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This book discusses how people experience and inhabit high-density and high-rise urban environments, drawing on current literature about the psychological, physical, and environmental health impacts. It brings a novel exploration of the evolving definitions of space and new ways of socializing within vertical urban settings, coupled with a cutting-edge approach focused on applying neuroscience principles to urban design. International case studies from Singapore, Seoul, and Hong Kong convey useful lessons for the urban design and morphology of high-density cities.
Hee Sun Choi is an Assistant Professor at the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Her research centres around public space, urban morphology, hyper-morphology and AI in vertical urbanism as design tools and research methods. She is also a founding partner of Choi-Comer Asia Ltd., an interior & architecture and urban design practice and research lab in Hong Kong, the Chair person for Media and Publications for the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design and the Chief-Editor and Creator of its online Journal Urbanie & Urbanus.
List of contents
Part I - Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 From Vertical to Volumetric.- Chapter 3 Lived Experiences in the High-Rise Vertical and Volumetric City.- Chapter 4 New Definitions of Space; New Ways of Socialise or New Social Settings.- Chapter 5 Vertical and Volumetric Urban Design Principles and Framework.- Part II - Chapter 6 Micro-Scale Interior Public Realms and Spaces.- Chapter 7 Meso Scale Interior Public Realms and Spaces.- Chapter 8 Findings; An Emotional and Spatial Cognition Correlation Index for Assessing KPIs.- Chapter 9 Conclusion.
About the author
Hee Sun Choi is an Assistant Professor at the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Her research centres around public space, urban morphology, hyper-morphology and AI in vertical urbanism as design tools and research methods. She is also a founding partner of Choi-Comer Asia Ltd., an interior & architecture and urban design practice and research lab in Hong Kong, the Chair person for Media and Publications for the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design and the Chief-Editor and Creator of its online Journal Urbanie & Urbanus.
Summary
This book discusses how people experience and inhabit high-density and high-rise urban environments, drawing on current literature about the psychological, physical, and environmental health impacts. It brings a novel exploration of the evolving definitions of space and new ways of socializing within vertical urban settings, coupled with a cutting-edge approach focused on applying neuroscience principles to urban design. International case studies from Singapore, Seoul, and Hong Kong convey useful lessons for the urban design and morphology of high-density cities.
