City and town planning: architectural aspects Books

Book SynopsisKey concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise introduction to smart cities, presenting key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts, along with discussions of both the drawbacks and the benefits of

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative - and fascinating - investigation into the spatial and social dynamics of cities at a global scaleTrade Review"As resourceful for architects and policy-makers as it is for anyone interested in how we live now... It enlightens on everything from climate to crime to culture. As a data-driven study, it has a proven takeaway: civic participation is key to defining metropolitan problems while design is key to providing the right solutions."—Aesthetica

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Book SynopsisUrban character is frequently cited by planners, developers and architects as something they wish to protect and enhance. But little or no effort is ever made to define urban character in specific or quantitative terms.In Designing London, architect and critic Ike Ijeh provides a definitive and comprehensive analysis of London’s urban character. He establishes key principles by which the architecture of the capital’s streets, buildings and spaces can be designed to enhance the character of the city. He first identifies and analyses the constituent physical, social and environmental ingredients that form London’s urban character and reviews the architectural, historic and planning context within which these ingredients operate. Then, through case studies of recent and proposed architectural projects, he discusses examples of how London’s character has either been undermined or enhanced. Ultimately, the book emphasises the enormous value of London’s unique urban character and encourages greater understanding and awareness of how that character is directly affected by architectural design decisions.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Defining London's Character: Human Capital; London Falling; A Tale of Five Cities - London vs Berlin, New York, Paris and Rome. Part II: Protecting London's Character: A step-by-step breakdown of all the constituent physical, social and environmental elements that combine to form London's urban character. Part III: Enhancing London's Character: Case Studies include: 8 Examples of Character Undermined; 8 Examples of Character Enhanced

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Book SynopsisFrench-American journalist Cole Stangler argues that the beating heart of the City of Light lies in the striving, working-class districts, where residents are now being priced out. Stangler brings the real Paris to life, combining gripping, street-level reportage, stories of today’s working-class Parisians, recent history and a sweeping analysis of the larger forces shaping the city.Trade Review‘A helpful reflection on contemporary France … Stangler takes us on a journey through the capital to see the city for ourselves. He walks the streets of La Goutte d’Or as a way of highlighting the contribution of immigrants to the fabric of the city, and he uses his visit to a squat in Montreuil to reflect on the material conditions in which the creative arts can flourish … [Paris isn’t Dead Yet] has a plausible and welcome humility'. -- Emile Chabal

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Book SynopsisThe first of its kind, the Shenzhen Architectural Guide is dedicated to the city’s architecture and conceived as an atlas. The pages inside are filled with more than 150 relevant buildings and places that constitute the physical palimpsest of modern China’s most famous foundational town. Founded in 1978 as one of the first Special Economic Zones under Deng Xiaoping’s reforms, Shenzhen is a young city that was essentially built from the ground up at a rapid pace – hence the infamous ‘Shenzhen Speed’. Unlike most places, it has built its fortune on being propelled into the future without any connection to the past. Shenzhen is a place where business, immigration, ports, borders, and nature come together to shape a unique and, at times, mystifying architectural experience. This guide will introduce the reader to Shenzhen’s kaleidoscopic architecture with the help of bilingual coordinates and geodata. It will also refer to the city's political history and cultural geography. By photographing these state-of-the-art works in 2020, the book captures a sort of 'here-and-now' that will soon be transformed once again.

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Book SynopsisNearly everything we treasure in the world’s most beautiful cities was built over a century ago. Yet the ideas and practices underlying these achievements have been abandoned. Nir Buras documents the humane design methods that held sway before the reign of Modernism and encourages us to relearn the time-tested principles of classic urban planning.Trade ReviewThis is truly the mother of all urban planning books. -- Léon Krier, author of The Architecture of CommunityA much-needed and heroic corrective to the grandiose techno-narcissistic dogma that has turned the American landscape into a wilderness of free parking, anxiety, and ennui. Nir Buras's The Art of Classic Planning presents a new template for a human habitat with a plausible future. -- James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere and The Long EmergencyIn the face of the triple threat of rapid urbanization, climate change, and natural resource depletion, we urgently need to relearn the art of building beautiful and enduring communities, as set out in The Art of Classic Planning, to ensure future generations can prosper. -- Ben Bolgar, The Prince’s FoundationA veritable bible of urbanism, Nir Buras’s The Art of Classic Planning is a formidable challenge to modernist principles. -- Hillel Schocken, Azrieli School of Architecture, Tel Aviv UniversityThis compendium should be understood not as an attempt to constrain urbanism to the classical, but rather to extend the range of urbanism to include the classical. Why on earth would an urbanist want to be without this trove of knowhow on the table? -- Andrés Duany, FAIA, CNU, recipient of the Driehaus Prize and coauthor of Suburban NationBuras’ highly intelligent and comprehensively illustrated blockbuster of a book is packed with celebrations of what make beautiful, successful, agreeable environments that people can actually enjoy (and which actually work)…[A] great book. -- James Stevens Curl * Times Higher Education *Buras unpacks for the reader the embedded wisdom of the previous 5,000 years of city building that carries many a legacy of beautiful places created to meet the aspirations of their community…Clearly outlines the faulty thinking that led to the defacing and abandonment of our cities…Not merely a ‘must have’ book for the old library, it is a once in a generation treatise that contains within its pages the power to heal the world. -- Patrick Webb * Traditional Building *Buras seems to have been everywhere, and draws on examples from all of these places in demonstrating sound planning from the Maidan in Isfahan in Iran, to Andrassy Avenue in Budapest, to Jai Singh’s plan of Jaipur, to Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. He dedicates significant attention to centuries of planning concepts of every sort of variety…It is a deeply impressive and erudite contextualization of a massive range of material. -- Anthony Paletta * American Conservative *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Spiro Kostof Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians""Shortlisted for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association""Azure Magazine's Gift Guide: Seven Books for Distanced Design Lovers""Drawing from a staggering trove of archival letters, maps, plans and diaries, Stratigakos’s Hitler’s Northern Utopia gracefully juxtaposes the oppressor’s dream with Norway’s brutal reality as she examines the country’s occupation and the labor force that worked on building the Nazi fantasy state that never was."---Lucy Tiven, Washington Post"As well as being a fascinating account of an unfamiliar but important aspect of the Second World War, this book is an exemplary model of scholarship. . . . It is a remarkable achievement, compelling in its originality and fascination, and a vital addition to the huge literature on the most horrific war in modern history."---Simon Heffer, The Telegraph"A fascinating archival study, Hitler’s Northern Utopia is the result of meticulous sleuthing through newspapers and old documents written in three different languages."---Johanne Elster Hanson, Times Literary Supplement"Among a younger generation of scholars unafraid to confront such once-taboo material, none has surpassed Despina Stratigakos. . . . In her latest book, Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway, Stratigakos . . . demonstrates a keen understanding of how Hitler’s perversion of architecture reflected that thwarted master builder’s ideological values, even beyond the German fatherland. Not the least of the surprises in this admirable but unsettling new study is that among the twenty or so countries subjugated in whole or in part by the Nazis, Norway was unique because Germany spent more on development there than it extracted in booty."---Martin Filler, New York Review of Books"If you thought (as I did) that, 75 years on from Hitler's death, there could surely be nothing new to learn about him, then this book by U.S. architectural historian Despina Stratigakos is an eye-opener."---Tony Rennell, Daily Mail"Unusual and provocative. . . . A special strength of the book is Stratigakos's attention to the fate of POWs—some Serbian, but mostly Russian. . . . Norwegian historians are coming to terms with both the occupation and their country's response in the 1950s and 60s. Hitler's Northern Utopia should be high on their must-read list. Nor will non-specialist readers be disappointed in it."---Jonathan Beard, Michigan War Studies Review"Architectural historian Despina Stratigakos mines a little-known chapter in 20th century history with insight, clarity and encyclopedic rigour. From the vision to re-fashion Trondheim into a new cultural capital to the scheme for an imposing super-highway linking the new city to Berlin, the book chronicles a darkly fascinating saga. It’s a chilling vision of the world as it could have been — and a reminder of architecture’s role in creating it." * Azure Magazine *"The reader gets an enormous amount of information about Norway in this beautiful and well-written book. Professor Stratigakos deserves much gratitude for a book which combines clear-headed precision and richness of detail with an understanding for the human cost of history."---Lars Baerentzen, Krigshistorisk Tidsskrift"Despina Stratigakos’s book compellingly engages with a lesser-known aspect of Nazi planning and spatial logistics – the occupation of Norway. . . . With skilful narration Stratigakos propels the reader from Hitler’s 1934 visit to the Norwegian fjords towards the 1940 German invasion. . . . The book is an accessible yet multidimensional assessment of space and ideology, wrapped up in a rich narrative of archival materials. Despina Stratigakos undoubtedly contributes to studies of landscape and memory."---Tereza E. Valny, History: Journal of the Historical Association"[A] fascinating new study. ... Highly recommended."" * Choice *"We all remember the image: a would-be Viking 'shaman' clad in horns, fur, feathers, and Norse tattoos storming the U.S. Capitol on 6 January 2021. Hundreds of White supremacists waving Confederate flags and brandishing Nazi insignia joined him in attempting to hunt down legislators in an effort to halt the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election. In her riveting new study Hitler’s Northern Utopia, Despina Stratigakos takes us beyond the noxious theatrics of the Capitol insurrection to the horrifying reality of policies and plans imagined and partly realized by the regime of Adolf Hitler as it too indulged fantasies of connection to the Nordic past."---Barbara McCloskey, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"“Hitler’s Northern Utopia provides an original and fascinating perspective on a lesser-known aspect of the Third Reich’s vision to create a thousand-year empire during the Second World War. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white photos that effectively accompany its lively prose, Hitler’s Northern Utopia presents a unique view of Germany’s attempt to incorporate a neighbor with which it shared deep-rooted racial and social ties. The book’s accessibility and unique perspective from an architectural historian will no doubt be of interest to students of World War II, the Third Reich, the history of its occupied countries, and the use of art and architecture as instruments of the state.”"---Mark Montesclaros, H-Net"Well-written, assiduously researched. . . . A fascinating case study, based on original documents." * Journal of Modern History *"Thorough and informed."---Alexander Adams, Alexander Adams Art

