City and town planning: architectural aspects Books
Birkhauser Stadt vermitteln: Methoden und Werkzeuge für
Book Synopsis Collective Urban Planning in Research, Teaching and Practice This practice orientated handbook aims at all urban actors wishing to develop and realise complex urban planning concepts. It sets out a series of techniques, methods and process models that range from analytical approaches and concept strategies to the creation of participatory projects. Creative open-ended experiments have been proven as effective academic practice driven methods within applied participatory urban mediation. The book proposes a method-catalogue of immediately realisable approaches for experimental urban research as part of a design and planning procedure within education and practice. Cross-disciplinary methods and working methods for urban planning Case studies from Berlin, Düsseldorf, Cologne, London, Madrid and Wuppertal Foreword Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange and contributions by Theo Lorenz, Mohamed Fezazi, Alexia Radounikli and Vera San Payo de Lemos
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Birkhauser River.Space.Design: Planning Strategies, Methods
Book SynopsisUrban riverbanks are attractive locations and highly prized recreational environments. However, they must meet the requirements of flood control, open space design and ecology at the same time, often a challenging task for the designer in very confined spaces. The book, the result of a study lasting several years, subjects more than 60 exemplary projects to a comparative analysis. The result is a systematic catalogue of strategies and innovative design tools. The designer and planner thus obtains an overview of the range of design possibilities. Eight new case studies from China, Italy, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland were selected and added for the enlarged edition of this reference work on riverbank design.
£66.02
Birkhauser Geliehene Szenerien
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Birkhauser Über chinesische Gärten: Landschaft und die
Book SynopsisA classic in German for the first time China has a long history of garden design, resulting in the emergence of a unique style and diverse forms of expression. Common to all Chinese gardens is that they follow the principle that less is sometimes more, and are designed to evoke a sense of the infinite. Chen wrote his text in five essays between 1978 and 1982, and these appeared in succession in the Journal of Tongji University. Due to continuing demand, they were eventually published as a book with 32 photographs and Chinese calligraphy by Jiang Qiting. This first German edition is based on that edition. Brief history of Chinese garden design Convenient format with calligraphy, over 30 photos and 10 hand drawings by the author A book for anyone who appreciates beautiful gardens Chen Congzhou (1918-2000) was a renowned garden designer and an internationally recognized expert in Chinese architecture and garden history. He advocated the preservation of the natural environment and the restoration of many historic buildings. His numerous publications on traditional Chinese buildings and gardens have also been translated into English.
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Park Books Traffic Space is Public Space: A Handbook for
Book SynopsisPublic space is an essence of urban life, of a city's living quality. The (re-) transformation of space today used by the dense traffic prevalent in urban areas into truly public space is a highly effective way to increase its quality and quantity in cities of all sizes and larger metropolitan areas. The starting point of any such increase is to ensure a better balance between the various uses of space: more room for pause and the slow traffic of pedestrians and cyclists, less for handling of goods and the faster, passive mobility by car. Traditional planning principles in urban and traffic design will no longer do; new approaches and instruments are required. This new book introduces to the reader these approaches and instruments, affecting the actual design as well as the planning process, as creative strategies rather than as a rigid set of rules. It is about networking, co-production, involving local businesses, co-usage of space, circular metabolism, and an appropriate aesthetic. Using inspiring reference projects as well as their own work, architects and urban designers Stefan Bendiks und Aglaée Degros offer a forward-looking insight into how traffic space can become much needed public space. Text in English and German.
