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Taylor & Francis Crafting FormBased Codes
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Taylor & Francis Crafting FormBased Codes
Book SynopsisThis book provides practical tools for creating form-based rules that help facilitate effective communication and consensus building, which are essential to ensuring healthy democratic processes in a regulatory culture.Trade Review"Outdated regulatory regimes waste time, create uncertainty, and too often compromise design quality. With a keen anthropological lens, Onaran explains the evolution and limitations of conventional code practice and offers practical remedies built on the best attributes of form-based codes. This book argues the strongest case to date for form-based approaches and is a must-read for those who care about the design of authentic and resilient places and the processes involved in crafting them." – Peter Park, Director, Peter J. Park, LLC, City Planning and Design, USA"Onaran’s book offers a clear view of both the methods and potential of well-framed and well-applied form-based codes. He focuses less on deep theory and more on principles and practical applications as he invites designers, planners and regulators to become well acquainted with what will surely become the zoning tool of choice in the 21st century." – Stefanos Polyzoides, Partner, Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists, USATable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The traffic light versus the officer Chapter 3: Informalization and the intellectual forces behind it Chapter 4: Challenges of informalization and the Vivant Cycle Chapter 5: Effective communication in interactive review processes Chapter 6: Archetypes and typologies Chapter 7: Crafting of lot types Chapter 8: Transect-based organization of a code that uses lot types Chapter 9: Dynamic lot types and tools to craft them Chapter 10: Coding for resilience Chapter 11: Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Paris Under Construction
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Taylor & Francis Creating Smart Cities
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Taylor & Francis The Common Place
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban and Religious Spaces in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Conflict and Decision Making in Close Relationships Love Money and Daily Routines European Monographs in Social Psychology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Female Homosexuality
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Stepparenting Creating and Recreating Families in America Today
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Taylor & Francis Living in a ManMade World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Designing Innovative Sustainable Neighborhoods
Book SynopsisThis book covers the key principles of residential planning and offers principles for innovative and sustainable neighbourhood design. It is useful to students and practitioners of urban design, planning, and urban systems and architecture studios focused on sustainable residential development.Table of Contents1. Designing Sustainable Environments 2. Planning with Nature 3. Moving in Neighbourhoods 4. Mixing Land Uses and Sense of Place 5. Public Open Spaces 6. Livable Denser Places 7. Weaving Old and New 8. Edible Landscapes and Landscaping 9. Alternative Energy, District Heating, and Waste Management 10. Innovative Dwelling Concepts 11. Low Carbon Residences
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Why Cities Need Large Parks
Book SynopsisThe large parks and green infrastructure presented here illustrate the diverse uses and many benefits of large urban parks across 30 major cities. Demand for large urban parks emerged at the height of the First Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s, when large urban parks represented new ideas of accessible public spaces, often established on land previously owned by aristocracy, royalty or the army. They represented new ideas on how city life could be improved and how large green spaces could enhance urban citizensâ physical and psychological well-being (e.g. Birkenhead Park in Liverpool, Bois de Boulogne in Paris, Tiergarten in Berlin and Central Park in New York City). Today, large urban parks are habitats for biodiversity and spaces of climate change adaptation. For people living in cities, this biodiversity may represent high cultural, recreational and aesthetic values, but is also important for other aspects of health and well-being, for example by reducing the urban heat islTrade Review"The book is absolutely unique and should be the standard reference on this important subject for years ahead."—Richard T. T. Forman, PAES Professor of Landscape Ecology Emeritus, Harvard University"Read it, I am sure it will inspire you to care for and share the green treasures of your cities!"—Håkan Wirtén, Secretary General, WWF Sweden"This book details the much needed evidence, the pathways and the vision for future livable more resilient cities where Large Urban Parks are at the core."—Thomas Elmqvist, Professor in Natural Resource Management at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm UniversityTable of Contents1. Visions of Urban Green2. Quality of Life3. Ecosystem Services4. Social Cohesion5. City Meets Nature6. Heritage and Identity7. Design for All
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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 Ltd Rethinking Parking
Book SynopsisFor much of the past century, we have viewed the issue of parking from the driver's seat. It follows that key narratives about parking reaffirm the immediate needs of the driver. A consequence of this approach is a failure to understand the significant damage that parking causes to the destination. That damage is amplified by cheap, easy' parking at the expense of place and access outcomes. Viewing parking from an urban planning and design perspective highlights different issues and opportunities. Five perspectives are offered: Place If we gave drivers all the parking they wanted, the destination would not be worth visiting. Politics Parking is intensely territorial, emotional, and prone to populism, and this is a barrier to strategic and sustainable parking reform. Policy Parking tends to be focused on the me, here and now' needs of the driver at the expense of bigger picture and longer term policy objectives. Price Subsidized parking exists bTable of ContentsFive ‘Rethinking Parking’ Perspectives 1. Place and Parking 2. Parking is Political 3. Parking Policy 4. The Price of Parking 5. Professional Practice Ten Case Studies 1. Brisbane, Queensland. Australia 2. Chicago, Illinois. USA 3. Gold Coast, Queensland. Australia 4. Los Angeles, California. USA 5. Melbourne, Victoria. Australia 6. Portland, Oregon. USA 7. San Francisco, California. USA 8. Seattle, Washington. USA 9. Toronto, Ontario. Canada 10. Vancouver, BC. Canada