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Book SynopsisHow does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it has also become more dangerous for countless species of birds. Warblers become disoriented by nighttime lights and collide with buildings. Ground-feeding sparrows fall prey to feral cats. Hawks and other birds-of-prey are sickened by rat poison. These name just a few of the myriad hazards. How do our cities need to change in order to reduce the threats, often created unintentionally, that have resulted in nearly three billion birds lost in North America alone since the 1970s? In The Bird-Friendly City, Timothy Beatley, a longtime advocate for intertwining the built and natural environments, takes readers on a global tour of cities that are reinventing the status quo with birds in mind. Efforts span a fascinating breadth of approaches: public education, urban planning and design, habitat restoration, architecture, art, civil disobedience, and more. Beatley shares empowering examples, including: advocates for "catios," enclosed outdoor spaces that allow cats to enjoy backyards without being able to catch birds; a public relations campaign for vultures; and innovations in building design that balance aesthetics with preventing bird strikes. Through these changes and the others Beatley describes, it is possible to make our urban environments more welcoming to many bird species. Readers will come away motivated to implement and advocate for bird-friendly changes, with inspiring examples to draw from. Whether birds are migrating and need a temporary shelter or are taking up permanent residence in a backyard, when the environment is safer for birds, humans are happier as well.Table of ContentsPreface: Design of The Bird-Friendly City Chapter 1: The Benefits of Birds in a World Shaped by Humans Chapter 2: Birds in a Changing World of Cities Chapter 3: Protecting the Birds around Us: How Cities like Portland Are Nurturing Unlikely Alliances of Bird and Cat Lovers Chapter 4: Returning Home: Inspiring Work from London to Pittsburgh to Make Space for Migrating Birds Chapter 5: Replacing Habitats Lost: the Story of the Burrowing Owls of Phoenix and Efforts at Urban Relocation Chapter 6: Vertical Bird City: Singapore, Hornbills, and Beyond Chapter 7: Bird Appreciation Chapter 8: Design for Safe Passage: Cities Like San Francisco Lead the Way with Bird-Safe Buildings Chapter 9: Birds in Ravine City: Toronto’s Pioneering Work to Build Awareness and Design a Habitat City Chapter 10: Black Cockatoo Rising: The Struggle To Save Birds and Bush From a Proposed Highway Chapter 11: Birdicity: What Makes for a Deeply Bird-Friendly City and How Do We Measure It? Chapter 12: Cultivating a Bird-Caring Citizenry Bibliography

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Book Synopsis"Townscape" is the art of giving visual coherence and organisation to the jumble of buildings, streets and spaces that make up the urban environment. Its concepts were first developed by Gordon Cullen in The Architectural Review and were later embodied in the book TOWNSCAPE (1961) which instantly established itself as a major influence on architects, planners and others concerned with what cities should look like. Its interest, however, goes far beyond the professional sphere. Some may see it as an important contribution to art and architectural history since, for the first time, it explores the fact that certain visual effects in the grouping of buildings were based on quite definable, if often spontaneous, aesthetic principles. Others may find that it teaches them to appreciate, as no other book has done, what it is that makes a town "work" architecturally. A third group may want to study it for Cullen's superb drawings of city scenery - a skill at which he is the acknowledged masterTrade Review'A welcome reissue of this influential work, with acute observations on the English urban landscape, fully backed up with photographs and the author's characteristic drawings.' Soc. of Architectual & Industrial Illustrators NewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Introduction to 1971 Edition; Casebook: Serial vision; Place; Content; The functional tradition; General Studies: Squares for all tastes; Cross as focal point; Closure; Line of life; Legs and wheels; Hazards; The floor; Prairie planning; Rule of thumb; Street lighting; Outdoor publicity; The wall; The English climate; Casebook precedents; Trees incorporated; Change of level; Here and there; Immediacy; Endpiece; Index

