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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Future of the City Centre
Book SynopsisThe Future of the City Centre: Global Perspectives debates future directions. It looks beyond the post-industrial, post-commercial, and post-retail city centres to examine differing visions of the future form and function of the urban core. This theme and the related sub-topics will assist the development of future city models and help to contextualise urban change.The in-depth research covers not only urban form and the re-use of the built heritage but also the provision for cultural events and different forms of entertainment that will offer vitality, together with visitors and responsible tourism. City authorities are starting to realise that structural changes are happening in city centres, as their influence is declining, and therefore new forms of governance will be needed. The book is based on an international research network hosting four symposia over 24 months. They took place in four cities in four different continents to encompass a world view of developed and developing countries. This book offers theoretical and practical perspectives from leading thinkers, academics, and practitioners, drawing on thematic issues explored across four international cities: Newcastle, UK; Newcastle, Australia; Pretoria-Tshwane, South Africa; and JoÃo Pessoa, Brazil. It draws on a wider set of global examples to reveal the shared issues and pressures being brought to bear on city centres and the diversity of responses being undertaken to ensure their long-term future.The book includes illustrations from cities around the world, and it is directed at academics, students, and professionals in architecture, planning, urban design, the built environment, geography, economics, sociology, and cultural studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction The City Centre: Its Future Role and Significance Managing City Centre Change Newcastle upon Tyne UK Newcastle NSW Australia Pretoria-Tshwane South Africa João Pessoa Brazil Image and Visions Public Realm Social Change Economic Competitiveness Multi-level Governance Mobility, Movement and Access Culture and Heritage Innovation and Higher Education Conclusions and Future Scenarios
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Design with Nature
Book Synopsis"In presenting us with a vision of organic exuberance and human delight, which ecology and ecological design promise to open up for us, McHarg revives the hope for a better world. " --Lewis Mumford "...Table of ContentsCity and Countryside. Sea and Survival. The Plight. A Step Forward. The Cast and the Capsule. Nature in the Metropolis. On Values. A Response of Values. The World Is a Capsule. Processes as Values. The Naturalists. The River Basin. The Metropolitan Region. Process and Form. The City: Process and Form. The City: Health and Pathology. Prospect.
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University of British Columbia Press Broken City
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Johns Hopkins University Press Greenways for America Creating the North American
Book SynopsisA description of the citizen-led effort to get Americans out of their cars and into the landscape via greenways - linear open spaces that preserve and restore nature in cities, suburbs and rural areas. These can link parks and open spaces and provide corridors for wildlife migration.Trade ReviewMr. Little is an enthusiastic journalist with both an eye and an ear for local history and politics... During the greenway reconnaissance, [he] found the tenacity and ingenuity that we want to believe continue to define the American character. And he provides many practical ideas for people who would follow suit. New York Times Book Review This hopeful book is an invitation to make dreams come true... Half of the book is case histories, portraits of existing greenways with engaging discussions of how they came to be... The rest of the book outlines the history of the greenway movement and describes different kinds of greenways. Land Stewardship Letter One will not find a better guidebook to the twists and turns of this new journey than Greenways for America. WildernessTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback EditionIntroduction: Greenways for AmericaChapter 1. Origins of an IdeaChapter 2. The Greenway MovementChapter 3. The World of Greenways: Part IChapter 4. Rivers Through the CityChapter 5. The Paths and TrailsChapter 6. Nature's CorridorsChapter 7. Scenic Drives and Historic RoutesChapter 8. Networks of GreenChapter 9. The World of Greenways: Part IIChapter 10. The Practical MattersChapter 11. The Greenway ImperativeAfterwordPrincipal SourcesAcknowledgments Picture CreditsIndex
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The Swedenborg Society New Jerusalem The Good City and the Good Society
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Cambridge University Press Contested Public Monuments
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Stevenage Ltd
Book SynopsisA study of particular aspects of the politics of planning a new town, this book, originally published in 1980, covers events from the inception of Stevenage in 1946 up to 1978. As a case study, the focus is on two expansion schemes, which were intended to extend the designated area of the town, and on the public protest that the two schemes engendered. Emphasis is placed on the structure and action of three groups of people: the urban managers' the Stevenage Development Corporation; Stevenage industrialists; and local organisations engaged in protest. The theoretical focus is on the thesis of urban managerialism': the book examines the constraints placed upon both the structure and action of the Stevenage urban managers over the previous thirty years. In showing how matters work in practice, it directs light on issues of theory which other sociologists of planning, such as Pickvance and Castells, had only discussed in the abstract.The author argues that the experience of SteTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Abbreviations. Part One 1. Some Themes in Urban Planning 2. The London New Towns: An Overview Part Two 3. Stevenage 1945-60: Beginnings 4. Stevenage 1960-9: Consolidation and Contradictions 5. Stevenage 1970-1: Rumours of Things to Come 6. Stevenage 1972-3: ‘Expansion of ‘73’ – the Case is Presented 7. Stevenage 1972-4: The Struggle Begins 8. Stevenage 1974: ‘Expansion ‘74’, and the Struggle Continues 9. Stevenage 1974-6: The Public Enquiry 10. Stevenage 1976-7: Confusion Abounds Part Three 11. Stevenage: Constraints on the Urban Managers 12. Urban Managerialism 13. Public Participation in Planning: Illusion or Reality? 14. Prospects for the New Urban Managers? Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a
