New Edition of Shaping the City Takes on Key Issues in Urban Design
Renowned academics Rodolphe El-Khoury and Edward Robbins have revamped and expanded on their original collection in the second edition of Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory, and Urban Design, published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis. Revised for the first time since 2003, it provides an examination of crucial concerns in contemporary urban design, tying in additional case studies that allow for a truly global analysis.
In a unique approach, Shaping the City focuses on specific issues in a wide variety of cities, illustrating important moments in each city’s development, written by notable experts in the applicable city’s history and design. New to this edition are a number of chapters that will provide readers with a contemporary lens through which to view topical matters. One such addition is contributor Victor J. Jones’ chapter on New Orleans and Ecological Urbanism. Post-Katrina, and in an age of climate change, he discusses not only the traumatic effects on this culturally rich city, but also how new thinking about the ecological means at our disposal can reconfigure and ultimately lead to the city’s reconstruction. Other new chapters deal with the urban phenomena of the new century, such as mushrooming cities as Special Economic Zones, the tensions and contradictions of transborder urbanism, and the decline of public space.
Several chapters from the first edition have also been specially revised. Charles Waldheim, Chair of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and founder of the term “landscape urbanism,” updates his selection, “Detroit – Motor City.” Editor Edward Robbins offers a revised closing chapter of his own on the “New Urbanism,” in which he discusses how new urbanism is evolving today.
Both returning editors El-Khoury and Robbins hail from strong design backgrounds. El-Khoury is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Toronto, as well as partner of the award-winning architectural design practice, Khoury Levit Fong. Robbins is Professor of Urbanism at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. With its impressive list of contributors, Shaping the City provides an essential overview of the range and variety of design and urban issues that are critical to an understanding of contemporary urbanism.
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