City and town planning: architectural aspects Books
Gta Verlag Urban Design In The 20th Century - A History
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JOVIS Verlag Zentralitäten 4.0: Raumpolitiken und neue
Book Synopsis In the 1930s, Walter Christaller used new media to work out his central place theory by counting telephone lines to identify centralities that connected multiple spaces: Today, digitization has a formative effect on space—on cities, the countryside, and mobility. Or when it is lacking, disruptions are the result. The contributions to the book offer an introductory examination of the effects of digitization on space and deal with the topicality of Christaller’s central place theory. The book does so both theoretically and practically, by examining spatial policies of current regional development programs, different conceptions of public services, and the tasks medium-sized centers in urban and rural areas. The second part of the book discusses which structural changes are to be expected in the course of digitization, especially through new mobility, and how this might affect the attractiveness of rural areas and the tasks of medium-sized towns. Finally, it examines the causes of populist tendencies and experiences of loss produced by processes of globalization and social division, as well as right-wing extremist developments in rural areas.
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JOVIS Verlag Polylemma (Deutsche Sprachausgabe)
Book SynopsisFor a quarter of a century, the architectural collective raumlaborberlin has been pioneering new spaces for action, charting unique paths in cooperative urban development, and creating places to foster encounters. Together with experts across various fields, they explore forms of urban practice, participation, and the joint production of space. Polylemma tells the story of this work: its nine members visit the sites of their work, come together with long-standing colleagues and critics, dissect the mechanisms behind their actions, and reflect on the tools and methods of their research-based practice. Topics discussed across numerous projects include strategies for learning together, experimental building, and radical recycling. Polylemma challenges us to open up our notion of space. How do we want to live together in the future? The book is a plea for the city as a sphere of action.
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JOVIS Verlag Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin: Sanierung einer
Book Synopsis Die Neue Nationalgalerie am Berliner Kulturforum ist eine Architekturikone von Weltrang sowie der Schluss- und Höhepunkt im Lebenswerk des Architekten Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Mit der ersten Grundinstandsetzung seit ihrer Eröffnung 1968 ist ein herausragendes Projekt gelungen, das die behutsame Sanierung ebenso umfasst wie die denkmalgerechte Modernisierung gemäß den Anforderungen an einen zeitgemäßen Museums- und Ausstellungsbetrieb. David Chipperfield Architects entwickelten unter dem Leitsatz „So viel Mies wie möglich" das Sanierungskonzept. Die Publikation vermittelt tiefe Einblicke in die Planung, Ausführung, Denkmalpflege und Restaurierung aus der Sicht der Beteiligten. Die Darstellung des beispielhaften Umgangs mit der historischen Substanz wird von Planungsunterlagen und zahlreichen großformatigen Fotografien begleitet, die die Entwurfsphase, die Baustelle und die Ergebnisse der Sanierung eindrucksvoll bebildern. Mit Beiträgen von David Chipperfield, Bernhard Furrer, Gunny Harboe, Joachim Jäger, Dirk Lohan, Fritz Neumeyer, Alexander Schwarz, Gerrit Wegener sowie rund 30 weiteren Projektakteur*innen
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JOVIS Verlag Ein neuer Typus Kirche: Hybride öffentliche Räume
Book Synopsis Bildeten Kirchen früher noch das Zentrum des Dorf- und Stadtlebens, führen kontinuierlich schwindende Mitgliederzahlen heute dazu, dass sie immer häufiger leer stehen oder sogar schließen müssen. Wie können Kirchengebäude wieder mit Leben gefüllt werden? In Thüringen haben sich seit 2016 unter der Schirmherrschaft der Evangelischen Kirche in Mitteldeutschland und der Internationalen Bauausstellung IBA Thüringen engagierte Bürger*innen zusammengeschlossen, die mit solidarischen Projekten ihre Kirchen als Orte der Gemeinschaft reaktivieren. Der zweite Band der Reihe StadtLand:Kirche stellt diese ambitionierten Projekte vor, erzählt von ihrem Fortschritt, von Erfolgen und Schwierigkeiten. Sei es die Her(r)bergskirche am Rennsteig oder die Bienen-Garten-Kirche in Roldisleben: Die vorgestellten Projekte zeigen auf, wie lebensnahe weltliche Nutzungen das ursprüngliche Angebot der Kirche ergänzen können. Mitten im Dorf entsteht so ein neuer Typus Kirche als hybrider Ort.
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JOVIS Verlag Sanfte Stadt: Planungsideen für den urbanen
Book SynopsisThe reality of urban life can be rather banal. We all have to wait for the bus on cold winter days, do the washing up, take out the bins, or spend long commutes in the car. David Sim believes that life in the city could be made easier and more pleasant through simple, cost-effective measures and by focusing on the human scale. He demonstrates that the solution is finding a balance between density and diversity in order to create proximity and to make urban assets more accessible. The goal is to design comfortable neighborhoods that are easy to live in and adapt to our ever-changing needs. David Sim paints a picture of the good life in cities that are slower, better apportioned, quieter, and—simply put—softer.
