Smartcities, resilient landscapes and eco-warriors / CJ Lim and Ed Liu

Previous editon: 2010

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Urban Utopias and the Smartcity. From Soil to Table. The Perpetual Motion Machine. The American Dream Redux. Rise of the Eco-warrior. Scenic Positions. Cultivating Community. Resilient Landscapes --2. A Lexicon for the Smartcity --3. Guangming Smartcity China --4. DuSable Park USA --5. Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Park China --6. Remembering the Great American Plains USA --7. Nordhavnen Smartcity Denmark --8. Daejeon Urban Renaissance South Korea --9. The Tomato Exchange UK --10. Central Open Space: MAC South Korea --11. The Linear Park China --12. A Workplace in a Garden Ireland --13. Guangming Energy Park China --14. Newark Gateway Project USA --15. The City of a Thousand Lakes China --16. Rifle Range Regeneration Malaysia --17. Dongyi Wan East Waterfront China --18. Brockholes Wetland + Woodland Reserve UK --19. The Green Pension Plan UK --20. Wanmu Orchard Wetland China --21. Romance + Resilience: Landscapes of the imagination --22. Anna Andronova The Grand Paris of Niger: Landscape of hope --23. Carolyn Steel Sitopia – The urban future --24. Project and Reproduction.

Following on from the success of the first edition, Smartcities + Eco-Warriors (2010), this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from one of the world’s leading urban design and architectural thinkers. An ecological symbiosis between nature, society and the built form, the Smartcity cultivates new spatial practices and creates diverse forms of resilient landscapes including and beyond urban agriculture. The notion of the Smartcity is developed through a series of international case studies, some commissioned by government organisations, others speculative and polemic. This second edition has nine new case studies, and additional ecological sustainability studies covering sensitivity, design criteria, and assessments for ecological construction plans. The book concludes with two new essays on the romance of trees and the empowering nature of resilient landscapes. Smartcities, Resilient Landscapes + Eco-warriors represents a crucial voice in the discourse of climate change and the potential opportunities to improve the ecological function of existing habitats or create new landscapes which are considered beneficial to local ecology and resilience. It is indispensable reading for practitioners and students in the fields of landscape, urban design, architecture and environmental engineering. An inspiration to government agencies and NGOs dealing with sustainability, this work also resonates with anyone concerned about cities, landscapes, food and water security, and energy conservation.