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Book Review Environment and Urbanization ASIA 1(1) 97–99 © 2010 National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) SAGE Publications Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC DOI: 10.1177/097542530900100108 http://eua.sagepub.com Mike Jenks and Nicola Dempsey, Future Forms and Design for Sustainable Cities (Architectural Press), The new millennia has ushered in the challenge of managing our cities in a sustainable manner towards achieving balanced and harmonized growth through tenets of an improved living environment, sustainable urban form and balanced urban planning. While there is an overwhelming consensus among pundits for the need for ‘sustainable urban forms’, the means to achieve these still lacks clarity. What is, however, clearly acknowledged is that there is no single solution to fit all ‘scenarios’ and that different problems beg different yet meaningful solutions. It is also quite apparent that meaningful solutions for different cities require a range of plans, methods and technologies. Future Forms and Design for Sustainable Cities skilfully weaves together a range of such plans, methods and methodologies of urban planning and design being developed—and in practice—across the globe, bringing forthright a compendium of potential and in-use tools and practices of sustainable cities development. It effectively presents some of the diverse aspects that are intertwined, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environment and Urbanization ASIA SAGE

Book Review

Environment and Urbanization ASIA , Volume 1 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2010
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Environment and Urbanization ASIA 1(1) 97–99 © 2010 National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) SAGE Publications Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC DOI: 10.1177/097542530900100108 http://eua.sagepub.com Mike Jenks and Nicola Dempsey, Future Forms and Design for Sustainable Cities (Architectural Press), The new millennia has ushered in the challenge of managing our cities in a sustainable manner towards achieving balanced and harmonized growth through tenets of an improved living environment, sustainable urban form and balanced urban planning. While there is an overwhelming consensus among pundits for the need for ‘sustainable urban forms’, the means to achieve these still lacks clarity. What is, however, clearly acknowledged is that there is no single solution to fit all ‘scenarios’ and that different problems beg different yet meaningful solutions. It is also quite apparent that meaningful solutions for different cities require a range of plans, methods and technologies. Future Forms and Design for Sustainable Cities skilfully weaves together a range of such plans, methods and methodologies of urban planning and design being developed—and in practice—across the globe, bringing forthright a compendium of potential and in-use tools and practices of sustainable cities development. It effectively presents some of the diverse aspects that are intertwined,

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