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Book SynopsisPeter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.Trade ReviewIt would be no exaggeration to say that Peter Ackroyd's 'biography' of our capital is the book about London. It contains a lifetime of reading and research-but this huge book is light and airy and playful-[He] leads us on a journey both historical and geographical, but also imaginative. Every street, alley and courtyard has a story, and Ackroyd brings it to life for us - marvellous -- A N Wilson * Daily Mail *Nothing can quite match the huge strange echo chamber of life-stories, folktales, and urban myths conjured up in Peter Ackroyd's epic vision of his native city. Sparkling, witty scholarship is constantly transformed into smoky mystical street-history, with dark hypnotic meditations on fog, fire, sewage, suicide and civic resurrection -- Richard Holmes * Daily Telegraph *Ackroyd is the most effortless guide. You wander by his side through the streets of the old city, savouring its bustle, colours and its smells, the stink of living. This is much more than history; it is a tapestry of inspiration and love. You will not find a better, more visionary book about a place we take for granted * Observer *It's this decade's finest work of non-fiction -- Jude Rogers * The Word *[London] may be several years old but it remains one of the leading narratives as he cleverly weaves through centuries of history to reveal to us the hundreds of different cities within a city -- Fiona Hamilton * The Times *

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Book SynopsisWhat if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green roofs are increasingly appreciated for their technical services like storm water reduction, from a biophilic viewpoint, they also facilitate experiences that contribute to better physical and mental health: natural elements in play areas can lessen children's symptoms of ADHD and adults who exercise in natural spaces can experience greater reductions in anxiety and blood pressure. The Handbook of Biophilic City Planning & Design offers practical advice and inspiration for ensuring nature in the city is more than infrastructure, that it also creates an emotional connection to the earth and promotes well-being among urban residents. Divided into six parts, the Handbook begins by introducing key ideas, literature, and theory about biophilic urbanism; followed by chapters that highlight urban biophilic innovations in more than a dozen global cities; the final part concludes with lessons on how to advance an agenda for urban biophilia and an extensive list of resources.As the most comprehensive reference on the emerging field of biophilic urbanism, the Handbook is essential reading for students and practitioners looking to place nature at the core of their planning and design ideas and encourage what pre-eminent biologist E. O. Wilson described as "the innate emotional connection of humans to all living things."

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Book SynopsisFlood risk is increasing across the UK and globally. This book provides a highly visual guide to flood resilience, and the ways in which the built and natural environment can be adapted to the threat of flooding. It offers advice on how to better understand the nature of flood risk, highlighting the key approaches and principles necessary for developing community and property flood resilience. Offering clear visual examples of the variety of resilience strategies that are appropriate and applicable to a range of flood risk contexts, this book is an invaluable practical manual for architects and professionals across the built environment. Highly practical handbook for architects, students, engineers, urban planners and other built environment professionals Richly illustrated with practical examples and case studies Draws on research from government, academic and industry experts as well as first-hand experiences from flood affected communities Table of ContentsChapter 1: Flood Risk Contexts & Consequences Chapter 2: Types of Flooding Chapter 3: Tools & Techniques for Understanding Flood Risk & Resilience Chapter 4: Catchment & Community Flood Risk Management Chapter 5: Building Level Strategies Chapter 6: Pathways to a Flood Resilient Future

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Book SynopsisAn enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics of Istanbul'' PETER FRANKOPAN''A love letter to this ancient capital'' THE TIMESWalking along the crumbling defensive walls of Istanbul and talking to those he passes, Alexander Christie-Miller finds a distillation of the country's history, a mirror of its present, and a shadow of its future.Caught between two seas and two continents, Istanbul lies at the centre of the most pressing challenges of our time. With environmental decay, rapacious development and tightening authoritarianism straining its social fabric to breaking point, it represents the precipitous moment civilizations around the world are currently facing.In and around its crumbling Byzantine-era fortifications, Alexander Christie-Miller meets people who are experiencing the looming crisis and fighting back, sometimes triumphing despite the odds.To the City Trade Review EARLY PRAISE FOR TO THE CITY 'A love letter to this ancient capital…a work of storytelling skill and passion, a handsome tribute to a city that always transfixes' The Times 'The author is a sensitive and patient presence, piecing together these stories over many pages. Spending time at a teahouse, an animal shelter and a former Dervish hall that is now an academic institution, he brings to life the rich variety of these neighbourhoods. While Christie-Miller’s focus remains on the streets surrounding the walls, his characters offer broader insights into Turkey’s social and political make-up. He is also sensitive to the poetry of his surroundings, captured in moments of lyrical precision: “Behind them I saw the remains of the Byzantine sea wall hanging like a scrap of old parchment strung out to dry in the sun' Financial Times ‘Alexander Christie-Miller is an exceptionally fluent and imaginative writer who knows Turkey intimately’ Max Hastings 'An absorbing and thoroughly engaging study of modern-day Turkey. His research is first class, and he writes very well…Christie-Miller’s love of the city and its people shines through this wonderful book' Literary Review 'Between the ancient minarets that punctuate the city’s skyline, the author seeks out the real soul of Istanbul in its diverse peoples, past and present, by raising up voices rarely heard' National Geographic Magazine 'Alexander Christie-Miller has written a gripping portrait, with both the sweeping scope of a historian and the intimate, laser-like eye of a travel writer. This also a deeply humane account of a legendary city, not always well served by its leaders' Daniel Metcalfe author of Blue Dahlia

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Book SynopsisAmid Japanâs political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. KenzÅ Tangeâs Plan for Tokyo 1960 further celebrated urban expansion as organic processes and pushed city design to an unprecedented scale. Metabolistsâ visionary schemes of the city gave birth to revolutionary design paradigms, which reinvented the discourse of modern Japanese architecture and propelled it through the years of Economic Miracle to a global prominence. Their utopian concepts, which often envisaged the sea and the sky as human habitats of the future, reflected fundamental issues of cultural transformation and addressed environmental crises of the postindustrial society.This new edition expands Zhongjie Linâs pathbreaking account on Tange and Metabolism centered at the intersection of urbanism and utopianism. The thorough historical survey, from Metabolismâs inauguration at the 1960 World Design Conference to the apex of the movemeTable of ContentsForeword by Arata Isozaki 1. Introduction: City as Organism 2. Metabolism 1960 3. Metabolist Utopias 4. Myths of Tokyo Bay 5. Structure and Symbol 6. Expo ’70 7. The Capsule Tower 8. Epilogue: Seeing the Future through the Past

