Bringing together leading academics from across a range of disciplines, Emergent Urbanism identifies the specific issues dominating today's urban planning and urban design discourse, arguing that urban planning and design not only results from deliberate planning and design measures, but how these combine with infrastructure planning.

Contents: Introduction: emergent urbanism and beyond, Krister Olsson and Tigran Haas. Part I The New Urban Context: Alphaville and Masdar: the future of urban space and form?, Alexander R. Cuthbert; Imagining biophilic cities, Timothy Beatley; A long view at high speed, Andrew Ballantyne; Creativity, diversity and interaction: urban space and place-making, Ali Madanipour; Incremental urbanism: the emergence of informal settlements, Kim Dovey; The city seen: strategies of coherence, evocation and simulation in urban representation, William Uricchio. Part II Processes of Planning and Urban Change: Social capital in the age of megacities and the knowledge economy, Hans Westlund; Cities of culture and culture in cities: the emerging uses of culture in city branding, Gregory Ashworth and Mihalis Kavaratzis; The field of urban composition, Mark C. Childs; The subject of place: staying with the trouble, Jonathan Metzger; What is good urbanism?, Nan Ellin; The challenge of social sustainability: revisiting the unfinished job of defining and measuring social sustainability in an urban context, Andrea Colantonio. Part III The Urban Product: Emergent urbanism as the transformative force in saving the planet, Peter Newman; Does the city have speech?, Saskia Sassen; Planning the emergent and dealing with uncertainty: regulations and urban form, Emily Talen; The responsive city: the city of the future re-imagined from the bottom up, Sarah Williams; The environmental paradox of the city, landscape urbanism and new urbanism, Douglas Kelbaugh. Index.