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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 Ltd Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin
Book SynopsisUrban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity. The book examines several Latin American cities, each with specific challenges, and explores how they have gradually overcome these difficulties through policies, planning, and design, and with private/public sector coordination.The cases include: The built environment and social mobility in Bogotá; Mexico City and its difficulties with water scarcity; Addressing air quality and environmental justice in Lima; Santiago de Chile's energy consumption and carbon footprint; Buenos Aires and the issue of urban agriculture and food security; Connectivity as a social transformation device in Medellín. The book goes beyond simply identifying the challenges and explains some of the practical day-to-day planning efforts, including interviews with staff from those municipalities, illustrations, and strategieTable of ContentsI. Why Latin America? II. Bogotá: the Built Environment and Social Mobility. III. Mexico City: Infrastructure and Water for All. IV. Lima: Air Quality and Environmental Justice. V. Santiago: Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. VI. Buenos Aires: Food Security and Urban Agriculture. VII. Medellin: (Digital) Connectivity for Social Transformation. VIII. The Future. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Art and Architecture of Migration and
Book SynopsisThis book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan, Turkey, and their diasporas in Europe. Together, the contributions show the scope of diverse artistic media, including architecture, painting, postcards, film, music, and literature, that has responded to the partitions of the twentieth century and the Muslim diasporas in Europe.Turkey and Pakistan have been subject to two of the largest compulsory population transfers of the twentieth century. They have also been the sites for large magnitudes of emigration during the second half of the twentieth century, creating influential diasporas in European cities such as London and Berlin. Discrimination has been both the cause and result of migration: while internal problems compelled citizens to emigrate from their countries, blatant discriminatory and ideological constructs shaped their experiences in their countries of arrival. Read together, the Partition emerges from the essays iTable of ContentsIntroduction: Migration and Discrimination Part 1: Two Partitions 1. Partitions and an Anti-Xenophobic Architectural Historiography 2. Living on Another Displacement’s Ruins: Adana’s Döşeme Neighborhood in Turkey 3. September 6–7, 1955–ongoing: Discrimination, Dispossession, and Practices of Memory and Survival 4. Homogenizing the Border: Kars after the Pogrom of 1955 5. 1960s Tax Law and Non-Muslim Exodus from Istanbul: Turkification of the City 6. Art and the 1947 Partition of South Asia 7. Partition Migration and Urbicide in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man 8. "He never said that you leave for ever": South Asian Partition and Film Migration to Pakistan 9.The Perpetual Mohajirs: Leon Henrard’s Report on Pakistan’s Future 10. Partition Thinking and the East African Gaze toward Pakistan Part 2: Two Diasporas 11. Kreuzberg and an Anti-Discriminatory Architectural Historiography 12. Exile, Postcards, and a Return to Cold War Berlin 13. Migrants and Muses: Güney Dal’s First Novel Attracts Little Attention When Published in German Translation 14. Berlin as an Urban Synecdoche for Immigration 15. Conceiving Solidarity Across Borders 16. Be/longing Berlin: Remembering Futures in Migration 17. Pakistani Diaspora Artists in the UK 18. Rasheed Araeen: An Aesthetics of Resistance 19. The Cinema of Hanif Kureshi: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 20. Fun^Da^Mental’s "Jihad Rap"
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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 Land UseTransport Interaction Models
Book SynopsisTransport and the spatial location of population and activities have been important themes of study in engineering, social sciences and urban and regional planning for many decades. However, an integrated approach to the modelling of transport and land use has been rarely made, and common practice has been to model both phenomena independently.This book presents an introduction to the modelling of land use and transport interaction (LUTI), with a theoretical basis and a presentation of the broad state of the art. It also sets out the steps for building an operational LUTI model to provide a concrete application. The authors bring extensive experience in this cross-disciplinary field, primarily for an academic audience and for professionals seeking a thorough introduction.Trade Review"It is a book that will be of greatest use to those with some background in the field, or those with a more general quantitative background who seek a guide to what is happening in the world of land use–transport interaction modeling."-- Kenneth Button, George Mason University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: A Brief History of LUTI ModelsChapter 2: A Classification of LUTI ModelsChapter 3: The Nexus Between Transport and Land Use: AccessibilityChapter 4: Microeconomic Theory of the Interaction Between Transport and Land UseChapter 5: Spatial Interaction ModelsChapter 6: Random Utility Theory and LUTI ModelsChapter 7: Optimisation and LUTI modelsChapter 8: Definition of the Model’s Purpose, the Study Area and the Input DataChapter 9: Models for Simulating the Location of Population and ActivitiesChapter 10: Models for Simulating the Impact of Accessibility on Real Estate PricesChapter 11: Models for Simulating the Transport SystemChapter 12: Spatial Dependence in LUTI ModelsChapter 13: Practical Application of a LUTI Model