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Book SynopsisAcoustical engineering applies sound and vibration theory in practical terms, addressing the manipulation and control of sound to ensure the comfort, safety and productivity of those inhabiting a particular environment. This book addresses the control of sound and vibration within enclosed spaces.Trade Review"The strength of the book lies in the breadth of material that it covers, and it will work as a starting point for anyone interested in any of the many topics that the author presents." --Journal of the Audio Engineering Society "...provides a comprehensive overview to the many aspects of architectural acoustics, sound isolation, equipment noise control and sound reinforcement systems, balancing both theoretical and practical considerations." --Noice Control Engineering Journal, July-August 2014 "…a first-rate reference for consultants who practice architectural acoustics or for architects and engineers who are looking for a complete compilation on acoustical techniques." --International Journal of Acoustics and VibrationTable of Contents1. Historical Introduction2. Fundamentals of Acoustics3. Human Perception and Reaction to Sound4. Acoustic Measurements and Noise Metrics5. Environmental Noise6. Wave Acoustics7. Sound and Solid Surfaces8. Sound in Enclosed Spaces9. Sound Transmission Loss10. Sound Transmission in Buildings11. Vibration and Vibration Isolation12. Noise Transmission in Floor Systems13. Noise in Mechanical Systems14. Sound Attenuation in Ducts15. Design and Construction of Multifamily Dwellings16. Design and Construction of Office Buildings 17. Design of Rooms for Speech18. Sound Reinforcement Systems19. Design of Rooms for Music20. Design of Multipurpose Auditoria and Sanctuaries21. Design of Studios and Listening Rooms22. Acoustic Modeling, Ray Tracing, and Auralization

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Book Synopsis''History writing at its compulsive best'' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies and visions that fostered Britain''s greatest civic renaissance.Tristram Hunt explores the horrors of the Victorian city, as seen by Dickens, Engels and Carlyle; the influence of the medieval Gothic ideal of faith, community and order espoused by Pugin and Ruskin; the pride in self-government, identified with the Saxons as opposed to the Normans; the identification with the city republics of the Italian renaissance - commerce, trade and patronage; the change from the civic to the municipal, and greater powers over health, education and housing; and finally at the end of the century, the retreat from the urban to the rural ideal, led by William Morris and the garden-city movement of Ebenezer Howard.Trade ReviewA key text which should be read by all politicians and by anyone interested in the way we live now. It is deeply researched, but written in an highly accessible way, and the reader never loses sight of the vitally relevant and interesting story Tristram Hunt has to tell. It is history writing at its compulsive best. -- A. N. WilsonWhat matters is his book's prodigious range and passionate enthusiasm, and his skill in showing how ideas, however foolish, can take over minds, change landscapes and mould the future. It is a rich, nutritious read. -- John Carey * Sunday Times *

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Book SynopsisSituated on Broadway between Fourteenth and Seventeenth Streets, Union Square occupies a central place in both the geography and the history of New York City. Though this compact space was originally designed in 1830 to beautify a residential neighborhood and boost property values, by the early days of the Civil War, New Yorkers had transformed Union Square into a gathering place for political debate and protest. As public use of the square changed, so, too, did its design. When Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux redesigned the park in the late nineteenth century, they sought to enhance its potential as a space for the orderly expression of public sentiment. A few decades later, anarchists and Communist activists, including Emma Goldberg, turned Union Square into a regular gathering place where they would advocate for radical change. In response, a series of city administrations and business groups sought to quash this unruly form of dissidence by remaking the square into a new kin

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Book SynopsisHeritage-led Urban Regeneration in China presents the detailed history of three well-known streets in China; the Southern Song Imperial Street at Hangzhou, the residential Pingjiang Street at Suzhou, and the commercial Tunxi Old Street at Huangshan.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Figures and CaptionsPrefaceChapter 1: Embracing the Legacy of Historic Urban StreetsChapter 2: Historical Preservation, Heritage Conservation and Urban RegenerationChapter 3: Imperial Street: Southern Song Imperial Street, Hangzhou Chapter 4: Residential Street: Pingjiang Street, SuzhouChapter 5: Commercial Street: Tunxi Old Street, HuangshanChapter 6: The Past and Future of China’s Historic Street DistrictsChapter 7: Achieving an Authentic Historic Urban Street in China BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe experiences we enjoy, endure, or miss out on are influenced by what our surroundings allow and invite us to do. Just like our food diet, our experience diet influences our health and so our chances of finding happiness and fulfilling our potential. A healthy experience diet offers inspiration, reassurance, delight, and play. It nurtures physical, cognitive, and emotional health, builds resilience, and fosters confidence and self-esteem. An unhealthy experience diet lacks these things and consigns people to lives diminished in quantity and quality. Recipes for Urban Happiness offers an innovative way of looking at the relationship between people and place and redefines what good urban design is. The book outlines what designers and non-designers can do to create urban places where nurturing behaviours are both possible and preferable. Recipes for Urban Happiness will be relevant to public health, community development, and design practitioners, as well as students and academics.

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Book SynopsisThis foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent movements toward recovery.Table of Contents Editors’ Introduction to Introduction to Housing, second edition SECTION I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Current Trends in the U.S. Housing Market Chapter 2. Influences on Housing Choice SECTION II: HOUSING DESIGN Chapter 3. Kitchen and Bathroom Design Chapter 4. Single-Family Residential Design Chapter 5. Multifamily Residential Design Chapter 6. Universal Design in Housing SECTION III: HOME OWNERSHIP Chapter 7. Home Buying and Homeownership Chapter 8. The Housing Finance Industry Chapter 9. Renting Chapter 10. Housing Affordability Chapter 11. Homelessness SECTION IV: HOUSING POLICY Chapter 12. Housing and Community Chapter 13. Neighborhood Amenities Chapter 14. Federal Housing Policy Chapter 15. The Great Recession SECTION V: SPECIAL TOPICS IN HOUSING Chapter 16. Housing and Racial and Ethnic Diversity Chapter 17. Housing and Aging Chapter 18. Home Environments and Health Chapter 19. Sustainable Housing Chapter 20. Housing and Disasters SECTION VI: HOUSING IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT Chapter 21. Housing in Asia Chapter 22. Housing in Europe Chapter 23. Housing in Latin America and the Caribbean Chapter 24. Housing in Africa Chapter 25. Global Housing Challenges in the Twenty-First Century

