Cities Design & Evolution

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Stephen Marshall

Format: Book
Pages: 320
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: Jul 2008
Stock Code: 61239
ISBN: 9780415423298
Binding: Paperback

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Cities Design and Evolution offers an engaging and original narrative that interprets planning philosophies from Modernism to New Urbanism, organic theories from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier, and evolutionary thinking from Charles Darwin to Richard Dawkins. The book develops a new evolutionary perspective that recognises both the 'designed' and 'organic' nature of cities, and provides a rationale and impetus for fresh approaches to urban planning and design.

In what is the first book to significantly apply modern evolutionary thinking to urbanism, Cities Design and Evolution promises to stimulate thought, debate and action concerning the nature of cities and future urban planning. The book should appeal to all who are interested in cities, in design and in evolution.

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Stephen Marshall

Stephen Marshall is Senior Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. He has 20 years’ experience in transport, planning and urban design – five years in consultancy and fifteen in academia. This experience includes work on several EC and UK research council projects, as well as research for UK and Scottish government level projects and work for local authorities and private clients in Scotland and London. He is currently director of the PhD programme at the Bartlett School of Planning, where he also teaches on urban design, urban form and transport courses. Dr Marshall’s principal research interests are in urban form and urban structure, and how these relate to urban design and planning. This interest encompasses topics such as streets and transport networks; urban morphology and evolution; and the use of codes for generating urban structure. Dr Marshall is Chair of the Editorial Board of Urban Design and Planning, part of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers journal series, and an editorial board member for Built Environment journal. His books include Streets and Patterns (2005), Land Use and Transport (edited with David Banister, 2007) and Cities Design and Evolution (2009).

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