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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainable Urban Design
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainable Urban Design
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Space Place Life Learning from Place Academy of Urbanism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dynamic Patterns
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Taylor & Francis Transforming Urban Waterfronts
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Taylor & Francis PlaceKeeping Open Space Management in Practice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introducing Urban Design Interventions and Responses Introduction To Planning Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd City Visions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Added Value in Design and Construction
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Culture and Security Multilateralism Arms Control and Security Building
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Taylor & Francis Living in a ManMade World
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Taylor & Francis Atmosphere in Urban Design
Book SynopsisThis book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio. It provides understandings of how architectural practices are fuelled with atmosphere in various configurations throughout different design phases of selected projects for construction. From the outside architectural practices commonly appear well-ordered and carefully considered, established by proof and rationally justified. This book though poaches on architectsâ preserves in order to draw attention to features of unpredictability and uncertainty within the design phases. By opening up into the âmachinery roomâ of urban designers, the goal is not to spoil the plaster saint cover of a âstarchitectâ business, but to remind about the crucial value that pockets of doubt issuing questions rather than answers, open-mindedness instead of single-mindedness, play to the processes of design production and creativity. The book identifies these pockets as
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shrinking Cities in Reunified East Germany
Book SynopsisThe book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and urban design practices. Starting from a journey in former East Germany, six different scenes are explored in which plans, projects, and policies have dealt with shrinkage since the 1990s. The book is a sequence of scenes that reveals the main characteristics, dynamics, narratives, reasons and ambiguities of the shrinking cities' transformations in the face of a long transition. The first scene concerns the demolition and transformation of social mass housing in Leinefelde-Worbis. The second scene deals with the temporary appropriation of abandoned buildings in Halle-Neustadt. The third scene, observed in Leipzig, shows the results of green space projects in urban voids. The scene of the fourth situation observes the extraordinary efforts to renaturise a mining territory in the Lausitz region. The fifth scene takes us to Hoyerswerda, where emigration and ageing process required a reduction and demol
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Taylor & Francis Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices
Book SynopsisArchitectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived.The book diagnoses the dominant epistemological debates in architecture and urbanism during the 20th and 21st centuries. It traces their transformations, paying special attention to Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Roheâs preference for perspective representation, to the diagrams of Team 10 architects, to the critiques of functionalism, and the upgrade of the artefactual value of architectural drawings in Aldo Rossi, John Hejduk, Peter Eisenman, and Oswald Mathias Ungers, and, finally, to the reinvention of architectural programme through the event in Bernard Tschumi and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Particular emphasis is placed on the spirit of truth and clarity in modernist architecture, the relationship between the individua
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Taylor & Francis NatureBased Design in Landscape Architecture
Book SynopsisNature-Based Design in Landscape Architecture showcases a range of built works designed by landscape architects from many countries of the world representing diverse environmental regions and uses. These projects demonstrate the transformative potential of a nature-based approach to landscape architecture.The nature-based design approach supports and encourages natural regeneration with a view to promoting sustainable environments, preserving natural resources, and mitigating the impacts of climate change and development. The projects selected for this book demonstrate the potential of nature-based landscape design to support healthy, natural and managed ecosystems, sequester carbon, and support the recovery of biodiversity. In addition to examples of design-led environmental interventions, Nature-Based Design in Landscape Architecture, the book, also demonstrates the potential for nature-based design to improve peopleâs relationship with their surroundings by
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Taylor & Francis Designed Forests
