Architecture and Statecraft: Charles of Bourbon's Naples, 1734-1759

Architecture and Statecraft: Charles of Bourbon's Naples, 1734-1759
by Robin L. Thomas

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• Published on: 2013-10-01
• Original language: English
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Architecture and Statecraft: Charles of Bourbon's Naples, 1734-1759

Architecture and Statecraft: Charles of Bourbon's Naples, 1734-1759
by Robin L. Thomas

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• Rank: #334854 in Books
• Published on: 2013-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover

The Car in 2035: Mobility Planning for the near Future

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The Car in 2035: Mobility Planning for the near Future
Kati Rubinyi (Editor)

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The Car in 2035: Mobility Planning for the Near Future is an artful and refreshingly multifaceted view of the future of mobility, focusing on the car, the street, and public policy in Southern California. These essays and images present the car as both a challenge and benefit to our neighborhoods, cities, and suburbs. A lively mix of auto industry experts, planners, designers, artists, researchers, and architects contemplates how we will adapt our cars and their context so we can continue to enjoy the freedom and benefits of individual mobility in the future. The book features photos by acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist Monica Nouwens and design by Colleen Corcoran. Authors include John Thackara; Michael Webb of Archigram; John Chris Jones, author of Design Methods; and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, chair of Graduate studies in Art at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and Geoffrey Wardle, leader of Graduate Transportation Design at the Art Center College of Design.

Authors: Marco Anderson, Alan Dobbins, Steve Finnegan, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Christopher Gray, Terry A. Hayes, Simon Henley, Mark Hoffman, John Chris Jones, Jeremy Klop, Sang-eun Lee, Shannon S. McDonald, Steve Mazor, Eric Noble and Bill Surber, Simon Pastucha, Mohammad Poorsartep, Kati Rubinyi, Tom Smiley, John Thackara, Bill Trimble, John Stutsman, Doug Suisman, Geoffrey Wardle, Michael Webb

• Rank: #167878 in Books
• Published on: 2013-03-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Measuring Urban Design: Metrics for Livable Places (Metropolitan Planning + Design)

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Measuring Urban Design: Metrics for Livable Places (Metropolitan Planning + Design)
by Reid Ewing PhD, Otto Clemente

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What makes strolling down a particular street enjoyable? The authors of Measuring Urban Design argue it's not an idle question. Inviting streets are the centerpiece of thriving, sustainable communities, but it can be difficult to pinpoint the precise design elements that make an area appealing. This accessible guide removes the mystery, providing clear methods to measure urban design.
 
In recent years, many "walking audit instruments" have been developed to measure qualities like building height, block length, and sidewalk width. But while easily quantifiable, these physical features do not fully capture the experience of walking down a street. In contrast, this book addresses broad perceptions of street environments. It provides operational definitions and measurement protocols of five intangible qualities of urban design, specifically imageability, visual enclosure, human scale, transparency, and complexity.
 
The result is a reliable field survey instrument grounded in constructs from architecture, urban design, and planning. Readers will also find a case study applying the instrument to 588 streets  in New York City, which shows that it can be used effectively to measure the built environment's impact on social, psychological, and physical well-being. Finally, readers will find illustrated, step-by-step instructions to use the instrument and a scoring sheet for easy calculation of urban design quality scores.
 
For the first time, researchers, designers, planners, and lay people have an empirically tested tool to measure those elusive qualities that make us want to take a stroll. Urban policymakers and planners as well as students in urban policy, design, and environmental health will find the tools and methods in Meauring Urban Design especially useful.

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• Published on: 2013-07-us.html
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

The City in the City -: Berlin: A Green Archipelago

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The City in the City -: Berlin: A Green Archipelago
by Florian Hertweck, Sebastien Marot

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In the manifesto The City in the City - Berlin: A Green Archipelago, Oswald Mathias Ungers and a number of his colleagues from Cornell University presented the first concepts and intellectual models for the shrinking city. In contrast to the reconstruction of the European city that was popular at the time, they developed the figure of a polycentric urban landscape. However, the manifesto really began to exert an effect

beginning in the 1990s onwards, when the focus of the urban planning discourse turned to the examination of crises, recessions, and the phenomenon of demographic shrinking. This critical edition contains a previously unpublished version of the manifesto by Rem Koolhaas, as well as interviews with co-authors Rem Koolhaas, Peter Riemann, Hans Kollhoff, and Arthur Ovaska. Introductory texts explain the development

of the manifesto between Cornell and Berlin, position the work in the planning history of Berlin, and reveal its influence on current approaches.

