Masterplanning Futures

Masterplanning Futures uses fully illustrated essays written by the author, each dealing with a masterplanning exercise in a different cultural and political context- together with three essays specially commissioned from leading figures in masterplanning - this book critically analyses the process of developing a masterplan in the contemporary global context. Historically spatial masterplans for cities have all too often been top-down exercises in projecting power in the form of physical change at the expense of social and culture structures. Today, masterplanning has a crucial role to play, but as a flexible and fluid tool for delivering renewal. With examples that range from masterplans for entire cities in China to the Middle East through cohesive frameworks of new uses for a post-industrial zone to cities looking to reverse population decline and improve urban bio-diversity, Masterplanning Futures sets out a radical and exciting future for masterplanning in our urban areas. The author's research was made possble in part thanks to a contribution from the SfA (Netherlands Architecture Fund).

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1. Post-Industrial Urban Regeneration 2. City Centre and Waterfront Neighbourhoods 3. Science and Technology Districts 4. Post-Disaster Urban Regeneration 5. Social Equity 6. ‘Eco-Eities’ 7. Landscape and Landscape Infrastructure-Driven Urban Plans 8. The Water City 9. Urban Growth

About the Author :
Lucy Bullivant PhD Hon FRIBA is Adjunct Professor of history and theory of urban design at Syracuse University, consultant, architecture curator, internationally published author and critic and the founder and Editor-in-chief of Urbanista.org. She has a PhD by Prior Output from CASS London Met ('From Masterplanning to Adaptive Planning: understanding the contemporary tools and processes for civic urban order’) and was Heinz Curator of Architecture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, in the early 1990s before curating a number of highly successful exhibitions for institutions including Vitra Design Museum, the Milan Triennale, the British Council and Roca London Gallery. She is the author of New Arcadians, Responsive Environments, 4dsocial, 4dspace and Anglo Files: UK Architecture’s Rising Generation and the co-author with Thomas Ermacora of Recoded City: Co-creating urban futures (Routledge, 2015). Lucy is an international correspondent to Domus, Platform, The Plan, Volume and Indesign.

Review :
"Lucy Bullivant has completed and published in Masterplanning Futures a comprehensive outlook on some of the most relevant large scale developments in the world that are configuring a new understanding on the role of master plans." - Manu Fernandez, Human Scale Cities "The book sets out to explore the diverse range of activities within the broad – and questionable – banner of ‘masterplanning’. Bullivant examines a wide range of design interventions in the city, the motivations of designers and patrons and their relationship to place and culture." - Jonathan Kendall, Architecture Today "Set against the wider horizon appearing in the wake of the global economic crisis, this book presents a thoroughly researched argument for a reclaimed approach to masterplanning. A lively, discursive introduction charts how masterplans can no longer be singular, top-down prescriptions but must offer a collective vision and operate as a framework that can be adapted over time." - Juliet Bidgood, Issue 128, Autumn 2013, Urban Design "A handsome tome, well written, extensively researched and beautifully illustrated." - Tim Catchpole, Issue 127, Summer 2013, Urban Design "There is an almost mythical quality to the place called city - where those that have achieved a certain convergence of cultures and resources become iconic in the map of the world - the pleasure of them transcending the work they are made of. Masterplanning Futures makes a worthwhile casebook for these possible cities."— Juliet Bidgood, Urban Design Group Journal