Managing Urban Change: Cultural Planning, Strategic Planning, Information Structures (eds. Jan Verwijnen & Panu Lehtovuori; University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH 2000) is a collection of presentations given during the Gateway 11 Managing Urban Change conference in Helsinki in autumn 1995. Contributions by Rem Koolhaas, Franco Bianchini, Helga Fassbinde, Janice Kirkpatrick, and Scott Lash.
Managing Urban Change discusses new planning directions: cultural and strategic planning. As the traditional forms of economic growth are losing their power, design, architecture, art and culture have become catalysts in the revival of cities. Therefore completely novel ways of thinking and management are demanded. It is not by accident that Euralille, the new centre of a virtual community of 70 million inhabitants features in this book as the key example for a new type of development made possible ny the French TGV high-speed train network. Rem Koolhaas, one of the worlds’ leading contemporary architects, presents the project developing the promise of contemporary uranism. Glasgow and Rotterdam are presented in the book as examples of innovative planning: both cities have created new dynamic cultural and economic atmospheres. Strategic planning as a flexible reaction to traditional master planning is introduced by Helga Fassbinder. In this context she also refers to the case of the Berlin City Forum as an innovative tool.
Managing Urban Change explores also the unfolding interdependencies between information technologies and urban change, and links this to contemporary cultural theory through contributions by Scott Lash and Franco Bianchini.
– Managing Urban Change: Cultural Planning, Strategic Planning, Information Structures (eds. Jan Verwijnen & Panu Lehtovuori; University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH 2000), excerpt from the book description
The text is in English. The book is illustrated with photographs and diagrams.
Our copy in stock is in excellent condition, as good as new.
