In Campus and the City, renowned experts present and comment on current trends in campus design world wide. Thirty projects address such issues as the future of the prototypical Greenfield campus and how inner city campuses are transforming the urban context and include prominent corporate enclaves and their ideo logical underpinnings.
"Textbook spans 30 years of the well-known urban designer and architect Kees Christiaanse's thinking about cities. He is responsible for large urban projects, including Hamburg HafenCity, Rotterdam's waterfront revitalization and London's Olympic Legacy Plan. The collected texts range from charting the influence of the bicycle on his thinking about future mobility to the examination of dominant concepts and projects in the contemporary built environment. Illustrations of Christiaanse's sketches, personal notebook pages and watercolours complement this unique collection" d'après l'éditeur.
Large-scale megaprojects in urban development―often known as “Grands Projets”―are increasing in number all over the world. A new model for urban “regeneration” in which entire areas are reconceived in toto, they have become major drivers of economic change in cities. As such, these Grands Projets can be read as manifestations of the larger political agenda of their city, and they offer productive case studies to investigate current urban trends in a globally connected form of concentrated urbanization.The Grand Projet looks into the adaptive and inclusive capacities that urban megaprojects can offer by focusing on sites in Paris, London, Hamburg, Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Barcelona and Singapore. The book provides the first comprehensive reading of selected urban megaprojects in Asia and Europe, and a new, comparative view of their role in contemporary urban development.
Kees Christiaanse is one of the leading international town planners. Unlike other large architectural firms, KCAP specializes in the conception and realization of unusual projects at the shared frontiers of architecture, town planning, and landscape architecture. That interplay is the focus of this book, which illustrates it in striking detail with the help of 35 thematically organized projects. The chapters are organized around the planning emphases of the firm: the regeneration of waterfront areas and derelict industrial land, the restructuration of urban centers, and suburban settlements in cultivated areas. Additional technical articles describe the planning instruments used by the firm and how it develops town-planning strategies and solutions.