£29.75
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Breslau: Geschichte Einer Europaischen Metropole
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De Gruyter Kunst am Bau in der DDR: Gesellschaftlicher
Book SynopsisKunst am Bau im Auftrag des Staates verbindet Politik, Gesellschaft, Architektur und Stadtgestaltung auf einzigartige Weise. In der DDR kam ihr zunächst die Funktion zu, politische Inhalte und idealisierte Gesellschaftsbilder zu propagieren. Zunehmend emanzipierten sich Künstlerinnen und Künstler von den staatlichen Vorgaben und entwickelten eigene, im Wechselspiel mit der Umwelt stehende Ausdrucksformen. Bis heute identifizieren viele Menschen mit zahlreichen Kunstwerken ihre Heimat. Die Publikation dokumentiert das Symposium „Kunst am Bau in der DDR" anlässlich des Jubiläums „70 Jahre Kunst am Bau in Deutschland" in 2020. Ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten setzen sich ästhetisch und inhaltlich mit Kunst am Bau in der DDR auseinander und diskutieren diesen international einzigartigen Kunstbestand umfassend. Blick ins Buch https://issuu.com/deutscher_kunstverlag/docs/978-3-422-98606-0_kunst_am_bau_blick_ins_buch
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Duncker & Humblot GmbH Klimaschutz durch Bauleitplanung
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Grin Publishing Die postmoderne Stadt II Die Privatisierung des ffentlichen Raumes Gated communities
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Grin Publishing Das Zeitalter der Megastdte und Global Cities Zur Entwicklungsdynamik und funktionalen Bedeutung der modernen Stadt
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Hirmer Verlag Singapore's Building Stock: Approaches to a
Book SynopsisState-of-the-art Singapore is constantly transforming and rejuvenating her building stock. Singapore's Building Stock documents and analyses these transformations of the efficiently organized global city over the past two centuries at multiple spatial scales. This book offers an alternative history of Singapore’s urban development: the history of construction, demolition and reconstruction. The collection of essays assesses what the changes in Singapore’s building stock meant for the preservation of physical and cultural values for the long view. In three sections – the island scale, the district scale, and the building scale – different data sources come together to show the relationship between development policies, the morphology of Singapore’s built environments and the speed of its transformation. Photos, maps and numerical charts illustrate the lost and new, revealing accidental survivors as well as carefully staged relics from the past.
£27.20
Gta Verlag Urban Design In The 20th Century - A History
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JOVIS Verlag Zentralitäten 4.0: Raumpolitiken und neue
Book Synopsis In the 1930s, Walter Christaller used new media to work out his central place theory by counting telephone lines to identify centralities that connected multiple spaces: Today, digitization has a formative effect on space—on cities, the countryside, and mobility. Or when it is lacking, disruptions are the result. The contributions to the book offer an introductory examination of the effects of digitization on space and deal with the topicality of Christaller’s central place theory. The book does so both theoretically and practically, by examining spatial policies of current regional development programs, different conceptions of public services, and the tasks medium-sized centers in urban and rural areas. The second part of the book discusses which structural changes are to be expected in the course of digitization, especially through new mobility, and how this might affect the attractiveness of rural areas and the tasks of medium-sized towns. Finally, it examines the causes of populist tendencies and experiences of loss produced by processes of globalization and social division, as well as right-wing extremist developments in rural areas.
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JOVIS Verlag Polylemma (Deutsche Sprachausgabe)
Book SynopsisFor a quarter of a century, the architectural collective raumlaborberlin has been pioneering new spaces for action, charting unique paths in cooperative urban development, and creating places to foster encounters. Together with experts across various fields, they explore forms of urban practice, participation, and the joint production of space. Polylemma tells the story of this work: its nine members visit the sites of their work, come together with long-standing colleagues and critics, dissect the mechanisms behind their actions, and reflect on the tools and methods of their research-based practice. Topics discussed across numerous projects include strategies for learning together, experimental building, and radical recycling. Polylemma challenges us to open up our notion of space. How do we want to live together in the future? The book is a plea for the city as a sphere of action.
