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A Future of Polycentric Cities

How Urban Life, Land Supply, Smart Technologies and Sustainable Transport Are Reshaping Cities

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Authors:
  1. Cole Hendrigan

    1. SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

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  • Provides unique knowledge and insights on how to best make the transition towards more sustainable and livable cities

  • Offers a practical method on how to better integrate transport and urban development to this end, following the paradigm of ‘Transit Oriented Development’

  • Points to key criteria and design ideals, and provides a useful method clearly built to be applied in concrete situations

  • Will broadly appeal to students and researchers in in planning and urban design, as well as professional engineers, planners, architects and landscape architects. Also decision makers at the municipal level

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Freedom in Cities

    • Cole Hendrigan
    Pages 1-15

  3. Smart Cities and Smart Citizens: Are They the Same?

    • Cole Hendrigan
    Pages 17-35

  4. Global City Shaping

    • Cole Hendrigan
    Pages 37-127

  5. Research and Results

    • Cole Hendrigan
    Pages 129-263

  6. Analysis and Discussion

    • Cole Hendrigan
    Pages 265-311

  7. Conclusion: The Transit-Oriented Region

    • Cole Hendrigan
    Pages 313-321

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 323-377
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About this book

In this book, Dr Cole Hendrigan examines the options for sustainable transport and land-use planning based on building heights, mixes of land-use, transportation mode capacity and others to build the next generation of parks, housing, commercial and retail spaces along high-capacity rail corridors. Following the paradigm of ‘Transit Oriented Development’, Dr Hendrigan provides unique knowledge and insights on how to best make the transition towards more sustainable and livable cities, offering a practical method to better integrate transport and urban development to this end.

Authors and Affiliations

  • SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

    Cole Hendrigan

About the author

Dr Cole Hendrigan has an array of private consulting experience, government positions, academic research and personal observations in the field of urban development. He has worked in urban design offices in Vancouver, Calgary, and Abu Dhabi and twice worked in local governments in public realm amenity provision. He has travelled extensively through most continents, but particularly to neighborhoods beyond the ends of rail lines, to find the places where people live who make a city operate.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Future of Polycentric Cities

  • Book Subtitle: How Urban Life, Land Supply, Smart Technologies and Sustainable Transport Are Reshaping Cities

  • Authors: Cole Hendrigan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9169-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9168-2Published: 05 October 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9171-2Published: 05 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9169-9Published: 19 September 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 377

  • Number of Illustrations: 108 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology

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