This book is oriented on cities and their role in society from the public places created in
cities to the visionary and more abstract views on large scale developments. The chapter
authors argue each in their own way how urban design can produce an answer to these
questions. Furthermore detailed insights are given into how current designers architects
urbanists and landscape architects deal with the contemporary urban problems of our time:
climate change migration resiliency politics environmental change This book includes
chapters from leading thinkers in urban design city development and landscape urbanism fields.
The authors have included the most recent insights in urbanism ensuring that this book provides
a state-of-the -art text which is both actual and timely.