£32.85
Ruby Press The City as a Project
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Distanz Viewshed
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Sandstein Verlag Plan!: Leipzig, Architektur Und Stadtebau
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£18.00
Detail Architecture in Vorarlberg
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Spector Books A Section of Now: Social Norms and Rituals as
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Spector Books Border Environments: CRA #1
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Spector Books Militant Media: CRA #2
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ArchiTangle GmbH Cities Under Pressure: A Design Strategy for
Book SynopsisHistorical evolution and processes of cultural and economic globalization have brought out relevant and frightening risks on a global scale: from urbicide and violence to climate change and an increase in natural disasters, but also an enormous widening of economic and social inequality. Today, humanity as a whole is facing epochal challenges that require a radical metamorphosis of inhabited spaces. Cities Under Pressure illustrates a new design paradigm, an open intervention system that seeks the establishment of a dynamic equilibrium that is continuously renegotiated. Cities Under Pressure imagines and defines new urban environments that abandon a rigid design scheme in favor of growing evolutionary mechanisms capable of embodying the ongoing sustainable transition, so as to guarantee a resilient and peaceful future.
£36.00
Steidl GmbH & Co.OHG K12. Schwamendingen ein Randbezirk von Zürich
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JOVIS Verlag Stadtparterre: Erdgeschoss, Straße, Hof und deren
Book SynopsisThe concept of the urban parterre plays a central role in considering what makes a city liveable. The urban parterre is the zone of the city at eye level: the urban ground floor. It is a fabric composed of the built and unbuilt spaces in which we move and interact every day. While urban research has previously tended to focus on either the ground floor level or public spaces, this book considers the systemic interplay of ground floor, inner courtyards, streets, and their interfaces. Using Urban Parterre Modelling to carry out a comprehensive analysis of architectural structures dating from the late nineteenth century (the Gründerzeit), the hidden challenges and opportunities posed by these buildings are explored and discussed with reference to the sustainable, resilient, and circular future use of existing architecture. Taking Vienna’s Gründerzeit parterre as a starting point, the author takes a critical and comparative look at the development of the urban parterre systems of various European cities.
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Skira Inspiring Cities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Battery Park City: Politics and Planning on the
Book SynopsisBattery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing was built on the site for more than a decade after the first master plan was approved, and the redevelopment agency flirted with bankruptcy in 1979.Taking a practice-oriented approach, the book examines the role of planning and development agencies in implementing urban waterfront redevelopment. It focuses upon the experience of the central actor - the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) - and includes personal interviews with executives of the BPCA, former New York mayors John Lindsay and Ed Koch, key public officials, planners, and developers. Describing the political, financial, planning, and implementation issues faced by public agencies and private developers from 1962 to 1993, it is both a case study and history of one of the most ambitious examples of urban waterfront redevelopment.Trade Review"Gordon argues that Battery Park City is a remarkably successful urban development project, and that its implemented plan, prepared largely by Cooper Eckstut Associates, was an admiral combination of postmodern and new urbanist development." - Journal of American Planning Association" Superbly designed for economic development professionals [and] urban design and planning firms." - Mitchell L. Moss, New York UniversityTable of Contents1. Dueling Plans: Proposals for the Lower Hudson Waterfront 2. Department of Marine and Aviation Plan 3. Governor Rockefeller's Proposal - Battery Park City 4. The City and State Negotiate 5. The 1969 Master Development Plan 6. Physical Design Cost Estimates 7. Designating Developers 8. Funding the Authority 9. Stalling Out: 1972-1979 10. The Real Estate Market Collapse The New York City Fiscal Crisis 11. The 1979 Master Plan 12. Building Battery Park City 13. Gateway Plaza 14. The World Financial Center 15. Public Spaces and Facilities 16. Issues for the Twenty-First Century 17. Corporate Structure 18. Why Battery Park City Matters 19. The Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association 20. Plan Implementation 21. Affordable Housing 22. Recharging Battery Park City: 1979-1982
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Valiz Hans Venhuizen: Game Urbanism
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Valiz Binational Urbanism: On the Road to Paradise
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£19.95
Valiz Urban Challenges, Resilient Solutions: Design
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Valiz Flourishing Foodscapes: Design for City-Region
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£24.22
Valiz Make Your City: The City as a Shell: Ndsm
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£21.38
Cannibal/Hannibal Publishers Setting the Stage: North Korea
Book SynopsisIn Setting the Stage: North Korea photographer Eddo Hartmann shows the North Korean regime's ambitions to build the ultimate socialist city and to mould the people living in that city to their ideals. Hartmann is one of very few Western photographers who has been allowed almost full access to the country. This publication is the result of many years of research and four visits to Pyongyang. After the total destruction of Pyongyang during the Korean War (1950-53), the government took its chance to rebuild the capital from scratch and to turn it into the perfect setting for their propaganda. Pyongyang was to become the city in which every North Korean could experience true modern socialism. The buildings were to be the utopian background against which the inhabitants could live their daily lives. Pyongyang was to immortalise the socialist revolution. Eddo Hartmann had the exceptional opportunity to photograph this architecture of artificiality. In a series of evocative images, he captures the forced and almost surreal character of North Korean ambition. In a very personal and original style, Hartmann focuses on the individual.
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The University of Chicago Press A City for Children
Book SynopsisFocuses on the use and adaptive reuse of everyday buildings in Oakland, California, to make the city a better place for children. She introduces us to the women who were determined to mitigate the burdens placed on working-class families by an indifferent industrial capitalist economy.