Book SynopsisDesigned Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forestâs influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of âœforest thinkingâ for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today. It tackles these subjects by focusing on architectureâs own dispositions, which stem from an ecology of metaphor that surrounds its encounters with the forest and undergird ideas about Nature and natural systems. The book weaves together global narratives and chapters explore a range of topics, such as the invention of forest plans in colonial India, the war waged on the jungles of Vietnam, economic land use concepts in rural Germany, precolonial ecological pasts in Manhattan, and technologically saturated forests in California. This book is essential for landscape architects, urbanists, architects, forestry experts, and everyone concerned with larger environmental contexts and the eve
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sustainable Transport Mobility Management and Travel Plans
Book SynopsisCharting the development of the travel plan as a concept, this book draws on a range of research-based contributions to determine the state-of-the-art and to explore a series of future scenarios in this area for practitioners and policy makers. Site-based mobility management or ''travel plans'' address the transport problem by engaging with those organisations such as employers that are directly responsible for generating the demand for travel, and hence have the potential to have a major impact on transport policy. To do this effectively however, travel plans need to be reoriented to be made more relevant to the needs of these organisations, whilst the policy framework in which they operate needs modifying to better support their diffusion and enhance their effectiveness. Marcus Enoch breaks down the travel plan concept into four axes related to its development (namely segment, scale, structure and support), and investigates the following questions: - What makes them special? - Trade Review'... the book gives a good history and explanation of the development of travel plans both in the UK and abroad and is of use to those new to the topic. It raises a range of potential ways to re-invigorate travel plans...' Journal of Transport Geography 'Marcus Enoch writes in a clear language, using straight lines of argument... In terms of substance, the book provides a solid overview on MM, particularly with respect to the UK, and particularly for those interesting in planning practice rather than research.' Joachim Scheiner in ErdkundeTable of ContentsChapter 1 Transport Issues and Their Solutions; Chapter 2 The Development of the Travel Plan; Chapter 3 Segment: Examining the Influence of Activities on Trips and Travel Plans; Chapter 4 Scale: All Travel Plans Great and Small; Chapter 5 Structure: Re-orienting Travel Plans to Increase Effectiveness and Levels of Take-up; Chapter 6 Supporting Travel Plans: What Role for Public Authorities and the Wider Travel Plan Industry?; Chapter 7 Recommendations for Practice and Policy and Implications for the Future;
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Cambridge University Press Integrated Land Use Transport Mod Decision Chains and Hierarchies 12 Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies Series Number 12
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Cambridge University Press The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid
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Cambridge University Press Urban Modelling Algorithms Calibrations Predictions 3 Cambridge Urban and Architectural Studies Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press Public Space
Book SynopsisThis book reveals the social basis for public space use, design and management. The authors - an architect/environmental designer, a landscape architect, an environmental psychologist, and an open space administrator - offer a well-integrated perspective of how to integrate public space and public life.Trade Review'Amply filling its slot in the Environment and Behaviour series, this book examines the ways in which public places, whether ancient in Europe or deliberately designed in contemporary America, are actually used by the populace … There is a lot to learn from carefully observed American experience.' Architectural Review'Public Space is a valuable resource for anyone who delves into the complex subject of shared space in American cities … At this time in history, when civic consciousness often seems foreign to the psyche of the contemporary city and a consensus for the ideal appears unreachable, Public Space confidently extolls the necessity and possibility for a commonly held regard for a rewarding and enriching public life.' Landscape Journal'The evocative chapters gathered in Public Space conclude with a section on 'Making Public Space' that should be required reading for everyone participating in 'public infrastructure' - advocates, sponsors, designers, or managers.' Children's EnvironmentsTable of ContentsList of case studies; Series foreword; Preface; 1. Public space and public life; 2. Human dimensions of public space; 3. Making public space; The authors; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index.
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Cambridge University Press Community Design and the Culture of Cities
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Cambridge University Press Shaping Melbournes Future Town Planning the State and Civil Society
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Cambridge University Press Australian Cities