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Book SynopsisThis book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes, political ambitions and everyday activities. By investigating three sites in London that have been the focus of masterplanning, Ed Wall exposes conflicts between planning offices and private developers who direct large urban change and community groups, market traders and residents whose public lives are inseparable from their neighbourhoods being reconfigured.The book uniquely brings sociological approaches to what are often considered architectural concerns, revealing challenges as London''s public spaces are designed, regulated and lived. Through in-depth research, Ed Wall identifies how uncertainty caused by large-scale urban strategies, the realisation of visual priorities, and uneven relations between private interests, public organisations and daily lives determine the public realm of global cities.This work is inteTrade Review"Ed Wall takes us on an illuminating journey into the planning offices, pavements and image platforms that shape the redevelopment of central London at the turn of the millennium.Contesting Public Spacesis a rich compilation of the speculations, strategies and struggles that produce public life. Its vital details reveal the emergence of exclusive, ornamental and securitised forms that bypass the interpretive possibilities of the commons, asking us to reconsider the very role of planning itself."Suzanne Hall, Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics, Cities Programme"At a time when designers of the built environment are searching for new approaches aimed at producing more just and equitable places in the city, Wall’s exploration of the politics of public space, outlining the global to hyperlocal tensions of public space acquisition, making, and ornament, force us to lean into architecture and its allied design disciplines as a political practice. This is crucial, and now timely, if designers are truly concerned and wish to do something about the erosion of society’s rights to the city and for who, including who decides and designs, whose behavior and activity is accepted, and who is allowed to express their publicness fully."Toni L. Griffin, Professor in Practice of Urban Planning at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Founder of Urban American City"Contesting Public Spaces considers the changes which have taken place in three London locations - Paddington Basin, Trafalgar Square and Elephant & Castle (Market) - as a result of large scale regeneration. It leaves the reader with much to ponder about how public our public spaces really are and if more will transition to become privately managed."Ed Wall, The London SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Contesting public spaces, 1. Social and spatial relations, 2. Making and taking, 3. Place as property, 4. Ornaments and images, 5. Approaches to public space, Conclusions, Epilogue: Three propositions

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Book SynopsisThe urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (19242009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select projects to illuminate Fehn's approach to the city, the embodiment of that thinking in his designs, and the broader lessons those efforts offer for better understanding the relationship between architecture and urban life, with unignorable implications for emergent urban architecture and its address of sociological and ecological crises. Wary of large-scale planning proposals or the erasure of existing urban patterns, Fehn offered an uncommon and profoundly vibrant approach to urbanism at the scale of the single architectural project. His writings, constructed buildings, competition entries, and lectures suggest opportunities for reinvigorating architecture's engagement with the city, and provoke a rethinking of concepts foundational to its theorization. What is the nature of urbanity? What is the relationship of urbanity to the natural worldTrade Review"What if a good urban solution doesn’t involve ‘fitting into existing conditions’ but adding a clear and articulate voice to barely audible communications about ways of living that could be less wasteful, more humane, and just? Read this forward-looking book to discover modern architecture’s positive contribution to the city and the cultures it embodies."David Leatherbarrow, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania"This is a thesis that takes architectural scholarship and criticism to an entirely new level, in part because of the exceptionally sensitive talent and inventive energy of Sverre Fehn, and in part because of Anderson’s comparable sensitivity and profound erudition, influenced as it has been by the architectural phenomenologies of Dalibor Vesely and David Leatherbarrow. This is a truly important work."Kenneth Frampton, Emeritus Professor of Architecture Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Chapter 1 Fehn in the City: “What makes this all so alive”. Chapter 2 Opened Ground. Chapter 3 Sverre Fehn’s Ambient Urbanity. Chapter 4 Sverre Fehn, the City, and the Architecture of Participation. Chapter 5 More Oslo. Afterword. Appendix 1. Appendix 2. Index.

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Book SynopsisTrauma Informed Placemaking offers an introduction to understanding trauma and healing in place. It offers insights that researchers and practitioners can apply to their place-based practice, learning from a global cohort of place leaders and communities.The book introduces the ethos and application of the trauma-informed approach to working in place, with references to historical and contemporary trauma, including trauma caused by placemakers. It introduces the potential of place and of place practitioners to heal. Offering 20 original frameworks, toolkits and learning exercises across 33 first- and third-person chapters, multi-disciplinary insights are presented throughout. These are organised into four sections that lead the reader to an awareness of how trauma and healing operate in place. The book offers a first gathering of the current praxis in the field how we can move from trauma in place to healing in place and concludes with calls to action for the trauma-

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Book SynopsisCurrent planning and design modes of cities are facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and call for innovative thinking. In a world that is becoming highly urbanized, the need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental global changes that touch upon environmental, economic and social aspects.The book introduces fundamental principles of timely sustainable urban design, paying attention to architecture, integration of natural features, public urban spaces and their successful use. Readers will learn how cities are transitioning to active mobility by placing the wellbeing of citizens at the heart of planning; making buildings fit nature; supporting local culture through preservation; and including community gardens in neighborhoods, among others. Written by a practicing architect, professor and author, the book is richly illustrated and features meticulously selected international case studies.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the complex relationship between urban commons - understood as a repertoire of collective action that fosters a politics of antagonism - and the local state. It critiques the dominant neo-institutionalist and neo-Marxist perspectives for their deterministic and siloed views, as well as their insufficient attention to the municipal scale. The book proposes a more nuanced, urban-based, outcome-oriented approach rooted in assemblage theory.The analysis addresses a central question: can urban commons-local state assemblages benefit the politics of urban commons? The book argues that they can, provided they form rhizomatic assemblages. These allow urban commons to retain their self-governing autonomy, even as they lose some of their material autonomy. Conversely, it shows that assemblages can also take arborescent forms, allowing the local state to undermine the self-governing autonomy of the urban commons.Focusing on Barcelona, the book examines how rhizomatic and arborescent assemblages are constructed, as well as the strategies that urban commons can undertake to build rhizomatic assemblages. This work is essential for scholars, policy-makers and activists interested in urban governance, commons theory and transformative politics. It provides both theoretical insights and practical tools for harnessing the dynamics of the urban commons and the local state to drive meaningful socio-political change.

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Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated book examines the full potential of Digital Twins (DTs) as a means of creating more sustainable urban habitats. It reveals how, in this digitally-enabled age, DTs are increasingly being adopted by cities as a tool for urban governance, with the hope of increasing operational efficiencies and enhancing citizens' lives.While the study and implementation of DTs has been critically explored as virtual, dynamic 3D replicas of physical entities across different disciplines and industries, this book establishes a strategy that recognises the need for the software' behind virtual DT platforms to not only represent the hardware' of our physical cities but also to reflect the heartware' of socio-economic and cultural practices. Knowledge gaps and challenges in existing DTs are identified and insights into rethinking their purpose are provided to propose a new DT paradigm model for city-wide application. With multiple case studies illustrating the different conceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Context 2. Case Studies 3. Digital Transformation 4. Enabling the Digital Twin 5. A National Paradigm Shift 6. Implementing the Digital Twin Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an analysis of nature satisfaction, nature relatedness, and the motivations for using urban green spaces. It explores the use of spaces such as parks, waterfronts, wooded areas, and fields among different life course phases and socio-economic classes.Through a detailed analysis of primary data from two major German cities, Cologne and Hamburg, the book examines the availability, use, and satisfaction with urban green spaces, and provides insights into the predictors of nature satisfaction in an urban context. The books also combine the subjective assessments of the respondents with objective data. It considers the varying reliance on urban green spaces due to the availability of private green spaces and individual nature relatedness. It provides insights on the needs of different population groups in cities, providing a scientific basis for improving or implementing green space planning approaches.This book will be of interest to researchers in socio

