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The Art of Shaping the Metropolis Hardcover – Illustrated, December 3, 2013

by Pedro Ortiz (Author)
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A proven approach for addressing explosive metropolitan growth in an integrated and holistic manner

“The book provides a basis for the contemplation of the old network paradigm of the megalopolis into the informational meshwork of the mega- or metacity of the future. The handbook’s review of the networked past is invaluable, while its projection of these networks into future plans raises very many important questions for planners, urban designers, architects, and concerned citizens alike.” –From the Foreword by Professor Grahame Shane, Columbia University

For the first time, half the global population is living in urban areas―and that number is growing exponentially. Written by noted urban planner Pedro Ortiz, who served as director of the groundbreaking Madrid Metropolitan-Regional Plan, The Art of Shaping the Metropolis presents an innovative, agile solution for managing urban growth that enhances economic activity, environmental stability, and quality of life.

Based on the findings from Madrid and other cities, this timely guide offers a methodical system for addressing the crucial issues facing governments, professionals, the private and public sectors, developers, stakeholders, and inhabitants of twenty-first-century metropolises. The book details new rubrics to identify the process of growth and its evolution, new tools to monitor and gauge them, and new methods to synthesize them into a professional praxis that will be sustainable for the long term. Ortiz demonstrates how metropolises can be organized for a future that preserves the historic nucleus of the city and the environment, while providing for the necessary sustainable expansion of transportation, housing, and social and productive facilities.

Coverage includes:

  • The dialogues of the metropolis
  • The challenge
  • The inheritance
  • Balanced urban development―fabric and form
  • The chess on a tripod (CiTi) method to build the model
  • Madrid as testing ground
  • Practical considerations in implementing a metropolitan plan
  • Translating the model elsewhere
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  1. Print length
    224 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    McGraw Hill
  4. Publication date
    December 3, 2013
  5. Dimensions
    8.8 x 0.6 x 11.1 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0071817964
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0071817967
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  • Pat McL
    5.0 out of 5 stars For all leaders whose work requires multi-stakeholder participation and a longer term agenda
    Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2014
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    Pedro Ortiz is an experienced and thoughtful leader who knows how to bring a complex vision to life -- even when it takes years and faces many short and long term political agendas. He is the world's top expert on planning metropolitan areas for the future -- did it for Madrid when he was Deputy Mayor, and is working with government and civic groups around the world to help them be smart about their growth and development.

    I am not a metropolitan planner, but I do deal with large system, complex change. In my role I especially appreciate Mr. Ortiz' sensitivity to the many nuances of social change. He sees it for the complex, multi-agenda process it is and provides practical ways to think about and approach it that balance long term ethical concerns with shorter term and more local stakeholder needs and priorities. Thus, in addition to being for metropolitan planners and those who work with them, I think this book is for a broader audience of change leaders: the politicians, executives and consultants who face big strategic challenges and want to position their agendas for longer term success.

    Of course, anyone who is involved in any kind of civic/city/metropolitan planning should have this book sitting on his/her desk with a notebook handy. It elevates the planning process to a level that fits the emerging complexity of our expanding global population. Drawing on the insights and recommendations of this book, we can ensure that our metropolitan areas of the future will support a high quality of life everywhere on the planet.
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  • JAMES AND CATHLEEN STONE
    5.0 out of 5 stars Deals with a problem so big you might not see it
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    With more than half of the world's population now living in cities, and the percentage still expanding rapidly, one wonders how cities can accommodate the influx without becoming paralyzed hodge-podges. Ortiz, who was Deputy Mayor of Madrid and led its urban planning, manages to lay out a rational notion of the planning that must (and can feasibly) occur to prevent sprawling paralysis. His worldwide knowledge, allowing the use of many and diverse examples, would be hard to duplicate.
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  • ChasL
    5.0 out of 5 stars A city-planning classic.
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    Great book. I predict this will become a city-planning classic.
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  • Glocal
    5.0 out of 5 stars 3 possible Metropolitan policies: 1) Do nothing, 2) Archipelago, 3) Metro-Matrix
    Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2013
    There are 3 ways of dealing with Metropolitan growth:
    1) Do nothing. ...and let the future be a mess.
    2) The Archipelago theory: respond in a disjointed incrementalist empirical way.
    3) The Metro-Matrix theory: The one presented in this book, that offers a comprehensive approach based in rational analysis, neo-platonicism and historical evolution of urbanism.
    Be ahead of your fellow professionals and scholars.
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