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Taylor & Francis Ltd On Frank Lloyd Wrights Concrete Adobe
Book SynopsisDuring the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as 'uniquely molded', 'woven like a textile fabric' and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these claims while some thought the house-designs borrowed from old exotic buildings. For the first time this book brings together Wright's declarations, the support of upholders and inferences in order to determine their accuracy and correctness, or the possibility of feigned or fictional stories. It examines technical developments of concrete blocks by Wright and others before his experiences in Los Angeles began in 1919. It also studies the manner of Wright's design process by an examination of relevant pictorial and textual documents. A unique, in-depth and critical analysis of the houses is Trade Review’Don Johnson is an authority on Frank Lloyd Wright. He is also an experienced architectural historian who takes nothing for granted, and tenaciously goes back to basics - the original documents, the buildings themselves, and their historical context - when investigating tendentious historical claims. This challenging study of Wright’s five concrete block houses deals with what was perhaps a minor phase in Wright’s prodigious output, but Johnson’s highly original conclusions have very wide implications for our understanding of architectural mythology, the regional architecture of the south-west, and the character and reputation of Frank Lloyd Wright himself.’ Gilbert Herbert, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, IsraelTable of ContentsContents: Preface; introduction; Questions, events ... and precast concrete; The buildings; The Taylors and the Griffins; Tiles and blocks; Wright’s fiction; Historians’ fiction; Irving Gill, regionalism and concrete adobe; Closure ... Schindler and resurgence; Appendices; References; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Swinging City
Book SynopsisThis book works with two contrasting imaginings of 1960s London: the one of the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, the other of the radical and experimental cultural politics generated by the city''s counterculture. The connections between these two scenes are mapped looking firstly at the spectacular events that shaped post-war London, then at the modernist physical and social reconstruction of the city alongside artistic experiments such as Pop and Op Art. Making extensive use of London''s underground press the book then explores the replacement of this seemingly materialistic image with the counterculture of underground London from the mid-1960s. Swinging City develops the argument that these disparate threads cohere around a shared cosmology associated with a new understanding of nature which differently positioned humanity and technology. The book tracks a moment in the historical geography of London during which the city asserts itself as a post-imperial global cityTrade Review'Swinging City opens revealing geographical perspectives on a period and place that have become obscured by familiar mythologies. It maps the media worlds of Sixties London onto wide ranging networks of provincial and international counter-culture, marked with a radical use of new currents of science and technology as well as some traditional forms of dissent. This Swinging City is as much post-war as new age, more a hard place than a soft city. The Sixties will never be the same.' Stephen Daniels, University of Nottingham, UK 'Rycroft's monograph makes an important contribution towards opening up, revising and ... 're-visioning' work on urban cultures and the twentieth century... Swinging City is an invaluable starting point for further explorations into the 'long' 1960s and its many geographical imaginations.' Urban Geography Research Group '... a remarkably wide-ranging and intricate discussion of the cultural geographies of London in what we might call the ’long’ 1960s: the themes of Englishness/Britishness and Americanization, as well as the challenges to the metropolitan establishment from the provincial margins, for instance, come out in the discussion of the contribution of the ’beats’ and the ’angry young men’...' Progress in Human Geography Rycroft’s Swinging City provides not only an illuminating study of the near present, but is also very much a book for our current geographical times. It provides us with a multifaceted account of a cultural scene that offers an invaluable model for how cultural-historical geographers might usefully contribute to literature on the creative city, as well as how current theoretical agendas can be valuably situated in historical practices and places. Journal of Historical GeographyTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: The Material and Immaterial Geographies of 1960s London; Chapter 2 The Long Front of Material and Immaterial Culture I: Beat and Angry; Chapter 3 The Long Front of Material and Immaterial Culture II: Architecture and Visual Culture; Chapter 4 Mapping Swinging London; Chapter 5 A Historical Geography of Countercultural London; Chapter 6 Rephrasing and Reimagining Dissent: Technology, Nature and Humanity; Chapter 7 Oz, London and Cosmic Consciousness; Chapter 8 Lightshows and Multi-media Environments: Cosmic Connections and the Countercultural Subject; Chapter 9 Conclusions: Post-War Vision and Representation;
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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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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shaping Portland
