This book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play? What can we learn from other countries, especially our near neighbours in Europe? And, in turn, can we provide lessons for other countries facing similar dilemmas? Urban Britain is not functioning as it should. Social inequalities and regional disparities show little sign of going away. Efforts to generate growth, and spread it to the poorer areas of cities, have failed dismally. Much new urban development and redevelopment is not up to standard. Yet there are cities in mainland Europe, which have set new standards of high-quality sustainable urban development. This book looks at these best-practice examples - in Germany, the Netherlands, France and Scandinavia, - and suggests ways in which the UK and other countries could do the same. The book is in three parts. Part 1 analyses the main issues for urban planning and development - in economic development and job generation, sustainable development, housing policy, transport and development mechanisms - and probes how practice in the UK has fallen short. Part Two embarks on a tour of best-practice cities in Europe, starting in Germany with the country's boosting of its cities' economies, moving to the spectacularly successful new housing developments in the Netherlands, from there to France's integrated city transport, then to Scandinavia's pursuit of sustainability for its cities, and finally back to Germany, to Freiburg - the city that 'did it all'. Part Three sums up the lessons of Part Two and sets out the key steps needed to launch a new wave of urban development and regeneration on a radically different basis.
Sir Peter Geoffrey Hall, FBA (19 March 1932 – 30 July 2014) was an English town planner, urbanist and geographer. He was the Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, University College London and President of both the Town and Country Planning Association and the Regional Studies Association.
He was internationally renowned for his studies and writings on the economic, demographic, cultural and management issues that face cities around the globe. Hall was for many years a planning and regeneration adviser to successive UK governments. He was Special Adviser on Strategic Planning to the British government (1991–1994) and a member of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Urban Task Force (1998–1999). Hall is considered by many to be the father of the industrial enterprise zone concept, adopted by countries worldwide to develop industry in disadvantaged areas.
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评分转译自: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/good-cities-better-lives-how-europe-discovered-the-lost-art-of-urbanism-by-peter-hall/2009061.article 由来自Nicholas Falk创新性的规划和建筑实践Urbed [1]的贡献写成,Peter Hall的《Good Cities, Bett...
