasible future urban models. It uses rich graphic language to express creative solutions from top American urban designers.
About 100 years ago, Sir Ebenezer Howard, a British landscape planner and designer, proposed a revolutionary concept—systematically integrating cities with their surrounding areas. His work, Garden Cities of To-morrow, became a classic in urban planning. Building on Howard's vision and further developing it, Simonds shows us how to combine contemporary urban scholars and other outstanding theories and technologies to construct future cities. Garden Cities of the 21st Century—Creating Livable Urban Environments preserves practical and inspiring answers, using excellent illustrated examples of current urban development to discuss a series of creative design and planning principles. This book is a highly valuable reference for architects, landscape architects, urban planners, engineers, developers, and managers seeking to shape vibrant future cities.