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Book SynopsisHistorically the urban festival served as an occasion for affirming shared convictions and identities in the life of the city. Whether religious or civic in nature, these events provided tangible expressions of social, cultural, political, and religious cohesion, often reaffirming a particular shared ethos within diverse urban landscapes. Architecture has long served as a key aspect of this process exhibiting continuity in the flux of these representations through the parading of elaborate ceremonial floats, the construction of temporary buildings, the âdressingâ of existing urban space, the alternative occupations of the everyday, and the construction of new buildings and spaces which then become a part of the background fabric of the city.This book examines how festivals can be used as a lens to examine the relationship between city and citizen and questions whether this is fixed through time, or has been transformed as a response to changes in the modern urban condition. <Table of ContentsIntroduction Christian Frost, Raymond Lucas, Jemma Browne The Festival in History 1. ‘Pruning and propagating civic behaviour: three feste in and around Santa Maria della Vittoria in Mantua, 1495-97’ - Italy Susan Janet May 2. A Contemporary Reading of the Accession Day Tilts in relation to Festival and the Elizabethan Notion of ‘Lost Sense of Sight’- UK Constance Lau 3. Festa della Chinea: Tradition and the 'Exotic' in Roman Festival Design –Italy Nicholas Temple 4. "Honneurs et applaudissements": Celebrating the first Jesuit Saints in 17th Century- France Iara Alejandra Dundas The Festival Through History 5. Script and Score: Revisiting Nelson Goodman at Sanja Matsuri- Japan Raymond Lucas 6. The Calcio Storico in Florence: Agonistic Ritual and the Space of Civic Order- Italy Christian Frost 7. The Festal Topography of Andre Breton’s Paris- France Dagmar Motycka Weston 8. The Town of Witches: Triora Transfixed - Italy Grace Alexandra Williams 9. Festival, Ritual and Rhetoric of the Arabian Market Street – Middle East Jasmine Shahin Meaning in the Modern Festival 10. A Better Life For More People: Jaqueline Tyrwhitt's contribution for the Festival of Britain -UK Paola Zanotto 11. A Vigorous Corrective: The Ulster ‘71 Festival - Northern Ireland Sarah Anne Lappin and Una Walker 12. The Pope, the Park and the City: Dublin, 1979 -Republic of Ireland Brian Ward and Gary Boyd 13. Urban Fabric: Maria Lai at Ulassai,- Sardinia Italy David Chandler 14. The Social Architecture of Contemporary Cultural Festivals: Connecting People, the Environment and Art in the Setouchi Triennale - Japan Simone Shu-Yeng Chung 15. Tahrir Square’s Festive Imagination- Egypt Hazem Ziada Index

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Book SynopsisAs towns and cities worldwide deal with fast-increasing land pressures, while also trying to promote more sustainable, connected communities, the creation of green spaces within urban areas is receiving greater attention than ever before. At the same time, the value of the green belt' as the most prominent model of green space planning is being widely questioned, and an array of alternative models are being proposed. This book explores one of those alternative models the green wedge', showing how this offers a successful model for integrating urban development and nature in existing and new towns and cities around the world. Green wedges, considered here as ducts of green space running from the countryside into the centre of a city or town, are not only making a comeback in urban planning, but they have a deeper history in the twentieth century than many expect a history that provides valuable insight and lessons in the employment of networked green spaces in city design and regionaTrade ReviewGreen Wedge Urbanism provides an original and potentially impactful contribution to urban theory, history and practice. The narrative of the book surfaces the concept of the Green Wedge historically and geographically, acting both as an archaeology of its meaning and a critical examination of its contemporary practice. * Simon Guy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University, UK *This fascinating and historically informed account sheds new light on the urban landscape, reminding us of the benefits of linear open space, whether as an alternative to encompassing green belts or (even better) in combination with them. * Michael Hebbert, Professor of Town Planning at University College London, UK *A strong argument for the significance of the concept in planning history and practice. Overall, Lemes de Oliveira’s chronicle of the green wedge concept adds significantly to our understanding of this impactful model. It will be useful for environmental and regional planners, particularly those with an interest in planning history or theory. . . . Appropriate for graduate-level courses. * Journal of Planning Education and Research *The book provides new, scientifically sound information on the design of green corridors in numerous cities, past and present. . . . The book is very well suited as a textbook as well as a comprehensive study for anyone interested in urban and green space planning. * Journal of the Finnish Society of Urban Planning *Table of ContentsIntroduction Green wedge: definitions Interdisciplinarity, locality, temporality and scale The structure Methods and sources Part 1 – Green Wedges in History Chapter 1 – Urban planning with nature The Enlightenment and the pursuit of nature The industrial revolution and the disintegration of open spaces The rise of town planning Ring vs. radial growth Park systems Chapter 2 – The emergence and diffusion of the green wedge idea Radial planning, radial parks and green wedges Intrinsic opposition: belts vs. wedges Opposition resolved: belts and wedges as elements of the same park system The socialist city Chapter 3 – Towards a bright future: green-wedge visions for the post-war period London: the green-wedge metropolis Diagraming the future The County of London Plan 1943 The Greater London Plan 1944 Other British cities New towns and green spaces Planning new beginnings Chapter 4 – Polycentrism and regional planning Organising the territory: the Nordic experience The 1947 Finger Plan Other Scandinavian capitals The corridor-wedge model: the Nordic influence Planning the metropolis: the case of São Paulo Corridor-wedge in the United States Visions for South East England The case of Melbourne Other cases The Green Heart and wedges of Randstad in the Netherlands Part 2 – Green Wedges Today Chapter 5 – Green spaces, networks and contemporary challenges The benefits of green spaces The birth of Urban Design and the ‘Star City’ Green infrastructures Landscape Ecology Landscape Urbanism Sustainability and resilience in face of climate change Chapter 6 – Towards sustainable and resilient city-regions Stockholm: towards blue and green wedges The development of a model: the Copenhagen Finger Plan The green fingers of Helsinki Randstad: from Green Heart to Green-Blue Delta Melbourne towards 2030 Freiburg: the green wedge and the mountain-valley systems Chapter 7 – Green wedges: from the city-region to the neighbourhood Hamburg green network plan The Raggi Verdi of Milan Songzhuang Arts and Agriculture City: a new form of urban-rural relationship Green wedges at multiple scales: Viikki Rieselfeld Vauban The Neighbourhood scale: Dunsfold Park, UK The green wedge as a typology: La Sagrera Linear Park, Spain Green Wedge Urbanism: Past, Present and Future The green wedge idea: from the city scale to the polycentric region Towards a theory of green wedge urbanism Index Bibliography Notes