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The University of Chicago Press Terror and Wonder
Book SynopsisOffers a look at the extraordinary ways that architecture mirrors our values - and shapes our everyday lives. This title gathers the best of the author's writings along with reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper.Trade Review"An elegant and thought-provoking book.... Crisp and colorful, expert and witty, Kamin's involving essays address the complexities of architecture and how the built world affects every aspect of life." (Booklist) "Chicago is lucky to have Kamin, whose architectural criticism in that city's Tribune continues the spirited tradition of Allan Temko and Ada Louise Huxtable. This collection from the past decade shows a deft eye for the latest Windy City tower but also the larger weave of culture and design." (San Francisco Chronicle) "Kamin is a keen, trenchant observer of the contemporary urban scene, and his engaging criticism enjoys a welcome second life in this anthology." (Choice) "A highly informative and accessible survey of the architecture and planning of the past decade.... Poignant and timely." (Architect's Newspaper) "[Kamin] reminds us of the role buildings have in our economic and physical environment and how the past decade has changed how we interact with the structures around us." (Kai Ryssdal, Marketplace, Best Books of 2010) "Blair Kamin, Pulitzer Prize - winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, thoughtfully and provocatively defines the emotional and cultural dimensions of architecture. He is one of the nation's leading voices for design that uplifts and enhances life as well as the environment. Terror and Wonder assembles some of his best writing from the past ten years." (Huffington Post)"
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The University of Chicago Press Why Architecture Matters Lessons from Chicago
Book SynopsisFor more than a decade Blair Kamin has been writing essays on the state of contemporary architecture for the Chicago Tribune. A selection of the columns are published here, offering a look at America's foremost architectural city.
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The University of Chicago Press Cities in the Urban Age A Dissent
Book SynopsisA case for and against cities: they're the best thing we have going (environmentally, socially, in terms of tolerance) but they're also inherently destructive. How to reconcile bothBeauregard argues that we don't need to; we should accept cities as inherently full of contradictions.
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The University of Chicago Press Urban Regimes Strategies Building Europes
Book SynopsisExploring a new geographical concept, the Central Executive District, this book analyzes how the landscape of Brussel's city centre has evolved over the last three decades under the influence of successive coalitions of local and foreign elites.
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The University of Chicago Press Planning as Persuasive Storytelling
Book SynopsisThis study looks at the world of political conflict surrounding the Commonwealth Edison Company's nuclear power plant construction programme in northern Illinois during the 1980s. It examines the theory that planning can best be thought of as a form of persuasive storytelling.
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The University of Chicago Press Forever Open Clear and Free
Book SynopsisOf the thirty miles of Lake Michigan shoreline within the city limits of Chicago, twenty-four miles is public park land. The crown jewels of its park system, the lakefront parks bewitch natives and visitors alike with their brisk winds, shady trees, sandy beaches, and rolling waves. Like most good things, the protection of the lakefront parks didn't come easy, and this book chronicles the hard-fought and never-ending battles Chicago citizens have waged to keep them forever open, clear, and free.Illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, Wille's book tells how Chicago's lakefront has survived a century of development. The story serves as a warning to anyone who thinks the struggle for the lakefront is over, or who takes for granted the beauty of its public beaches and parks. A thoroughly fascinating and well-documented narrative which draws the reader into the sights, smells and sounds of Chicago's story. . . . Everyone who cares about the development of land and its conservation will benefit from reading Miss Wille's book.Daniel J. Shannon, Architectural ForumNot only good reading, it is also a splendid example of how to equip concerned citizens for their necessary participation in the politics of planning and a more livable environment.Library Journal
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Columbia University Press Emerging Global Cities
Book SynopsisThis book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these cities.Trade ReviewEmerging Global Cities sets a new standard for the comparative study of cities. Combining historical analysis, political economy, demography, and institutional analysis with a deep understanding of the global division of economic labor, the authors produce a set of gripping profiles of the successful, the also-rans, and the precarious, and place them all in a compelling theoretical framework. -- Paul DiMaggio, New York UniversityEmerging Global Cities examines the processes of globalization from below through distinct yet potentially generalizable historical sequences. Portes and Armony explain how and why some cities in the developing periphery have managed to rise from positions of inferiority and insignificance to become leading players in the global economy. This book will soon become a benchmark for the study of global cities and a new classic for urban studies, development studies, and economic sociology. -- Min Zhou, University of California, Los AngelesPortes and Armony offer us an exceptionally compelling and deeply perceptive rendering of twenty-first-century entrepôt cities—emergent urban centers driven and contoured by flows of people, ideas, money, and power. The conceptual tools they give us to understand how and why cities from Lagos to São Paulo to Miami are redrawing the global political map and charting our ecological future are indispensable for anyone interested in the rise and fall of cities and the flourishing of urban life. -- Natasha Iskander, New York UniversityEmerging Global Cities breaks new ground by bringing together into one comparative study a set of emerging global cities (and hopefuls) to explain how the global capitalist system is devolving power to new regional hubs. Portes and Armony bring new perspectives—on climate change, poverty, and inequality, for example—to bear in their study, with great attention to class and ethnic structures in these cities. -- James F. Hollifield, Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy, SMUA useful introduction for advanced students of urban studies. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. The Role of Cities in the Capitalist Economy: An Overview2. Dubai: From Marginal Gulf Town to Regional Hub, by Rana Tomaira3. Miami: From Winter Resort to Hemispheric Capital, with the collaboration of Brandon P. Martinez4. Singapore: From Fishing Village to World-Class Metropolis, with the collaboration of Larry LiuPart II5. Global Hopefuls: An Overview6. New Orleans: A Century of Decline, with the collaboration of Larry Liu7. São Paulo: Brazil’s Always-Aspiring City, with the collaboration of Rosa Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony Ocepek8. Lagos: Africa’s New Dubai?, with the collaboration of Rosa Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony OcepekPart III9. Hong Kong: A Threatened Global City, by Larry LiuConclusion: Theoretical Implications, Climate Change, and Future ChallengesNotesReferencesIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Emerging Global Cities
Book SynopsisThis book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these cities.Trade ReviewEmerging Global Cities sets a new standard for the comparative study of cities. Combining historical analysis, political economy, demography, and institutional analysis with a deep understanding of the global division of economic labor, the authors produce a set of gripping profiles of the successful, the also-rans, and the precarious, and place them all in a compelling theoretical framework. -- Paul DiMaggio, New York UniversityEmerging Global Cities examines the processes of globalization from below through distinct yet potentially generalizable historical sequences. Portes and Armony explain how and why some cities in the developing periphery have managed to rise from positions of inferiority and insignificance to become leading players in the global economy. This book will soon become a benchmark for the study of global cities and a new classic for urban studies, development studies, and economic sociology. -- Min Zhou, University of California, Los AngelesPortes and Armony offer us an exceptionally compelling and deeply perceptive rendering of twenty-first-century entrepôt cities—emergent urban centers driven and contoured by flows of people, ideas, money, and power. The conceptual tools they give us to understand how and why cities from Lagos to São Paulo to Miami are redrawing the global political map and charting our ecological future are indispensable for anyone interested in the rise and fall of cities and the flourishing of urban life. -- Natasha Iskander, New York UniversityEmerging Global Cities breaks new ground by bringing together into one comparative study a set of emerging global cities (and hopefuls) to explain how the global capitalist system is devolving power to new regional hubs. Portes and Armony bring new perspectives—on climate change, poverty, and inequality, for example—to bear in their study, with great attention to class and ethnic structures in these cities. -- James F. Hollifield, Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy, SMUA useful introduction for advanced students of urban studies. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. The Role of Cities in the Capitalist Economy: An Overview2. Dubai: From Marginal Gulf Town to Regional Hub, by Rana Tomaira3. Miami: From Winter Resort to Hemispheric Capital, with the collaboration of Brandon P. Martinez4. Singapore: From Fishing Village to World-Class Metropolis, with the collaboration of Larry LiuPart II5. Global Hopefuls: An Overview6. New Orleans: A Century of Decline, with the collaboration of Larry Liu7. São Paulo: Brazil’s Always-Aspiring City, with the collaboration of Rosa Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony Ocepek8. Lagos: Africa’s New Dubai?, with the collaboration of Rosa Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony OcepekPart III9. Hong Kong: A Threatened Global City, by Larry LiuConclusion: Theoretical Implications, Climate Change, and Future ChallengesNotesReferencesIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Reinventing the Chinese City
Book SynopsisRichard Hu unpacks recent trends in urban planning and development to explore the making and imagining of the contemporary Chinese city.Trade ReviewThe path from small, poor villages dotting a vast desolate Asian hinterland to the world's largest middle-class urbanity in four decades is impressive and compelling. Richard Hu guides global readers through China's metropolitan rise with analytical sophistication that shows both promise and flaws of the Chinese megacities. He presents China's new cities not as clones of the West but as a new genre of city building and an authentic attempt at reinventing urbanity. This is a timely text for policymakers, environmentalists, urban planners, and architects as we try to build cities of and for the future. -- Edward J. Blakely, Emeritus Professor of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley, and former President of the Pacific Rim Council on Urban DevelopmentOver the last decade, China has engaged a new, centrally led path of urban transformation with the aim to achieve a new-type urbanization connecting socialist principles with environmental concepts. Yet, the thinking behind this shift, the planning tools, and the national goals are difficult to grasp for scholars and practitioners outside China. Richard Hu builds on his first-hand knowledge of China and of international planning discussions to explore the new urban era. Notably, he explores the historical conditions that shape the present and influence future planning. This important book provides unique, refreshing insights into contemporary China for a global public. -- Carola Hein, Professor and Head of the History of Architecture and Urban Planning, Delft University of Technology, and President of the International Planning History SocietyRichard Hu provides a probing, well-informed, and cogently organized account of how China is crafting its 'new normal' of urbanization in its era of a green revolution, smart city commitment, and post-industrialization. -- Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service ProfessorRichard Hu integrates both inside-out and outside-in perspectives and offers a holistic, balanced, and insightful reading of the real China. His analysis captures a particular kind of transversality, jumps