Designing the Megaregion - Meeting Urban Challenges At a New Scale

In Designing the Megaregion, planning and urban design expert Jonathan Barnett takes a fresh look at designing megaregions. Barnett argues that planning megaregions requires ecological literacy and a renewed commitment to social equity in order to address the increasing pressure that growth puts on natural, built, and human resources. If current trends continue, new construction in megaregions will put additional stress on natural resources, make highway gridlock and airline delays much worse, and cause each region to become more separate and unequal. Barnett offers an incremental approach to designing at the megaregional scale that will help prepare for future economic and population growth.

There is an urgent need to begin designing megaregions, and Barnett offers a hopeful way forward using systems that are already in place.

About the author

Jonathan Barnett is a Fellow of the Penn Institute for Urban Research, Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, and former director of the Urban Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author, co-author, or editor of three previous Island Press books, and has written many other books and articles about city and regional design.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Barnett, Barnett Jonathan
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781642830439
• ISBN: 978-1-64283-043-9
• No. of pages: 120
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, Urban & municipal planning, Urban and municipal planning and policy