Book SynopsisPortland is a young city founded on a river bank in a virgin forest less than 200 years ago. Shaping Portland: Anatomy of a Healthy City is about the values engendered by the place, and how those values have influenced the growing city. It examines how and why the public realm supports or obstructs the health-forward lifestyles of those who choose to live there. This book explores the values and dynamics that shaped a healthy city to enable those things. It is a case study of a recognized success looking more closely at a recent urban infill: the Pearl District. The future roles of the planners and other design professionals in continuing to build healthy and responsive environments are suggested. The cities of the future will be those that we already inhabit, but infilled and adapted to tomorrow's needs and values. Understanding the dynamics involved is essential for those in whose hands we entrust the design of cities and urban places.Trade Review"Insightful. Tillett brings his intimate knowledge of the city and it’s city-shapers to illuminate the critical ideas and the social context that gave rise to a remarkable story in modern city-building. And he lets us know it's a work still in progress, signaling hope for the next generation of city-builders." Gil Kelley, FAICP, General Manager of Planning, Urban Design and Sustainability, City of Vancouver, BC; former Director of Planning, City of Portland, Oregon"Portland is a wonderful city and Paddy Tillett's thoughtful and exhaustive analysis describes the important contribution that intelligent place making and urban design has made. This book is surely a must read for any aspiring politician as while Portland currently benefits from enlightened governance there is no cause for complacency. Tillet's fictional epilogue charts a catastrophic, but credible, future that matches any Hollywood block-buster script, should his warnings be ignored." Howard Sheppard Director, City Design and Planning, LDDC"An insightful and laser-sharp assessment of the successes and shortfalls of Portland’s innovative and place-based planning and urban design within an international professional context. The result is a must-read book with hope and direction for development that sustains a healthy metropolitan life-style while confronting the realities of climate change, flooding, landslides, and a major seismic event."Don Miles, FAIA, Founding board member of Project for Public Spaces, Retired principal of ZGF Architects LLP"Paddy Tillett is a student of urbanism and design, able to articulate well how each has been exhibited in his adopted home town of Portland, and the role each has played in the evolution of one of America's most livable cities. He has a good grasp of how the implications of our urban design decisions, whether intentional or not, greatly affect our use and enjoyment of a place, and its spaces. In Shaping Portland, Tillett communicates this in a manner accessible to both the professional design practitioner seeking to learn from the experience of a successful natural and built environment, as well as the lay person seeking to quench their thirst for knowledge of how this most successful exhibition of a healthy and livable city came to be. There are many lessons contained within this book that provide insight into Portland's future as a resilient city, and to inform others who may wish to apply them to help improve the health of communities elsewhere." David M. Siegel, FAICP, Former President, American Planning Association"What I really like about the book is how it looks at Portland from a variety of vantage points: as a collection of buildings, streets and parks, but also natural factors like topography and climate, as well as the values that underscore all that we do in shaping the city, the past errors we've made, and the great challenge we face in the years ahead preparing for a potentially cataclysmic seismic event."Brian Libby, Portland ArchitectureTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Symptoms of Urban Health2. A City Cast in Place3. A City Shaped by Values4. Dimensions of a Healthy City 5. The Pearl District6. Past Errors & Future Options7. Corrective measures 8. Improving the Health of the City9. Look Back in Anguish List of AcronymsPhoto and Image CreditsIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Public Space Design and Social Cohesion
Book SynopsisSocial cohesion is often perceived as being under threat from the increasing cultural and economic differences in contemporary cities and the increasing intensity of urban life. Public space, in its role as the main stage for social interactions between strangers, clearly plays a role in facilitating or limiting opportunities for social cohesion. But what exactly is social cohesion, how is it experienced in the public realm, and what role can the design of city spaces have in supporting or promoting it? There are significant knowledge gaps between the social sciences and design disciplines and between academia and practice, and thus a dispersed knowledge base that currently lacks nuanced insight into how urban design contributes to social integration or segregation.This book brings together scholarly knowledge at the intersection of public space design and social cohesion. It is based on original scholarly research and a depth of urban design practice, and analyses case studiTrade Review"Rather than living in segregated, inward-looking communities this innovative collection illuminates the role of public space design in promoting social cohesion and inclusion globally. By examining bottom-up and engaged urban design projects the editors have brought together compelling empirical examples written by well-known researchers and design professionals working in the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia and Latin America that illustrate the strength and complexity of this relationship. The chapters focus on neighborhoods, housing estates, squares and streets where conflicts and solidarity are played out, and emphasize the spatiality of social cohesion as well as the cultural context of public spaces in people’s everyday lives. It provides a first look at what is happening internationally in terms of how urban design practice and local activism is taking back public space into their diverse lives, and in the process creating a more solid grounding for social relations, belonging and recognition of the other."Setha Low, Professor of Environmental Psychology and Director of the Public Space Research Center, The Graduate Center, City University of New York"This book is a valuable contribution to public space scholarship, bringing together a collection of comparative case studies from around the world that investigate whether and how public spaces can have a positive role in the perennial and contested search for social cohesion in diverse, stratified and fragmented urban societies."Professor Ali Madanipour, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: From mixing with strangers to collective placemaking: existing theories, policies and practices around social cohesion in public space design Public Space Design, Development and Management Processes Top-down