The Urban Masterplanning Handbook

The Urban Masterplanning Handbook A highly visual reference tool, this handbook provides comparative information about major urban extensions and masterplans around the world. It places an important new emphasis on the processes and structures that influence urban form, including public or private landownership, management and funding. Each of the book's 20 subjects is rigorously analysed through custom-made diagrams, to-scale drawings and descriptive texts, which are complemented by key statistics and a wealth of photographs. Presented in order of size rather than date or geographical location, the case studies provide intriguing insights and enable design professionals, developers and city planners, as well as students of architecture and urban design, to make informed organisational and formal comparisons. European projects from the 19th century to the present day are featured, including Belgravia in London, Sarphatipark in Amsterdam, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, La Défense Seine Arche in Paris and Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm. A further selection of non-European examples presents Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan as a historic case study, as well as more recent or ongoing masterplans such as Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, Downtown Dubai and the New Central Business District in Beijing.

Acknowledgements Introduction CASE STUDIES Broadgate, London 24 Masséna Nord, Paris 36 stuyvesant Town, New York 50 Battery Park City, New York 62 Avenue de l’Opéra, Paris 76 Vauban, Freiburg 88 Antigone, Montpellier 100 Potsdamer Platz, Berlin 114 Kirchsteigfeld, Potsdam 126 Spangen, Rotterdam 138 Belgravia, London 150 False Creek North, Vancouver 164 Sarphatipark, Amsterdam 178 Marunouchi, Tokyo 190 Euralille, Lille 200 Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires 212 Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm 224 Downtown Dubai 236 Beijing Central Business District 248 La Défense Seine Arche, Greater Paris 260 APPENDICES Timeline 274 Density Table 275 Figure-ground Diagrams 276 Scale Comparison of all Projects 280 Bibliography 282 Index 284 Image Credits 288