Book SynopsisThis book presents a series of pedagogical experiments translating climate science, environmental humanities, material research, ecological practices into the architectural curriculum. Balancing the science and humanities, it exposes recent pedagogical experiments from renown educators, while also interrogating a designerâs agency between science and speculation in the face of climate uncertainty. The teaching experiments are presented across four sections: Abstraction, Organization, Building, and Narrative, exposing core parts of an architectâs education and how educators can simultaneously provide fundamental skills and constructive literacy while instigating environmental sensibilities. Chapters cover issues such as an unstable hydrosphere, water infrastructure, remediating materials, methods of disassembly and adaptive reuse, as well as constructing new aesthetic categories of climate change, and implementing oral histories of construction, among many others.WritteTable of ContentsSection I: Abstraction. Section introduction 1. Experimenting with Dynamic Models : Expanding intuition for spatio-temporal Processes 2. Constructing New Aesthetic Categories of Climate Change 3. Deep Time and Architecture: Restoring Connections between Architecture and Environment Implications 4. Matter and Energy Over Nature and Climat; Approaching Architecture as a Science of Spatial Composition Section II: Organization. Section introduction 5. Unstable Waters : Rethinking design pedagogy to address the instability of the Hydrosphere 6. Solar Sculpting : Investigating the relationship between building Form and Energy Performance 7. Palm House : Investigating the distribution of industrial horticulture in Architecture buildings 8. The Water Dilemma : Descaling water infrastructure Section III: Building Section introduction 9. Natural Building Materials in Architecture Pedagogy : Challenging Conventions Hands on 10. Thermally Active Concrete : Researching remediating Materials 11. Airscapes: Constructing with Dynamic Pneumatics and the ecology of air 12. Material Circulation by Design: From Mining Modernism to Radical Reuse Section IV: Narratives. Section introduction 13. Moving Narratives: Design Pedagogies and Nomadic-Pastoralist Traditions 14. Built Environment as Palimpsest : Disassembly, Reassembly, Recycling, towards experimental Preservation 15. A Theory of Architecture Through the Geologic-Atmospheric Axis, or, Sections as Axis Mundi and Cosmograms 16. Doubt, Rapture, Power and Knowledge: A Four-Part Reflection on Architectural Education Coda: Elephant in the Room: A Fable for Tomorrow
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Taylor & Francis Global City Typologies
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Taylor & Francis Effective Urban Densification
Book SynopsisThe housing crisis confronts two of North Americaâs contemporary urban challenges: affordability and the need to curtail urban sprawl through densification of existing communities. Advancing a novel formula labelled BAAKFIL, this book introduces a new way of thinking about affordability and revitalization of mature neighbourhoods and communities. Beginning with an exploration of the monoculture of homogenous, average quality suburban housing stock in North America, subsequent chapters explore the serious issue of land cost; infill, zoning and Nimbyism in the context of the mass housing industry. Then, bridging the gap between theory and practice, the author introduces a theoretical design approach (BAAKFIL) as a practical formula for adding affordable residential units in established single family neighbourhoods while respecting their defining features. The final chapters evaluate the efficacy of BAAKFIL as a conceptual model by exploring various âtest bedâ sites where the framework
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Routledge The Routledge Handbook of Housing Economics
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Taylor & Francis Climate Adaptation for Architects
Book SynopsisArchitecture must adapt to protect people from the threat of climate change. About half of the worldâs population lives in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change as hazards continue to intensify, with global disasters projected to reach 560 events per year by 2030, or 1.5 events every day.The accelerating frequency and intensity of disasters underscores the urgency to prepare for severe events to protect people, communities, and essential systems but also to protect the environment which provides shelter, livelihoods, cultural heritage, and public functions. This book provides a comprehensive reference of climate adaptation design tactics and a toolkit for adaptation to shocks and stresses, outlining the process for architects and designers to: Understand the risks posed by climate change to the built environment. Reduce the risks to people and the built environment from natural hazards. Reduce human vulnerability to shocks and stresses by strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity. Design the built environment to adapt to changes over its lifetime. Design buildings and cities to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Preserve biodiversity and support natural resources. Climate Adaptation for Architects presents 45 adaptation tactics responding to the most consequential effects of climate change: heat, water, wind, and resource scarcity. Each chapter includes images, definition, background information, key design issues, potential impacts, and resources for further information. This is a valuable resource for all architects, landscape architects, urban planners, developers, and policy makers.
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Taylor & Francis Extended Mobility for the City as a Common
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Guide to Parking
Book SynopsisIf you own a car, use public transportation, go to work or school, use health care, shop or dine out, or are part of a metropolitan community, parking affects you, probably in more ways than you've thought about. Because parking has such a huge effect on what happens in cities and towns and how the greater transportation system functions, decision-makers are beginning to realize that it's critical to employ parking expertise at the beginning of the planning process. Designing and implementing an effective, professionally managed parking strategy can mean the difference between frustrating and costly traffic congestion and efficient, time-saving traffic flow. A Guide to Parking provides information on the current state of parking, providing professionals and students with an overview on major areas of parking and the transportation and mobility industry, punctuated by brief program examples.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Laws, Regulations, and Related Policy Chapter 3. Parking Planning: Functions, Analysis, and Strategy Chapter 4. Approaches to Parking Management Chapter 5. Parking Technology Chapter 6. Sustainability and Parking Chapter 7. Managing Staff and Professional Development Chapter 8. Parking Enforcement Chapter 9. Economics and Finance Chapter 10. Architecture and Aesthetics Chapter 11. Designing and Engineering Parking Garages Chapter 12. Functional Design Chapter 13. Constructing Parking Chapter 14. Maintenance and Repair Chapter 15. Safety and Security Chapter 16. Marketing, Communications, and Public Relations Chapter 17. Integrating Parking with Transportation Demand Management Chapter 18. Adaptive Reuse of Parking Structures Chapter 19. Trends in Parking: Future Thinking
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Domicide
Book SynopsisAmmar Azzouz is a British-Syrian architect and architectural critic. He is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK. A researcher and writer on issues of architecture and war, reconstruction, and resilience, his research on Syria has been published with the New York Times, LSE Middle East Blog, the Independent, the New Statesman, the Global Construction Review, CITY and the City Metric.