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Cambridge University Press Australian Cities
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Cambridge University Press Children and their Environments
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Cambridge University Press The Creation of Modern Athens
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Cambridge University Press The Urban Image of Augustan Rome
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Cambridge University Press The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid
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Cambridge University Press Ecology of Cities and Towns
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Cambridge University Press The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban
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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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University of Chicago Press Planning as Persuasive Storytelling The
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.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Prelude: A Strange Place, an Alien Language 1: The Irony of Modernist Planning 2: The Argumentative or Rhetorical Turn in Planning 3: The Modernist Institution and Rhetoric of Regulated Natural Monopoly 4: Commonwealth Edison's Ambitious Nuclear Power Expansion Plan, 1973- 1986 5: The Best Deal for Illinois Consumers? Assessing Commonwealth Edison's "Negotiated Settlement" 6: Edison Completes Its Nuclear Power Expansion Plan, But Who Will Pay for the Last of It? 7: Precinct Captains at the Nuclear Switch? Exploring Chicago's Electric Power Options 8: Survey Research as a Trope in Electric Power Planning Arguments 9: Precinct Captains at the Nuclear Switch? The Mayor's Hand Turns up Empty 10: Frozen in a Passionate Embrace: Allocating Pain, Allocating Blame 11: The Plateau in the Web: Planning as Persuasive Storytelling within a Web of Relationships Postlude: E-mail to a Friend Notes References Illustration Credits Index
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University of Chicago Press Forever Open Clear Free 2e The Struggle for
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
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MIT Press Ltd Building Old Cambridge Architecture and
Book SynopsisAn extensively illustrated, comprehensive exploration of the architecture and development of Old Cambridge from colonial settlement to bustling intersection of town and gown.Old Cambridge is the traditional name of the once-isolated community that grew up around the early settlement of Newtowne, which served briefly as the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and then became the site of Harvard College. This abundantly illustrated volume from the Cambridge Historical Commission traces the development of the neighborhood as it became a suburban community and bustling intersection of town and gown. Based on the city's comprehensive architectural inventory and drawing extensively on primary sources, Building Old Cambridge considers how the social, economic, and political history of Old Cambridge influenced its architecture and urban development.Old Cambridge was famously home to such figures as the proscribed Tories William Brattle and John Vassall; authors Henr
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MIT Press Ltd The World as an Architectural Project The MIT
Book SynopsisArchitects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and others. The world's growing vulnerability to planet-sized risks invites action on a global scale. The World as an Architectural Project shows how for more than a century architects have imagined the future of the planet through world-scale projects. With fifty speculative projects by Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Saverio Muratori, Takis Zenetos, Sergio Bernardes, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and many others, documented in text and images, this ambitious and wide-ranging book is the first compilation of its kind.Interestingly, architects begin to address the world as a project long before the advent of contemporary globalism and its assorted anxieties. The Spanish urban theorist and entrepreneur Arturo Soria y Mata, for example, in 1882 env
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MIT Press Ltd Imagining MIT Designing a Campus for the
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MIT Press Ltd The Smart Enough City Putting Technology in Its
Book SynopsisWhy technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence will relieve congestion, restore democracy, prevent crime, and improve public services. In The Smart Enough City, Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology; taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice and inequality. He proposes instead that cities strive to be “smart enough”: to embrace technology as a powerful tool when used in conjunction with other forms of social change—but not to value technology as an end in itself.In a technology-centric smart city, self-driving cars have the run of downtown and force out pedes
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MIT Press Socializing Architecture
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Random House USA Inc Eyes on the Street The Life of Jane Jacobs