FLORIAN HERTWECK, born in Bonn in 1975, is associate professor for architectural design, architectural theory, and urban planning in Versailles, and an associate in the planning office Hertweck Devernois. SEBASTIEN MAROT, born in Paris, France, in 1961, is founding member of the "Ecole d'architecture de la ville et des territoires Marne-la-Vallée" and visiting professor at numerous universities including the ETH Zürich and Harvard.

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• Published on: 2013-02-28
• Released on: 2013-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Sustainable Urban Development Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series)

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Sustainable Urban Development Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series)
Stephen M. Wheeler (Editor), Timothy Beatley (Editor)
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Building on the success of its first edition, the second edition of the Sustainable Urban Development Reader expands its selection of classic material on sustainable community development. As in the previous edition, it begins by tracing the roots of the sustainable development concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, before presenting classic readings on a number of dimensions of the sustainability concept.

Topics covered include land use and urban design, transportation, ecological planning and restoration, energy and materials use, economic development, social and environmental justice, and green architecture and building. All sections have a concise editorial introduction that places the selection in context and suggests further reading. Additional sections cover tools for sustainable development, sustainable development internationally, visions of sustainable community and case studies from around the world. The book also includes educational exercises for individuals, university classes, or community groups, and an extensive list of recommended readings.

The anthology remains unique in presenting a broad array of classic readings in this field, each with a concise introduction placing it within the context of this evolving discourse. It includes updated material on:

• global warming
• issues in less developed countries
• ecotourism
• prospects for sustainable development in China
• megacities
• case studies of sustainable development.

The Sustainable Urban Development Reader presents an authoritative overview of the field using original sources in a highly readable format for university classes in urban studies, environmental studies, the social sciences, and related fields. It also makes a wide range of sustainable urban planning-related material available to the public in a clear and accessible way, forming an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the future of urban environments.

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• Published on: 2008-10-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.69" h x .98" w x 7.44" l, 2.40 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books)

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Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books)
Edmund N. Bacon (Author)
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"The major contemporary work on urban design . . . Splendidly presented, filled with thoughtful and brilliant intuitive insights." —The New Republic

In a brilliant synthesis of words and pictures, Edmund N. Bacon relates historical examples to modern principles of urban planning. He vividly demonstrates how the work of great architects and planners of the past can influence subsequent development and be continued by later generations. By illuminating the historical background of urban design, Bacon also shows us the fundamental forces and considerations that determine the form of a great city. Perhaps the most significant of these are simultaneous movement systems—the paths of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, public and private transportation—that serve as the dominant organizing force, and Bacon looks at movement systems in cities such as London, Rome, and New York. He also stresses the importance of designing open space as well as architectural mass and discusses the impact of space, color, and perspective on the city-dweller. That the centers of cities should and can be pleasant places in which to live, work, and relax is illustrated by such examples as Rotterdam and Stockholm.

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• Published on: 1976-05-us.html
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• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .70" h x 8.06" w x 10.88" l, 2.24 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030 (Metropolitan Planning + Design)

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Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030 (Metropolitan Planning + Design)
by Dr. Arthur C. Nelson Ph.D. FAICP, Earl Blumenauer

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Nearly half the buildings that will be standing in 2030 do not exist today. That means we have a tremendous opportunity to reinvent our urban areas, making them more sustainable and livable for future generations. But for this vision to become reality, the planning community needs reliable data about emerging trends and smart projections about how they will play out. Arthur C. Nelson delivers that resource in Reshaping Metropolitan America.

This unprecedented reference provides statistics about changes in population, jobs, housing, nonresidential space, and other key factors that are shaping the built environment, but its value goes beyond facts and figures. Nelson expertly analyzes contemporary development trends and identifies shifts that will affect metropolitan areas in the coming years. He shows how redevelopment can meet new and emerging market demands by creating more compact, walkable, and enjoyable communities. Most importantly, Nelson outlines a policy agenda for reshaping America that meets the new market demand for sustainable places.

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• Published on: 2013-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.90" h x .51" w x 5.91" l, .80 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

Charter of the New Urbanism

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Charter of the New Urbanism
by Congress for the New Urbanism, Emily Talen

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The principles of New Urbanism--revised

Charter of the New Urbanism, Second Edition re-introduces the principles of New Urbanism, now updated to reflect the realities of the 21st century. The book's numerous contributors, which include Andrés Duany (co-author of McGraw-Hill Professional's The Smart Growth Manual) and Peter Calthorpe (author of Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change), discuss planning/design strategies that range from large-scale—regional—to small-scale—blocks, streets, and buildings. Revealing case studies pinpoint urban problems and propose alternative solutions.