projects Chapter 1. The Making of Democratic Urban Public Space in Denmark Chapter 2. The Marginalised Others: Memorials to non-Jewish Holocaust victims in Berlin’s Government District Chapter 3. Social Cohesion vis-a-vis Spatial Division: The Contradictions of Participatory Design Chapter 4. The Role of Public Spaces on Social Cohesion and Inclusivity: Metamorphosis of a historic park in Ankara, Turkey Chapter 5. A Placemaking Approach to Estate Regeneration Projects: A Practitioner's Perspective Bottom-up projects Chapter 6. Bottom-up Public Space Design and Social Cohesion: The case of a self-developed park in an informal settlement of Bogotá Chapter 7. UN Habitat’s engagement of residents, refugees and local authorities in a public space design process in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon Chapter 8. Open Green: Placemaking beyond Place-bound Communities in Taipei Post-occupation evaluations Chapter 9. New Public Spaces of Circulation, Consumption and Recreation and their Scope for Informal Social Interaction and Cohesion Chapter 10. Visibility of Turkish Amenities: Immigrant’s Integration and Social Cohesion in Amsterdam Chapter 11. Pop-up Landscape Design and the Disruption of the Ordinary Chapter 12. Designing for Difficulty: Agonistic Urban Design Chapter 13. Exploring Social Equity in the Park: Design and Management of new city-centre spaces in Sheffield, UK, and Ahmedabad, India Chapter 14. The Streets: a Fluid Place of Social Cohesion Conclusion: Emerging Knowledge at the Intersection of Public Space Design and Social Cohesion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Heritage Planning
Book SynopsisThis new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of heritage planning and conservation. Positioning professional practice within its broader applied and theoretical contexts, the authors provide a firm foundation for understanding the principles, history, evolution, debates, and tools that inform heritage planning, while also demonstrating how to effectively enact these processes. Few published works focus on the practice of heritage planning. The first edition of this book was developed to fill this gap, and this second edition builds upon it. The book has been expanded in scope to incorporate new research and approaches, as well as a wide range of international case studies. New themes reflect the emerging recognition that sustainability, climate resilience, human rights, social justice, and reconciliation are fundamental to the future of planning. Heritage Planning isTrade Review'Kalman and Létourneau’s revised Heritage Planning is an important work appearing at just the right time. This volume situates heritage conservation as a dynamic professional practice in contemporary society, while establishing clear and comprehensive frameworks for project-centered work. It manages to be a sophisticated scholarly treatment as well as a practical professional reference. The reach of examples is global; and it connects to issues of great urgency (sustainability, resilience, public health, indigenous societies). Practitioners and educators alike will find this an extremely valuable volume.'—Randall Mason, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania'The best book on built heritage planning just got better. Heritage Planning is extensively illustrated and packed with information for students and practitioners alike. The new edition is re-organized and augmented for classroom use, while retaining the global coverage and best practices that make it a valuable reference for heritage professionals.'—David Gordon, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario'One of the key objectives of critical heritage studies has been to identify and consider the social, political and ethical implications of heritage planning and conservation practices. By contextualizing the practicalities of heritage planning within broader interdisciplinary debates, this important textbook will be an important resource for those working toward building more equitable and inclusive heritage practices.'—Laurajane Smith, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, Australian National University, CanberraKalman and Létourneau’s revised Heritage Planning is an important work appearing at just the right time. This volume situates heritage conservation as a dynamic professional practice in contemporary society, while establishing clear and comprehensive frameworks for project-centered work. It manages to be a sophisticated scholarly treatment as well as a practical professional reference. The reach of examples is global; and it connects to issues of great urgency (sustainability, resilience, public health, indigenous societies). Practitioners and educators alike will find this an extremely valuable volume.—Randall Mason, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaThe best book on built heritage planning just got better. Heritage Planning is extensively illustrated and packed with information for students and practitioners alike. The new edition is re-organized and augmented for classroom use, while retaining the global coverage and best practices that make it a valuable reference for heritage professionals.—David Gordon, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Queen’s University, Kingston, OntarioOne of the key objectives of critical heritage studies has been to identify and consider the social, political and ethical implications of heritage planning and conservation practices. By contextualizing the practicalities of heritage planning within broader interdisciplinary debates this important textbook will be an important resource for those working toward building more equitable and inclusive heritage practices. —Laurajane Smith, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, Australian National University, CanberraTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION The nature of heritage planning Organization of the heritage sector PART 1: PRINCIPLES Regulating heritage Conservation charters and conventions Ethics and human rights Sustainability and resilience Best practices PART 2: PROCESS Understanding the historic place Community engagement Value and significance Managing change The Heritage Plan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism RPD