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Bristol University Press The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning 2e
Book SynopsisThis fully updated short guide discusses the planning system, processes, legal constructs and approaches, taking into account the recent regulatory changes within the UK nations. It explores the interactions of government and society with the planning system, encouraging the reader to adopt a reflective and inquisitive outlook.Table of Contents1. What is Planning and Who Are the Planners? 2. A Brief History of Planning in the UK 3. Governance 4. Plans and Policy: Looking Forward 5. Planning in Practice 6. Enabling Place Making
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Manchester University Press Manchester: Something Rich and Strange
Book SynopsisWhat is Manchester? Moving far from the glitzy shopping districts and architectural showpieces, away from cool city-centre living and modish cultural centres, this book shows us the unheralded, under-appreciated and overlooked parts of Greater Manchester in which the majority of Mancunians live, work and play. It tells the story of the city thematically, using concepts such a ‘material’, ‘atmosphere’, ‘waste’, ‘movement’ and ‘underworld’ to challenge our understanding of the quintessential post-industrial metropolis. Bringing together contributions from twenty-five poets, academics, writers, novelists, historians, architects and artists from across the region alongside a range of captivating photographs, this book explores the history of Manchester through its chimneys, cobblestones, ginnels and graves. This wide-ranging and inclusive approach reveals a host of idiosyncrasies, hidden spaces and stories that have until now been neglected.Trade Review'Dobraszczyk and Butler have gathered together a set of excavations and forgagings which piece together very different visions of the towns and developments and rivers and canals and in-between spaces that make up the disjointed, uneven, ever-changing city of Manchester. Here, in the book’s exploration of undervalued urban spaces, readers will find the traces of other futures, snickets and ginnels, a rumour of salmon, slow-worms appearing in old brickworks, the amazing story of the city’s hibakujumoko trees, and myriad other transplantations and spaces that twenty-first-century time has passed by.'John McAuliffe, poet and Reader of Creative Writing and Modern Literature, University of Manchester'Manchester: Something rich and strange epitomises everything that is wonderful about this great city. The book tells the story of Manchester’s past and present in a unique and engaging way, bringing together a variety of contributors from a variety of different backgrounds.'Michala Hulme, author of A grim almanac of Manchester and Bloody British history: Manchester' 'It is a book like the city; bold, brash, and gobby, moving from morbid self-pity to delirious triumph in mere moments. A guided tour where they pull up the floorboards and let you see what lies beneath.'Manchester Review of Books 'There’s strong material in this ragbag of themed think-pieces - Rose recalling the attack which prompted her to reclaim the streets from her nightmares; Kalu conjuring the realities of Manchester’s sewer system with unnerving brio; Tim Edensor on the sources of municipal cobble stone; Hanson on the ubiquity of facades in post-modern, post-Factory Records Manchester - plus Simon Buckley’s celebrated ‘iPhone Lowry’ on the cover and a good helping of Dobraszczyk’s magnificently crisp photography.'Manchester Confidential -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Manchester: seeing like a cityAtmospheresSpirit – Morag RoseFeel – Sean R. MillsCorridor – Sarah ButlerChimney – Jonathan SilverNight – Nick DunnMoors – Cassie BritlandMonumentsStatue – Natalie BradburyMuseum – Jonathan SilverShopping centre – Martin DodgeStained glass – Clare HartwellSculpture – Natalie BradburyMovementExchange – Steve HansonStone – Tim EdensorRing road – Nick DunnLoop – Natalie BradburyBus stop – Peter KaluWalk – Morag RoseWorkCotton – Martin DodgeBrick – James ThorpCo–op – Natalie BradburyNewspaper – Natalie BradburyCar wash – Peter KaluRelicsMedieval – Clare HartwellRailway – Brian RosaStadium – Tim EdensorHair – Jenna C. AshtonBaths – Matthew SteeleUnderworldsSewer – Peter KaluArches – Brian RosaGrave – Cassie BritlandViolence – Andrew McMillanPrison – Cassie BritlandDregsDye – James ThorpArsenic – Becky Alexis-MartinShadows – Nick DunnRhythm – Joanne HudsonRuins – Tim EdensorRedundant – Matthew SteeleSecretsFacade – Steve HansonCloister – Clare ArchibaldThread – Jenna C. AshtonRadium – Becky Alexis-MartinPassage – Paul DobraszczykCobble – Tim EdensorNatureWildscape – Joanne HudsonEdges – Nick DunnGinkgo – Becky Alexis-MartinCanal – Morag RoseGardens – Matthew Steele DestructionFlower – Sarah SayeedBee – Paul DobraszczykRiot – Sarah ButlerAtom – Steve HansonTudor – Paul DobraszczykHomeHomeless – Steve HansonB&B – Sarah ButlerSynagogue – Jonathan SilverMosque – Qaisra ShahrazImmigrant – Qaisra ShahrazLaundrette – Peter KaluNotes on contributorsPhoto acknowledgementsIndex
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Island Press Parks and Recreation System Planning: A New
Book SynopsisParks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open spaces have become recognised as essential green infrastructure with the potential to contribute to community resiliency and sustainability. To capitalise on this potential, the parks and recreation system planning process must evolve as well. In Parks and Recreation System Planning, David Barth provides a new, step-by-step approach to creating parks systems that generate greater economic, social, and environmental benefits. Barth first advocates that parks and recreation systems should no longer be regarded as isolated facilities, but as elements of an integrated public realm. Each space should be designed to generate multiple community benefits. Next, he presents a new approach for parks and recreation planning that is integrated into community-wide issues. Chapters outline each step, evaluating existing systems, implementing a carefully crafted plan, and more, necessary for creating a successful, adaptable system. Throughout the book, he describes initiatives that are creating more resilient, sustainable, and engaging parks and recreation facilities, drawing from his experience consulting in more than 100 communities across the U.S. Parks and Recreation System Planning meets the critical need to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive approach for planning parks and recreation systems across the country. This is essential reading for every parks and recreation professional, design professional, and public official who wants their community to thrive.
