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Design Book: 50 city stories explored
T
he Design Book: 50 city stories
explored brings together
projects of all kinds delivered
for and with cities around
the world. Arup is the design,
architectural and engineering
company behind many of the
world’s leading buildings and
urban areas and in this book
they examine the ideas that help
make great urban places – through design
that is intelligent, beautiful, green, resilient,
responsible and future-facing.
Some of its most interesting and challenging
designs developed with cities across the
globe are included in this book. From the
development of Shanghai, over a 30-year
period into a megacity that continues to grow,
to the Crossrail project in central London and
the creation of the Fulton Center in New York,
Arup’s team have been pivotal in some of the
world’s best known developments.
It’s a firm that is not afraid to challenge the
conventional, as shown in the awe-inspiring
Bosco Verticale – a vertical forest that is
also a block of flats – in Milan. And it also
solves problems of city living no matter
what their size – the smallest project in the
book is a piece of street furniture in Beijing
that doubles as a bench, a bike park and a
barrier to the road; all this to combat traffic
congestion.
AUTHOR: Arup
HARDBACK: 145 pages
ISBN: 978-0953823956
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They also include the thoughts of a number
of internationally-renowned spokespeople,
talking about the challenges cities face today. These include:
• Judith Rodin – President of The Rockefeller Foundation
• Edgar Pieterse – Director of the African Center for Cities
• Clover Moore – Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney
• Thomas Heatherwick – British designer and the founder of Heatherwick Studio.
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