Future Cities: All That Matters

by Camilla Ween

Overview

THE IDEA OF A WORLD OF 10 BILLION PEOPLE, MOST OF WHOM WILL BE LIVING IN RAPIDLY EXPANDING CITIES, CAN BE A TERRIFYING PROPSECT. Add to that the effects of climate change and the scarcity of water, energy and food, and it sounds like a bleak future. Without innovation and human ingenuity, it might be, but necessity is the mother of invention, and Homo sapiens is a resourceful species.

By 2030 it is predicted that between 80-90% of the world's population will be living in cities. Tackling the challenges will be complicated by pressure to develop solutions that are sustainable and include climate change mitigation measures. Despite the difficulties, some cities are already tackling the problems, policies that are emerging to meet these challenges and highlights innovations that are currently being explored. This book explains the issues that will face rapidly growing cities in the next 20 to 30 years, and how, building on sustainable practices already being introduced around the world, cities can and will grow and flourish.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444196122
Publisher:	John Murray Press
Publication date:	06/27/2014
Series:	All That Matters
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Camilla Ween is an architect, urbanist and transport expert with extensive experience in sustainable development, regeneration and transportation. She is a director of Goldstein Ween Architects and is a registered architect and Harvard Loeb Fellow.

Improving the quality of future cities and the concept of 'livability' is at the forefront of her work. She writes and lectures extensively on the subject and regularly contributes to government and independent panels looking at urban growth, city infrastructure and the integration of public transport systems into the urban fabric. As a Harvard Loeb Fellow she spent a year researching sustainable urban development and climate change. She worked for Transport for London from 2000 to 2011, advising on the impact of land use development and transport strategy.

Her book, Future Cities, published in July 2014, looks at the challenges facing future megacities and proposes solutions for a sustainable future. She has contributed to Green Cities of Europe, Global Lessons in Green Urbanism (now published in Chinese) and Harvard Graduate School of Design's Ecological Urbanism.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

1 The Big Issues 1

2 Water Infrastructure 23

3 Energy and Waste Infrastructure 33

4 Housing 45

5 Major Infrastructure: Transport 53

6 Feeding the City and Taking Care of the Environment 65

7 Life in the City 73

8 Sustainable Cities and the Future Possible 83

Conclusion 113

100 Ideas 115

Notes 133

Acknowledgements 137

Index 139