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Island Press Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating
Book SynopsisClimate change continues to impact our health and safety, the economy, and natural systems. With climate-related protections and programs under attack at the federal level, it is critical for cities to address climate impacts locally. Every day there are new examples of cities approaching the challenge of climate change in creative and innovative ways--from rethinking transportation, to greening city buildings, to protecting against sea-level rise. Climate Action Planning is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions and increase the resilience of communities against climate change impacts. This fully revised and expanded edition goes well beyond climate action plans to examine the mix of policy and planning instruments available to every community. Boswell, Greve, and Seale also look at process and communication: How does a community bring diverse voices to the table? What do recent examples and research tell us about successful communication strategies? Climate Action Planning brings in new examples of implemented projects to highlight what has worked and the challenges that remain. A completely new chapter on vulnerability assessment will help each community to identify their greatest risks and opportunities. Sections on land use and transportation have been expanded to reflect their growing contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. The guidance in the book is put in context of international, national, and state mandates and goals. Climate Action Planning is the most comprehensive book on the state of the art, science, and practice of local climate action planning. It should be a first stop for any local government interested in addressing climate change.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Climate Action Planning Chapter 2: Creating a Framework for Community Action Chapter 3: Community Engagement and Collaboration Chapter 4: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting Chapter 5: Strategies for Creating Low-Carbon Communities Chapter 6: Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Chapter 7: Strategies for Resilient Communities Chapter 8: Pathways to Successful Implementation Chapter 9: Communities Leading the Way Chapter 10: Time to Take Action
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Island Press Cities for Life: How Communities Can Recover from
Book SynopsisWhat if cities around the world actively worked to promote the health and healing of all of their residents? Cities contribute to the traumas that cause unhealthy stress, with segregated neighborhoods, insecure housing, few playgrounds, environmental pollution, and unsafe streets, particularly for the poor and residents who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Some cities around the world are already helping their communities heal by investing more in peacemaking and parks than in policing; focusing on community decision-making instead of data surveillance; changing regulations to permit more libraries than liquor stores; and building more affordable housing than highways. These cities are declaring racism a public health and climate change crisis, and taking the lead in generating equitable outcomes. In Cities for Life, public health expert Jason Corburn shares lessons from three of these cities: Richmond, California; Medellín, Colombia; and Nairobi, Kenya. Corburn draws from his work with citizens, activists, and decision-makers in these cities over a ten-year period, as individuals and communities worked to heal from trauma—from gun violence, housing and food insecurity, and poverty. Corburn shows how any community can rebuild their social institutions, practices, and policies to be more focused on healing and health. This means not only centering those most traumatized in decision-making, Corburn explains, but confronting historically discriminatory, exclusionary, and racist urban institutions, and promoting healing-focused practices, place-making, and public policies. Cities for Life is essential reading for urban planning, design, healthcare, and public health professionals as they work to reverse entrenched institutional practices through new policies, rules, norms, and laws that address their damage and promote health and healing.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Designed for Life or Death Box 1: Richmond, California: The Industrial City by the Bay Box 2: Medellín, Colombia Box 3: Nairobi, Kenya and the Mukuru Informal Settlement Chapter 1: Cities for Trauma or Healing? Chapter 2: Reducing Urban Violence through Street Love Chapter 3: Slum Scientists Diagnosing Traumas Chapter 4: Co-Creating Places for Urban Health and Healing Chapter 5 –Resilience and Climate Justice in Medellín Chapter 6. Putting Health Equity into all Urban Policies Conclusion: Toward Cities that Heal Endnotes Index About the Author
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University of Arkansas Press Moving Boarders: Skateboarding and the Changing
Book SynopsisOnce considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving Boarders explores this switch in stance, integrating first-person interviews and direct observations to provide a rich portrait of youth skateboarders, their parents, and the social and market forces that drive them toward the skate park. This excellent treatise on the contemporary youth sports scene examines how modern families embrace skateboarding and the role commerce plays in this unexpected new parent culture, and highlights how private corporations, community leaders, parks and recreation departments, and nonprofits like the Tony Hawk Foundation have united to energize skate parks—like soccer fields before them—as platforms for community engagement and the creation of social and economic capital.Trade ReviewFor decades, skateboarders have considered themselves outside of mainstream culture. The skateboard, for these folks, is an emblem of independence, liberty, and creative provocation. As a lifelong skateboarder, I found Moving Boarders to be an accurate reflection of skateboarding's cultural qualities. More than ever, skateboarding presents a healthy—if sometimes subversive—option for today's youth. Moving Boarders is a vital account of what works in skateboarding." - Peter Whitley, Programs Director, Tony Hawk FoundationTable of Contents Introduction Youth Sports and the Urban Skateboarding Landscape 1. Neo-liberalism and the New Urban Spaces of Skateboarding 2. Social Enterprise Skateboarding Organizations: The Installation of New Public-Private Spaces for Youth and Community Development 3. “They Were All About Police, Police, Police...We Don't Need Police, We Need Parents”: Bay City’s Adult Organized Social Space 4. “I Want the Platform and Everybody’s Welcome”: Oakland’s Creation of Skateboarding “Hood Cred” 5. “There’s No End to The Pop Ups, the Towers, the High Rises, the Mid Rises, the Samsung’s and the Oracle’s”: Skateboarding in San Jose, “The Capital of Silicon Valley” 6. The Use of Skate Parks to Create New Spaces of Values for Youth, Families, and Urban Communities
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Collective Ink Dark Matters – A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
Book SynopsisDark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of nightwalking, often integral to shady worlds of miscreants, shift workers and transgressors. Yet the night offers much to be enjoyed beyond vice. Night by definition contrasts day, summoning notions of darkness and fear. But another night exists out there. Liberation and exhilaration in the urban landscape is increasingly rare when so much of our attention and actions are controlled. Rather than consider darkness as negative, opposed to illumination and enlightenment, this book explores the rich potential of the dark for our senses. The question may no longer be about what spaces we wish to engage with but when we do?
