New Towns for the Twenty-First Century : A Guide to Planned Communities Worldwide

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I Overview of New Towns in the Twentieth and Twenty- First Centuries -- Introduction -- 1 A Brief History of New Towns -- 2 The Promises and Pitfalls of New Towns -- 3 Quality of Life in New Towns: What Do We Know, and What Do We Need to Know? -- Part II New Towns Aro...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I Overview of New Towns in the Twentieth and Twenty- First Centuries -- Introduction -- 1 A Brief History of New Towns -- 2 The Promises and Pitfalls of New Towns -- 3 Quality of Life in New Towns: What Do We Know, and What Do We Need to Know? -- Part II New Towns Around the World -- United States -- 4 New Towns in the United States -- 5 Development Lessons from Today’s Most Successful New Towns and Master- Planned Communities -- 6 New Towns as Laboratories for Local Governance -- Asia -- 7 New Towns in East and Southeast Asia -- 8 A Governance Perspective on New Towns in China -- 9 New Towns in China: The Liangzhu Story -- 10 Successes and Failures of New Towns in Hong Kong -- 11 Right Place, Right Time: The Rise of Bundang -- 12 New Towns in India -- Elsewhere -- 13 European New Towns: The End of a Model? From Pilot to Sustainable Territories -- 14 Governing an Adolescent Society: The Case of Almere -- 15 Ex Novo Towns in South America: A Genealogy -- 16 New Towns in Africa -- Part III Lessons on How to Build New Towns -- 17 Why Is It So Difficult to Develop Financially Successful New Towns? New Town Finance: Problems and Solutions -- 18 Organizing and Managing New Towns -- 19 Reflections from International Practice -- Part IV New Town Futures -- 20 The Twenty- First- Century New Town: Site Planning and Design -- 21 Environmental Concerns and New Towns: Four Paths -- 22 Regional New Town Development: Strategic Adaptation to Climate Change -- 23 New Towns in a New Era -- Appendix 1 Location Maps for New Towns and Planned Communities -- Appendix 2 New Towns Inventory -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments Ausführliche Beschreibung