- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Architectural Press; 2 edition (February 25, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0750662077
- ISBN-13: 978-0750662079
Showing posts with label Urban Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urban Design. Show all posts
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Urban Design: Green Dimensions
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Design for Diversity: Exploring Socially Mixed Neighbourhoods
Description
The city is more than just a sum of its buildings; it is the sum of its communities. The most successful urban communities are very often those that are the most diverse - in terms of income, age, family structure and ethnicity - and yet poor urban design and planning can stifle the very diversity that makes communities successful.
Just as poor urban design can lead to sterile monoculture, successful planning can support the conditions needed for diverse communities. Emily Talen explores the linkage between urban forms and social diversity, and how one impacts the other. Learning the lessons from past successes and failures, and building from detailed case studies of different neighborhoods, Design for Diversity provides urban designers and architects with design strategies and tools to ensure that their work sustains and nurtures social diversity.
* Explores the link between urban form and social diversity
* Based on detailed studies of socially diverse neighbourhoods in cities
* Outlines urban design strategies to support diverse communities
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Urban Design Street and Square
This book offers a detailed analysis of urban design, covering the streets, squares and buildings that make up the public face of towns and cities. It includes the arrangement, design and details of these elements and the roles they play in city planning. Superb examples of streets and squares are examined in their historical context.'
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Streets and Patterns: The Structure of Urban Geometry
This book sets out a series of concepts of street structure and offers a framework for design of street networks. It addresses issues of sustainable transport and urbanism whilst introducing new methods assisting ****ysis and design. International street grid case studies are ****yses and suggest preferred types of street, network and hierarchy. This authoritative new text informs the design debate on street pattern and is set to become the definitive text on the topic.
Streets and Patterns: The Structure of Urban Geometry By Stephen Marshall
* Publisher: Routledge * Number Of Pages: 224 * Publication Date: 2004-12-23 * ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415317509 * ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415317504
Planning The Good Community
By Jill Grant
Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 269
Publication Date: 2006-01-24
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415700752
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415700757
Book Description:
People either love new urbanism or hate it. Some find compact new neighborhoods of brownstone row houses, elegant Victorian mansions, or country cottages delightful: places that celebrate the city and its history, and offer hope for a sustainable future. Others see these 'urban villages' as up-graded suburbs mired in the aesthetics of another time and place: cloyingly nostalgic anachronisms for affluent elites. This book examines new urban approaches both in theory and practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism lives up to its theory in its practice, it asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to the good community. With examples drawn principally from the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, Belgium, Norway, and Japan, this book explores new urban approaches in a wide range of settings. It considers the relationship between the movement for urban villages and an urban renaissance that has spread in the UK and Europe with the 'New Urbanism' movement in the United States and Canada and asks whether the concerns that drive contemporary planning theory - issues like power, democracy, spatial patterns, and globalization- receive adequate attention in new urban approaches. Does new urbanism offer a persuasive normative theory of urban development that will shape planning practice for years to come, or a design paradigm that cannot transcend its cultural origins in a particular time and place? The work of new urbanists has resulted in beautiful urban districts that reveal the potential of planning to create more attractive and meaningful urban landscapes. New urbanists have developed and propagated a formula for planning the good community, and have gained international attention in the process. Beauty is arguably a necessary condition for the good community, but is it sufficient?
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Threats From Car Traffic To The Quality Of Urban Life - Problems, Causes, Solutions
By Tommy Gärling, Linda Steg
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Number Of Pages: 386
Publication Date: 2007-05-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0080448534
SBN-13 / EAN: 9780080448534
Book Description:
Land Public Transport continues to gain greater attention in transport policy and economics, given its importance in assisting social cohesion and its contribution to reducing congestion and emissions. The chapters in this book are a refereed selection of the best papers initially presented at the 9th International Conference of Competition and Ownership of Land Passenger Transport (The Thredbo Series) in Lisbon in 2005. This was the ninth in a series of Thredbo conferences on the same general topic, gathering some of the worlds best specialists in the field, from academia and from practice from all continents. The range of current issues and depth of their treatment makes this a very valuable book for scientists and practitioners alike who desire to keep abreast of the very latest developments in institutional reform in land passenger transport. *Unique in its behavioral science perspective on the threats to quality of urban life from car use and policy measures to reduce car use *Provides a consolidated reference in car ownership and use *Key topical area backed up by international policy e.g. The Kyoto Protocol.
