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Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities

Design in an Age of Urban Migration, Demographic Change, and a Disappearing

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Patrick M. Condon

    1. Design Center for Sustainable Communitie, Vancouver, Canada

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  • The latest work from a world-renowned urban designer

  • A wake-up call for designers of our cities to adapt to global changes

  • A somewhat controversial assessment of ongoing global trends

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Patrick M. Condon
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Three Waves That Are Changing Cities Forever

    • Patrick M. Condon
    Pages 9-35

  4. Urban Design Responses to the Three Great Waves

    • Patrick M. Condon
    Pages 37-56

  5. Rule One: See the City as a System

    • Patrick M. Condon
    Pages 57-75

  6. Rule Two: Recognize Patterns in Urban Environments

    • Patrick M. Condon
    Pages 77-100

  7. Rule Three: Apply Lighter, Greener, Smarter Infrastructure

    • Patrick M. Condon
    Pages 101-119

  8. Rule Four: Strengthen Social Resilience through Affordable Housing Design

    • Patrick M. Condon
    Pages 121-156

  9. Rule Five: Adapt to Shifts in Jobs, Retail, and Wages

    • Patrick M. Condon
    Pages 157-186

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 187-221
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About this book

As urban designers respond to the critical issue of climate change they must also address three cresting cultural waves: the worldwide rural‑to‑urban migration; the collapse of global fertility rates; and the disappearance of the middle class. In Five Rules for Tomorrow’s Cities, planning and design expert Patrick Condon offers five rules to help urban designers assimilate these interconnected changes into their work: (1) See the City as a System; (2) Recognize Patterns in the Urban Environment; (3) Apply Lighter, Greener, Smarter Infrastructure; (4) Strengthen Social and Economic Urban Resilience; and (5) Adapt to Shifts in Jobs, Retail, and Wages.  

Five Rules for Tomorrow’s Cities provides grounded and financially feasible design examples for tomorrow’s sustainable cities, and the design tools needed to achieve them.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Design Center for Sustainable Communitie, Vancouver, Canada

    Patrick M. Condon

About the author

Since 1994, Patrick M. Condon has organized and participated in over a score of design charrettes for sustainable communities. He is a senior researcher in the Design Center for Sustainable Communities at UBC, whose goal is to advance the practice of sustainable community development in North America. He holds a BSc and a MLA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His 20 years of experience in government and as a scholar include his former role as Director of Community Development for the city of Westfield, Mass. He came to UBC in 1992 to be the Director of the Landscape Architecture Program; in 1994, he became the UBC James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments. As the James Taylor Chair at UBC, Patrick leads the Headwaters Sustainable Development Demonstration Project, a Surrey, BC community being constructed using sustainable development principles.  He is the author of numerous books, including Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities (Island Press).

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