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an intellectual history of the modernist minimum dwelling, exploring how early modernism saw mass housing as a primary vehicle for achieving the utopian transformation of society. It reappraises the often-overlooked 2nd and 3rd CIAM conferences (1929-31), addressing their engagement with the minimum dwelling and revealing them both as milestones in the organisation''s annals and as seminal moments in the history of interwar modernism.In 1929, an eclectic international group of avant-garde modernist architects, including Ernst May, Mart Stam, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, met in Frankfurt for the second instalment of the CIAM conferences. They discussed a design programme for cost-effective, good-quality housing, seeking new approaches and processes to maximize quality and functionality while ensuring affordability for the wider population. In exploring the meaning and form of the ''minimum dwelling'', they also re-defined dwelling as the hub of a new way of livingTrade ReviewThe early Modern Movement was passionately committed to addressing the housing needs of the industrial working classes. In this meticulously researched book, Aristotle Kallis presents an authoritative account of the emergence and significance of the Minimum Dwelling (Existenzminimum) as an important expression of that commitment. It supplies important new understandings to our knowledge of twentieth-century European architectural and planning history. * John R. Gold, University College London , UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction ‘Contact Zone’ and 'Practical Utopia' Structure 1. Genealogies of the Minimum Poverty, ‘Human Needs', and 'Minimum' Habitation and 'Minimum Needs' Early Interventions and Reform Initiatives Existenzminimum The Low-cost Housing Calculus 2. The 'Small Dwelling' Between Emergency and Aspiration Size and Dwelling The 'Small Dwelling' after WW1 From the 'Small' to the 'Smallest' Dwelling (Kleinstwohnung) The Pioneering Cases of Vienna and Frankfurt 3. International Expert Networks and The Housing Question in the Interwar Period The IFHTP Encounters the Question of Mass Housing: Vienna, 1926 The IFHTP Congress in Paris, 1928: The Trope of the 'Housing For the Very Poor' The IFHTP Congress in Rome, 1929: Planning and Financing Mass Urban Housing 4. The 'Minimum Dwelling' as Utopia WW1 as Rupture: The Space of Utopia Interwar Modernism as Discourse: Minimum and Optimum Architecture as Revolution The Private Cell, The Public Sphere, and What Lies In-Between The Soviet Experience: Pursuing the Minimum in Utopia The 'Dwelling Ration': Social Utopia in Disguise ‘Frictionless Living': The Studies of Alexander Klein 5. CIAM2: The 'Minimum Dwelling' In Focus CIAM and its 'Lesser' Congresses CIAM’s First Steps and the Question of Dwelling Setting Up the First 'Working Congress' The 1929 Frankfurt Congress (CIAM2) Language Matters: The Opacity of the Existenzminimum The Aftermath of the Frankfurt Congress 6. CIAM3: Dwelling as the Unlikely Hub og Modern Architecture From CIAM2 to CIAM3: Exploring Scales in Three-Dimensional Space The Elusive Theme(s) of CIAM3: The Battle of the Scales The Brussels Congress The 'Minimum Dwelling' in CIAM3 7. The CIAM2 and CIAM3 Exhibitions The Exhibition Field in Interwar Europe: Showcasing the 'Minimum' The Minimum Dwelling on Show: Exhibiting CIAM2 Exhibiting CIAM3 Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLewis Mumford, one of the most respected public intellectuals of the twentieth century, speaking at a conference on the future environments of North America, said, In order to secure human survival we must transition from a technological culture to an ecological culture. In Ecohumanism and the Ecological Culture, William Cohen shows how Mumford's conception of an educational philosophy was enacted by Mumford's mentee, Ian McHarg, the renowned landscape architect and regional planner at the University of Pennsylvania. McHarg advanced a new way to achieve an ecological culture-through an educational curriculum based on fusing ecohumanism to the planning and design disciplines.Cohen explores Mumford's important vision of ecohumanisma synthesis of natural systems ecology with the myriad dimensions of human systems, or human ecology-and how McHarg actually formulated and made that vision happen. He considers the emergence of alternative energy systems and new approaches to planning and comm

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Book SynopsisA deep exploration on how questions of time and its organisation affect planning practice, this book questions 'project speed': where time to think, deliberate and plan has been squeezed. The authors demonstrate the many benefits of slow planning for the key participants, multiple interests and planning system overall.

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Book SynopsisAs towns and cities worldwide deal with fast-increasing land pressures, while also trying to promote more sustainable, connected communities, the creation of green spaces within urban areas is receiving greater attention than ever before. At the same time, the value of the green belt' as the most prominent model of green space planning is being widely questioned, and an array of alternative models are being proposed. This book explores one of those alternative models the green wedge', showing how this offers a successful model for integrating urban development and nature in existing and new towns and cities around the world. Green wedges, considered here as ducts of green space running from the countryside into the centre of a city or town, are not only making a comeback in urban planning, but they have a deeper history in the twentieth century than many expect a history that provides valuable insight and lessons in the employment of networked green spaces in city design and regionaTrade ReviewGreen Wedge Urbanism provides an original and potentially impactful contribution to urban theory, history and practice. The narrative of the book surfaces the concept of the Green Wedge historically and geographically, acting both as an archaeology of its meaning and a critical examination of its contemporary practice. * Simon Guy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University, UK *This fascinating and historically informed account sheds new light on the urban landscape, reminding us of the benefits of linear open space, whether as an alternative to encompassing green belts or (even better) in combination with them. * Michael Hebbert, Professor of Town Planning at University College London, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction Green wedge: definitions Interdisciplinarity, locality, temporality and scale The structure Methods and sources Part 1 – Green Wedges in History Chapter 1 – Urban planning with nature The Enlightenment and the pursuit of nature The industrial revolution and the disintegration of open spaces The rise of town planning Ring vs. radial growth Park systems Chapter 2 – The emergence and diffusion of the green wedge idea Radial planning, radial parks and green wedges Intrinsic opposition: belts vs. wedges Opposition resolved: belts and wedges as elements of the same park system The socialist city Chapter 3 – Towards a bright future: green-wedge visions for the post-war period London: the green-wedge metropolis Diagraming the future The County of London Plan 1943 The Greater London Plan 1944 Other British cities New towns and green spaces Planning new beginnings Chapter 4 – Polycentrism and regional planning Organising the territory: the Nordic experience The 1947 Finger Plan Other Scandinavian capitals The corridor-wedge model: the Nordic influence Planning the metropolis: the case of São Paulo Corridor-wedge in the United States Visions for South East England The case of Melbourne Other cases The Green Heart and wedges of Randstad in the Netherlands Part 2 – Green Wedges Today Chapter 5 – Green spaces, networks and contemporary challenges The benefits of green spaces The birth of Urban Design and the ‘Star City’ Green infrastructures Landscape Ecology Landscape Urbanism Sustainability and resilience in face of climate change Chapter 6 – Towards sustainable and resilient city-regions Stockholm: towards blue and green wedges The development of a model: the Copenhagen Finger Plan The green fingers of Helsinki Randstad: from Green Heart to Green-Blue Delta Melbourne towards 2030 Freiburg: the green wedge and the mountain-valley systems Chapter 7 – Green wedges: from the city-region to the neighbourhood Hamburg green network plan The Raggi Verdi of Milan Songzhuang Arts and Agriculture City: a new form of urban-rural relationship Green wedges at multiple scales: Viikki Rieselfeld Vauban The Neighbourhood scale: Dunsfold Park, UK The green wedge as a typology: La Sagrera Linear Park, Spain Green Wedge Urbanism: Past, Present and Future The green wedge idea: from the city scale to the polycentric region Towards a theory of green wedge urbanism Index Bibliography Notes

