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Zusatztext 'Underground Cities is afascinating read and clearly the product of years of painstaking research forprojects across the globe. It reveals the possibilities opened up by diggingdown, unlocking places that are suffering from the harshest conditions, whichwill become ever more relevant during the climate emergency.' - Rob Fiehn, The London Society Informationen zum Autor John Endicott has specialized in geotechnical engineering since 1970 and has been practicing in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia since 1975. As editor of AA Publications for almost three decades, Pamela Johnston has extensive experience producing innovative, thought-provoking books with a broad visual appeal. Klappentext This book explores how new ideas and technologies can help to make our increasingly dense, climate-stressed cities both more resilient and more of a pleasure to live in. While it sets out practical design approaches, Underground Cities is not a technical manual. Designed for everyone with an interest in the future of our cities, it is beautifully illustrated and written in an accessible style that draws on the rich tradition of underworlds, both real and imagined, in art, history, and poetry. Its ambition: to change the way people think about the underground. Global in scope, the book ranges across continents as it surveys the vast expansion in the potential of the underground. The opening section, "A New Frontier," looks at two pioneering cold-climate cities, Montreal and Helsinki, which developed new uses for the underground from the 1960's on. The closing section, "Looking Forward," offers glimpses of what we might be able to achieve in the next 50 or 60 years. Focusing on Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo, it shows projects that are going deeper, achieving a greater synergy of uses, and paving the way for new urban forms. In between, the review of innovative ideas extends from logistics to pneumatic technologies, from new means of mapping the subsurface to the physical and psychological impact of spending prolonged periods in a subterranean environment. A presentation of buildings and projects by leading international architects and artists highlights the advances in technology that are making it possible to bring the elements of nature-light, air, and vegetation-deep underground. Zusammenfassung Underground City explores how new ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space and how these innovations can help to make our increasingly dense, climate-stressed cities both more resilient and more of a pleasure to live in. Inhaltsverzeichnis I A new frontier Experimental cities; Ville intérieure: Montréal’s 1960s multi-level downtown core as prototype for the continuous interior; Deep inspirations in Helsinki and Finland II People-centred spaces Resilient city; Homo subterraneus; Reinventing the underground – bringing in the elements of nature III Moving people / transporting goods Of loops, pumps, pipes and hypes; Cargo sous terrain IV New techniques of representation Reclaiming the no-man’s land of Paris La Défense; V Looking forward Going underground: Singapore’s next frontier; A Hong Kong Story; Tokyo ...
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As editor of AA Publications for almost three decades, Pamela Johnston has extensive experience of producing innovative, thought-provoking books with a broad visual appeal. John Endicott has specialised in geotechnical engineering since 1970 and has been practising in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia since 1975. Nancy F. Lin is the Head of Strategy & Growth and Chief of Staff for AECOM's Asia Pacific and is a civil engineer, architect and urban designer.
