The City Rebooted

Many cities across the world continue to grapple with long-standing urban challenges even as new ones emerge. With each crisis, cities address these perennial (e.g. decentralization of urban cores and revitalising the city centre), nascent, and emergent (work-life balance, digitization of social-economy) urban challenges with a greater sense of urgency. The book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to signpost future pathways of cities, drawing on the experiences of the city-state of Singapore.

Contents:

• Preface

• Notes on Contributors

• List of Figures

• List of Tables

• Introduction:

  • Post Disaster Cities: Reboot, Rethink or Reconfigure? (Chan Heng Chee & Špela Monik)

• The New Economic Trends of Singapore City:

  • Is the City Centre Hollowing Out? (Sara Ann Nicholas & Winston Yap)
  • The Digital Economy Takes Over (Dinithi Jayasekara & Fredrick Hansson)

• The Future of Office:

  • The Spatial Antifragile Nature of Work in the Age of New Normal (Sam Conrad Joyce)
  • Future of Work is Hybrid, but How? (Sam Conrad Joyce & Nazim Ibrahim)

• The Future of Polycentres:

  • Polycentricity in a City State? Regional Centres as Singapore's Exceptional Socio-Spatial Development Project (Harvey Neo & Li Bayi)
  • The Emerging Socio-Spatial Implications of Cloud Kitchens and Cloud Stores (Samuel Chng)

• Sustaining the Magic of the City:

  • Through the Looking Glass Everyday Urbanism in a Pandemic City 20202022 (Felicity HH Chan, Yunkyung Choi, Emma En-Ya Goh & Bayi Li)
  • The Magic of Modernity (Chan Heng Chee, Winston Yap & Sara Ann Nicholas)
  • Cultivating Magic: The Discreet Charm of the City Centre (Rafael Martinez, Sara Ann Nicholas & Špela Monik)

• Epilogue

• Index

Readership: General readers who have interest in cities and readers who work in the fields of urban science, urban studies and urban planning and policy. These include academics, graduate and undergraduate students, industry/practitioner, government.
Key Features:

• The book offers a fresh, bold perspective of urban futures. It does so by advancing novel understandings/solutions to perennial urban challenges (such as the hollowing out of the city core, decentralizing, work-life balance) and to anticipate what urban landscapes of the future may look like
• The contributors are drawn from diverse disciplines (including anthropology, geography, urban planning, architecture, environmental psychology, urban studies, political science, data analyst, public policy and organizational study)
• Its multidisciplinary perspectives, coupled with jargon free language, will appeal to a wide range of readership

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