Book SynopsisThe Ethics of a Potential Urbanism explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio Agamben's political thoughts and writings for the theory and the practice of architecture and urban design. It sketches out the potentiality of Agamben's politics, which can affect change in current architectural and design discourses. The book investigates the possibility of an inoperative architecture, as an ethical shift for a different practice, just a little bit different, but able to deactivate the sociospatial dispositive and mobilize a new theory and a new project for the urban now to come. This particular reading from Agamben's oeuvre suggests a destituent mode of both thinking and practicing of architecture and urbanism that could possibly redeem them from their social emptiness, cultural irrelevance, economic reductionism and proto-avant-garde extravagance, contributing to a renewed critical encounter' with architecture's aesthetic-political function.Trade ReviewThis book offers more than an original contribution to the field; it opens a true debate that can no longer be ignored.Francesco Careri, Roma Tre UniversityThis book examines the relevance of Giorgio Agamben’s political writings for architecture and urban design and carefully guides the reader through Agamben’s fascinating ethical and political vocabulary. The book rethinks notions such as use, productivity, and creation that are, in the design disciplines, often taken for granted. It recognises, perhaps provocatively but convincingly so, in ‘inoperative architecture’ a genuine route towards a political and ethical design practice. This book offers a timely contribution to the debates on the social responsibility of architectural and urban design, and a must-read for scholars interested in the emancipatory and transformative agency of design.Isabelle Doucet, The University of ManchesterFor all those of us concerned with a truly alternative project for architecture, Boano's work is not only enlightening but also timely. His reading of Agamben from an architectural point of view certainly goes beyond proposing the paradox of making philosophy operative by rendering architecture inoperative: it also sheds light on a possible way out of the anti-intellectual trend that pervades contemporary architecture. Instead of a new style or another slogan to feed the industry of architecture, Boano's proposal looks for a renewed ethics which, precisely in a discipline that forgot about this word, will surely open up unexpected and yet amazing new avenues for architectural debate.Francisco Díaz, Professor at the School of Architecture Universidad Católica de Chile and Editor in Chief of ARQ Magazine, Santiago, Chile.The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism is a fascinating attempt to invigorate politically engaged architectural discourse - both as a theory and as a practice. The aim of the book is to use Giorgio Agamben philosophical project focused on an idea of radically emancipatory 'being inoperative' as a project of a new (post-capitalist?) architecture. In a context of architecture and urbanism this perspective opens possibility of a (absolute?) freedom, allowing to reject hyper-pragmatic language of capitalism (but also dated state socialist model - based on Fordist model of production).The book is a promise of new model of community and relationships between language, rules and life.Krzysztof Nawratek, Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Architectural Design, The University of SheffieldHow can architecture deactivate its preoccupations with "the arrogant ego of creative power" and be of use for an urban life without a final destination? This is the question addressed in this most erudite and inventive mobilization of Agamben’s work. Boano takes a major step in rendering inoperative the prevailing suppositions and practices that keep urbanism from being something else, now.Abdoumalique Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic DiversityGiorgio Agamben’s political thought has inspired architecture and planning theory over the last decade. Camillo Boano’s new book is a significant contribution to this debate, and a landmark in the growing literature that focuses on the relationships between architecture, urban design and planning and political philosophy. This original book takes the debate to a new level of erudition while also framing Agamben’s politics in relation to the material space and the contemporary landscape. This book is indeed ground-breaking work that provides an important source for scholars concerned with the encounters between spatial practices and Agamben’s politics.Haim Yacobi, Ben Gurion UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: An Architecture Inseparable from its Form, Part I: Agamben’s Burning House, 2. Paradigmatic Spaces: Agamben Spaces, Architecture and Arts, 3. Literal and Artistic Potential Common Grounds, 4. The Taking Place of Possible Inoperative Encounters, Part II: Giorgio Agamben’s Oeuvre, 5. Earlier Works: The Man Without Contents, Stanzas and Language and History, 6. The Coming Politics and Potentialities: The Coming Community, 7. The Homo Sacer project since its inception to Stasis, Part III: Towards an Inoperative Architecture, 8. Paradigms and Dispositifs, 9. Profanation, 10. Potentialities, 11. Inoperativity, 12. Use, 13. Abandoning the Project: The Possibility for a Whatever Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Disaster Resilience
Book SynopsisAccelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters. Floods, earthquakes, storms and conflicts affecting densely populated areas produce significant losses in lives, livelihoods and the built environment, especially in comparison to rural areas. Poor urban dwellers, almost always the most vulnerable, too often bear the brunt. Aid agencies and urban professionals have been slowly adapting to these new conditions, but older models and practices hinder the most effective engagements.Drawing directly from the experiences of urban disasters in the Philippines, Chile, India, Thailand, Iraq, Haiti and Nepal, among other countries, Urban Disaster Resilience brings to light new collaborations and techniques for addressing the challenges of urban disasters in the coming years. Chapters range from country-specific case studies to more synthetic frameworks in order to promote innovative thinking and practical solutions.Edited by David SandeTrade Review"Urban Disaster Resilience could not have been more timely. Following global processes in 2015, including the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals, and