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JOVIS Verlag Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin: Sanierung einer
Book Synopsis Die Neue Nationalgalerie am Berliner Kulturforum ist eine Architekturikone von Weltrang sowie der Schluss- und Höhepunkt im Lebenswerk des Architekten Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Mit der ersten Grundinstandsetzung seit ihrer Eröffnung 1968 ist ein herausragendes Projekt gelungen, das die behutsame Sanierung ebenso umfasst wie die denkmalgerechte Modernisierung gemäß den Anforderungen an einen zeitgemäßen Museums- und Ausstellungsbetrieb. David Chipperfield Architects entwickelten unter dem Leitsatz „So viel Mies wie möglich" das Sanierungskonzept. Die Publikation vermittelt tiefe Einblicke in die Planung, Ausführung, Denkmalpflege und Restaurierung aus der Sicht der Beteiligten. Die Darstellung des beispielhaften Umgangs mit der historischen Substanz wird von Planungsunterlagen und zahlreichen großformatigen Fotografien begleitet, die die Entwurfsphase, die Baustelle und die Ergebnisse der Sanierung eindrucksvoll bebildern. Mit Beiträgen von David Chipperfield, Bernhard Furrer, Gunny Harboe, Joachim Jäger, Dirk Lohan, Fritz Neumeyer, Alexander Schwarz, Gerrit Wegener sowie rund 30 weiteren Projektakteur*innen
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JOVIS Verlag Ein neuer Typus Kirche: Hybride öffentliche Räume
Book Synopsis Bildeten Kirchen früher noch das Zentrum des Dorf- und Stadtlebens, führen kontinuierlich schwindende Mitgliederzahlen heute dazu, dass sie immer häufiger leer stehen oder sogar schließen müssen. Wie können Kirchengebäude wieder mit Leben gefüllt werden? In Thüringen haben sich seit 2016 unter der Schirmherrschaft der Evangelischen Kirche in Mitteldeutschland und der Internationalen Bauausstellung IBA Thüringen engagierte Bürger*innen zusammengeschlossen, die mit solidarischen Projekten ihre Kirchen als Orte der Gemeinschaft reaktivieren. Der zweite Band der Reihe StadtLand:Kirche stellt diese ambitionierten Projekte vor, erzählt von ihrem Fortschritt, von Erfolgen und Schwierigkeiten. Sei es die Her(r)bergskirche am Rennsteig oder die Bienen-Garten-Kirche in Roldisleben: Die vorgestellten Projekte zeigen auf, wie lebensnahe weltliche Nutzungen das ursprüngliche Angebot der Kirche ergänzen können. Mitten im Dorf entsteht so ein neuer Typus Kirche als hybrider Ort.
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JOVIS Verlag Sanfte Stadt: Planungsideen für den urbanen
Book SynopsisThe reality of urban life can be rather banal. We all have to wait for the bus on cold winter days, do the washing up, take out the bins, or spend long commutes in the car. David Sim believes that life in the city could be made easier and more pleasant through simple, cost-effective measures and by focusing on the human scale. He demonstrates that the solution is finding a balance between density and diversity in order to create proximity and to make urban assets more accessible. The goal is to design comfortable neighborhoods that are easy to live in and adapt to our ever-changing needs. David Sim paints a picture of the good life in cities that are slower, better apportioned, quieter, and—simply put—softer.
£32.85
Ruby Press The City as a Project
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Distanz Viewshed
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£37.40
Sandstein Verlag Plan!: Leipzig, Architektur Und Stadtebau
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£18.00
Detail Architecture in Vorarlberg
£46.80
Spector Books A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as
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£28.50
Spector Books Border Environments: CRA #1
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£20.90
Spector Books Militant Media: CRA #2
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£21.60
ArchiTangle GmbH Cities Under Pressure: A Design Strategy for
Book SynopsisHistorical evolution and processes of cultural and economic globalization have brought out relevant and frightening risks on a global scale: from urbicide and violence to climate change and an increase in natural disasters, but also an enormous widening of economic and social inequality. Today, humanity as a whole is facing epochal challenges that require a radical metamorphosis of inhabited spaces. Cities Under Pressure illustrates a new design paradigm, an open intervention system that seeks the establishment of a dynamic equilibrium that is continuously renegotiated. Cities Under Pressure imagines and defines new urban environments that abandon a rigid design scheme in favor of growing evolutionary mechanisms capable of embodying the ongoing sustainable transition, so as to guarantee a resilient and peaceful future.
£36.00
Steidl GmbH & Co.OHG K12. Schwamendingen ein Randbezirk von Zürich
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JOVIS Verlag Stadtparterre: Erdgeschoss, Straße, Hof und deren
Book SynopsisThe concept of the urban parterre plays a central role in considering what makes a city liveable. The urban parterre is the zone of the city at eye level: the urban ground floor. It is a fabric composed of the built and unbuilt spaces in which we move and interact every day. While urban research has previously tended to focus on either the ground floor level or public spaces, this book considers the systemic interplay of ground floor, inner courtyards, streets, and their interfaces. Using Urban Parterre Modelling to carry out a comprehensive analysis of architectural structures dating from the late nineteenth century (the Gründerzeit), the hidden challenges and opportunities posed by these buildings are explored and discussed with reference to the sustainable, resilient, and circular future use of existing architecture. Taking Vienna’s Gründerzeit parterre as a starting point, the author takes a critical and comparative look at the development of the urban parterre systems of various European cities.