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Book SynopsisHow did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfrontits most treasured asset? Lakefront reveals a story of social, political, and legal conflict in which private and public rights have clashed repeatedly over time, only to produce, as a kind of miracle, a generally happy ending. Joseph D. Kearney and Thomas W. Merrill study the lakefront''s evolution from the middle of the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Their findings have significance for understanding not only Chicago''s history but also the law''s part in determining the future of significant urban resources such as waterfronts. The Chicago lakefront is where the American public trust doctrine, holding certain public resources off limits to private development, was born. This book describes the circumstances that gave rise to the doctrine and its fluctuating importance over time, and reveals how it was resurrected in the later twentieth century to become tTrade ReviewKearney and Merrill cogently present all of the complexities, including key doctrinal debates about whether the state owned submerged lands over tidal waters or navigable-in-fact waters. The text is lively, with the authors recounting behind-the-scenes activities in the legislature and incorporating newspaper accounts. * Natural Resources & Environment *This highly readable text offers a fascinating story of what happened in courts of law, lawyers' offices, legislative and other official bodies, and offices of major corporations—as well as through the actions of public-spirited citizens—to produce and preserve this wonderful amenity. Lucid prose nearly void of legalese, adequate illustrations, and abundant footnotes ensure a general popularity for this excellent book. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Lake Front Steal 2. The Lake Front Case 3. The Watchdog of the Lakefront 4. The Struggle for Streeterville 5. Reversing the Chicago River 6. North Lake Shore Drive 7. South Lake Shore Drive and Bridging the River 8. The Transformation of the Public Trust Doctrine 9. The Lakefront Today Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDecades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content. In the Paris suburbs they found an inexhaustible reservoir of forms, landscapes and social types in which to anchor their fictions, from bourgeois villas and bucolic riverside cafés to post-war housing estates and postmodern new towns. For the first time in English, contributors to this volume address key aspects of this long film history, marked by such towering figures as Jean Renoir, Jacques Tati and Jean-Luc Godard. Idyllic or menacing, expansive or claustrophobic, the suburb served divergent aesthetic and ideological programmes across the better part of a century. Themes central to French cultural modernity – class conflict, leisure, boredom and anti-authoritarianism – cut across the fifteen chapters.Trade Review‘This edited volume is an important contribution to conceptions of geography and French cinema. The fifteen contributions address the banlieue in film as geographic suburb and mise-en-scène that is both incidental landscape and elemental context for cinematic storytelling. Overall, the volume demonstrates how notions of banlieue cinema allow us to reconsider well-known French interwar and postwar films with an awareness of the postcolonial and hip-hop discourses that have over-coded an underlying historical context. The richness of this approach lies in how it foregrounds spatial dynamics within the Hexagon, or metropolitan France, as supplemented by longstanding histories of migration and regional idioms [...] A wide range of perspectives thus describe and reconsider the “space of periphery” in French cinema.’Peter J. Bloom, University of California, H-France Review, Vol. 19 (2019) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Philippe Met and Derek Schilling1 On the origins of the banlieue film, 1930–80 – Annie Fourcaut2 Lumière, Méliès, Pathé and Gaumont: French filmmaking in the suburbs, 1896–1920 – Roland-François Lack3 Roads, rivers and canals: spaces of freedom from Epstein to Vigo – Jean-Louis Pautrot4 The banlieue in French cinema of the 1930s – Keith Reader5 Julien Duvivier and interwar ‘banlieutopia’ – Margaret C. Flinn6 Margins and thresholds of French cinema: Ménilmontant, Le Sang des bêtes, Colloque de chiens – Eric Bullot7 Georges Franju and the grotesque genius of the banlieue – Tristan Jean8 Tati, suburbia and modernity – Malcolm Turvey9 A crucible of emotions: Maurice Pialat’s L’Amour existe – Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck10 Godard’s suburban years – Térésa Faucon11 The banlieue wore black: postwar French polar, from Becker to Corneau – Philippe Met12 Erasing the suburbs: the grands ensembles in documentary film and television, 1950–80 – Camille Canteux13 Elusive happiness: screening France’s new towns after 1968 - Derek Schilling14 Towers of evil: Jean-Claude Brisseau – David Vasse15 What’s left of the ‘red suburb’? Hervé Le Roux’s Reprise as case study – Guillaume SoulezIndex

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Book SynopsisNow in paperback: This San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and California Book Award finalist drills down into Oakland''s geological history and its impacts on the city''s urban present."This book has turned me into a newcomer to my own city, but has also changed the way I will view any landscape. I can think of few greater gifts than that."—Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time"Spending time with Andrew Alden is like giving yourself x-ray eyes." —Roman Mars, host and creator of 99% InvisibleBeneath Oakland''s streets and underfoot of every scurrying creature atop them, rocks roil, shift, crash, and collide in an ever-churning seismological saga. In Deep Oakland, geologist Andrew Alden excavates the ancient story of Oakland''s geologic underbelly and reveals how its silt, soil, and subterranean sinews are intimately entwined with its human history—and future. Poised atop a world-famous fault line now slumbering, Alden charts how these quaking rocks gave rise to the hills and the flats; how ice-age sand dunes gave root to the city''s eponymous oak forests; how the Jurassic volcanoes of Leona Heights gave way to mining boom times; how Lake Merritt has swelled and disappeared a dozen times over the course of its million-year lifespan; and how each epochal shift has created the terrain cradling Oaklanders today. With Alden as our guide—and with illustrations by Laura Cunningham, author of A State of Change—we see that just as Oakland is a human crossroads, a convergence of cultures from the world over, so too is the bedrock below, carried here from parts still incompletely known.

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Book SynopsisThe NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritise safe driving and transit, cycling, walking, and public activity. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasises the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than solely being conduits for traffic. The well-illustrated guide offers blueprints of street design from multiple perspectives, from the bird's eye view to granular details. Case studies show how to implement best practices, as well as provide guidance for customizing design applications to a city's unique needs. Urban Street Design Guide outlines five goals and tenets of world-class street design: Streets are public spaces - streets play a much larger role in the public life of cities and communities than just thoroughfares for traffic; Great streets are great for business - well-designed streets generate higher revenues for businesses and higher values for homeowners; Design for safety - traffic engineers can and should design streets where people walking, parking, shopping, cycling, working, and driving can cross paths safely; and, Streets can be changed - transportation engineers can work flexibly within the building envelope of a street, and many city streets were created in a different era and need to be reconfigured to meet new needs. Elaborating on these fundamental principles, the guide offers substantive direction for cities seeking to improve street design to create more inclusive, multi-modal urban environments. It is an exceptional resource for redesigning streets to serve the needs of 21st century cities, whose residents and visitors demand a variety of transportation options, safer streets, and vibrant community life.

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