评分转译自: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/good-cities-better-lives-how-europe-discovered-the-lost-art-of-urbanism-by-peter-hall/2009061.article 由来自Nicholas Falk创新性的规划和建筑实践Urbed [1]的贡献写成,Peter Hall的《Good Cities, Bett...
评分转译自: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/good-cities-better-lives-how-europe-discovered-the-lost-art-of-urbanism-by-peter-hall/2009061.article 由来自Nicholas Falk创新性的规划和建筑实践Urbed [1]的贡献写成,Peter Hall的《Good Cities, Bett...
评分转译自: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/good-cities-better-lives-how-europe-discovered-the-lost-art-of-urbanism-by-peter-hall/2009061.article 由来自Nicholas Falk创新性的规划和建筑实践Urbed [1]的贡献写成,Peter Hall的《Good Cities, Bett...
坦白说,刚翻开这书的前几页时,我感到了一丝困惑,因为它没有像预期的那样,立刻抛出一个清晰的“如何建造完美城市”的蓝图。相反,它像一位经验丰富的导游,带着读者在不同的城市间漫步,时而停驻在北欧精致的自行车道旁,时而流连于亚洲密集的垂直社区里。这种叙事方式带来的好处是,它迫使读者自己去构建对“好生活”的定义,而不是被动接受一种标准答案。书中对“地方感”(Sense of Place)的探讨尤为深刻。作者巧妙地引用了哲学和人类学的观点,论证了为什么一个拥有独特历史和文化印记的社区,比一个千篇一律的玻璃幕墙综合体更让人感到安心和愉悦。我尤其喜欢它对“速度与慢行”的对比分析,它不完全是反技术或反现代化的,而是批判性地探讨了技术和快速节奏如何侵蚀了人们感知环境的能力。这本书更像是一部关于城市心理学的著作,它关注的是居民的心理地图如何被城市的物理环境所塑造和影响。它不是一本操作手册,而是一次深层次的对话,关于我们希望在城市中扮演什么样的角色,以及我们希望城市如何回应我们的需求。
评分这本书的封面设计确实吸引人,那种带着复古意味的字体和简洁的城市剪影,让人联想到那些精心规划的、充满活力的现代都市。我本来以为它会深入探讨城市规划中的宏大叙事,比如交通系统的优化、绿地覆盖率的提升这类硬核议题。结果,阅读体验出乎意料地细腻和人性化。作者似乎更专注于城市肌理中那些微小而关键的互动点,比如一个设计巧妙的街角咖啡馆如何成为社区的非正式会客厅,或者老旧的步行街在引入创意市集后焕发出的新生。这本书没有用枯燥的统计数据来堆砌论点,反而通过大量的田野调查和访谈,勾勒出“好城市”的真正内涵——即它如何滋养个体的情感和归属感。我印象最深的是关于“无声的公共空间”那一章,作者描述了那些不需要刻意设计、但人们却自然而然地聚集、交流、休憩的角落,这些空间的存在,本身就是城市活力的最好证明。它提醒我们,最成功的城市设计,往往是那些隐形的、不着痕迹地促进人与人之间连接的设计。读完后,我开始以一种全新的视角审视我居住的这座城市,不再只关注高楼大厦,而是更留意那些被忽略的小径、长椅和社区公告栏。
评分这本书的节奏掌握得非常精准,它没有一味地鼓吹乌托邦式的完美,而是保持了一种审慎的乐观主义。作者在赞美那些成功案例的同时,也毫不避讳地指出了当前城市发展中的结构性弊病和陷阱。比如,它尖锐地批评了某些“品味化改造”项目,这些项目表面上提升了城市美观度,实际上却导致了原住民的流离失所——即“士绅化”的负面效应。书中提出的解决方案不是激进的颠覆,而是强调“渐进式创新”和“社区主导的迭代”。这种务实态度让人倍感信服。它教会读者如何带着批判性的眼光去解读那些光鲜亮丽的城市宣传片,去质疑那些看似美好的“智能城市”愿景背后可能隐藏的监控和异化。这本书真正为读者提供了一套工具箱,让你能够分析自己身处的环境,并提出更有建设性的意见。它激发了一种积极的公民责任感,让人不再满足于仅仅是城市的使用者,而是渴望成为城市形态的共同塑造者。它读起来让人感到充实,因为你不仅学到了知识,更重要的是,你被赋予了行动的勇气和方向感。
评分这本书的语言风格极为成熟和克制,它避免了那种高谈阔论的空泛,而是选择了一种近乎散文诗般的叙述。阅读过程中,我多次停下来,不是因为内容晦涩,而是因为作者捕捉到的那个瞬间——比如清晨第一缕阳光穿过工厂烟囱投射在人行道上的光影,或者雨后泥土和沥青混合的气味——太具画面感了。这种对感官体验的细致描绘,极大地增强了文字的力量。它成功地将宏大的社会议题,如公平分配、环境正义,落地到日常生活的细节中。例如,作者探讨了“光污染”如何影响一个社区的夜间安全感和生物节律,这种切入点非常新颖。它展示了城市设计中的每一个微小决策,都可能在居民的生活质量上投下巨大的阴影或带来惊喜。全书的论证结构非常扎实,但其表达方式却充满了文学性,这使得它既能满足专业人士对深度分析的需求,也能让普通市民在阅读中获得极大的审美愉悦。我发现自己不自觉地在脑海中为书中的每一个案例描绘插图,可见其描写的生动程度。
评分我必须承认,这本书的视野之广阔,几乎涵盖了城市生活的方方面面,但令人称奇的是,它处理如此多维度的信息时,逻辑链条却始终清晰可见。它似乎有一种魔力,能将看似无关的元素——比如社区花园的土壤质量、公共交通系统的票价结构、以及当地的艺术赞助政策——串联成一个有机的整体。其中关于“身份构建与城市空间”的一章,我读得尤其仔细。作者深入剖析了移民社区如何在新的城市环境中,通过对现有空间的重新定义和装饰(比如在阳台上悬挂旗帜、集体维护某片空地),来维系和重建他们的文化认同。这超越了简单的“包容性设计”,它触及到了“所属感”这一人类最基本的需求。这本书让我意识到,城市规划不仅仅是关于效率和美观,它本质上是一种社会工程,关乎权力、记忆和被看见的权利。对于任何一个对社会学、城市研究,乃至当代文化现象感兴趣的人来说,这本书都提供了极其丰富的思考素材,它要求你不仅要看城市“是什么”,更要思考它“意味着什么”。
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