Rebuilding Urban Complexity

A Configurational Approach to Postindustrial Cities
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-38456-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

This is a book about urban complexity – how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin cities, where the many different “parts” (people, streets, industry sectors) interact to form an evolving “whole”.

The book explores the evolution and destruction of complexity in one city – Greater Manchester – but also other post-industrial cities, including Sheffield and Newcastle, Detroit and New Haven. The focus is on the networked qualities of public urban space, and how street networks work as multiscale systems. The book also explores economic networks, and the evolving sets of interconnecting economic capabilities which help to shape urban economies. It demonstrates how cities evolve through processes of self-organisation – and concludes by considering how policy makers can best harness such processes as they rebuild urban complexity following insensitive planning interventions in the 1960s and 1970s.

The book will appeal to anybody with an interest in cities, and how they work. It is interdisciplinary in scope, weaving in strands from architecture, economics, history, anthropology and ecology. It is written for academics but also non-academics, including urban planners, architects, local economic development actors and other policy makers.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Froy, Francesca

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures and maps

List of boxes

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART ONE

Chapter 1: Why focus on urban complexity?

Chapter 2: Theories of complexity

Chapter 3: Parts and wholes: the configuration of urban economies

Chapter 4: Parts and wholes: the configuration of urban space

Chapter 5: Bringing together configurational analysis of economies and space

PART TWO

Chapter 6: How local economies evolve and branch

Chapter 7: How spatial complexity evolves and supports branching economies

Chapter 8: Waterproofing: a case study

Chapter 9: The destruction of urban complexity

PART THREE

Chapter 10: Cities as systems of systems: where nature fits in

Chapter 11: Rebuilding urban complexity: how can policy makers intervene?

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Francesca Froy is Lecturer on Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of Kellogg College. She has honorary positions at the Bartlett Schools of Planning and Architecture where she previously researched and taught urban morphology and local economic development. She is also an associate working on the spatial dimensions of sustainable economies at the consultancy firm Space Syntax. Francesca was a senior policy analyst at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from 2005 to 2015, where she coordinated international reviews of policies to support local economic development. Before that, while based in Brussels, she evaluated urban and regional European policies. Her articles can be found in peer-reviewed academic journals including the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society; Local Economy; the Oxford Review of Economic Policy; European Planning Studies; the Journal of Urban Design; and Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.