Title & Author:

Underground cities : new frontiers in urban living / edited by Pamela Johnston, John Endicott, Nancy F. Lin.

Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2020.

Description:

245 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
Includes bibliographical references.
A new frontier. Experimental cities / Pamela Johnston -- Montreal : the ville intérieure as prototype for the continuous interior / Mark Pimlott -- Helsinki : city of deep collaborations / Ilkka Vähäaho -- People-centered Spaces. The resilient city / Will Symons -- Homo subterraneus : inhabiting the subsurface / Pamela Johnston -- Bringing the elements of nature underground / Lee Barker-Field -- ARoS Aarhus : next level extension / Schmidt Hammer Lassen and James Turrell -- The Lightwalk, Gangnam International Transit Center (GITC) / Dominique Perrault Architecture -- House and restaurant, Yamaguchi / Junya Ishigami + Associates -- The Lowline, New York City -- Changi Airport, Singapore / John Endicott -- Underground farming / Emma Lowry -- Moving people, transporting goods. Of loops, pumps, pipes and hype / Carlos Lopez galviz -- Underground logistics / Cargo Sous Terrain -- New techniques of representation. Reclaiming the subterranean no man's land of Paris La Defense / Monique Labbé, Jean-Pierre Palisse and Jean-François David -- Innovative technologies for planning and designing underground space / Thomson Lai and Roger Luo, Jeffrey Chun-fai Wong and Tan Tin-Iun Yeung -- Looking forward. Pushing the boundaries of underground space / Peter Ho -- Hong Kong : a matter of when, not if or how / John Endicott -- Singapore's next frontier : going underground / Teo Tiong Yong -- Tokyo : opening Marunouchi to the world / Kentaro Furuya -- Reflections for the future / Mohsen Mostafavi.

Summary:

New ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space. This book explores how these innovations can help to make our increasingly dense, climate-stressed cities both more resilient and more of a pleasure to live in. While it sets out practical design approaches, Underground Cities is not a technical manual. Designed for everyone with an interest in the future of our cities, it is beautifully illustrated and written in an accessible style that draws on the rich tradition of underworlds, both real and imagined, in art, history and poetry. Global in scope, the book ranges across continents as it surveys the vast expansion in the potential of the underground. The opening section, 'A New Frontier', looks at two pioneering cold-climate cities, Montreal and Helsinki, which developed new uses for the underground from the 1960s on. The closing section, 'Looking Forward', offers glimpses of the city of the future - of what we might be able to achieve in the next 50 or 60 years. Focusing on Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, it shows projects that are going deeper, achieving a greater synergy of uses and preparing the way for new urban forms. In between, it reviews a range of innovative ideas and presents buildings and projects by leading international architects and artists, among them Jun'ya Ishigami, James Turrell, Dominique Perrault and Thomas Heatherwick, which highlight the advances in technology that are making it possible to bring the elements of nature - light, air, vegetation - deep underground. Works include a subterranean oasis, a refuge from the desert heat; a museum extension that deploys light and colour to define space; a multi-modal underground transport hub that evokes the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris, but with an added profusion of plants; and a troglodytic house and restaurant, sunk into the earth to create atmosphere.

ISBN:

9781848223585 paperback
1848223587 paperback

Subject:

Underground architecture.
Underground areas.
Cities and towns.
Architecture souterraine.
Zones souterraines.
Villes.
underground environments.
cities.

Added entries:

Johnston, Pamela, editor.
Endicott, John (Engineer), editor.
Lin, Nancy F., editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325750
Call No.: 325750
Copy: 1
Status: Available