Book SynopsisThe first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day.Jane Jacobs was a phenomenal woman who wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged in thousands of impassioned debates—all of which she won. Robert Kanigel's revelatory portrait of Jacobs, based on new sources and interviews, brings to life the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the mother who raised three children; the journalist who honed her skills at Architectural Forum and Fortune before writing her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; and the activist who helped lead a successful protest against Robert Moses’s proposed expressway through her beloved Greenwich Village.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Livable Communities for Aging Populations
Book SynopsisAn innovative look at design solutions for building lifelong neighborhoods Livable Communities for Aging Populations provides architects and designers with critical guidance on urban planning and building design that allows people to age in their own homes and communities. The focus is on lifelong neighborhoods, where healthcare and accessibility needs of residents can be met throughout their entire life cycle. Written by M. Scott Ball, a Duany Plater-Zyberk architect with extensive expertise in designing for an aging society, this important work explores the full range of factors involved in designing for an aging population?from social, economic, and public health policies to land use, business models, and built form. Ball examines in detail a number of case studies of communities that have implemented lifelong solutions, discussing how to apply these best practices to communities large and small, new and existing, urban and rural. Other topics include: <Table of ContentsForeword xi Andrés Duany Introduction xiii Robert Jenkens Preface xiv Acknowledgments xviii Part I Challenges and Opportunities 1 1 The Longevity Challenge to Urbanism 3 The Challenge 3 The Scale of Response: Pedestrian Sheds and Neighborhoods 7 Seniors Housing Communities as Change Agents 11 Toward the Development of Lifelong Neighborhoods 14 Conclusions 18 2 Access and Urbanism 21 Introduction 21 Go Forth Boldly 22 On Whose Behalf We Regulate 24 Advancing Accessibility Aspirations Beyond Minimum Standards 31 Stewardship 38 3 Health, Healthcare, and Urbanism 45 Environmental Health, Safety, and Welfare 45 Reestablishing a Healthy Land-Use Paradigm 48 Knowledge and Action: Finding an Institutional Basis for Public Health and Land-Use Planning Integration 50 Beyond Intent and Toxicity: Establishing Frameworks for Planning Action 54 Beyond Planning: Healthy Environment Implementation Frameworks 64 4 Neighborhood Wellness and Recreation 71 Urban Design and Wellness Industry Market Research 71 Aging and Wellness 73 Redefining the Lifelong Environment: Wellness in Community 77 Conclusion 86 Part II Networks and Diversity 87 5 Connections 89 Connectivity 91 Pedestrian Access and Transit 103 6 Diversity 109 Planning for Diversity 109 Zoning for Diversity 111 Building Codes and Housing Diversity 121 Part III Seniors Housing 125 7 Evolution of Senior Development Types 129 Early Senior Care Models 129 Institutional Neglect 133 Diversification of the Senior Housing Type 134 8 The Lifelong Neighborhood Market 149 Market Study Elements of Critical Importance to Lifelong Neighborhoods 149 Factors That Contribute to Residency in Age-Restricted Communities 156 Factors That Deter Older Adults from Moving to Age-Restricted Communities 164 Lifelong Neighborhoods and Influencing Factors 167 9 Seniors Housing Components 171 Initiating Lifelong Neighborhood Design with a Market Study 172 Seniors Housing Components 174 Service Policy Components 198 Built-Environment Policy Components 199 Part IV Urban to Rural Case Studies 207 10 Penn South NORC Case Study of Aging a Dense Urban Core 209 Lifelong Summary 209 Context 210 Innovations in Health and Wellness Programming: Penn South Discovers the NORC Concept 212 Connectivity and Access 214 Dwellings and Retail 216 Health and Wellness 218 Community Building Spaces 219 Jeff Dullea Intergenerational Garden 220 11 Beacon Hill Case Study of Aging and Town Centers 223 Lifelong Summary 223 Context 224 Innovations in Health and Wellness Programming 225 Connectivity and Access 226 Dwellings and Retail 227 Health and Wellness 230 Community Building Spaces 232 12 Mableton Case Study of Aging and Neighborhood Center 235 Lifelong Summary 235 Overview 237 Context 238 Redeveloping as a Lifelong Community 239 Mableton Elementary School Redeveloped as a Civic Center 253 13 Elder-Centric Villages: Exploring How Senior Housing Can Incentivize Urban Renewal in Rural America 257 Lifelong Summary 257 Evaluating Small-Town Living and Walkability 259 Providing an Elder-Centric Village 263 Index 267
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Planning and Urban Design Standards