£33.30
Valiz Hans Venhuizen: Game Urbanism
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Valiz Binational Urbanism: On the Road to Paradise
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£19.95
Valiz Urban Challenges, Resilient Solutions: Design
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£26.60
Valiz Flourishing Foodscapes: Design for City-Region
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£24.22
Valiz Make Your City: The City as a Shell: Ndsm
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£21.38
The University of Chicago Press A City for Children
Book SynopsisFocuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy.
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The University of Chicago Press Terror and Wonder
Book SynopsisOffers a look at the extraordinary ways that architecture mirrors our values - and shapes our everyday lives. This title gathers the best of the author's writings along with reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper.Trade Review"An elegant and thought-provoking book.... Crisp and colorful, expert and witty, Kamin's involving essays address the complexities of architecture and how the built world affects every aspect of life." (Booklist) "Chicago is lucky to have Kamin, whose architectural criticism in that city's Tribune continues the spirited tradition of Allan Temko and Ada Louise Huxtable. This collection from the past decade shows a deft eye for the latest Windy City tower but also the larger weave of culture and design." (San Francisco Chronicle) "Kamin is a keen, trenchant observer of the contemporary urban scene, and his engaging criticism enjoys a welcome second life in this anthology." (Choice) "A highly informative and accessible survey of the architecture and planning of the past decade.... Poignant and timely." (Architect's Newspaper) "[Kamin] reminds us of the role buildings have in our economic and physical environment and how the past decade has changed how we interact with the structures around us." (Kai Ryssdal, Marketplace, Best Books of 2010) "Blair Kamin, Pulitzer Prize - winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, thoughtfully and provocatively defines the emotional and cultural dimensions of architecture. He is one of the nation's leading voices for design that uplifts and enhances life as well as the environment. Terror and Wonder assembles some of his best writing from the past ten years." (Huffington Post)"
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The University of Chicago Press Why Architecture Matters Lessons from Chicago
Book SynopsisFor more than a decade Blair Kamin has been writing essays on the state of contemporary architecture for the Chicago Tribune. A selection of the columns are published here, offering a look at America's foremost architectural city.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Cities in the Urban Age A Dissent
Book SynopsisA case for and against cities: they're the best thing we have going (environmentally, socially, in terms of tolerance) but they're also inherently destructive. How to reconcile bothBeauregard argues that we don't need to; we should accept cities as inherently full of contradictions.
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The University of Chicago Press Urban Regimes Strategies Building Europes
Book SynopsisExploring a new geographical concept, the Central Executive District, this book analyzes how the landscape of Brussel's city centre has evolved over the last three decades under the influence of successive coalitions of local and foreign elites.
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The University of Chicago Press Planning as Persuasive Storytelling
Book SynopsisThis study looks at the world of political conflict surrounding the Commonwealth Edison Company's nuclear power plant construction programme in northern Illinois during the 1980s. It examines the theory that planning can best be thought of as a form of persuasive storytelling.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Forever Open Clear and Free
Book SynopsisOf the thirty miles of Lake Michigan shoreline within the city limits of Chicago, twenty-four miles is public park land. The crown jewels of its park system, the lakefront parks bewitch natives and visitors alike with their brisk winds, shady trees, sandy beaches, and rolling waves. Like most good things, the protection of the lakefront parks didn't come easy, and this book chronicles the hard-fought and never-ending battles Chicago citizens have waged to keep them forever open, clear, and free.Illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, Wille's book tells how Chicago's lakefront has survived a century of development. The story serves as a warning to anyone who thinks the struggle for the lakefront is over, or who takes for granted the beauty of its public beaches and parks. A thoroughly fascinating and well-documented narrative which draws the reader into the sights, smells and sounds of Chicago's story. . . . Everyone who cares about the development of land and its conservation will benefit from reading Miss Wille's book.Daniel J. Shannon, Architectural ForumNot only good reading, it is also a splendid example of how to equip concerned citizens for their necessary participation in the politics of planning and a more livable environment.Library Journal
£24.00