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The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces
By William H. Whyte
Publisher: Project for Public Spaces Inc
Number Of Pages: 125
Publication Date: 2001-03-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 097063241X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780970632418
Book Description:
In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. They have since become standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban planning, sociology, environmental design, and architecture departments around the world. project for Public Spaces, which grew out of Holly’s Street Life Project and continues his work around the world, has acquired the reprint rights to Social Life, with the intent of making it available to the widest possible audience and ensuring that the Whyte family receive their fair share of Holly’s legacy.
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Practical Ecology For Planners, Developers, And Citizens
By Dan L. Perlman, Jeffrey Milder
Publisher: Island Press
Number Of Pages: 328
Publication Date: 2004-12-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1559636343
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781559636346
Book Description:
Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens introduces and explains key ecological concepts for planners, landscape architects, developers, and others involved in planning and building human habitats. The book is tailored o meet the needs of busy land use professionals and citizens seeking a concise yet thorough overview of ecology and its applications. It offers clear guidelines and a wealth of information on how we can protect species and ecosystems while at the same creating healthy, sustainable human communities. Throughout the book, the authors make ecological concepts accessible to readers with little or no scientific background. They present key ideas and information in simple and pragmatic terms, and provide numerous graphics to help explain important concepts. They also offer exercises for the reader to practice ecologically-based planning and design, along with a list of resources for practical information on ecology and conservation. Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens will raise the level of ecological understanding among land use professionals and citizens, and is an invaluable new resource for anyone concerned with human land use and its environmental impacts.
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Facility Siting - Risk, Power And Identity In Land Use Planning
By Åsa Boholm
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2005-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1844071464
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781844071463
Book Description:
* Examines the social, political and environmental issues at stake and the acute conflicts over the siting of industrial facilities and infrastructure
* Essential reading for all involved in land use planning and facility siting at all levels and in all situations
* New in the Risk, Society and Policy Series From dams to landfill sites and power plants to radioactive waste repositories, the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicting data, politics, perception and controversy for industry, planners and authorities and citizens. This penetrating new edited collection examines risk, power and identity in contests over the siting of infrastructure and industrial facilities. Going beyond nimby-ism, experts in a variety of fields bring a multi-perspective analysis to case studies from the UK, US and Europe and expose the political and cultural dimensions of siting conflicts. In the process they show how place attachment and notions of landscape and local identity play a prominent role in resistance to 'development'.
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Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming - Ecology As The Basis Of Design
By Nancy Jack Todd, John Todd
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 210
Publication Date: 1984-06-12
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0871568144
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780871568144
Book Description:
The odyssey of the Todds began during a tumultuous period in recent human history marked by intense political and economic strife and destructive military conflict. Over a number of years through careful experimentation, the Todds developed ten key principles of ecological design in an attempt to guide, or as they say, steward, the planet towards a sustainable future. Ecological design is quite interdisciplinary in scope, and seeks to integrate biological principles into agriculture. By blending agriculture, renewable energy and architectural concepts, the Todds seek to create sustainable mini-ecosystems, as opposed to communities, which incorporate humans while at the same time mimicking the larger biosphere. As such, the Todds have made the first viable and quantifiable attempt to employ scientific principles that will ultimately allow `humankind' to become `one with the environment'. These scientists recognized early on that humanity depended on nature for its survival, and that any attack on nature is ultimately
an attack on all of humanity.
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Cities As Sustainable Ecosystems - Principles And Practices
By Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings
Publisher: Island Press
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: 2008-01-31
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1597261882
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781597261883
BookDescription:
Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives. The sources of the water they drink, the food they eat, and the energy they consume are all but invisible, often coming from other continents, and their waste ends up in places beyond their city boundaries. Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems shows how cities and their residents can begin to reintegrate into their bioregional environment, and how cities themselves can be planned with nature’s organizing principles in mind. Taking cues from living systems for sustainability strategies, Newman and Jennings reassess urban design by exploring flows of energy, materials, and information, along with the interactions between human and non-human parts of the system. Drawing on examples from all corners of the world, the authors explore natural patterns and processes that cities can emulate in order to move toward sustainability. Some cities have adopted simple strategies such as harvesting rainwater, greening roofs, and producing renewable energy. Others have created biodiversity parks for endangered species, community gardens that support a connection to their foodshed, and pedestrian-friendly spaces that encourage walking and cycling. A powerful model for urban redevelopment, Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems describes aspects of urban ecosystems from the visioning process to achieving economic security to fostering a sense of place.
