This comprehensive volume will provide readers with expert interdisciplinary knowledge on how urban centres and regions in locations of varying climates, lifestyles, income levels, and stages development are creating synergies and reducing trade-offs in the development of resilient, resource-efficient, environmentally friendly, liveable, socially equitable, integrated, and technology-enabled centres and regions. According to D. G. Shane (2005) the net-city is a multicentered network system of different sizes, functioning as a whole through a network of physical and virtual infrastructures. In this polycentric system, however, not only the nodes and edges of the network are relevant. According to authors such as Terry McGee (2009), Edward Soja (2000), Neil Brenner (2014), and many more, it is a hybrid territory where the urban and the rural define a seamless heterogeneous landscape. During the past century, growth models related to economic efficiency have spread the so-called “international” style that often gave a homogeneous look and layout to the newly rising cities. Nature has been reduced to a thin surface of leisure space. The standardized work routine, which started with the industrial revolution and was consolidated with the invention of the conveyer belt, also influenced the idea of standardized quality of life. As metropolises grew and the population became more and more diverse, it became necessary to embrace the complexity in quality of life and thus the shaping of the metropolises through the acknowledgement of the “glocal,” the co-existence of global and local conditions. The shift from the paradigm of a polycentric model to the network of the net-city created the need to deal with space in between the networks, which must be reconceptualized with new meaning and structure and new images in the metropolitan era.

Metropolitan Discipline: Management and Planning A New Paradigm for a New Dimension

A. Contin
2022-01-01

Abstract

This comprehensive volume will provide readers with expert interdisciplinary knowledge on how urban centres and regions in locations of varying climates, lifestyles, income levels, and stages development are creating synergies and reducing trade-offs in the development of resilient, resource-efficient, environmentally friendly, liveable, socially equitable, integrated, and technology-enabled centres and regions. According to D. G. Shane (2005) the net-city is a multicentered network system of different sizes, functioning as a whole through a network of physical and virtual infrastructures. In this polycentric system, however, not only the nodes and edges of the network are relevant. According to authors such as Terry McGee (2009), Edward Soja (2000), Neil Brenner (2014), and many more, it is a hybrid territory where the urban and the rural define a seamless heterogeneous landscape. During the past century, growth models related to economic efficiency have spread the so-called “international” style that often gave a homogeneous look and layout to the newly rising cities. Nature has been reduced to a thin surface of leisure space. The standardized work routine, which started with the industrial revolution and was consolidated with the invention of the conveyer belt, also influenced the idea of standardized quality of life. As metropolises grew and the population became more and more diverse, it became necessary to embrace the complexity in quality of life and thus the shaping of the metropolises through the acknowledgement of the “glocal,” the co-existence of global and local conditions. The shift from the paradigm of a polycentric model to the network of the net-city created the need to deal with space in between the networks, which must be reconceptualized with new meaning and structure and new images in the metropolitan era.
2022
978-3-030-51812-7
Synonyms Dimension/Size; Discipline/Practice; Management/Guidance; Paradigm/Method; Planning/ Coordination
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