the World Humanitarian Summit and Habitat III in 2016, this book has successfully captured a broad understanding of what needs to happen for resilience to be achieved. It will be an important introduction and reference to the subject and should be recommended reading for students of architecture, development and humanitarian studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners alike." Jemilah Mahmood, Under Secretary General, IFRC (Partnerships)"This is a unique and timely volume of innovations and insights into the theory and practice of building urban resilience. Drawing on international experience, and illustrated throughout with case examples, its authors argue the value of informality and of engaging civil society when planning for the challenges of humanitarian crisis. An excellent resource book for teaching, for research and for practice." Nabeel Hamdi, Emeritus Professor, Oxford Brookes University"Urban Disaster Resilience is a must read for those trying to catalyze resilience building in humanitarian and development assistance. It warns that humanitarian assistance is not only failing to meet the needs of an increasingly urban planet, but that its lack of a sense of space and place makes it ill equipped to do so without dramatic change." Nancy Kete, Managing Director, The Rockefeller FoundationTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Urban planning, design and cities 1. Designing resilient cities and neighborhoods 2. Reconstructing the city: the potential gains of using urban planning and design practices in recovery and why they are so difficult to achieve 3. Fables from the reconstruction: lessons from Chile’s recovery after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami 4. Risk, resilience and the fragile city Part II. People, places, complex systems and regulation 5. Urban disaster resilience: learning from the 2011 Bangkok, Thailand, flood using morphology and complex adaptive systems 6. Regulatory barriers and the provision of shelter in post-disaster situations: housing, land and property (HLP) issues in the recovery of Tacloban, the Philippines, after Typhoon Haiyan 7. How does reconstruction after disaster affect long-term resilience? 8. Conflict and urban displacement: the impact on Kurdish place-identity in Erbil, Iraq Part III. Urban markets, micro-enterprise, insurance and technology 9. Linking response, recovery and resilience to markets in humanitarian action 10. Petty trade and the private sector in urban reconstruction: learning from Haiti’s post-earthquake Iron Market 11. Using disaster insurance to build urban resilience: lessons from micro-enterprise in India 12. ‘Humanitarian hybrids’: new technologies and humanitarian resilience Epilogue Reflections on the practice of disaster resilience
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Designing with Smell
Book SynopsisDesigning with Smell aims to inspire readers to actively consider smell in their work through the inclusion of case studies from around the world, highlighting the current use of smell in different cutting-edge design and artistic practices. This book provides practical guidance regarding different equipment, techniques, stages and challenges which might be encountered as part of this process.Throughout the text there is an emphasis on spatial design in numerous forms and interpretations in the street, the studio, the theatre or exhibition space, as well as the representation of spatial relationships with smell. Contributions, originate across different geographical areas, academic disciplines and professions. This is crucial reading for students, academics and practitioners working in olfactory design.Table of ContentsForeword 1. Introduction Part I Preface 2. Smell the City: A Participatory Art Installation 3. An Olfactory Space 4. The Smell of Snow: Experiencing Wonderland through Multisensory Art Part II Preface 5. The GhostFood Project: Enhancing Flavor through Personalized Smellscapes 6. Smellscape Narratives: Designing Olfactory Spaces as Infrastructure for Embodied Storytelling 7. Communicating and Mediating Smellscapes: The Design and Exposition of Olfactory Mappings Part III Preface 8. The Design of Urban Smellscapes with Fragrant Plants and Water Features 9. Stop and Smell the Flowers: Plant Scent in a Healing Forest Garden for Patients with Stress-Related Illness 10. The Creation of Seoul Scent: Invisible Beauty 11. Design with Smells: The Environmental Scientist’s Perspective Part IV Preface 12. Designing Smell into the Consumer Experience 13. The Use of Scent in Out of Home (OOH) Advertising 14. Scent and Brand Storytelling 15. Olfactory Control, Aroma Power and Organizational Smellscapes Part V Preface 16. Experiential Learning and Olfactory Architectures: Accommodating Smell in Teaching Practices in the Built Environment 17. Culturalizing Scent: Current Steps towards Integrating the Sense of Smell in Art and Design Education 18. Olfactory Education in Art and Design 19. Situating Olfactory Literacies: An Intersensory Pedagogy by Design Part VI Preface 20. Inhaling Futurism: On the Use of Olfaction in Futurism and Olfactory (Re)constructions 21. A Dead Man's Nose: Using Smell to Explore the Battlefield of Waterloo 22. Olfactory Design Element in Theatre: The Practical Considerations 23. The Nose Onstage: Olfactory Perceptions and Theatrical Dimension Part VII Preface 24. A DIY Guide for Extracting Scent in Your Kitchen 25. Scenting the Antiseptic Institution 26. Indeterminate Ecologies of Scent 27. Afterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Squares as Places Links and Displays