Book SynopsisThe new student edition of the definitive reference on urban planning and design Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition is the authoritative and reliable volume designed to teach students best practices and guidelines for urban planning and design.Trade Review"Steiner and Butler present a student edition of a text on planning and urban design standards, derived from the full edition published in 2006." (Book News, February 2008)Table of ContentsForeword. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part 1: PLANS AND PLAN MAKING. PLAN MAKING. Plan Making. TYPES OF PLANS. Comprehensive Plans. Urban Design Plans. Regional Plans. Neighborhood Plans. Transportation Plans. Housing Plans. Economic Development Plans. Parks and Open-Space Plans. Critical and Sensitive Areas Plans. PARTICIPATION. Role of Participation. Stakeholder Identification. Surveys. Community Visioning. Charrettes. Public Meetings. Public Hearings. Computer-Based Public Participation. Part 2: ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW. Environmental Planning Considerations. AIR. Air Quality. Air Sheds. Heat Islands. WATER. Hydrologic Cycle. Watersheds. Aquifers. Rivers and Streams. Floodplains and Riparian Corridors. Wetlands. Beach and Dune Systems. Estuaries, Flats, and Marshes. LAND. Slope, Relief, and Aspect. Soils Classification and Mechanics. Habitat Patches, Corridors, and Matrix. Biodiversity Protection. HAZARDS. Flood Hazards. Erosion and Sedimentation. Hurricanes and Coastal Storms. Landslides. Sinkholes and Subsidence. Earthquakes. Wildfires. Hazardous Materials. Tsunamis and Seiches. Noise and Vibration. Part 3: STRUCTURES. BUILDING TYPES. Residential Types. Single-Family Detached. Single-Family Attached. Multifamily Low-Rise. Multifamily Mid-Rise. Multifamily High-Rise. Manufactured Housing. Office Buildings. Elementary, Middle, and High Schools. Medical Facilities. TRANSPORTATION. Sidewalks. Hierarchy of Streets and Roads. Street Networks and Street Connectivity. Vehicle Turning Radii. Traffic Calming. Pedestrian-Friendly Streets. Parking Lot Design. On-Street Bikeways. Multiuser Trails. Transit Systems. UTILITIES. Waste Management. Wastewater. Stormwater Runoff and Recharge. Water Supply. Wireless Infrastructure Overview. PARKS AND OPEN SPACE. Types of Parks. Greenways and Trails. Conservation Areas. Playgrounds. FARMING AND FORESTRY. Farms. Feedlots. Forestry. Part 4: PLACES AND PLACEMAKING. REGIONS. Regions. PLACES AND DISTRICTS. Neighborhoods. Neighborhood Centers. Historic Districts. Waterfronts. Arts Districts. Industrial Parks. Office Parks. Main Streets. DEVELOPMENT TYPES. Mixed-Use Development. Transit-Oriented Development. Conservation Development. Infill Development. DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS. Environmental Site Analysis. Urban Analysis. Scale and Density. Safety. Walkability. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design—LEED. Streetscape. Part 5: ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES. PROJECTIONS AND DEMAND ANALYSIS. Population Projections. Economic Base and Econometric Projections. Housing Needs Assessment. Parks, Recreation, and Open-Space Needs Assessment. IMPACT ASSESSMENT. Environmental Impact Assessment. Fiscal Impact Assessment. Traffic Impact Studies. MAPPING. Mapping Data Overview. Aerial Photographs and Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles. U.S. Geological Survey Topographic Maps. Property Maps in Modern Cadastres. Census Data and Demographic Mapping. Remote Sensing and Satellite Image Classification. Geographic Information Systems. VISUALIZATION. Visualization Overview. Montage Visualization. Three-Dimensional Visualization. Visual Preference Techniques. Part 6: IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUES. LEGAL FOUNDATIONS. Planning Law Overview. Property Rights, Police Power, Nuisance, and Vested Rights. Due Process and Equal Protection. Freedom of Religion and Expression. Eminent Domain,Takings, and Exactions. Federal Legislation. State Enabling Legislation. Zoning Regulation. Subdivision Regulation. Planned Unit Development. Innovations in Local Zoning Regulations. Sign Regulation. GROWTH MANAGEMENT. Adequate Public Facilities and Concurrency Management. Urban Growth Areas. Development Impact Fees. Transfer and Purchase of Development Rights. PRESERVATION,CONSERVATION, AND REUSE. Open-Space Preservation Techniques. Farmland Preservation. Land Evaluation and Site Assessment. Viewshed Protection. Historic Structures. Brownfields. ECONOMIC AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT. Capital Improvement Programs. Tax Increment Financing. Financing Methods and Techniques. Financial Planning and Analysis:The Pro Forma. Resources. Planning Resources. Graphic Symbols and Drawing Annotations. Index.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Building Boston Stories of Architectural and
Book SynopsisTake an expertly guided tour of Boston''s historic landmarks and epic past. Follow the history of the Boston Marathon and the architectural gems that grace the Copley Square/Back Bay area where the race ends. Take a deep dive into the subway dig. Learn how fabled landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted figured out how to put a salt marsh inside the city to prevent flooding, paving the way for today''s green ribbon of parks. Interwoven with anecdotes about landmarks such as the Boston Common, the Boston Red Sox Fenway Park, and the Esplanade are observations about the character of a city that took the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing in stride. Perfect for both armchair reading and for use as a unique visitors'' guide.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Havana Forever