into the unknown, and explores possibilities that go beyond the familiar. He unpacks an astounding array of complexities in China's transformation that we in the West might have overlooked or forgotten. Yes, this is a splendid text worth reading! -- Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia UniversityThis book provides a compact, lucid, and timely account of Chinese cities at the leading edge of urbanization. With China hitching its socialist modernization to indigenous innovation, cities are being charged with realizing the vision of a smart, livable, green future. Richard Hu does an admirable job of showing both top-down and bottom-up actions shaping cities into innovation hotbeds, the emerging lessons for others, and the way forward being charted by planners. It is a must-read for experts and those interested in the urban facets of China's development. -- Shahid Yusuf, Chief Economist of the Growth Dialogue, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations1. A New Urban Era?2. The Green Revolution3. The Smart City Movement4. The Great Innovation Leap Forward5. The Xiong’an Experiment6. Reorienting Hong Kong7. Imagining 2035 and Beyond8. The Nature of the Chinese CityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£92.65
Columbia University Press Reinventing the Chinese City
Book SynopsisRichard Hu unpacks recent trends in urban planning and development to explore the making and imagining of the contemporary Chinese city.Trade ReviewThe path from small, poor villages dotting a vast desolate Asian hinterland to the world's largest middle-class urbanity in four decades is impressive and compelling. Richard Hu guides global readers through China's metropolitan rise with analytical sophistication that shows both promise and flaws of the Chinese megacities. He presents China's new cities not as clones of the West but as a new genre of city building and an authentic attempt at reinventing urbanity. This is a timely text for policymakers, environmentalists, urban planners, and architects as we try to build cities of and for the future. -- Edward J. Blakely, Emeritus Professor of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley, and former President of the Pacific Rim Council on Urban DevelopmentOver the last decade, China has engaged a new, centrally led path of urban transformation with the aim to achieve a new-type urbanization connecting socialist principles with environmental concepts. Yet, the thinking behind this shift, the planning tools, and the national goals are difficult to grasp for scholars and practitioners outside China. Richard Hu builds on his first-hand knowledge of China and of international planning discussions to explore the new urban era. Notably, he explores the historical conditions that shape the present and influence future planning. This important book provides unique, refreshing insights into contemporary China for a global public. -- Carola Hein, Professor and Head of the History of Architecture and Urban Planning, Delft University of Technology, and President of the International Planning History SocietyRichard Hu provides a probing, well-informed, and cogently organized account of how China is crafting its 'new normal' of urbanization in its era of a green revolution, smart city commitment, and post-industrialization. -- Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service ProfessorRichard Hu integrates both inside-out and outside-in perspectives and offers a holistic, balanced, and insightful reading of the real China. His analysis captures a particular kind of transversality, jumps into the unknown, and explores possibilities that go beyond the familiar. He unpacks an astounding array of complexities in China's transformation that we in the West might have overlooked or forgotten. Yes, this is a splendid text worth reading! -- Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia UniversityThis book provides a compact, lucid, and timely account of Chinese cities at the leading edge of urbanization. With China hitching its socialist modernization to indigenous innovation, cities are being charged with realizing the vision of a smart, livable, green future. Richard Hu does an admirable job of showing both top-down and bottom-up actions shaping cities into innovation hotbeds, the emerging lessons for others, and the way forward being charted by planners. It is a must-read for experts and those interested in the urban facets of China's development. -- Shahid Yusuf, Chief Economist of the Growth Dialogue, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations1. A New Urban Era?2. The Green Revolution3. The Smart City Movement4. The Great Innovation Leap Forward5. The Xiong’an Experiment6. Reorienting Hong Kong7. Imagining 2035 and Beyond8. The Nature of the Chinese CityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.20
University of Illinois Press Prairie Crossing
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A passionate view of what the author describes as the first conservation community."--Ann Durkin Keating, author of Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide"Thought-provoking and conversation starting. Makes a novel contribution to our understanding of how and why suburbs grow under various sets of circumstances. It's a story worthy of sharing and provides important lessons for communities facing conditions of sprawl. Indeed, the author clearly demonstrates that there are viable alternatives to sprawl."--Thomas J. Vicino, coauthor of Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US"According to political scientist John Scott Watson (University of Illinois at Chicago) in his new book Prairie Crossing: Creating an American Conservation Community, its developers, George and Vicky Ranney, are 'using the market to preserve and protect the environment from free-market excess'. . . . The question remains: Do conservation communities represent a niche market or a large-scale alternative to conventional suburbia? This book is a great place to start finding out." --Planning
£22.79
Indiana University Press Empire Builders
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Pennsylvania State University Press ConstantinopolisIstanbul
