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• Title:Living in wonderland : urban development & placemaking / David Twohig.
  
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• Variant Title:Urban development and placemaking
  
• Author/Creator:Twohig, David, author.
  
• Published/Created:Petersfield, Hampshire : Harriman House Ltd, 2014.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT166 .T86 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning.
  Sustainable urban development.
  Urban renewal.
  
• Description:204 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
  
• Summary:Ever lived in or visited a great city and wondered what makes it tick? Over the next 15 years China is set to urbanise 300 million people and build the equivalent urban area of North America. London is set to grow by two million people by 2030 and in the same period Sao Paulo will increase by three million. This is the greatest period of urbanisation in human history and yet the buildings and places we are designing and developing leave a great deal to be desired. The world's cities are increasingly becoming a one-stop solution of homogenous shopping centres and apartment towers. With hundreds of millions of people set to move to our cities in the coming decades there is huge social responsibility to ensure that people aren't subjected to identikit lives that compromise health, wellbeing and general happiness. Living in Wonderland seeks to explore the challenges currently facing urban development and masterplanning and to look at how the places people live, work and shop in can define a neighbourhood or city. Exploring real-life projects across the globe - all studied first-hand by the author - the book aims to encourage debate and promote innovative solutions in development and urbanism. The book is designed to fill the gap between the glossy and superficial coffee table books and theoretical academic papers. Its aim is to inspire practitioners and students of property development, architecture, town planning and anyone with an interest in the urban environment and to demonstrate the vital need to design places for people.
  
• Additional formats:Also available online.
  
• ISBN:9780857193612 (pbk.)
  0857193619 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 01. Introduction
  Future World
  About Me
  About The Book
  02. Cities and Districts
  Urban Village
  Two Sides of a City
  Unique Identity
  Ranking Cities' Liveability
  Geography
  Global Property Market
  Investor and Seasonal Cities
  Slums and Our Cities
  Best and Worst
  03. Masterplanning
  Right Mix of Property Uses
  Critical Mass
  Phasing and Implementation
  Various Stages of Development
  Pioneer Stage
  Building A Place Brand
  Global Study of Masterplans
  04. Living / Residential
  Introduction
  Manhattan's Residential Revolution
  Variety of Unit Typology
  Podium Design
  Outside Space
  Amenities
  Facilities
  Services
  05. Working / Offices
  Evolution of The Modern Office
  Multifaceted Corporate Office
  Diversity in Office Design
  Enabling Office Diversity
  Members' Clubs and Hubs
  06. Shopping / Retail
  Impact of Internet Retailing
  Shopping Centres Vs the High Street
  Clone Towns
  Independent Retail
  Diversity of Retail Offer
  Markets
  Retail Theatre, Curatorship and Events
  07. Art And Culture
  Using Culture to Seed Regeneration
  Embedded Art
  Sculpture
  Graffiti
  Urban Intervention
  08. Meanwhile Use
  Meanwhile Residential Uses
  Meanwhile Retail Uses
  Meanwhile Office Uses
  Activating Un-Let Units
  Temporary Pop-Up Events
  09. Conclusion.