9781610919609-1610919602-Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities: Design in an Age of Urban Migration, Demographic Change, and a Disappearing Middle Class

Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities: Design in an Age of Urban Migration, Demographic Change, and a Disappearing Middle Class

ISBN-13: 9781610919609
ISBN-10: 1610919602
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Patrick M. Condon
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Island Press
Format: Paperback 240 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781610919609
ISBN-10: 1610919602
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Patrick M. Condon
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Island Press
Format: Paperback 240 pages

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Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities: Design in an Age of Urban Migration, Demographic Change, and a Disappearing Middle Class (ISBN-13: 9781610919609 and ISBN-10: 1610919602), written by authors Patrick M. Condon, was published by Island Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Landscape (Architecture) books. You can easily purchase or rent Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities: Design in an Age of Urban Migration, Demographic Change, and a Disappearing Middle Class (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Landscape books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.66.

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How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, we will run out of time to keep our global temperature from increasing. Since approximately 80% of greenhouse gases come from cities, it follows that in the design of cities lies the fate of the world.

As urban designers respond to the critical issue of climate change they must also address three cresting cultural waves: the worldwide rural-to-urban migration; the collapse of global fertility rates; and the disappearance of the middle class. In Five Rules for Tomorrow’s Cities, planning and design expert Patrick Condon explains how urban designers can assimilate these interconnected changes into their work.

Condon shows how the very things that constrain cities—climate change, migration, financial stress, population change—could actually enable the emergence of a more equitable and resource-efficient city. He provides five rules for urban designers: (1) See the City as a System; (2) Recognize Patterns in the Urban Environment; (3) Apply Lighter, Greener, Smarter Infrastructure; (4) Strengthen Social and Economic Urban Resilience; and (5) Adapt to Shifts in Jobs, Retail, and Wages.

In Five Rules for Tomorrow’s Cities, Condon provides grounded and financially feasible design examples for tomorrow’s sustainable cities, and the design tools needed to achieve them.

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