Perspectives in Metropolitan Research I: Self-induced Shocks: Mega-projects and Urban Development - Couverture souple

 
9783868593709: Perspectives in Metropolitan Research I: Self-induced Shocks: Mega-projects and Urban Development
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ISBN 10 : 3868593705 ISBN 13 : 9783868593709
Editeur : JOVIS Verlag, 2015

Synopsis

Large-scale investment projects, or "mega-projects," often turn into icons of planning failures, overspending and extensive delays. This publication explores, with an international focus, how such disastrous enterprises can serve as potential catalysts for urban reform, particularly within the context of eco-cities and smart cities.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

  • Explores examples of failed mega-projects, and offers ways to reverse the trend by pooling expertise and resources
Recent history of mega-projects has largely been written as a record of disasters. Well-known examples have turned into icons of planning failures, costly overspending, and excessive delays. Despite these systemic risks inherent in top-down massive interventions into the urban fabric, mega-projects have always played a decisive role in the development of cities. As 'self-induced shocks', they create a state of emergency that effectively leads to the pooling of finances, expertise, and public awareness. In this way objectives can be met that would have been unattainable in everyday practice.

This publication explores, with an international focus, the inherent ambivalence of mega-projects as drivers of urban transformation on the one hand and potential catalysts for uncontrollable dynamics on the other. It elucidates various forms and facets of large-scale construction ventures: as vehicles of urban development, as temporary large-scale events, as management challenges, and as elements of a changing urban development within the context of 'eco-cities' and 'smart cities'.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Perspectives in Metropolitan Research is a joint project of the HafenCity University Hamburg [HCU] and the foundation ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. The series s focus reflects the disciplinary collaboration and intellectual approach found at the HCU. The volumes focus on subject matter that reflects the planned, built, surveyed, and lived surroundings and connects these with their social, economic, political, and cultural aspects. The series will release one volume yearly with rotating guest editors. Volume I comprises a collection of new research papers and classic contributions, written by internationally renowned scholars from various disciplines. It addresses the inherent ambivalence that constitutes mega-projects as both boosters of urban development and potential large-scale disasters. The chapters elucidate different forms and facets of large-scale construction ventures: as vehicles of urban development, as large-scale events, and as management challenges.

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Éditeur
JOVIS Verlag
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3868593705
ISBN 13 
9783868593709
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Éditeur
Grabher Gernot, Thiel Joachim
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Personne responsable
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