MAPPING URBAN COMPLEXITY
This contribution deals with contemporary ideas on urban mapping. The growth of the first generation metropolises like New York, Paris, or London, is in no way comparable to the growth of Asian cities. Many are in fact doubling their population every 15 to 20 years. Consequently, we are no longer talking about cities, but about mega-urban-regions (MURs). A central question then becomes a question about mapping these urban complexities. In this paper, I will deal with three different cities: Houston, Tokyo and Amsterdam. Houston is characterised as a city without any density; that is to say, the urban layout is determined by automobile traffic. For Tokyo, the public transport system, the Yamanote loop connecting 28 subways, is determinative. The last example is about urban density in the historic city of Amsterdam where we developed an urban plan for the Western docks at the IJ Bank River, where we regained density on a local scale.
ARIE GRAAFLAND
Delft School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology Berlageweg 1, 2628 GA Delft, The Netherlands
国际会议
广州
英文
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2006-12-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）