The New Companion to Urban Design

The New Companion to Urban Design continues the assemblage of rich and critical ideas about urban form and design that began with the Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011). Withchapters from a new set of contributors, this sequel offers a more comparative perspective representing multiple voices and perspectives from the Global South. The essays in this volume are organized in three parts: Part I: Comparative Urbanism; PartII: Challenges; and Part III: Opportunities. Each part contains distinct sections designed to address specific themes, and includes a list of annotated suggested further readings at the end of each chapter. Part I: Comparative Urbanism examines different variants of urbanism in the Global North and the Global South, produced by a new economic order characterized by the mobility of labor, capital, information, and technology. Part II: Challenges discusses some of the contemporary challenges that cities of the Global North and the Global South are facing and the possible role of urban design. This part discusses spatial claims and conflicts, challenges generated by urban informality, explosive growth or dramatic shrinkage of the urban settlement, gentrification and displacement, and mimesis, simulacra and lack of authenticity. Part III: Aspirations discusses some normative goals that urban design interventions aspire to bring about in cities of the Global North and the Global South. These include resilience and sustainability, health, conservation/restoration, justice, intelligence, access and mobility, and arts and culture. The New Companion to Urban Design is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students interested in cities and their built environment. It offers an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across a range of disciplines including urban design, planning, urban studies, and geography.

List of contributors; INTRODUCTION: challenges and aspirations of urban design (Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris); PART I: COMPARATIVE URBANISM; Part I.I Arguments and observations; 1: Comparative urbanism: design in translation (Fran Tonkiss); 2: Fishbowl city: postcolonial Los Angeles and the philosophy of the urban (Ananya Roy); Part I.II Regional experiences; 3: Globalization, resiliency, and change: Latin American urban design in the 21st century (Lawrence Herzog); 4: Spatial justice and urban design: the case of Southern African settlements (David Dewar); 5: The fading pulse of place: Eastern Mediterranean cities in the neoliberal era (Ramzi Farhat); 6: Un-cities: the urbanism of rapidly growing cities in the Gulf region (Surajit Chakravarty)PART II: CHALLENGES; Part II.I Claims and conflicts; 7: Immigrants, mosques, and religious pluralism: challenges for urban design and planning (Stefano Moroni, Francesco Chiodelli, Elena Porqueddu, and Anna Botta ); 8: Claiming ordinary space in the cosmopolitan grid: the case of Singapore (Felicity H.H. Chan); 9: Designing for difference in Barcelona’s el Raval (Jeremy Nemeth); Part II.II Informality;10: Informal settlement as a mode of production (Kim Dovey); 11: The new geographies and spatialities of informality (Annette Kim); 12: Urban informality and the city at night (Su-Jan Yeo); 13: Urban design and informal urbanism: case studies from Delhi and Mumbai (Manish Chalana); 14: The everyday exceptionalism of temporary settlements: the role of urban design response (Rachel Berney); Part II.III Explosive growth versus shrinkage; 15: The insurmountable opportunities of explosive growth: urban design in China (Dan Abramson); 16: Urban space design for hybrid and high-density environments (Cho Im Sik); 17: Shrinking cities, shrinking world: urban design for an emerging era of global population decline (Brent Ryan); 18: From abandonment to urban qualities? Urban design strategies for shrinking cities in Germany and the US (Karina Pallagst, René Fleschurz, and Sabrina Förch); 19: Designing the shrinking city (Justin Hollander); Part II.IV Large-scale development; 20: The design of large-scale redevelopment projects (Alexander Garvin); 21: From town hall to town plan: the case of Byblos, Lebanon (Sandra Frem and Hashim Sarkis); Part II.V Gentrification and displacement 22: Inner-ring suburban retrofit and neighborhood change in the post-suburban era (Suzanne Lanyi Charles and Richard B. Peiser); 23: Unsmart outcomes of the smart city initiatives: displacement and peripheralization in Indian cities (Darshini Mahadevia); Part II.VI Mimesis and simulacra; 24: Between simulation and authenticity: the question of urban remaking (Scott A. Lukas); 25: Glocalizing themed spaces: the creation of urban spaces in China, Asia, and other regions (Li Xiangning); 26: Travels in duplitecture (Bianca Bosker); 27: Improvised urbanism in the design of India’s unauthorized colonies (D. Asher Ghertner)PART III: ASPIRATIONS; Part III.I Resilience and sustainability; 28: Pursuing resilient urban design: equitably merging green and gray strategies (Zachary Lamband Lawrence J. Vale); 29: Reducing vulnerabilities through urban design: interventions for resilience in communities at risk (Diane E. Davis); 30: Planning the risk city: emerging practices (Yosef Jabareen); 31: The potential of SITES for urban design (Fritz Steiner and Rebecca S. Popowsky); Part III.II Health; 32: Refocusing planning and design to maximize public health benefits (Richard J. Jackson and Rebecca Ferdman); 33: A new health urbanism (Jenny Roe); 34: Complete and healthy streets (Lawrence Frank, Jarred Ulmer, Bruce Appleyard, and Alexander Bigazzi); Part III.III Conservation/restoration; 35: Broadening heritage conservation through urban design: perspectives from Asia (Vinayak Bharne); 36: Heart of Shenzhen: the movement to preserve “Ancient” Hubei village (Mary Ann O’Donnell); 37: Planning modernity in Kabul: urban design as developmental politics (Pietro Calogero); Part III.IV Justice 38: Justice and urban design (Bryce C. Lowery and Lisa A. Schweitzer); 39: Toward transformative urban and spatial change: views from Jakarta (Kian Goh); Part III.V Intelligence; 40: Tarzan vs. IBM: value paradigms of urban technologies (Dietmar Offenhuber); 41:Smart citizens, participatory urbanism, and the future of city design (Jennifer Stein and Scott Fisher); 42: Designing the cities within emerging geographies: the work of Senseable City Lab (Fabio Duarte and Carlo Ratti); 43: Intelligence for place-making and social inclusion: critiques and alternatives to India’s Smart Cities Mission (Balaji Parthasarathy and Brinda Sastry); Part III.VI Mobility and access; 44: Accessibility-oriented urban design (Susan Handy); 45: Mobility, accessibility, and urban form (Yodan Rofe); 46: Modernism, pedestrians, and public space:a century of North American street design (Paul Hess, Kelly Gregg, and Ryan Whitney); 47: Aerial mobility, transport infrastructure, and urban design in Asian cities (Max Hirsh); Part III.VII Arts and Culture 48: Designing the inclusive city: urban cultures, street arts, and public life (Renia Ehrenfeucht); 49: Painting insurgent artscapes (Stefano Bloch); 50: Urban design and public art on Instagram (Brettany Shannon)EPILOGUE (Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris); Index.

Tridib Banerjee holds the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning at USC’s Price School of Public Policy. His research and writings focus on the design and planning of the built environment and their human consequences. Urban Design: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies (a four-volumed edited collection, 2014) is his most recent publication. Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is Professor of Urban Planning and Associate Provost for AcademicPlanning at UCLA. She is the author of multiple articles on urban design, coeditor of Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities (2006), Companion to Urban Design (2011), and Informal American City (2014), and coauthor of Urban Design Downtown (1998), Sidewalks (2009),and Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? (2019).