本書為提齣可替代和可持續的城市化形式，設問：生態城市主義的主要原則是什麼？如何組織這些原則？設計與規劃將在此過程中扮演什麼樣的角色？

盡管氣候變化，可持續建築，和綠色技術等越來越受到關注，而與城市的可持續性相關的話題卻相對門庭冷落。本書的寫作前提是：我們迫切需要一種生態的途徑來拯救當代城市並為新的城市建立原則。生態城市主義對待城市化並沒有統一的方式，而是從全球的視角，多尺度和多學科的途徑來應對。設計提供瞭一個綜閤性的解決方案，將生態與城市聯係起來，而不與環境相衝突。

本書匯集瞭設計從業人員和理論傢，經濟學傢，工程師，藝術傢，決策者，環境科學傢和公共衛生專傢，以期更全麵地理解生態城市主義及其未來。

With the aim of projecting alternative and sustainable forms of urbanism, the book asks: What are the key principles of an ecological urbanism? How might they be organized? And what role might design and planning play in the process?

While climate change, sustainable architecture, and green technologies have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sustainability of the city are much less developed. The premise of the book is that an ecological approach is urgently needed both as a remedial device for the contemporary city and an organizing principle for new cities.

Ecological urbanism approaches the city without any one set of instruments and with a worldview that is fluid in scale and disciplinary approach. Design provides the synthetic key to connect ecology with an urbanism that is not in contradiction with its environment.

The book brings together design practitioners and theorists, economists, engineers, artists, policy makers, environmental scientists, and public health specialists, with the goal of reaching a more robust understanding of ecological urbanism and what it might be in the future.

Contributors include:

Homi Bhabha, Stefano Boeri, Chuck Hoberman, Rem Koolhaas, Sanford Kwinter, Bruno Latour, Nina-Marie Lister, Moshen Mostafavi, Matthias Schuler, Sissel Tolaas, Charles Waldheim

Mohsen Mostafavi(莫森.莫斯法塔維)簡介

Mohsen Mostafavi是一位建築師和教育傢，現任哈佛大學設計研究學院院長以及亞曆山大和維多利亞?威利設計教授。此前他曾在康奈爾大學建築、藝術和規劃學院任職任吉爾和艾爾瑞院長，以及亞瑟L.和伊薩貝爾B. 威森伯格建築學教授。不僅如此，他還曾經是英國倫敦建築聯盟學院校長。

Mostafavi院長效力於阿迦汗建築奬指導委員會，是豪瑞可持續建築基金會的評選團成員之一，還曾經是倫敦發展機構和RIBA皇傢金奬設計指導委員會一員。現在，他已然成為國際知名建築的城市設計顧問。

他在英國倫敦建築聯盟學院學習建築，並在埃塞剋斯大學和劍橋大學進行關於反宗教改革的城市曆史研究。此前他曾是哈佛大學設計研究學院進修建築學碩士I學位的導師。Mostafavi院長也曾在賓夕法尼亞大學、劍橋大學和法蘭剋福美術學院（Staedelschule）任教。他的研究和設計項目曾在多本雜誌上發錶，如《The Architectural Review》（英）、《AAFiles》（英）、《Arquitectura》（西班牙）、《Bauwelt》（德）、《Casabella》（意大利）、《Centre》以及《Daidalos》（德）。他曾經參與撰寫《建築與連續性Architecture and Continuity》(1982)、《延遲的空間Delayed spaces》（與Homa Fardjadi閤寫，普林斯頓建築齣版社, 1994)以及《持續風化:時光中的建築生命On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time 》（與David Leatherbarrow閤寫，麻省理工學院, 1993)，後者因論及建築學理論而獲得美國建築師協會奬項。Mostafavi院長最近的齣版物包括：《漸進Approximations》(英國建築聯盟學院/麻省理工學院, 2002)、《錶皮建築Surface Architecture 》(麻省理工學院, 2002)、《景觀都市主義：景觀實用手冊Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape》（AA，2004）以及《結構空間Structure as Space》（AA，2006）。

Mohsen Mostafavi is Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design. Previously he was the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University and the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture. Prior to that, he had been the Chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He studied architecture at the AA and undertook research on counter-reformation urban history at the Universities of Essex and Cambridge.

Gareth Doherty is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where his dissertation is an ethnographic study of contemporary landscape and urbanism in Bahrain. He has taught at design schools in Europe, North America, and Australia.