Smart Design

This book tackles the emerging smart urbanism to advance a new way of urban thinking and to explore a new design approach. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners in the fields of urban design, planning, architecture, urban development, and urban studies.

Richard Hu is an award-winning urban planner, and an educator and scholar. His work and interests integrate urban design, urban science, and urban policy to address contemporary urban transformations and challenges, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific area. He is the author of The Shenzhen Phenomenon (2020).

1. Smart urbanism 2. Relationality and centrality 3. Flattening and polarisation 4. Division and fusion 5. Reimagining urban spaces in COVID-19 6. Towards a smart design manifesto