STM publisher Springer, Germany, has announced that it is launching Future City, a new book series which brings together leading experts from the planning, ecological, engineering and design communities from all over the world. The series aims to discuss the wide range of issues facing the architects, planners, developers and inhabitants of the world's future cities, and to encourage the integration of ecological theory into the aesthetic, social and practical realities of contemporary urban development. Around two volumes are planned per year.
Bringing their expertise to this series is an advisory board which includes renowned green architect Ken Yeang, landscape architect and ecologist Joan Nassauer and distinguished ecologist Steward Pickett.
The series will be launched with the book Ecopolis: Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate by Australian architect, Paul Downton, with a foreword by Ken Yeang. The book highlights the urgent need to understand the role of cities as both agents of change and means of survival at a time when climate change has finally grabbed world attention. It provides a framework for designing cities that integrates knowledge - both academic and practical - from a range of relevant disciplines.
