Arts, design, architecture & planning
Toward Urban Economic Vibrancy: Patterns and Practices in Asia's New Cities
Edited by Siqi Zheng, the Samuel Tak Lee Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability, and Zhengzhen Tan, executive director of the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab
SA+P Press, distributed by MIT Press · 2020
This book presents new cities in Asia from the perspective of economic vibrancy, identifying key mechanisms for measuring success. This analytical framework addresses the mechanisms along three dimensions: underlying forces that foster the dense and diverse production and consumption activities; creative financing; and the digitalization of urban systems.
From Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).
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