Book SynopsisStudies the reconstruction of Byzantine Constantinople as the capital city of the Ottoman empire following its capture in 1453, delineating the complex interplay of socio-political, architectural, visual, and literary processes that underlay the city's transformation.Trade Review“Çiğdem Kafescioğlu’s elegant study examines the creation of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul through the reformulation of the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. The book provides clarity, nuance, and new perspectives on a formative period in the city’s history. It is well written, engaging, packed with valuable observations, and based on important new archival documents. This is a significant contribution to urban history in general and to the history and architecture of Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul in particular.”—Robert Ousterhout,University of Pennsylvania“Linking the rebuilding of the conquered city to the building of the empire, Kafescioğlu traces interventions to urban and architectural forms, interweaving them with shifting political, ideological, and religious issues. The arguments are powerful and convincingly presented. The research is top-notch and integrates material from many sources, including an impressive range of hitherto untapped archival documents.”—Zeynep Çelik,New Jersey Institute of Technology“This latest title in the award-winning Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies series does not disappoint. Elegantly designed with a double column layout that is easy on the eye, this book is profusely illustrated with eight color plates, five maps, and 152 black-and-white photographs, plans, or other drawings to scale. This book is highly recommended for academic and research libraries supporting historical research.”—Janine J. Henri ARLIS/NA Reviews“Kafescioğlu argues that the foundations of Istanbul’s later development were laid out in the first decades following the conquest, but this involved a complex dynamics in which diverse cultural traditions, Ottoman and Byzantine, along with Renaissance ideas of ordering the urban environment encountered each other. . . . [Constantinopolis/Istanbul] will undoubtedly remain an important resource for new Istanbul studies for years to come.”—Ipek Türeli CAA Reviews“For Byzantinists, 1453 is an ending, for Ottomanists, a beginning. For the history of the city neither is correct, one of the important contributions of this book. Byzantinists need to engage this new book and to rise to its challenges. . . . Constantinopolis/Istanbul is our best analysis of the early history of the Ottoman City.”—Robert S. Nelson Art Bulletin“Constantinopolis/Istanbul is a painstakingly researched and documented and lavishly illustrated account of the city from 1453–1581. Its numerous maps, photographs, and plates combine with the written analysis to produce an in-depth study which will be of great value to both specialists and general readers.”—Valerie Kennedy Sixteenth Century Journal“There is much to recommend in Ciğdem Kafescioğlu’s carefully researched and elegant book, not the least of which is a thorough analysis of the transformation of Byzantine Constantinople into Ottoman Istanbul.”—Andrea Bubenik ParergonTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Between Edirne and Kostantiniyye: The City’s First Ottoman Years2. Constructing the City: The Architectural ProjectsPart 1: The Urban Program and Mehmed’s FoundationPart 2: The Patronage of the New Ruling ElitePart 3: Memory, Space, and Vision in Constructions of the Ottoman Capital City3. Representing the City: Constantinople and Its Images4. Istanbul InhabitedEpilogue: A Picture from Circa 1537NotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
University of Texas Press Design for a Vulnerable Planet
Book SynopsisSpotlighting innovative design projects in places ranging from Texas to Italy and China, this book sounds a call for architects, designers, and regional planners to create a built environment that works on a regional scale in harmony with the planet's ecoTrade ReviewThe strengths of Design for a Vulnerable Planet lie with its engaging, diverse, and reflective narrative. Steiner draws on decades of firsthand experience and knowledge of the architecture, landscape architecture, and planning fields. The chapters are (mostly) short and readable, and they provide a breadth of views on design and a variety of scales of action…. The book contributes to our understanding of the process and product of ecological and regional design, particularly in Texas, and the dynamics and challenges of projects that increase sustainability. It also enhances the foundation and awareness of the new regionalism and landscape urbanism and bridges design disciplines, providing an inside view of how the groups can—and do—work together toward the same goal of sustainable design. Design for a Vulnerable Planet will be of interest to students who endeavor to understand how planners and designers can build a healthy, attractive, and resilient world. -- Amy J. Lynch, University of Pennsylvania * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Interdisciplinary Design and the Fate of Our Planet I. Living Urban Environments 1. Architecture and the Wealth of Regions 2. Sustaining Design: The Solar Decathlon Competitions 3. Twenty-First-Century Architecture 4. Architecture Has Left the Building: The Sustainable Sites Initiative 5. Making Territory: The Potential of Landscape Urbanism II. Lessons from Paul Cret, Ian McHarg, and George Mitchell 6. City Limits: Pioneer Plans in Austin 7. The Woodlands: The Ecological Design of a New City III. Emerging Urbanism in Texas 8. The Trinity River Corridor: Another Emerald Necklace or an Emerald Choker? 9. Making Limoncello from Lemons: The Blanton Museum of Art Plaza Design 10. True Urbanism: The Design of Performance Park in the Dallas Arts District 11. Legacies IV. New Regionalism in Texas and Beyond 12. The Green Heart of Texas 13. Envision Central Texas 14. The Texas Triangle Megaregion 15. New Regionalism V. Learning from Abroad 16. Environmental Readings: The Italian Design Tradition 17. Autumn Moon: Design and Planning in China VI. Learning from Disaster 18. In Search of a Fitting Tribute: The United Flight 93 Memorial 19. Resilient Foundations: Planning for the Gulf Coast After Hurricane Katrina VII. Conclusion 20. The Sedimentation of Our Minds: Prospects for New Design Thinking Notes Bibliography Index
£31.50
University of Texas Press How Cities Work
