As the world continues to urbanize more opportunities and risks become manifest. The question is what do we make of them and how do we manage them towards sustainable qualities of life.

Fashion Streets

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Peter G. Rowe and Har Ye Kan, Fashion Streets: Urban-architectural Venues in Western and Eastern Markets, in Bing Wang and Richard Peiser (eds). Prestige Retail: Design and Development Perspectives in High-End Luxury Goods Markets. International Council on Shopping Centers, 2014, pp. 29-67. A comparative discussion of fashion stores and related venues among the fashion streets of Europe including Fauboug St. Honore, Avenue Montaigne, Quadrilatoro della Moda, and Old Bond Street and in East Asia, including Omotesando, Ginza, Orchard Road and Nanjing Road.

Forum on the Development of Towns in the Yangtze River Delta

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Zhejiang Changjiang Delta Townization Development Data Research Institute, Small Cities, Big Futures: Forum on the Development of Towns in the Yangtze River Delta, Nanjing, China. Lecture titled, Sustainable Towns in Well-networked Urban Regions, August 1, 2015. Also, co-sponsored by SURBA.

Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities

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Author: Peter G. Rowe(With drawings by Michael Sypkens)
Birkhauser, 2011
Beginning around the 1990s in East Asian cities various concatenations of events led those in power, along with many segments of society, to turn away from production-oriented and narrowly-defined pathways forward in modernization towards a much fuller embrace of broader lifestyle opportunities, improved environmental amenities, and higher standards of urban living. Within the scope of these turning points, new territories were chartered and new forms of urban-architectural development and expression were engaged in.

Best Practice to Future Prototypes

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A detailed analysis of exemplary global consumer, community and lifestyle service outlets formed the basis for an aggregative understanding of their spatial principles. Use was made of network visualization tools to usefully separate out the relationship between components of consumer, community and lifestyle service and highlight the productive synergies among them. techniques for synthesizing new commercial centers were posited.

Literature Review of Consumer, Community and Lifestyle Service Delivery

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This is literature review focusing on China with regards to various aspects of consumer, community and lifestyle service delivery. It was developed in conjunction with an investigation of supply and demand of these services within small cities and towns in Zhejiang Province.

Methodological Notes on the Spatial Analysis of Urban Form

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This book covers quantitative techniques and indices that can be used in the empirical description and analysis of urban spatial formation and settlement. Based on case-study applications, each technique and index is outlined and illustrated by a step-by-step fashion. With few exceptions, use is made of ready-available software. A brief historical background also accompanies the technical discussion.

New Urbanization Seminar

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Calxon Group, New Urbanization Seminar, Shaoxing, China, 22 August, 2013. Lecture title, Cases of Urban Planning and Design from Developed Countries.

Qualification of Townships in Zhejiang Province for Consumer, Community and Lifestyle Services

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A detailed account of research conducted in qualifying 43 selected townships in Zhejiang Province for consumer, community and lifestyle services. Research was based on the use of statistical indicators of likely performance drawing on available data together with results of a detailed field survey of stores and other venues in selected towns. Final results were presented in the form of a risk analysis associated with additional consumer, community and lifestyle services outlets, as well as propitious sites for their location.

Urban Intensities: Contemporary Housing Types and Territories

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Author: Peter G. Rowe
Author: Har Ye Kan
Birkhauser, 2014
Combining the architectural and urban scales, this book demonstrates that it is a specific quality, urban intensity, which can determine the success of housing. As used in the book, ‘urban intensity’ is to be understood as a function simultaneously of density, diversity, and connectivity in urban circumstances.

The Cheonggyecheon Restoration

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This book is a bout a stream called ch that runs through the center of Seoul, South Korean and its transformative effects on the city’s urban conditions and future aspirations. A detailed assessment of the ch restoration project, this book was published with the generous support and collaboration of the Seoul Development Institute.