New to this Edition

• All chapters have been revised to respond to changes in urbanism over the past 20 years
• New commentaries – 30 new authors offer commentary on the original Charter principles
• New concepts – Retrofitting Suburbia, the Transect, Form-based coding, and Tactical Urbanism, and more
• All new illustrations

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• Published on: 2013-05-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History

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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
by Spiro Kostof
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Spanning the ages and the globe, Spiro Kostof explores the city as a "repository of cultural meaning" and an embodiment of the community it shelters. Widely used by both architects and students of architecture, The City Shaped won the AIA's prestigious book award in Architecture and Urbanism. With hundreds of photographs and drawings that illustrate Professor Kostof's innovative ideas, this has become one of the most important works on urbanization.

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• Published on: 1993-05-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.00" h x 1.13" w x 9.00" l, 3.26 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990

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Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990
by Wim de Wit, Christopher James Alexander

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From 1940 to 1990, Los Angeles rapidly evolved into one of the most populous and influential industrial, economic, and creative capitals in the world. During this era, the region was transformed into a laboratory for cutting-edge architecture. Overdrive: L. A. Constructs the Future, 1940–1990 examines these experiments and their impact on modern design, reframes the perceptions of Los Angeles’s dynamic built environment, and amplifies the exploration of the city’s vibrant architectural legacy.

The drawings, models, and images highlighted in the Overdrive exhibition and catalogue reveal the complex and often underappreciated facets of Los Angeles and illustrate how the metropolis became an internationally recognized destination with a unique design vocabulary, canonical landmarks, and a coveted lifestyle. This investigation builds upon the groundbreaking work of generations of historians, theorists, curators, critics, and activists who have researched and expounded upon the development of Los Angeles. In this volume, thought-provoking essays shed more light on the exhibition’s narratives, including Los Angeles’s physical landscape, the rise of modernism, the region’s influential residential architecture, its buildings for commerce and transportation, and architects’ pioneering uses of bold forms, advanced materials, and new technologies.

Los Angeles’s ability to facilitate change, experiment, recalibrate, and forge ahead is one of its greatest strengths. Future generations are destined to harness the region’s enviable resources to create new layers of architectural innovations.

The related exhibition will be held at the J. Paul Getty Museum from April 9 to July 21, 2013.

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• Published on: 2013-04-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Formerly Urban: Projecting Rustbelt Futures (New City Books)

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Formerly Urban: Projecting Rustbelt Futures (New City Books)
by Julia Czerniak

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Formerly Urban is a collection of essays grounded in the belief that design, in all its manifestations, must play a central role in the revitalization of shrinking cities in America. The essays-by notable architects, landscape architects, and urban planners-argue that designers need to seize the opportunity to be the link between universities, local government, and private foundations. Only by participating from an urban project's inception can designers help shape design policy and the design of public works. Formerly Urban is for practitioners, urban thinkers, and anyone participating in the renewal and revitalization of our formerly urban centers.

• Rank: #767233 in Books
• Published on: 2013-01-02
• Released on: 2013-01-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .79" w x 7.01" l, 1.70 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 207 pages

All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities

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All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities
by Michael Sorkin

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The celebrated radical architect returns with an anthology on the politics and culture of architecture.

Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as “unique in America––brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny.” All Over the Map confirms all of these superlatives as Sorkin assaults “the national security city, with its architecture of manufactured fear.”

• Rank: #330740 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x 1.30" w x 5.51" l, 1.15 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

The Urban Design Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series)

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The Urban Design Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series)
by Michael Larice, Elizabeth Macdonald

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The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent writings by Waldheim, Koolhaas, and Sorkin. Following the widespread success of the first edition of The Urban Design Reader, this updated edition continues to provide the most important historical material of the urban design field, but also introduces new topics and selections that address the myriad challenges facing designers today.

The six part structure of the second edition guides the reader through the history, theory and practice of urban design. The reader is initially introduced to those classic writings that provide the historical precedents for city-making into the twentieth century. Part Two introduces the voices and ideas that were instrumental in establishing the foundations of the urban design field from the late 1950s up to the mid-1990s. These authors present a critical reading of the design professions and offer an alternative urban design agenda focused on vital and lively places. The authors in Part Three provide a range of urban design rationales and strategies for reinforcing local physical identity and the creation of memorable places. These selections are largely describing the outcomes of mid-century urban design and voicing concerns over the placeless quality of contemporary urbanism. The fourth part of the Reader explores key issues in urban design and development. Ideas about sprawl, density, community health, public space and everyday life are the primary focus here. Several new selections in this part of the book also highlight important international development trends in the Middle East and China. Part Five presents environmental challenges faced by the built environment professions today, including recent material on landscape urbanism, sustainability, and urban resiliency. The final part examines professional practice and current debates in the field: where urban designers work, what they do, their roles, their fields of knowledge and their educational development. The section concludes with several position pieces and debates on the future of urban design practice.

