Shlomo Angel - Making Room for a Planet of Cities
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This lecture is based on the realization that the current urban planning paradigm championed in the United States and Europe—the Containment Paradigm, also known as urban growth management, smart growth, or compact city—is inappropriate in the rapidly-urbanizing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Instead, it calls a new paradigm for coming to terms with rapid urbanization: The Making Room Paradigm. Associated material: NYU Stern - Urbanization Project http://urbanizationproject.org/blog/urban-expansion The website of Solly Angel www.sollyangel.com Planet of Cities: http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/2094_Planet-of-Cities Atlas of Urban Expansion: http://www.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/atlas-urban-expansion/ Making Room for a Planet of Cities http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/1880_Making-Room-for-a-Planet-of-Cities-urban-expansion Numerous articles: http://www.sollyangel.com
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the high housing prices in seul is a bad example as they were caused by regulatory limits on urban densities. i don't really see any valid arguments against the urban congestion paradigm.
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cities need to grow, specially the Upstate Cities of New York
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Professor Angel, could you please explain how could this "Making Room Paradigm" for Cities work in the United States, where the majority of the "buffer zone" around the metropolitan areas is already developed to the extremes (aka. sprawl)? How can a city that has no capacity to expand supply for the decreased densities and increased population growth? I think it's the ongoing debate among the American planners at the moment...
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