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by David Rudlin, Shruti Hemani
Climax City
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About the Authors
Preface Obsessive Cartography
Introduction
Part 1 THE SPONTANEOUS CITY
Chapter 1 Cities without Plans
What Slime Mould Can Tell Us about City Growth
You Can’t Designate a Gay Village
Four Phase Transitions
Tokyo: The Efficient Yet Unplanned City
Chapter 2 The Natural Town
The Artificial Sand Dune
Alexander’s Timeless Way of Building
The Unplanned Indian Town
Sanganer: From Shrine to Industrial Suburb
Chapter 3 The Spontaneous Slum
A Rate of Urbanisation Never Before Seen in the World
Barrios, Shanty Towns, Kacchi Basti, Favelas and Slums
The Slums of Guwahati
Part 2 THE DESIGNED CITY
Chapter 4 The Subtle Art of Masterplanning
The Scottish System of Feuing
Plot-based Development
New Anzac-on-Sea to Almere
Chapter 5 In Search of Nowhere
The Invention of Utopia
Starchitects and Masterplans
Chapter 6 Cities from Scratch
Masterplanning: The Largest of the Creative Arts
The Gridded Masterplan
Why Aren’t There More Circular Masterplans
St Petersburg: A Capital City Built to Order
Chapter 7 Room to Expand
A Job for Engineers
The Building of Barcelona
Chapter 8 Boulevards and Dictators
A Very English Plan
A Street of Granite in the Sky
The Remodelling of Paris
Welthauptstadt Germania
Part 3 THE UNRULY CITY
Chapter 9 The Terrifying Exploding City
The ‘Demographic Transition’
Manchester: The First City to Explode
Mumbai: The Continually Exploding City
Chapter 10 The Incredible Shrinking City
The Near Death of the City
Samuel Brooks and the First Urban Exodus
Reversing the City’s Polarity
Chapter 11 The Astounding Sprawling City
Stemming the Tide
From the Urban to the Suburban
The Limits of Sprawl
Part 4 THE CITY AND THE PLANNER
Chapter 12 The Imposition of Order
The Rules of the System
The Invention of Planning
Chapter 13 Grey Sky Modernists
The Functional City
Chandigarh and Brasília
Townscape Modernism
Chapter 14 With the Best of Intentions
A New Town Built for the Age of the Car
How Brookside Beat the Modernists
The Car-based Suburb
Separating Cars from Pedestrians
The Cul-de-sac
The Neighbourhood Unit
Chapter 15 The Climax City of the 21st Century?
A Sustainable City in the Desert
The Loss of Innocence and the Need for Planning
Planning is Part of the Climax State
The Trellis and the Vine
The Reform of Planning
The Urban Renaissance
References
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