***WAS DELAYED NOW PRINTING*** 'Jigsaw City' is about the past, present, and future of new city and town development in Hong Kong, Asia, and beyond. Case studies relate the complications, history, and milestones required to set up a new city, along with awe-inspiring examples of engineering feats ? the past and present lead readers to the future of new town development. Planners are making careful calculations now that consider whether people in the future will be stuck in traffic, have parkland within walking distance, or will be employed at the local megamall. New towns and cities will need to be built to accommodate the 1 billion people estimated to be living in China's cities by 2030. AECOM presents topics that will help readers understand whether they'll want to live in the new cities designed, and the influence new cities will have on the world's greatest period of urbanisation. Discover the ten most important aspects of building new towns throughout Asia and beyond: 1. Why new towns now? Understand the pressing need for new towns in an era of urbanisation and low-carbon consciousness. 2. All new towns are wired with a go-button. Find out what is needed to create the momentum behind getting new cities on the drawing board. 3. Big ideas matter. Explore the visionary artistic creations that are crucial in going beyond the physical outline of new towns, to ensure reinforcement of existing economic support. 4. Participation makes a difference. Learn how community is key: government agencies, consultants, engineers and builders are now increasingly being guided by public opinion. 5. New towns have multiple personalities. Recognise that the many facets of a new town's foundation, such as detailed design and engineering, work in concert with the natural topography to present a unique physical and cultural identity. 6. There is more than meets the eye. Conceptualise how underfoot and behind every wall is a world of innovation and engineering that fuels the life of the new town. 7. The city moves you. Visualise how transport planners and engineers have constructed new towns that effectively, yet subtly, command the flow of movement throughout the city. 8. The city breathes. See why sustainability in the creation of a city is not about individual innovations and installations; rather, understand it as the living, breathing process of ecological integration. 9. It pays to organise. Find out how the effects of and how to avoid a lack of oversight, budget blowouts or crushing delays. 10. When is a new town no longer new? Envision a new town as continually evolving landscapes of people, aspirations, and reactions... the evolution never ends. Formed from some of the world's leading consultancies, AECOM is a versatile and collaborative community of design and engineering professionals working in all contexts, at all scales. They have a shared purpose: to enhance and sustain the world's built, natural and social environments. AUTHOR: Claire Stephens Saeki is cofounder and Managing editor of RFP Magazine, Eco-Build Magazine, and Office Space Magazine. She is considered an expert on industries making up the built environment in Asia including real estate, urban planning, architecture, project and building management. 280 photographs e50 illustrations
