Robust City

List of contents

Preface, Introduction, 1. The Persistence of Form, 2. What Shall We Do with the Private Motor Vehicle? 3. Cities Have Not Been Designed for Expansion, 4. Deriving Form – A Goal-Driven Approach, 5. Deriving Form – A Robust Typology, 6. Beads on a String, 7. A Model for a New City, 8. Application to City Expansion and Intensification, 9. Implications for Development Plans, Conclusion

About the author

Tony Hall is an Adjunct Professor within the Urban Research Program at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Since his move to Australia in 2004, he has published a number of significant works on sustainable urban form, including his 2010 book on the demise of the Australian backyard which won the PIA national award for cutting-edge research in 2012.
He was previously Professor of Town Planning at Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford, UK where he is now Emeritus Professor. A specialist originally in transport planning and later in urban design, his 30-year academic career in Britain produced notable publications in the field of design guidance. Rather unusually, he also served as a local councillor and led the City of Chelmsford’s planning policy for seven years. He was instrumental in raising the general standards of design resulting in a government award to the City for the quality of the built environment in 2003.

Summary

The Robust City arrives at an original and controversial prescription for the future planning of cities by taking a rational argument to its logical conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Hall, Tony (Griffith University Hall
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.2015
• EAN: 9781138801325
• ISBN: 978-1-138-80132-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Human Geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Civil engineering, surveying and building