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The purpose of this book is to answer one big question: How can designers of this generation first assimilate and then incorporate ongoing cultural, economic, and ecological changes — interconnected changes occurring worldwide — into their city building work?
In this book, when we use the term urban designers we include anyone involved in the act of city building. This of course includes architects, landscape architects, planners, developers, and public soicials. But it also includes the young, who are struggling to understand their fast changing and increasingly inequitable world, and concerned citizens who want to make a difference in their own communities.
We perceive a real lack of focus in our design field on three cresting cultural waves, waves that are overlapping in ways that are already transforming the city: the worldwide rural-to-urban migration, the collapse of global fertility rates, and the disappearance of the middle class. All three major waves are crossing and combining in intricate ways and will leave a different city in their wake. In fact, the impact of these three waves is already patently clear.
Introduction
The Three Waves That Are Changing Cities Forever
Urban Design Responses to the Three Great Waves
Rule One: See the City as a System
Rule Two: Recognize Patterns in Urban Environments
Rule Three: Apply Lighter, Greener, Smarter Infrastructure
Rule Four: Strengthen Social Resilience through Affordable Housing Design
Rule Five: Adapt to Shifts in Jobs, Retail, and Wages
Conclusion
Notes