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Liverpool University Press A Guide to Port Sunlight Village: Third edition
Book SynopsisThe third edition of a best-selling book on the Port Sunlight Village, with a new chapter on the Lady Lever Art Gallery, further information on key individuals and an increase in the number of illustrations. The model industrial village of Port Sunlight was founded by the soap manufacturer W. H. Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) in 1888 for the factory workers of the firm of Lever Brothers. The village was acclaimed from the first as exemplifying the best in English town planning and house design, and greatly influenced subsequent industrial villages such as the later parts of Bournville, and the garden city movement more generally. This guide considers the village in its historical context, with particular emphasis on the planning and architectural aspects. It explains the social and visual significance of Port Sunlight and the reasons for its being unique in the history of town planning, as well as looking at the way its development was influenced by changing fashions in urban design. The relevance of Lever’s own character and interests – his social conscience, his love of art and beauty and his architectural enthusiasms – are also examined. Two tours, one for pedestrians and one for car drivers, which include and describe the most significant buildings of the village, are an additional feature of the guide.Table of Contents Preface to the 1988 Edition Preface to the 2005 Edition Foreward 1 The Founder 2 Background 3 Planning and Development 4 Housing and Architectural Character 5 Public Buildings 6 Fame and Influence Tours of the Village Walk: Heritage Centre to Lady Lever Art Gallery Drive: Lady Lever Art Gallery to Heritage Centre Appendix 1: Demolished Buildings Appendix 2: Notes on Architects Bibliography
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Reaktion Books Playgrounds
Book SynopsisShows how post-war pioneers reimagined what playgrounds could be.
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Liverpool University Press The Architecture of Steam: Waterworks and the
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Historic England Berwick-upon-Tweed: Three places, two nations,
Book SynopsisNikolaus Pevsner described Berwick-upon-Tweed as ‘one of the most exciting towns in England’ [Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England: Northumberland (1957), 88] – a place where an absorbing historical tale can still be read in the dense fabric of its old streets and buildings. It attracts not only day-trippers and holidaymakers but also new residents who have learnt to appreciate the spirit of the place. But outsiders all too easily confine their attention to the space within the impressive Elizabethan ramparts, while local people are sometimes unaware or dismissive of the wider significance of the very things that they know so intimately. Berwick deserves to be known better, and to be celebrated not just as a vivid reminder of what many other towns were once like, but more especially as something unique and distinctive, shaped by a peculiar combination of historical and geographical circumstances. This distinctiveness is acutely apparent as one passes between Berwick and the contrasting, but historically intertwined, settlements of Tweedmouth and Spittal. This book presents something of the wealth of historic interest encapsulated in Berwick, Tweedmouth and Spittal, and explains how these places came to assume such varied and distinctive forms. Above all, it urges that a town anxious for stability and prosperity in the future must know where it has come from as well as where it is going.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword 1. Introduction: a border town on the borders of change 2. A town takes shape The landscape beneath The Liberty of Berwick Fruits of the earth Communications The buildings of the early town 3. Political, social and spiritual order Defence of the realm Competing faiths Berwick corporation and local government 4. Commercial growth: Berwick looks abroad The salmon fishery The herring fishery The Greenland whale fishery The grain trade The rebuilding of Berwick 5. Industry and housing: the 19th and 20th centuries The rise of industry Housing the poor 6. Leisurely pursuits The growth of the resort 7. Safeguarding Berwick's past for the future Notes References and further reading
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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Designing London’s Public Spaces: Post-war and
Book SynopsisThose involved in the creation of public spaces think a great deal about the users of those spaces. Users think little, if at all, about those who create them. There are many: planners, developers, investors, contractors, special-interest groups, governments from local to national, and above all in this book, designers. The complex sets of relationships in which the designer is enmeshed remain largely unknown, as does the effect of those relationships on the public spaces they design. In ‘super-diverse’ cities like London, a successful public realm, where people can be together in trust and tolerance, is essential. A city’s commitment to design quality indicates a commitment to civic health. In the interests of such commitment, the book asks: What should public space ‘design intentions’ be today?; Who is ‘the public’ of public spaces?; What can/should designers do to protect the ‘publicness’ of public spaces?; Was state financed public space mid-20th century of any higher quality than privately financed public space today?; How significant is the shift from commissioning architects to design public spaces mid-20th century to commissioning landscape architects and public realm architects today?; Does emptiness in public spaces have a value?; Does retail in public spaces narrow the range of people visiting them?Trade Review'Hagan's work is cleanly presented and a recommended book both for studying and browsing.' – Darryl Chen, The London SocietyTable of ContentsPart 1: The 'Public' of Public Space; Chapter 1: The partiality of participation; Chapter 2: Public space is always conditional; Part 2: The 'Space' of Public Space; Chapter 3: British architects and their ideas of the urban; Part 3: Public Spaces; Chapter 4: Four Modernist public spaces; Chapter 5: Four Contemporary public spaces; Conclusion
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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Neighbourhood Planning in Practice
