New Urbanism

Ilse Helbrecht is Professor for Human Geography at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany and Peter Dirksmeier is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

• Chapter 1 New Downtowns: A New Form of Centrality and Urbanity in World Society, Ilse Helbrecht, Peter Dirksmeier; Chapter 2 Planning Urbanity – A Contradiction in Terms?, Loretta Lees; Chapter 3 Public Spaces for the 21st Century, Jan Gehl; Chapter 4 Waterfront Redevelopment: Global Processes and Local Contingencies in Vancouver’s False Creek, David Ley; Chapter 5 Planning for Creativity: The Transformation of the Amsterdam Eastern Docklands, Robert Kloosterman; Chapter 6 From the Old Downtown to the New Downtown: The Case of the South Boston Waterfront, Susanne Heeg; Chapter 7 Grasping, Creating and Commercialising Trends, Styles and ‘Zeitgeist’: The Role of Urbanity with Regard to Working in Flexible, Specialised Project Networks as Illustrated by the Media Industry, Ivo Mossig; Chapter 8 Major Town Planning Projects in Urban Renaissance: Structuring Property Sales for Future Urbanity?, Maike Dziomba; Chapter 9 Neighbourliness in the City Centre: Reality and Potential in the Case of the Hamburg HafenCity, Ingrid Breckner, Marcus Menzl; Chapter 10 Assessment of the Effects of the Built Environment for the Organisation of Social Processes, Thomas Perry; Chapter 11 Can Urbanity be Planned? Comments on the Development of Public Spaces in the HafenCity of Hamburg, Claus-C. Wiegandt; Chapter 12 The Virtue of Diversity, Rolf Lindner;

Book prize: Shortlisted for the Urban Design Group 2013 book of the year prize. 'New Urbanism is an interesting, thought-provoking book which poses serious questions about the type of urban form or urbanity taking place in 21st century cities.' Urban Design