This book provides an essential resource for students and practitioners of urban design, drawing together important but widely dispersed writings. Part and selection introductions are provided to assist readers in understanding the context of the material, summary messages, impacts of the writing, and how they fit into the larger picture of the urban design field.

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• Published on: 2012-12-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.69" h x 1.30" w x 7.44" l, 3.15 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 660 pages

Small Cities USA: Growth, Diversity, and Inequality

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Small Cities USA: Growth, Diversity, and Inequality
by Professor Jon Norman

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While journalists document the decline of small-town America and scholars describe the ascent of such global cities as New York and Los Angeles, the fates of little cities remain a mystery. What about places like Providence, Rhode Island; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Laredo, Texas; and Salinas, California—the smaller cities that constitute much of America’s urban landscape? In Small Cities USA, Jon R. Norman examines how such places have fared in the wake of the large-scale economic, demographic, and social changes that occurred in the latter part of the twentieth century.

Drawing on an assessment of eighty small cities between 1970 and 2000, Norman considers the factors that have altered the physical, social, and economic landscapes of such places. These cities are examined in relation to new patterns of immigration, shifts in the global economy, and changing residential preferences. Small Cities USA presents the first large-scale comparison of smaller cities over time in the United States, showing that small cities that have prospered over time have done so because of diverse populations and economies. These "glocal" cities, as Norman calls them, are doing well without necessarily growing into large metropolises.

• Rank: #418863 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-22
• Released on: 2013-01-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 5.98" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Cycle Space: Architecture and Urban Design in the Age of the Bicycle

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Cycle Space: Architecture and Urban Design in the Age of the Bicycle
by Steven Fleming

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Cycle Space is the first book to view the city through the lens--or rearview mirror--of the bicycle. It features portraits of eight major cities and their respective cycling cultures: New York, Chicago, Portland, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Budapest, São Paolo, Singapore and Sydney. Each of these cities has seen a groundswell of cyclists taking to its streets in recent years. From death-defying bike messengers to hipsters with a taste for cycle chic to commuters simply riding to work, cycling is now being viewed as more than just an alternative: it's practical; it's cool; it's green. In Cycle Space, architecture professor and cycling enthusiast Steven Fleming (or Dr. Behooving, as he is known to those who follow his blog, Behooving Moving) suggests new ways of designing better cities, thereby reducing emissions, commute times, ill health and sprawl in the process. Not only can architecture and urban design begin to optimize conditions for cycling; they can also take inspiration from the aesthetics and ethics of cycling as well. Fleming argues that understanding why more and more people are choosing bikes is key for discovering the full potential of the bicycle as a transformative force in the design of our cities. Cycle Space is a must-read for anyone interested in the nexus of architecture, cycling and urban design.

• Rank: #387417 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

The Smart Growth Manual

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The Smart Growth Manual
by Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, Mike Lydon
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Everyone is calling for smart growth...but what exactly is it? In The Smart Growth Manual, two leading city planners provide a thorough answer. From the expanse of the metropolis to the detail of the window box, they address the pressing challenges of urban development with easy-to-follow advice and broad array of best practices.

With their landmark book Suburban Nation, Andres Duany and Jeff Speck "set forth more clearly than anyone has done in our time the elements of good town planning" (The New Yorker). With this long-awaited companion volume, the authors have organized the latest contributions of new urbanism, green design, and healthy communities into a comprehensive handbook, fully illustrated with the built work of the nation's leading practitioners.