Book SynopsisNeighbourhood Planning (NP), introduced by the Localism Act of 2011, is the right for communities to decide the future of the places where they live and work. This book examines the experience of neighbourhood planners, analysing what communities have achieved, how they have done so and what went well or badly. Comparing NP with other forms of community planning and highlighting the main lessons learned so far, it acts as a navigation tool for people already involved in neighbourhood planning, as well as those contemplating participation.Trade Review'This book is essential reading for the 'citizen planner' because it reflects on the experiences of others to demonstrate how Neighbourhood Planning can meaningfully harness the social capital of communities, while also highlighting the challenges involved.' - Chris Bowden, Navigus PlanningTable of ContentsForeword; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: What is Neighbourhood Planning?; Chapter 3: Communities and the Planning System; Chapter 4: Relationships in Neighbourhood Planning; Chapter 5: Stages of Neighbourhood Planning; Chapter 6: Challenges in Neighbourhood Planning; Chapter 7: Opportunities and Ideas for Neighbourhood Planning; Chapter 8: Reflecting on Neighbourhood Planning; Chapter 9: References, Resources and Further Information; Glossary; Index
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Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Londoners Making London
Book SynopsisLondoners Making London tells the story of nine projects that have transformed urban neighbourhoods. Countering the expectation that the development of cities is exclusively controlled by architects, planners and developers, this book demonstrates that transformational change is increasingly driven by communities. In areas such as Wandsworth, Shoreditch and Wood Green, young and old can be seen working together with determination, conviction and often against all odds to create better places to live, learn and play. Colourful street parties, co-housing, new libraries, urban food gardens and local enterprise spaces all illustrate what can be done when people work together. In-depth interviews with instigators, community activists, campaigners and self-builders illuminate the projects. Their stories candidly reveal challenges, share moments of triumph and provide insight into how we might scale up the impact of grass-roots urbanism. For anyone seeking to change their community for the
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Liverpool University Press Bridport and West Bay: The buildings of the flax
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Liverpool University Press Margate's Seaside Heritage
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Signal Books Ltd River Effra: South London's Secret Spine
Book SynopsisLondon was once a city awash with watercourses. Most of these streams and small rivers have long since disappeared underground and their void has been filled by myth, legend and an enduring yet uncertain fascination. The River Effra was one of these vanishings. In its earlier existence above ground it could only ever have been a modest tributary of the Thames, but through a vivid subterranean afterlife it has continued to impose itself on South London's development history and local mythology. Once fringed by willows and water meadows, it was the haunt of salmon, eels and herons until it fell victim to the unregulated development of suburban South London. The Victorian housebuilder and his tenants enthusiastically transformed it from a small river into a large sewer until finally in desperation it was covered up. Yet it still flows...and occasionally floods.River Effra: South London's Secret Spine is the first comprehensive account, beginning with its underlying geology and pre-history and continuing through to the river's ongoing significance today.The machinations of medieval landowners seeking to divert its course are uncovered along with some of the more absurd legends concerning Canute, Queen Elizabeth and others. For the Victorians it was a public health disaster in waiting and its ignominious disappearance underground into London's main drainage system in the 1860s was seen as a triumph of nineteenth-century civil engineering. In the twenty-first century its legacy is being approached anew.Richly illustrated with archival images and crisp contemporary black and white photographs, which combine to reveal its vanished stream, River Effra combines geography and geology with social, environmental and engineering history and sets this alongside a detailed walker's itinerary for anyone needing to follow the ghost of this watercourse from Norwood, through Herne Hill, Dulwich and Brixton to Kennington and Vauxhall.
£10.79
Artifice Press Projecting Urbanity: Architecture for and against
Book SynopsisExisting histories of modern architecture typically give their highest praise to private houses and their most severe condemnation to architect-authored urban plans, often neglecting the built works that are no smaller than a single building and possibly as large as an urban block, the middle or institutional scale, where culturally significant urban transformation actually takes place.Urban architecture is a timely topic as today cities worldwide are suffering accelerated urbanisation, which is often dehumanising and destructive, especially to the unbuilt environment, airs, waters and soils. The middle or institutional scale is shown to activate and actualise latent potentials for cultural experience and environmental intelligence, allowing the city to surprise itself and delight in its discoveries.In Projecting Urbanity, David Leatherbarrow, via author-architect texts by his former doctorate students, lays out the basis for a revision of modern architecture’s contribution to cities and their culture. Presenting a series of texts featuring buildings or their parts of various scales - from the construction detail, to the room or garden, to ensembles within a neighborhood - the contributors introduce concepts for contemporary and future urban architecture, together with richly indicative examples from the past several decades.While architecture cannot “solve” today’s urban problems, it certainly has a role to play in their productive transformation, articulating opportunities for life and culture that are more humane, less wasteful, and more beautiful.
£26.96
Oro Editions New York Geologics
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£30.00
Martello A Little History of the Future of Dublin
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£11.69
Birkhauser Planning Architecture: Dimensions and Typologies
Book SynopsisIn formulating a design concept into a viable plan, architects oscillate constantly between two planes of observation: the actual design task in the context of planning typologies such as residential buildings, office buildings, museum, or airport, and the individual room, meaning the kitchen, office, classroom, sanitary rooms, storage rooms, and so on. Planning Architecture offers architects and students a thought-out planning tool, in which two main sections reciprocally complement one another: the “spaces” and the “typologies” between which the planner can flexibly oscillate depending on his or her plane of observation. All relevant planning information is presented in a detailed clear fashion, and in context. These two sections are flanked by an introductory chapter explaining the basis and framework for typological design, as well as a “reference section” at the end of the book that clearly lists general dimensions and units, regulations and standards.