Book SynopsisA hard-hitting, highly readable look at what makes cities work -- or not work.Trade Review"Concern with traffic, environmental indifference and careless land development patterns, indeed, growing awareness of the many consequences of sprawl has led to calls for 'smart growth.' One of the smartest ways to prepare to effectuate smarter growth is to read How Cities Work. In a gentle but lucid and persuasive way Alex Marshall reminds us that the responsibility for making and maintaining good communities is a public one--that city-building is a public art dependent on public leadership, not acquiescence to private caprice. Anyone interested in helping to sustain rather than complain about the loss of community must read this book." --Alex Krieger, Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design "This is an outstanding book that I hope and expect will make a major contribution to the current debate on cities and suburbs." --Robert Fishman, author of American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy and Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia " ... rich in evocative metaphors ... written in a lively style"--Geography, January 2002 "How Cities Work is an engaging read, containing important messages relevant not only to those in the urban design profession, but also to the wider public who have a role in deciding how cities should be shaped."--Journal of Urban Design, Vol. 7 No. 3, 2002Table of Contents Introduction: The Sex of Cities Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Towns: Kissimmee versus Celebration and the New Urbanism Chapter 2: The End of Place Chapter 3: The Deconstructed City: The Silicon Valley Chapter 4: Trading Places: The City and the Suburb Chapter 5: Jackson Heights: An Anachronism Finds Its Way Chapter 6: The Master Hand: The Role of Government in Building Cities Chapter 7: Portland and Oregon: Taming the Forces That Create the Modern Metropolitan Area Chapter 8: No Place Called Home: Community at the Millennium Chapter 9: Conclusion. Getting There: Building Healthy Cities Acknowledgments Notes Selected References Index
£18.89
University of Washington Press The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag
Book SynopsisRichard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In 1964, Haag founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington, and his innovative work contributed to the increasingly significant design approach known as urban ecological design, which encourages thinking beyond the boundaries of gardens and parks to consider the broader roles that landscapes play within urban ecosystems, such as storm water drainage and wildlife habitat. Gas Works Park is studied in every survey of twentieth-century landscape architecture as a modern work that challenged the tenets of modernism by engaging a toxic site and celebrating an industrial past. Haag's work with ecologists and soil scientists in his landscape remediation and reclamation projects opened new areas of inquiry into theTrade Review"While the book tells Haag's story, it also describes the evolution of landscape architecture in the Northwest." * Columns *"Since 1964, when he founded the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Haag has gained a warranted admiration that Way has sharply surveyed and illustrated in her new book." -- Paul Dorpat * Pacific NW Magazine *"This very detailed work is most useful for professionals. The book brings new attention to Pacific Northwest landscape design. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by Marc Treib Preface Acknowledgments 1. Growing up in a Kentucky landscape 2. A Landscape Education 3. “Keep Your Eyes Open!” 4. Designing the Home Garden in California 5. A Teacher’s Teacher 6. Gardens of the Pacific Northwest 7. From Modernism to Urbanism 8. The Art of the Landform as Landscape Architecture 9. “It Was a Gas!” at Gas Works Park 10. Land Sculpting and Ecological Design at the Bloedel Reserve 11. The Legacy Afterword by Laurie Olin Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index
£29.45
University of Washington Press Repairing the American Metropolis Common Place
Book SynopsisAn indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architectural and urban scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.Trade Review"The reader's urban experience will never be quite the same after experiencing this book. With clarity, precision, and deft detail, Kelbaugh pans the unsustainable design strategies and conceits of an auto-crazed culture, as our human spirit vanishes in the rearview mirror. The author is uniquely well qualified to connect the dots between the habitat we could fashion and the humanity we could reclaim." * Planning and Zoning News *"An academic's thoughtful meditation on values that should underlie development—community, sustainable order, and human spirit—and a discerning examination of the proposed remedies." * New Urban News *"Kelbaugh describes architects' and urban planners' responses to the problems of 20th-century urbanism and reviews the predicament of modern suburbanization, offering a cognent critique of both modernist and postmodernist paradigms. In contrast to architectural historians who do similar work, however, Kelbaugh also suggests solutions to the spatial problems he documents." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Suburban Sprawl: Paved with Good Intentions 2. Critical Regionalism: An Architecture of Place 3. Typology: An Architecture of Limits 4. New Urbanism: Versus Everyday Urbanism and Post Urbanism 5. Public Policy: What We Should Do A.S.A.P. Notes Bibliography Index
£33.98
University of Washington Press The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag From
Book SynopsisTrade Review"While the book tells Haag's story, it also describes the evolution of landscape architecture in the Northwest." * Columns *"Since 1964, when he founded the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Haag has gained a warranted admiration that Way has sharply surveyed and illustrated in her new book." -- Paul Dorpat * Pacific NW Magazine *"This very detailed work is most useful for professionals. The book brings new attention to Pacific Northwest landscape design. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by Marc Treib Preface Acknowledgments 1. Growing up in a Kentucky landscape 2. A Landscape Education 3. “Keep Your Eyes Open!” 4. Designing the Home Garden in California 5. A Teacher’s Teacher 6. Gardens of the Pacific Northwest 7. From Modernism to Urbanism 8. The Art of the Landform as Landscape Architecture 9. “It Was a Gas!” at Gas Works Park 10. Land Sculpting and Ecological Design at the Bloedel Reserve 11. The Legacy Afterword by Laurie Olin Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index
£45.00
University of Washington Press Wilderburbs