Columbia University Press Emerging Global Cities
Book SynopsisThis book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these cities.Trade ReviewEmerging Global Cities sets a new standard for the comparative study of cities. Combining historical analysis, political economy, demography, and institutional analysis with a deep understanding of the global division of economic labor, the authors produce a set of gripping profiles of the successful, the also-rans, and the precarious, and place them all in a compelling theoretical framework. -- Paul DiMaggio, New York UniversityEmerging Global Cities examines the processes of globalization from below through distinct yet potentially generalizable historical sequences. Portes and Armony explain how and why some cities in the developing periphery have managed to rise from positions of inferiority and insignificance to become leading players in the global economy. This book will soon become a benchmark for the study of global cities and a new classic for urban studies, development studies, and economic sociology. -- Min Zhou, University of California, Los AngelesPortes and Armony offer us an exceptionally compelling and deeply perceptive rendering of twenty-first-century entrepôt cities—emergent urban centers driven and contoured by flows of people, ideas, money, and power. The conceptual tools they give us to understand how and why cities from Lagos to São Paulo to Miami are redrawing the global political map and charting our ecological future are indispensable for anyone interested in the rise and fall of cities and the flourishing of urban life. -- Natasha Iskander, New York UniversityEmerging Global Cities breaks new ground by bringing together into one comparative study a set of emerging global cities (and hopefuls) to explain how the global capitalist system is devolving power to new regional hubs. Portes and Armony bring new perspectives—on climate change, poverty, and inequality, for example—to bear in their study, with great attention to class and ethnic structures in these cities. -- James F. Hollifield, Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy, SMUA useful introduction for advanced students of urban studies. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. The Role of Cities in the Capitalist Economy: An Overview2. Dubai: From Marginal Gulf Town to Regional Hub, by Rana Tomaira3. Miami: From Winter Resort to Hemispheric Capital, with the collaboration of Brandon P. Martinez4. Singapore: From Fishing Village to World-Class Metropolis, with the collaboration of Larry LiuPart II5. Global Hopefuls: An Overview6. New Orleans: A Century of Decline, with the collaboration of Larry Liu7. São Paulo: Brazil’s Always-Aspiring City, with the collaboration of Rosa Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony Ocepek8. Lagos: Africa’s New Dubai?, with the collaboration of Rosa Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony OcepekPart III9. Hong Kong: A Threatened Global City, by Larry LiuConclusion: Theoretical Implications, Climate Change, and Future ChallengesNotesReferencesIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Emerging Global Cities
Book SynopsisThis book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these cities.Trade ReviewEmerging Global Cities sets a new standard for the comparative study of cities. Combining historical analysis, political economy, demography, and institutional analysis with a deep understanding of the global division of economic labor, the authors produce a set of gripping profiles of the successful, the also-rans, and the precarious, and place them all in a compelling theoretical framework. -- Paul DiMaggio, New York UniversityEmerging Global Cities examines the processes of globalization from below through distinct yet potentially generalizable historical sequences. Portes and Armony explain how and why some cities in the developing periphery have managed to rise from positions of inferiority and insignificance to become leading players in the global economy. This book will soon become a benchmark for the study of global cities and a new classic for urban studies, development studies, and economic sociology. -- Min Zhou, University of California, Los AngelesPortes and Armony offer us an exceptionally compelling and deeply perceptive rendering of twenty-first-century entrepôt cities—emergent urban centers driven and contoured by flows of people, ideas, money, and power. The conceptual tools they give us to understand how and why cities from Lagos to São Paulo to Miami are redrawing the global political map and charting our ecological future are indispensable for anyone interested in the rise and fall of cities and the flourishing of urban life. -- Natasha Iskander, New York UniversityEmerging Global Cities breaks new ground by bringing together into one comparative study a set of emerging global cities (and hopefuls) to explain how the global capitalist system is devolving power to new regional hubs. Portes and Armony bring new perspectives—on climate change, poverty, and inequality, for example—to bear in their study, with great attention to class and ethnic structures in these cities. -- James F. Hollifield, Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy, SMUA useful introduction for advanced students of urban studies. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. The Role of Cities in the Capitalist Economy: An Overview2. Dubai: From Marginal Gulf Town to Regional Hub, by Rana Tomaira3. Miami: From Winter Resort to Hemispheric Capital, with the collaboration of Brandon P. Martinez4. Singapore: From Fishing Village to World-Class Metropolis, with the collaboration of Larry LiuPart II5. Global Hopefuls: An Overview6. New Orleans: A Century of Decline, with the collaboration of Larry Liu7. São Paulo: Brazil’s Always-Aspiring City, with the collaboration of Rosa Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony Ocepek8. Lagos: Africa’s New Dubai?, with the collaboration of Rosa Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony OcepekPart III9. Hong Kong: A Threatened Global City, by Larry LiuConclusion: Theoretical Implications, Climate Change, and Future ChallengesNotesReferencesIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Reinventing the Chinese City
Book SynopsisRichard Hu unpacks recent trends in urban planning and development to explore the making and imagining of the contemporary Chinese city.Trade ReviewThe path from small, poor villages dotting a vast desolate Asian hinterland to the world's largest middle-class urbanity in four decades is impressive and compelling. Richard Hu guides global readers through China's metropolitan rise with analytical sophistication that shows both promise and flaws of the Chinese megacities. He presents China's new cities not as clones of the West but as a new genre of city building and an authentic attempt at reinventing urbanity. This is a timely text for policymakers, environmentalists, urban planners, and architects as we try to build cities of and for the future. -- Edward J. Blakely, Emeritus Professor of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley, and former President of the Pacific Rim Council on Urban DevelopmentOver the last decade, China has engaged a new, centrally led path of urban transformation with the aim to achieve a new-type urbanization connecting socialist principles with environmental concepts. Yet, the thinking behind this shift, the planning tools, and the national goals are difficult to grasp for scholars and practitioners outside China. Richard Hu builds on his first-hand knowledge of China and of international planning discussions to explore the new urban era. Notably, he explores the historical conditions that shape the present and influence future planning. This important book provides unique, refreshing insights into contemporary China for a global public. -- Carola Hein, Professor and Head of the History of Architecture and Urban Planning, Delft University of Technology, and President of the International Planning History SocietyRichard Hu provides a probing, well-informed, and cogently organized account of how China is crafting its 'new normal' of urbanization in its era of a green revolution, smart city commitment, and post-industrialization. -- Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service ProfessorRichard Hu integrates both inside-out and outside-in perspectives and offers a holistic, balanced, and insightful reading of the real China. His analysis captures a particular kind of transversality, jumps into the unknown, and explores possibilities that go beyond the familiar. He unpacks an astounding array of complexities in China's transformation that we in the West might have overlooked or forgotten. Yes, this is a splendid text worth reading! -- Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia UniversityThis book provides a compact, lucid, and timely account of Chinese cities at the leading edge of urbanization. With China hitching its socialist modernization to indigenous innovation, cities are being charged with realizing the vision of a smart, livable, green future. Richard Hu does an admirable job of showing both top-down and bottom-up actions shaping cities into innovation hotbeds, the emerging lessons for others, and the way forward being charted by planners. It is a must-read for experts and those interested in the urban facets of China's development. -- Shahid Yusuf, Chief Economist of the Growth Dialogue, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations1. A New Urban Era?2. The Green Revolution3. The Smart City Movement4. The Great Innovation Leap Forward5. The Xiong’an Experiment6. Reorienting Hong Kong7. Imagining 2035 and Beyond8. The Nature of the Chinese CityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£92.65
Columbia University Press Reinventing the Chinese City
Book SynopsisRichard Hu unpacks recent trends in urban planning and development to explore the making and imagining of the contemporary Chinese city.Trade ReviewThe path from small, poor villages dotting a vast desolate Asian hinterland to the world's largest middle-class urbanity in four decades is impressive and compelling. Richard Hu guides global readers through China's metropolitan rise with analytical sophistication that shows both promise and flaws of the Chinese megacities. He presents China's new cities not as clones of the West but as a new genre of city building and an authentic attempt at reinventing urbanity. This is a timely text for policymakers, environmentalists, urban planners, and architects as we try to build cities of and for the future. -- Edward J. Blakely, Emeritus Professor of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley, and former President of the Pacific Rim Council on Urban DevelopmentOver the