£999.99
Birkhauser Resilient City: Landscape Architecture for
Book SynopsisClimate change is one of the major challenges facing cities in the future. Landscape architecture is particularly in demand here because it offers solutions that are characterized by complexity and interdisciplinarity and contribute to the quality of everyday life. These range from green roofs and facades to urban gardening and the landscaping of large-scale protection works. This volume presents measures and plans of eleven major cities in North and South America, from Vancouver to Rio de Janeiro, to protect their inhabitants and their habitats against future storms, floods, landslides or long periods of heat and drought. Outstanding projects in the featured cities are analyzed in their geographic and climatic context. The author also addresses the social and cultural dimensions of resilience.
£33.75
Birkhauser To the Ends of the Earth: A Grand Tour for the
Book Synopsis The book takes the reader on an intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of 120 places that can be understood as metaphors of contemporary global culture. Spread across all seven continents, from the depths of the ocean to outer space, these places are divided into six chapters: Paradises, Utopias, Machines, Monsters, Ruins, and Instruments. The spectrum ranges from Steve Jobs' Apple Park in California to a national park in Costa Rica, a small field station for the protection of wild orangutans in Borneo, the Great Green Wall in Central Africa, the Trump resort Mar-a-Lago, to the border wall between Israel and Palestine. This book is a grand tour of the most pertinent places in the world today. A unique and fascinating journey around the world of today Featuring custom-made maps created especially for this publication
£30.15
Park Books Towards Territorial Transition: A plea to large
Book SynopsisTowards Territorial Transition presents new spatial strategies, concepts, and approaches for shaping large-scale and transnational developments in architecture and urban design towards decarbonisation and ecological transition. The contributions investigate interactions between ecological and resource-related systems and landscapes. They also explore potential solutions to address and deal with the dramatic threats posed by climate change and the emerging social crisis. The book introduces six basic terms of territorial transition — territory, scale, transition, resource, platform, and uncertainty — and visualises them with spatial strategies elaborated at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture Versailles and at Graz University of Technology. Moreover, it presents a selection of transnational projects of territorial transition, such as Luxembourg in Transition (Luxembourg / France), Grand Genève (Switzerland / France), and Top Noordrand (Brussels / Flanders).
£31.50
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Climate Art
£28.00
ArchiTangle GmbH Who's Next: Homelessness, Architecture and Cities
Book SynopsisHomelessness is a growing global problem that requires local discussions and solutions. In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, it has noticeably become a collective concern. However, in recent years, the official political discourse in many countries around the world implies that poverty is a personal fault, and that if people experience homelessness, it is because they have not tried hard enough to secure shelter and livelihood. Although architecture alone cannot solve the problem of homelessness, the question arises: What and which roles can it play? Or, to be more precise, how can architecture collaborate with other disciplines in developing ways to permanently house those who do not have a home?Who’s Next? Homelessness, Architecture, and Cities seeks to explore and understand a reality that involves the expertise of national, regional, and city agencies, non-governmental organizations, health-care fields, and academic disciplines. Through scholarly essays, interviews, analyses of architectural case studies, and research on the historical and current situation in Los Angeles, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, São Paulo, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Tokyo, this book unfolds different entry points toward understanding homelessness and some of the many related problems. The book is a polyphonic attempt to break down this topic into as many parts as needed, so that the specificities and complexities of one of the most urgent crises of our time rise to the fore.Trade Review--0 "-"
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JOVIS Verlag DataSpheres of Planetary Urbanization
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£33.30
ListLab Custom Made: Sense and Method in the Design of
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Lannoo Publishers The Future City: Visionary Urban Design and
Book SynopsisWhat might the city of the future look like and how might it meet the needs of future generations while limiting damage to our planet’s fragile ecosystem? This book introduces pioneering architects, designers and planners whose visions for an alternative urban future address issues such as climate change, population density, infrastructure, transportation and digital culture. It includes over 40 radical projects grouped into five key categories: master planning and megacities, transportation and infrastructure, new habitats, green cities/ urban farming, and smart cities. Each category summarises trends that will drive the development of future cities, with each project representing a unique approach to urban development in the 21st century and beyond.