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wilderburbs builds on the idea that human culture inherently shaped residents’ interactions with their environment. Examining this phenomena and communities in detail uncovers the profound environmental consequences for our desire to live in the wilderness." * USDA Blog *"This readable, lively book will prove difficult to classify for those accustomed to arraying the settings for environmental history along a continuum…. Arizonans and historians of the state should definitely read this book. What Wilderburbs does especially well is…good environmental history." -- Jeremy Vetter * Journal of Arizona History *"A cautionary tale of the ecological challenges in transplanting urban sensibilities in the American West." * Choice *"[T]his book opened my eyes to the broad outlines and intimate details of a ubiquitous trend in the American West. . . and to the unintended consequences of appreciating and loving nature too much. Smart, engaging, and deeply researched, Wilderburbs is a welcome addition to the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series and merits a wide audience." -- Jedediah S. Rogers * Environmental History *Table of ContentsForeword / William Cronon Preface Acknowledgments Introduction | Moving into the Woods 1. Redefining Residential Development in the Rural West 2. Water in the Wilderburbs 3. Fire on the Forest Edge 4. Wildlife out the Back Door Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£28.72
University of Washington Press Repairing the American Metropolis
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The reader's urban experience will never be quite the same after experiencing this book. With clarity, precision, and deft detail, Kelbaugh pans the unsustainable design strategies and conceits of an auto-crazed culture, as our human spirit vanishes in the rearview mirror. The author is uniquely well qualified to connect the dots between the habitat we could fashion and the humanity we could reclaim." * Planning and Zoning News *"An academic's thoughtful meditation on values that should underlie development—community, sustainable order, and human spirit—and a discerning examination of the proposed remedies." * New Urban News *"Kelbaugh describes architects' and urban planners' responses to the problems of 20th-century urbanism and reviews the predicament of modern suburbanization, offering a cognent critique of both modernist and postmodernist paradigms. In contrast to architectural historians who do similar work, however, Kelbaugh also suggests solutions to the spatial problems he documents." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Suburban Sprawl: Paved with Good Intentions 2. Critical Regionalism: An Architecture of Place 3. Typology: An Architecture of Limits 4. New Urbanism: Versus Everyday Urbanism and Post Urbanism 5. Public Policy: What We Should Do A.S.A.P. Notes Bibliography Index
£110.48
Yale University Press Landscapes of London
Book SynopsisThe idea of a "Greater London" emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the city's suburbs. In this book, the author traces this growth back to the 17th century, when domestic retreats were established in outlying areas. It shows London as the forerunner of the complex, multifaceted modern cities of today.Trade Review"Elizabeth McKellar is one of the most perceptive and sensible of architectural historians, and she understands London like few others. Her new book Landscapes of London will be important because we now know so much architectural innovation stemmed from cities and the mercantile classes that lived in them."—Simon Thurley, BBC History Magazine -- Simon Thurley * BBC History Magazine *Book of the Year, TLS * TLS *‘That rare thing, a scholarly volume of interest to the non-specialist. Tracing suburbia since the 17th century, McKellar shows historic London as the forerunner of today’s culturally and architecturally complex, multi-faceted cities; she made me look at the layers of the city I thought I knew with fresh eyes.’—Jackie Wullschlager, The Financial Times -- Jackie Wullschlager * Financial Times *"This book, a major contribution to cultural history, establishes that a suburban culture existed in London's rural-urban interface much earlier than the early-19th-century time period posited by conventional scholarship. McKellar employs a variety of sources, including guidebooks, art, music, and literature, to document the culture of the inhabitants of the suburban landscape that emerged in this zone in the 17th century."—E.H. Teague, CHOICE -- E.H. Teague * CHOICE *Winner of the 2017 Elisabeth MacDougall Book Award by the Society of Architecture Historians. -- Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award * Society of Architectural Historians *
£999.99
Yale University Press Cottages and Villas The Birth of the Garden
Book SynopsisThe garden suburb has its origins in London, and, contrary to wide-spread belief, its earliest phase took place not at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the much discussed garden-city movement, but one century earlier. This book provides an account of the Eyre Estate.Trade Review"Cottages and Villas is a valuable contribution to the history of London, lavishly produced and illustrated."—Alan Powers, The Times Literary Supplement -- Alan Powers * The Times Literary Supplement * Winner of the 2013 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, given by the Foundation for Landscape Studies. -- 2013 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize * Foundation for Landscape Studies *
£52.25
Yale University Press City Unseen
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] beautiful new book [. . .] City Unseen, is based on the striking geometries and bold colors of satellite images and tells about our urban world as it is seen from space”— Roman Cybriwsky, Environmental History“The images in City Unseen struck me in much the same way as my views out the spacecraft window: stunning, beautiful, and enlightening.”—Kathryn D. Sullivan, retired NASA astronaut and former Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration“One will never look at cities in the same way. City Unseen provides an urban observatory and tells a compelling story of sustainable development that all should see and read, regardless of where one calls home.”—Dawn J. Wright, Chief Scientist, Esri“City Unseen allows a unique look at cities with the help of satellite technology, demonstrating both our vulnerability and the opportunities to design a sustainable urban future.”— Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Former Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)“Magnificent. Powerful images and crisp informative writing put cities across the world into comparative perspective to reveal patterns and places hitherto unseen.”—Susan Parnell, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town"Seto and Reba have produced a masterful and much-needed foundation to reinforce decision-makers’ abilities to manage 21st century territorial development. This is a must-read and enduring reference for all urbanists."—Eugenie L. Birch, University of Pennsylvania
£26.12