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Light Zone City - Light Planning In The Urban Context
By Christa van Santen
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Number Of Pages: 127
Publication Date: 2006-04-21
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3764375221
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783764375225
Book Description:
The face of the nocturnal metropolis is marked decisively by light, and the number and variety of the light sources is increasing to the point of "light terror.” A well-lit urban space can be very inviting, giving residents and visitors a sense of well-being and security. A successful lighting design can also give the city at night an identity of its own and accentuate architectural qualities. In this book, the author embodies her many years of experience as a practitioner and teacher of lighting design. In preparation, she visited ten European cities — including Paris, Brussels, Berlin, London, Budapest, Vienna, and Amsterdam — with different urban situations. This has enabled her to present different planning and design tasks systematically and to illustrate specific solutions. In addition to articulating basic planning rules for the outdoor lighting of buildings, traffic routes, and squares, she presents and elucidates new artificial lighting systems and outdoor lamps with the help of examples.
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Urban Textures - Yves Lion
By Jean-Louis Cohen
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: 2005-07-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3764363010
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783764363017
Book Description:
A monograph on this prominent French architect, Yves Lion, and a survey of his oeuvre. Born in Casablanca in 1945, Yves Lion has been a pre-eminent figure in the French architectural scene and debate for some 30 years. Now, leading architectural historian Jean-Paul Cohen has produced the first overall survey of Lion's work, describing the key themes and focus of Lion's oeuvre, including his pursuit of urban planning and housing issues, and his discourse with James Stirling, Charles Jencks, Aldo van Eyck, Bernard Tschumi and others. Comprehensive documentation and illustrations of Lion's buildings complement Cohen's essay. Examples include the Nantes Opera House, the French Embassy in Beyrouth and the Maison Europ enne de la Photographie in Paris.
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Urban Spaces - The Design Of Public Places
By John Morris Dixon
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Number Of Pages: 329
Publication Date: 2001-09
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1584710233
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781584710233
Book Description:
In less than two years since our first Urban Spaces volume went to press, hundreds of excellent urban spaces have been completed, and hundreds more proposed. The universal appeal of spaces where people can gather continues to generate new parks, plazas, lobbies, atriums, and malls. Both public and private clients are investing in creative urban spaces. The Urban Land Institute has again cooperated with Visual Reference Publications to cosponsor this second volume showcasing urban spaces created by leading architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and planners. John Morris Dixon, FAIA, longtime Chief Editor of Progressive Architecture, will explain the design challenges and accomplishments of these outstanding projects. As you travel through these superbly printed color pages, you will gather invaluable insights in the planning and design of such public spaces as the Civic Plaza in Phoenix, Gantry State Park in New York, and Paseo del Alamo in San Antonio. You will visit public facilities such as the Orlando International Airport and the Long Beach Convention Center in California; retail environments such as the Galleria at Roseville in California and the Park Meadows Retail Resort in Colorado; business complexes such as the 3M Headquarters in Mexico, Sears 2000 in Chicago, and the Conde Nast Building in New York; new in-town communities such as CityPlace in West Palm Beach, Florida and Atlantic Station in Atlanta, Georgia; planned
communities such as Narragansett Landing in Rhode Island, the Lake at Las Vegas in Nevada, and Middleton Hills in Wisconsin. Going abroad, you will explore Scienceland in Shanghai, Cavendish Square in Cape Town, and Warringah Mall in Sydney.
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Curating Architecture And The City - Critiques
By Sarah Chaplin, Alexandra Stara
Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 258
Publication Date: 2009-06-05
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415489830
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415489836
Book Description:
Striking a balance between theoretical investigations and case studies, this book addresses the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment. International in scope, this collection investigates curation, architecture and the city across the world, opening up new possibilities for exploring the urban fabric.
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The Media City - Media, Architecture And Urban Space
by Dr Scott McQuire
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1412907942
ISBN-13: 978-1412907941
Book Description
Offering social commentary at the deepest levels of historical and critical reference, The Media City links Myspace to Howard Hughes; trams to cinema; security cameras to exploding buildings; reality TV to Marx; and Lenin on privacy to Kracauer on the mass ornament. Wide-ranging and richly illustrated, it intersects disciplines and connects phenomena which are too often left isolated from each other to propose a new way of understanding
public and private space and social life in contemporary cities.
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Introduction To Urban Housing Design - At Home In The City
Introduction to Urban Housing Design - At Home in the City
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