GAM 08 Dense Cities

Which architectural strategies will we have in urban development in the next 30 years?
This book examines the density of urban areas and architectural production, in particular the open development of mid-sized historical cities with clear centralized concentration, to serve as a basis for new approaches to architectural design and planning.

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GAM 08, entitled Dense Cities , focuses on the topic of the density of urban areas and architectural production. Since 2008, more than half of the world s now lives in urban areas and forecasts from the UN predict this rate will rise to 70% by the year 2050. A large part of this development is taking place in the megacities in Asia and South America. The open development of mid-sized historical cities with clear centralized concentration serves as a basis for new approaches to architectural design and planning. If a city is considered to be any urban area with a certain density, we are then able to apply such terms as densification or increased densification new perspectives to all a range of scales. The contributions to this volume range from the topic of urban landscapes to the development of new building types.