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By the year 2025, three-quarters of the world's population will live in cities. In these lectures, one of Britain's most prominent architects attempts to show how a city can respect both people and the environment through urban planning.
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Richard Rogers is the chair of the Urban Task Force. He is the prize-winning architect of the Pompidou Centre, Paris, the Lloyds Building and the Millennium Dome, London. He is a passionate advocate of beautiful cities as economic powerhouses, centres of invention, creativity and social integration.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A challenging vision for the future of cities,
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This review is from: Cities for a Small Planet: Reith Lectures (Paperback)
Richard Rogers, one of Britain's leading architects vividly outlines the environmental disaster facing the world, and presents some novel solutions for planning and building cities to overcome the barriers.Of particular interest are the ideas for energy conservation, the use of public space to enhance the public environment, and the ways to integrate public transport into city design. There is a scathing attack on urban sprawl and its wasteful use of land and resources, and a vision of high density cities, combining efficiency with an effective community. One slight weakness of the book is the price to pay for its wide coverage - there is a lack of detail on some of the proposals, and diagrams are sometimes weak on annotations. Also recommended: Cities for a Small Country - focusing more on the problems facing Britain, rather than the world as a whole, particularly the developing countries.
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Heart is in the right place, but dated and not all that helpful,
By Jezza (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cities for a Small Planet: Reith Lectures (Paperback)
A bit ho-hum. Not very compelling, with lots of illustrations that are rather underwhelming. The examples are dated and related to things which have already turned out differently - the plans for Trafalgar Square in London, or the South Bank, for example. Not really worth the time I spent reading it. Might have been good for someone coming to this subject for the first time, I suppose.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews) 12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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excellent, innovative interesting ideas,
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This review is from: Cities for a Small Planet (Icon Editions) (Paperback)
After reading this book, I wanted to pack my bags and head to London to study with Richard Rogers. His observations on the importance of balancing population, resources and the environment is right on. He identifies the need for compact cities, but seeks to reinvent the dense city model to be a cleaner, greener, more integrated place. Rogers pays specific attention to positive social changes that compact cities can make, and he addresses the importance of regionalism to acheiving sustainability goals. Also, he explains how proximity allows for creative reuse of resources and efficient building design. The book is unique; Rogers makes concrete suggestions and offers actual examples of ways to acheive sustainability.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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...But I like my life in the suburbs,
By Charlie - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cities for a Small Planet (Icon Editions) (Paperback)
"Cities for a Small Planet give me the reassurance that there are influential people trying to reduce the destructive impact of human activities on the world. The case study of Curitiba, Brazil is particularly inspirational.
Author Richard Rogers looks for ways to make city centers more sustainable and points out the importance of public space within a city. He makes a case against single-use developments, the sprawl of the suburbs and the need for automobiles. I can't help but to wonder, though, about the average family living in a suburb in their own house with a backyard garden, two dogs and a cat. Those average people are quite happy to be away from the city centers, from the panhandlers and predators, from unsafe feelings while riding public transportation, from the sounds of police sirens and honking horns. Will dense sustainable city developments change that? Not everyone is cut out to live in dense cities. A more appropriate question (at least in the United States) might be, "What can we do to make our suburbs more sustainable?" Just an aside: I found the font size of this book to be a bit on the small side, and the captions under the pictures to be small to the point of near unreadability. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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future,
By V. Mark - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cities for a Small Planet (Icon Editions) (Paperback)
There's probably a great truth in the fact that the last 50 years of planning have enrich few and impoverished many.
Zoning is simple, clear, fast and economically definable, but it isolates the people who are destined to live there, and enslaves them to the use of car. Overlapping and dense urbanism is historically a step back, is more work for planners, more difficult to understand for the laymen and developers and will cost more, but it will ultimately favor humane contact, regenerate sense of community, diminish the slavery of people on machine and last but not least reduce pollution. We have to reconsider the word coined by the Polish American Architect Lubicz of Nycz: Urbantecture. Urbanism & architecture are very delicate matters, intimately tided they create the frame for the world we live in. This is a great book for planner, politicians and people, because everybody today is oblige to look at cities as sustainable places where life can prosper only in respect of nature. |
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