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Masterplanning Futures uses fully illustrated essays written by the author, each dealing with a masterplanning exercise in a different cultural and political context- together with three essays specially commissioned from leading figures in masterplanning - this book critically analyses the process of developing a masterplan in the contemporary global context. Historically spatial masterplans for cities have all too often been top-down exercises in projecting power in the form of physical change at the expense of social and culture structures. Today, masterplanning has a crucial role to play, but as a flexible and fluid tool for delivering renewal. With examples that range from masterplans for entire cities in China to the Middle East through cohesive frameworks of new uses for a post-industrial zone to cities looking to reverse population decline and improve urban bio-diversity, Masterplanning Futures sets out a radical and exciting future for masterplanning in our urban areas. The author's research was made possble in part thanks to a contribution from the SfA (Netherlands Architecture Fund).

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Lucy Bullivant has completed and published in Masterplanning Futures a comprehensive outlook on some of the most relevant large scale developments in the world that are configuring a new understanding on the role of master plans. - Manu Fernandez, Human Scale Cities The book sets out to explore the diverse range of activities within the broad - and questionable - banner of 'masterplanning'. Bullivant examines a wide range of design interventions in the city, the motivations of designers and patrons and their relationship to place and culture. - Jonathan Kendall, Architecture Today

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Lucy Bullivant PhD Hon FRIBA is Adjunct Professor of history and theory of urban design at Syracuse University, consultant, architecture curator, internationally published author and critic and the founder and Editor-in-chief of Urbanista.org. She has a PhD by Prior Output from CASS London Met ('From Masterplanning to Adaptive Planning: understanding the contemporary tools and processes for civic urban order’) and was Heinz Curator of Architecture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, in the early 1990s before curating a number of highly successful exhibitions for institutions including Vitra Design Museum, the Milan Triennale, the British Council and Roca London Gallery. She is the author of New Arcadians, Responsive Environments, 4dsocial, 4dspace and Anglo Files: UK Architecture’s Rising Generation and the co-author with Thomas Ermacora of Recoded City: Co-creating urban futures (Routledge, 2015). Lucy is an international correspondent to Domus, Platform, The Plan, Volume and Indesign.

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