Book SynopsisHavana has always been a dynamic city, and its unique architecture makes it one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Until recently, the closed nature of contemporary Cuban society has frozen and preserved much of Havana''s urban design and simultaneously prevented many visitors from experiencing its wide range of architectural influences, which cross-reference to create a stunning, unified work of art. In this documentary-style history of old Havana, readers are invited to tour the city''s buildings alongside its culture, people, plazas and parks, pedestrian environment, monuments, food, music, dance, colonial history, and iconic traditions, from cigars to the Tropicana Supper Club. Learn why Havana has the classic order, neighborhood balance, architectural elegance, and pedestrian harmony that urban planners long for, and discover the ways in which it is not just a city but a celebration of the Cuban way of life and its Creole roots.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Housing and the City
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Johns Hopkins University Press Home on the Canal Maryland Paperback Bookshelf
Book SynopsisEnriching this narrative, the book provides oral history accounts of eleven men and women who worked on or grew up along the banks of the Canal.Trade ReviewA gliding packet boat of a book that tours the history of the canal's 92 working years... With 54 sepia-toned photographs, Kytle's 'informal history' makes a worthy introduction to the making of the C&O Canal. Washington Post The reminiscences are great... the best ever printed relating to the C & O canal. Hagerstown Herald-Mail Elizabeth Kytle's book contains all the research we've never gotten around to doing. She has transformed the mass of assorted political, financial, and economic data into readable chapters that cover the canal from its conception by President George Washington through 1971 when it became a national historic park. Potomac Appalachian
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Johns Hopkins University Press The New England Village
Book SynopsisWe invent the past, Wood concludes, in our own image-as nineteenth-century villagers did quite literally and as suburban developers do today.Trade ReviewWe think of the quaint village with its white-clapboard church surrounding a town green and a cluster of shops as the core image of the New England colonial community. But in The New England Village Joseph S. Wood maintains that that icon was really a romantic 19th-century invention. Boston GlobeTable of ContentsContents: List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: "As a City upon a Hill" 1. The Colonial Encounter with the Land 2. Village and Community in the Seventeenth Century 3. The Architectural Landscape 4. Villages in the Federal Period 5. The Village as a Vernacular Form 6. The Settlement Ideal 7. A World We Have Gained Notes Bibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Building San Franciscos Parks 18501930 Creating
Book SynopsisBuilding San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.Trade ReviewAn excellent study... If anything could possibly improve an outing to Golden Gate Park, a copy of Building San Francisco's Parks looks just the ticket. San Francisco Chronicle Terence Young's Building San Francisco's Parks is part of a rather impressive Johns Hopkins University Press 'Creating the North American Landscape' series and covers the period of expansion from 1850-1930, tracing park system history and the key individuals responsible for its development. Bookwatch 2004 Young does a splendid job detailing the political intricacies and the physical difficulties in the formation of San Francisco's park system... His distinction between the 'romantic' and the 'rationalist' approaches to the formation of the city's parks is illuminating. Newsletter of the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society 2004 Written in a clear and fluid style... the book contributes a cogent examination of how landscapes are altered, land use conflicts persist, and changing expectations of nature impact park management. -- Elizabeth A. Watson CRM: Journal of Heritage Stewardship 2006 Through his engaging account of San Francisco's park system. Young illustrates the dynamic relationship between nature and society and the expectations of parks in urban social and physical planning. -- Laura Lawson Journal of the American Planning Association 2005 This comprehensive book offers fascinating insight into the process of creating and designing places for nature in the city of San Francisco, California... Reading this book will lend a new understanding of how recreational spaces such as Golden Gate Park have been strongly influenced by social ideals during the first third of the 20th century. -- Shawna J. Dark Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 2004 Mixes a nicely paced narrative with an effective analysis of the geology, climatology, botany, politics, and building of San Francisco. -- William H. Wilson Pacific Historical Review 2004 We certainly benefit from the marshaling of evidence from a surprisingly understudied city, and urban and environmental historians will find much to appreciate. -- Carl Abbott Journal of American History 2005 Building San Francisco's Parks is an important contribution to the history of parks in North America and provides a thorough case study of one of the continent's major urban park systems. -- Sean Kheraj H-Net Reviews 2009Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The American Park Movement2. San Francisco's Park Movement3. Romantic Golden Gate Park4. The Public Reacts to its New ParkPhoto Gallery 1: A Walk through Golden Gate Park circa 19005. Rationalistic Golden Gate ParkPhoto Gallery 2: Views of San Francisco's Small Parks circa 19106. The Many Small Parks of San FranciscoNotesIndex
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