last decade, China has engaged a new, centrally led path of urban transformation with the aim to achieve a new-type urbanization connecting socialist principles with environmental concepts. Yet, the thinking behind this shift, the planning tools, and the national goals are difficult to grasp for scholars and practitioners outside China. Richard Hu builds on his first-hand knowledge of China and of international planning discussions to explore the new urban era. Notably, he explores the historical conditions that shape the present and influence future planning. This important book provides unique, refreshing insights into contemporary China for a global public. -- Carola Hein, Professor and Head of the History of Architecture and Urban Planning, Delft University of Technology, and President of the International Planning History SocietyRichard Hu provides a probing, well-informed, and cogently organized account of how China is crafting its 'new normal' of urbanization in its era of a green revolution, smart city commitment, and post-industrialization. -- Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service ProfessorRichard Hu integrates both inside-out and outside-in perspectives and offers a holistic, balanced, and insightful reading of the real China. His analysis captures a particular kind of transversality, jumps into the unknown, and explores possibilities that go beyond the familiar. He unpacks an astounding array of complexities in China's transformation that we in the West might have overlooked or forgotten. Yes, this is a splendid text worth reading! -- Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia UniversityThis book provides a compact, lucid, and timely account of Chinese cities at the leading edge of urbanization. With China hitching its socialist modernization to indigenous innovation, cities are being charged with realizing the vision of a smart, livable, green future. Richard Hu does an admirable job of showing both top-down and bottom-up actions shaping cities into innovation hotbeds, the emerging lessons for others, and the way forward being charted by planners. It is a must-read for experts and those interested in the urban facets of China's development. -- Shahid Yusuf, Chief Economist of the Growth Dialogue, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations1. A New Urban Era?2. The Green Revolution3. The Smart City Movement4. The Great Innovation Leap Forward5. The Xiong’an Experiment6. Reorienting Hong Kong7. Imagining 2035 and Beyond8. The Nature of the Chinese CityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Illinois Press Prairie Crossing
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A passionate view of what the author describes as the first conservation community."--Ann Durkin Keating, author of Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide"Thought-provoking and conversation starting. Makes a novel contribution to our understanding of how and why suburbs grow under various sets of circumstances. It's a story worthy of sharing and provides important lessons for communities facing conditions of sprawl. Indeed, the author clearly demonstrates that there are viable alternatives to sprawl."--Thomas J. Vicino, coauthor of Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US"According to political scientist John Scott Watson (University of Illinois at Chicago) in his new book Prairie Crossing: Creating an American Conservation Community, its developers, George and Vicky Ranney, are 'using the market to preserve and protect the environment from free-market excess'. . . . The question remains: Do conservation communities represent a niche market or a large-scale alternative to conventional suburbia? This book is a great place to start finding out." --Planning
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Indiana University Press Empire Builders
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University of Texas Press Design for a Vulnerable Planet
Book SynopsisSpotlighting innovative design projects in places ranging from Texas to Italy and China, this book sounds a call for architects, designers, and regional planners to create a built environment that works on a regional scale in harmony with the planet's ecoTrade ReviewThe strengths of Design for a Vulnerable Planet lie with its engaging, diverse, and reflective narrative. Steiner draws on decades of firsthand experience and knowledge of the architecture, landscape architecture, and planning fields. The chapters are (mostly) short and readable, and they provide a breadth of views on design and a variety of scales of action…. The book contributes to our understanding of the process and product of ecological and regional design, particularly in Texas, and the dynamics and challenges of projects that increase sustainability. It also enhances the foundation and awareness of the new regionalism and landscape urbanism and bridges design disciplines, providing an inside view of how the groups can—and do—work together toward the same goal of sustainable design. Design for a Vulnerable Planet will be of interest to students who endeavor to understand how planners and designers can build a healthy, attractive, and resilient world. -- Amy J. Lynch, University of Pennsylvania * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Interdisciplinary Design and the Fate of Our Planet I. Living Urban Environments 1. Architecture and the Wealth of Regions 2. Sustaining Design: The Solar Decathlon Competitions 3. Twenty-First-Century Architecture 4. Architecture Has Left the Building: The Sustainable Sites Initiative 5. Making Territory: The Potential of Landscape Urbanism II. Lessons from Paul Cret, Ian McHarg, and George Mitchell 6. City Limits: Pioneer Plans in Austin 7. The Woodlands: The Ecological Design of a New City III. Emerging Urbanism in Texas 8. The Trinity River Corridor: Another Emerald Necklace or an Emerald Choker? 