Megacities: Exploring a Sustainable FutureSteef Buijs, Wendy Wanyin Tan, Devisari Tunas Urbanization has evolved dramatically from monocentric settlements to polycentric networks and megacities of previously inconceivable size and population. This escalation of quantities and scales has ignited a fascination with the phenomenon of megacities. The book attempts to define megacities and understand their processes and systems of organization, gleaning lessons for researchers, practitioners, politicians and the general public. The Megacities Foundation, which initiated this discussion and book, has set a benchmark in the architectural profession, and has actively encouraged debate on megacities for the last 15 years by inviting leading international academics and practitioners from the fields of architecture, economics, geography, sociology and urban planning. This book offers a compilation of the best lectures on the evolution, governance and design guidelines of megacities. |
Common terms and phrases
agglomeration architects areas bayou become capital central centres competition complex concentration concept context contribution costs create Deltametropolis density Dutch ecology edge cities Edward Soja effects energy environment environmental Erik Swyngedouw factors Field Room footlooseness functions geography global cities growth Hall hard infrastructure Harvey Haynes Houston human impact increasingly industrial infrastructure innovation institutions issues labour land landscape Lerup Liu Thai Ker London major megacity regions ment metropolis metropolitan million mobility Nature and culture neoliberal Netherlands networks Nijkamp organization Peter Hall planners political polycentric population potential problems production Prof projects Randstad regional urbanization Richard Rogers Richard Sennett role Saskia Sassen Sassen scale sector Singapore social society soft infrastructure space spatial planning strategy structure suburbia sustainable Thackara tion urban development urban planning urban system urbanization process utopianism World Bank World Cities