The Future of the City

摘要

Major cities of the world are facing a crisis of housing, shortage of workplace, polluted environment, and inadequate and deteriorating infrastructure. Existing cities have the challenge of how to introduce new tall buildings into the urban fabric whereas expanding cities are exploring new schemes about how to select the most appropriate sites and fashion the contextual setting of new tall buildings. Through a large number of wide-ranging visuals, sketches, and photographs as well as provocative textual narrative, The Future of the City: Tall Buildings and Urban Design enlightens its readers about integrating tall buildings into the cities of the future.