Book SynopsisTo attract investment and tourists and to enhance the quality of life of their citizens, municipal authorities are paying considerable attention to the quality of the public domain of their cities including their urban squares. Politicians find them good places for rallies. Children consider squares to be playgrounds, the elderly as places to catch-up with each other, and for many others squares are simply a place to pause for a moment.Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays: Successes and Failures discusses how people experience squares and the nature of the people who use them. It presents a typology of squares' based on the dimensions of ownership, the square's instrumental functions, and a series of their basic physical attributes including size, degree of enclosure, configuration and organization of the space within them and finally based on their aesthetic attributes their meanings. Twenty case studies illustrate what works and what does not work in differeTrade Review"El libro pasa revista a muchos casos de plazas urbanas significativas en cuanto al diseño y la vida urbana de las ciudades a nivel mundial, como la de San Marcos, en Venecia (2017, pp. 240-244), que puede considerarse para el lector geógrafo, urbanista, arquitecto, ingeniero, etcétera, como una especie de guía para entender el papel de las plazas urbanas hoy e, incluso, para desarrollar posteriores investigaciones en este campo de estudio." —Federico Camerin, Investigaciones Geográficas, April 2019"The book reviews many cases of urban squares in terms of design and life of cities around the world, such as the of San Marcos, in Venice, which can be considered for the geographer reader, urban planner, architect, engineer, etc., as a kind of guide to understand the role of urban spaces today, and even to develop further research in this field of study." —Federico Camerin, Investigaciones Geográficas, April 2019Table of ContentsPrologue: The Concern Part 1: Introduction 1. Experiencing Public Open Spaces2. Squares as Places, Links and Displays3. Sociocultural ConsiderationsPart 2: Types of Urban Squares and their Design 4. Public, Quasi-public and Semi-public Squares5. Types based on Instrumental Functions: 6. Types based on Size7. Types based on Degree of Enclosure 8. Types based on Configurations9. Types based on Internal Designs10. Types based on Symbolic Functions11. Types based on Design ParadigmsPart 3: Learning from Case Studies12. A Score of Case Studies Rittenhouse House Square, Philadelphia Sproul Plaza, University of California at Berkeley Paley Park, New York Cours Honoréd-Estiennne d’Orves, Marseille La Place des Terreaux, Lyon Federation Square, Melbourne Paternoster Square, London Robson Square, Vancouver Olympic Plaza, Calgary Trafalgar Square, London The Capitol Square, Chandigarh Oxford Square, Sydney Pershing Square, Los Angeles Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam The Guggenheim Museum forecourt, Bilbao North and South Shanghai Railway Station Squares, Shanghai Jacob K. Javits Federal Building Plaza, New York Granary Square, London Times Square, New York Piazza San Marco, Venice Part 4: What Works and What Doesn’t Work13. The Qualities of Lively Urban Squares14. The Qualities of Quiet Urban SquaresEpilogue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reconstructing Italy
Book SynopsisReconstructing Italy traces the postwar transformation of the Italian nation through an analysis of the Ina-Casa plan for working class housing, established in 1949 to address the employment and housing crises. Government sponsored housing programs undertaken after WWII have often been criticized as experiments that created more social problems than they solved. The neighborhoods of Ina-Casa stand out in contrast to their contemporaries both in terms of design and outcome. Unlike modernist high-rise housing projects of the period, Ina-Casa neighborhoods are picturesque and human-scaled and incorporate local construction materials and methods resulting in a rich aesthetic diversity. And unlike many other government forays into housing undertaken during this period, the Ina-Casa plan was, on the whole, successful: the neighborhoods are still lively and cohesive communities today. This book examines what made Ina-Casa a success among so many failed housing experiments, focusing on the tenTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reconstructing Italy; I: The Development of the Ina-Casa Plan; 1: The Development of the Ina-Casa Plan; 2: Envisioning a New Italy: The Projects Office of Ina-Casa; II: The Results of the Plan; 3: Building Community: The Urban Planning and Design of Ina-Casa; 4: Building on Tradition: Appropriations of Local Histories in the Neighborhoods of Ina-Casa; 5: Inside the Homes of Ina-Casa; III: The Reception and Legacy of Ina-Casa; 6: Life in the Neighborhoods and Homes of Ina-Casa; 7: The Critical Reception of Ina-Casa; Epilogue: An Architectural Legacy of Ina-Casa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Constellations
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape as engines of regeneration. Promising much to their fading locales, these spaces locate culture in the space where production once ruled in order to revitalise post-industrial urban provinces. With close attention to four sites across the UK, Urban Constellations engages with the work of Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard, to read these spaces and in so doing, offer a critical intervention into the theory and experience of contemporary cityscapes. Developing the notion of surface ethnography as a methodological approach to examining the form of cultural experience produced by urban cultural spaces, the author sheds light on the manner in which they transform cultural spectatorship, express wider political and ecological concerns and offer differing views to the 'native' and the 'tourist' in the construction of local history. The book also examines the decline of the idea that iconic projTrade Review’Nobody concerned with the contemporary city can afford to ignore Urban Constellations. Its analyses of the dreamscapes of regeneration are timely, exacting, and critical in the best sense of that term; they are also deeply moving.’ Ben Highmore, University of Sussex, UK ’Fizzing with ideas, this inspired analysis investigates the spectacular cultural temples erected in British post-industrial cities at the turn of the 20th century. Such flagship projects are often depicted as hollow shrines to superficial consumption, yet here, drawing on theories from Benjamin and Baudrillard, they are read against the grain. While Zoë Thompson acknowledges the banal commodification of place and culture inherent in these grand designs, her sophisticated exploration reveals overlooked ecologies and histories, unexpected fragments of the past and unforeseen twists that disrupt dreams of seamlessness and offer alternative approaches for critical scrutiny.’ Tim Edensor, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsUrban Constellations
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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 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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