9. Making Limoncello from Lemons: The Blanton Museum of Art Plaza Design 10. True Urbanism: The Design of Performance Park in the Dallas Arts District 11. Legacies IV. New Regionalism in Texas and Beyond 12. The Green Heart of Texas 13. Envision Central Texas 14. The Texas Triangle Megaregion 15. New Regionalism V. Learning from Abroad 16. Environmental Readings: The Italian Design Tradition 17. Autumn Moon: Design and Planning in China VI. Learning from Disaster 18. In Search of a Fitting Tribute: The United Flight 93 Memorial 19. Resilient Foundations: Planning for the Gulf Coast After Hurricane Katrina VII. Conclusion 20. The Sedimentation of Our Minds: Prospects for New Design Thinking Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press How Cities Work
Book SynopsisA hard-hitting, highly readable look at what makes cities work -- or not work.Trade Review"Concern with traffic, environmental indifference and careless land development patterns, indeed, growing awareness of the many consequences of sprawl has led to calls for 'smart growth.' One of the smartest ways to prepare to effectuate smarter growth is to read How Cities Work. In a gentle but lucid and persuasive way Alex Marshall reminds us that the responsibility for making and maintaining good communities is a public one--that city-building is a public art dependent on public leadership, not acquiescence to private caprice. Anyone interested in helping to sustain rather than complain about the loss of community must read this book." --Alex Krieger, Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design "This is an outstanding book that I hope and expect will make a major contribution to the current debate on cities and suburbs." --Robert Fishman, author of American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy and Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia " ... rich in evocative metaphors ... written in a lively style"--Geography, January 2002 "How Cities Work is an engaging read, containing important messages relevant not only to those in the urban design profession, but also to the wider public who have a role in deciding how cities should be shaped."--Journal of Urban Design, Vol. 7 No. 3, 2002Table of Contents Introduction: The Sex of Cities Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Towns: Kissimmee versus Celebration and the New Urbanism Chapter 2: The End of Place Chapter 3: The Deconstructed City: The Silicon Valley Chapter 4: Trading Places: The City and the Suburb Chapter 5: Jackson Heights: An Anachronism Finds Its Way Chapter 6: The Master Hand: The Role of Government in Building Cities Chapter 7: Portland and Oregon: Taming the Forces That Create the Modern Metropolitan Area Chapter 8: No Place Called Home: Community at the Millennium Chapter 9: Conclusion. Getting There: Building Healthy Cities Acknowledgments Notes Selected References Index
£18.89
University of Washington Press The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag
Book SynopsisRichard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In 1964, Haag founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington, and his innovative work contributed to the increasingly significant design approach known as urban ecological design, which encourages thinking beyond the boundaries of gardens and parks to consider the broader roles that landscapes play within urban ecosystems, such as storm water drainage and wildlife habitat. Gas Works Park is studied in every survey of twentieth-century landscape architecture as a modern work that challenged the tenets of modernism by engaging a toxic site and celebrating an industrial past. Haag's work with ecologists and soil scientists in his landscape remediation and reclamation projects opened new areas of inquiry into theTrade Review"While the book tells Haag's story, it also describes the evolution of landscape architecture in the Northwest." * Columns *"Since 1964, when he founded the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Haag has gained a warranted admiration that Way has sharply surveyed and illustrated in her new book." -- Paul Dorpat * Pacific NW Magazine *"This very detailed work is most useful for professionals. The book brings new attention to Pacific Northwest landscape design. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by Marc Treib Preface Acknowledgments 1. Growing up in a Kentucky landscape 2. A Landscape Education 3. “Keep Your Eyes Open!” 4. Designing the Home Garden in California 5. A Teacher’s Teacher 6. Gardens of the Pacific Northwest 7. From Modernism to Urbanism 8. The Art of the Landform as Landscape Architecture 9. “It Was a Gas!” at Gas Works Park 10. Land Sculpting and Ecological Design at the Bloedel Reserve 11. The Legacy Afterword by Laurie Olin Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index
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