State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future
State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future examines changes in the ways cities are managed, built, and lived in that could tip the balance towards a healthier and more peaceful urban future.
State of the World 2007: Our Urban Future examines changes in the ways cities are managed, built, and lived in that could tip the balance towards a healthier and more peaceful urban future.
This film follows the responses of Detroit residents to the city’s industrial decline.
This award-winning film examines the realities of urban poverty through the experiences of a community living in Brazil’s palafitas: shacks built over the water and supported by stilts.
This film criticizes America’s suburban sprawl and its dependence on oil as being unsustainable for the future.
This article explores the connection between the significant health improvements made in the developing world, particularly after World War II, and the goal of providing clean water and sanitation services to large urban centers in these countries.
This paper “Water and the City” by Tapio S. Katko, P.S. Juuti, and J. Tempelhoff introduces the topics of growth and development of urban spaces and their comprehensive water infrastructure.
Charles Hoch, Professor Emeritus of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois, talks about the challenges of regional planning in the United States. As opposed to Europe where spatial planning prevails, the notion of urban planning is more dominant here, and Hoch uses the Chicago region as a case study.
Belinda Yuen, a town planner and expert in mass housing, presents an account of Singapore’s public housing, the evolution of concepts and strategies for high-rise urban planning, and the diverse common spaces that have been designed for a higher quality of life.
This article examines a trend in town-planning studies known as “reformist” that developed in Italy and marked a deep change in land management concepts. Beginning in the Sixties, it sought to reform the economic growth to limit its negative social and environmental impact.