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Masterplans and Megacities 022 BiodiverCity Penang BIG + Hijjas + Ramboll 028 Port of Tallinn Zaha Hadid Architects 034 Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center MAD Architects 036 Shenzhen Cultural District MVRDV 038 Liuzhou Forest City Stefano Boeri Architetti 040 Oberbillwerder ADEPT + Karres en Brands 046 Jigna Eco-Community Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 3. Transportation and Infrastructure 058 New Deal Paris Carlo Ratti Associati 060 Ultra-Fast Charging Station for Electric Cars Cobe + Clever 066 EZ-PRO Renault 072 Lilium Vertiports Lilium 074 Airbus UAM MVRDV + Airbus 076 Uber Sky Tower Pickard Chilton + ARUP 080 Dragonfly PriestmanGoode 082 Virgin Hyperloop Virgin 084 Hardt Hyperloop Hub UNStudio 4. Green Architecture and Urban Farms 090 Self Sufficient City WOHA 094 Pirelli 39 Diller Scofidio + Renfro+ Stefano Boeri Architetti 096 Toronto ORCA Safdie Architects 100 1Hotel Paris Kengo Kuma & Associates 106 Southbank by Beulah UNStudio + Cox Architecture 110 Sunqiao Urban Agricultural District Sasaki 114 The Farmhouse Precht 118 Glasir Framlab 5. Smart Cities 124 BIOTIC Carlo Ratti Associati 128 Woven City Toyota + BIG 134 Smart Forest City Cancun Stefano Boeri Architetti 136 Blockchains City Tom Wiscombe Architecture + EYRC Architects 138 Brainport Smart District UNStudio 142 Konza Technopolis SHoP Architects 146 Milan Innovation District Carlo Ratti Associati 150 Berlin TXL Urban Tech Republic Tegel Projekt GmbH + von Gerkan, Marg and Partners 154 Quayside Sidewalk Labs + Waterfront Toronto 6. New Habitats 160 Oceanix City OCEANIX+ BIG + Studio Other Spaces + UN-Habitat 164 Ocean Spiral SHIMIZU CORPORATION 166 Trenezia Waugh Thistleton Architects 170 Redefining Hong Kong’s Waterfront 10 Design 176 City Sand OXO Architectes 178 Project Olympus ICON + BIG + SEArch+ 180 Moon Village Skidmore, Owings & Merrill + European Space Agency 184 Nüwa ABIBOO Studio + SONet 188 Planet City Liam Young
£36.00
Valiz Neighbourhoods for the Future: A Plea for a
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BuilderBooks Land Development
Book SynopsisLand developers know that success hinges on knowledge, planning, and experience. Whether you are new to the field or are looking to brush up your knowledge, Land Development is your comprehensive resource to this demanding and exciting industry.Trade Review"I recently read Land Development. It was exactly what I was looking for - a readable, comprehensive introduction to the development process." -- Greg Sundt, Manager, Installed Services Guardian Building Products, Greer, South Carolina
£43.46
RIBA Publishing Urban Lighting for People: Evidence-Based
Book SynopsisLighting has the power to illuminate and enhance our experience within the built environment. The light that enables people to travel around their neighbourhood or their city; the light which they see themselves and their neighbourhood under. Research into the effects of urban lighting on behaviour, environmental psychology and social interaction is developing at a rapid rate. Yet, despite the affect it has on our daily lives, the practical application of this research is a relatively untapped resource. There has been a persistent trend to use lighting as a tool for urban regeneration and many major urban lighting projects around the country are underway but there is more that can be done on a variety of scales. This book explores the needs and experiences of people at night and how these can be addressed by public lighting. It will give readers the confidence to develop more sophisticated lighting plans and add value to their projects. Case studies provide in-depth analysis of real-life projects and will help the reader to understand lighting designers’ own experiences, including post-installation observations. Written in an accessible style by an array of experts, this is an essential book for practitioners, academics and students alike, that will enable you to put the research in to practice and develop better lighting for better places. Table of ContentsPart 1: Night, City, Society Chapter 1: The Social Study of Urban Lighting by Dr Elettra Bordonaro, Dr Don Slater and Dr Joanne Entwistle Chapter 2: Urban Lighting Masterplan - Definitions, Methodologies, Collaboration By Dr Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska Chapter 3: Older People and Urban Lighting by Dr Navaz Davoudian Part 2: Exploring the Night City Chapter 4: Lighting for Reassurance by Dr Jemima Unwin Chapter 5: Wayfinding and the Hierarchy of Urban Elements at Night By Dr Navaz Davoudian Chapter 6: The Interaction of People, Light and Public Space: The Changing Role of Light by Isabel Kelly & Dr Navaz Davoudian Part 3: Lighting Practitioners’ Post Evaluation Chapter 7: Learned Lessons from Design Projects by Dan Lister & Emily Dufner
£39.90
RIBA Publishing Transforming Towns: Designing for Smaller
Book SynopsisTowns have undergone dramatic and rapid change over the last century. Declining historic cores are surrounded by sprawling low-density housing, industrial and retail estates. The character and sense of place at the heart of rural towns and villages is under threat. By drawing people away from town centres, these developments erode the sense of community and public life. This book demonstrates how contemporary architecture, community engagement and thoughtful urban design can contribute to the creation of thriving small communities. It addresses a lack of inspiration and ideas for architects and designers working in small communities and promotes a character-based approach to designing and planning 21st century towns.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Prof. Wayne Forster, Welsh School of Architecture Introduction 1. Understanding Small Settlements 1.1. What do we mean by towns and smaller communities? 1.2 . History, growth and evolution 1.3. Contemporary challenges facing small communities 1.4. Is now the right time for change? 2. Homes: Creating distinctive places to live 2.1. The need for new homes 2.2. Temple Gardens, Temple Cloud 2.3. Cinque Port Street, Rye 2.4. Project: Tibby’s Triangle, Southwold 2.5. The Avenue, Saffron Walden 2.6. Social Housing, Gistel 2.7. Steepleton Retirement Community, Tetbury 3. Town centres: Building the Heart of a Community 3.1. The changing nature of the town centre 3.2. Warwick Hall Community Centre, Burford 3.3. Marks & Spencer, Northallerton 3.4. School in town, Westport 3.5. Hebden Bridge Town Hall, Hebden Bridge 3.6. Welcome Building, Bishop Auckland 4. Public space: Encouraging social life 4.1. The value of public space 4.2. Bridge Street, Callan 4.3. Prescot Forum, Prescot 4.4. Helensburgh Town Centre, Helensborough 4.5. Clonakilty 400, Clonakilty 5. Long term strategies: Future visions for small settlements 5.1. Recent initiatives to shape future places 5.2. Ruthin Future, Ruthin 5.3. Village Design Guides, South Cambridgeshire 5.4. Sharing Bolsover 5.5. Urban Regeneration Plan, Selb, Germany 6. Conclusion
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