Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Part I Overview of New Towns in the Twentieth and Twenty- First Centuries
4. Introduction 3
5. 1 A Brief History of New Towns 14
6. 2 The Promises and Pitfalls of New Towns 32
7. 3 Quality of Life in New Towns: What Do We Know, and What Do We Need to Know? 43
8. Part II New Towns Around the World
9. United States
10. 4 New Towns in the United States 59
11. 5 Development Lessons from Today’s Most Successful New Towns and Master- Planned Communities 88
12. 6 New Towns as Laboratories for Local Governance 104
13. Asia
14. 7 New Towns in East and Southeast Asia 119
15. 8 A Governance Perspective on New Towns in China 152
16. 9 New Towns in China: The Liangzhu Story 167
17. 10 Successes and Failures of New Towns in Hong Kong 182
18. 11 Right Place, Right Time: The Rise of Bundang 200
19. 12 New Towns in India 216
20. Elsewhere
21. 13 European New Towns: The End of a Model? From Pilot to Sustainable Territories 230
22. 14 Governing an Adolescent Society: The Case of Almere 250
23. 15 Ex Novo Towns in South America: A Genealogy 263
24. 16 New Towns in Africa 277
25. Part III Lessons on How to Build New Towns
26. 17 Why Is It So Difficult to Develop Financially Successful New Towns? New Town Finance: Problems and Solutions 293
27. 18 Organizing and Managing New Towns 309
28. 19 Reflections from International Practice 329
29. Part IV New Town Futures
30. 20 The Twenty- First- Century New Town: Site Planning and Design 363
31. 21 Environmental Concerns and New Towns: Four Paths 385
32. 22 Regional New Town Development: Strategic Adaptation to Climate Change 394
33. 23 New Towns in a New Era 410
34. Appendix 1 Location Maps for New Towns and Planned Communities 423
35. Appendix 2 New Towns Inventory 432
36. References 453
37. Contributors 481
38. Index 485
39. Acknowledgments 511