"The Smart Growth Manual is an indispensable guide to city planning. This kind of progressive development is the only way to fully restore our economic strength and create new jobs, new industries, and a renewed ability to compete in the first rank of world economies." -- Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco

"Authors Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, and Mike Lydon have created The Smart Growth Manual, a resource which not only explains the overarching ideals of smart growth, but a manual that takes the time to show smart growth principles at each geographic scale (region, neighborhood, street, building). I highly recommend [it] as a part of any community participant’s or urban planner’s desktop references." -- LocalPlan.org

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• Published on: 2009-10-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x .47" w x 5.51" l, .60 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Urban Spaces: Plazas, Squares & Streetscapes (Architecture in Focus)

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Urban Spaces: Plazas, Squares & Streetscapes (Architecture in Focus)
by Chris van Uffelen
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Urban & Land Use Planning

Public urban spaces vary widely in type, form and size, encompassing plazas, squares and streetscapes. They serve pedestrians and flaneurs, accommodate street life in all its vibrant variations and represent the cities and towns themselves. On the one hand they are transit spaces or crossroads, while on the other hand they provide opportunities to linger or stage events. This volume features recent projects from all continents, showing the different approaches and solutions to this sophisticated design task at the intersection of architecture, landscape design and urban planning. Hardly any other area of spatial design offers so much freedom and such functional and formal diversity as does the design of urban spaces.

• Rank: #145663 in Books
• Published on: 2012-12-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 11.81" h x 1.18" w x 9.29" l, 4.10 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor

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The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor
by Marguerite Holloway

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Urban & Land Use Planning

The first biography of an unrecognized, nineteenth-century genius, the man who plotted Manhattan’s famous city grid.

John Randel Jr. (1787–1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as his bombast and irascibility, Randel created surveying devices, designed an early elevated subway, and laid out a controversial alternative route for the Erie Canal—winning him admirers and enemies. In The Measure of Manhattan, Marguerite Holloway explores the science and symbolism of surveying, a craft that begat a surprising number of modern technologies. Tasked with “gridding” what was then an undeveloped, hilly island, Randel recorded the contours of Manhattan down to the rocks on its shores. In his precision he sought to tame the land; Holloway explores this philosophy as well as contemporary efforts to envision Manhattan as a wild island again. Illustrated throughout with historical images and antique maps, The Measure of Manhattan is about the ways we envision and inhabit the world, and is also an eye-opening biography of a man who was central to Manhattan’s development yet died in financial ruin. 24 illustrations

• Rank: #608155 in Books
• Published on: 2013-02-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x .12" w x 6.14" l, 1.44 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

Ecological Urbanism

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Ecological Urbanism
by Mohsen Mostafavi, Gareth Doherty, Harvard University
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Urban & Land Use Planning

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

• Rank: #21492 in Books
• Published on: 2010-05-01
• Released on: 2010-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.45" h x 2.24" w x 6.50" l, 4.22 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 656 pages

Community Planning: An Introduction to the Comprehensive Plan, Second Edition

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Community Planning: An Introduction to the Comprehensive Plan, Second Edition
by Eric Damian Kelly
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Urban & Land Use Planning

This book introduces community planning as practiced in the United States, focusing on the comprehensive plan. Sometimes known by other names—especially master plan or general plan—the type of plan described here is the predominant form of general governmental planning in the U.S. Although many government agencies make plans for their own programs or facilities, the comprehensive plan is the only planning document that considers multiple programs and that accounts for activities on all land located within the planning area, including both public and private property.

 

Written by a former president of the American Planning Association, Community Planning is thorough, specific, and timely. It addresses such important contemporary issues as sustainability, walkable communities, the role of urban design in public safety, changes in housing needs for a changing population, and multi-modal transportation planning. Unlike competing books, it addresses all of these topics in the context of the local comprehensive plan.

 

• Rank: #11715 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .87" h x 8.02" w x 10.47" l, 1.96 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 424 pages

Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
by Mark Binelli
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Urban & Land Use Planning

Once America’s capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country’s greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city’s worst crisis yet (and that’s saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists—all have been drawn to Detroit’s baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier.

With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. Throughout the city’s “museum of neglect”—its swaths of abandoned buildings, its miles of urban prairie—he tracks both the blight and the signs of its repurposing, from the school for pregnant teenagers to a beleaguered UAW local; from metal scrappers and gun-toting vigilantes to artists reclaiming abandoned auto factories; from the organic farming on empty lots to GM’s risky wager on the Volt electric car; from firefighters forced by budget cuts to sleep in tents to the mayor’s realignment plan (the most ambitious on record) to move residents of half-empty neighborhoods into a viable, new urban center.

Sharp and impassioned, Detroit City Is the Place to Be is alive with the sense of possibility that comes when a city hits rock bottom. Beyond the usual portrait of crime, poverty, and ruin, we glimpse a longshot future Detroit that is smaller, less segregated, greener, economically diverse, and better functioning—what could be the boldest reimagining of a post-industrial city in our new century. Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012

• Rank: #2441 in Books
• Published on: 2012-11-13
• Released on: 2012-11-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.08" h x 6.50" w x 9.53" l, 1.16 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages