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Explorations in Urban Design

Author : Matthew Carmona
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317137523
Total Pages : 857 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Explorations in Urban Design written by Matthew Carmona and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances an interdisciplinary and innovative approach, which is of direct importance to understanding the urban forms, conditions, practices and processes. It enthuses and inspires users who are grappling with urban design research problems, but who need inspiration to move from idea to methodological approach. Through the work of 32 urban researchers from the arts, sciences and social sciences, it demonstrates a wide range of problems and approaches and shows how the diverse range of complementary approaches can come together to provide a holistic understanding to the design of cities. While each of the contributors presents a particular approach to researching the field, sometimes focusing centrally on particular research methodologies, others cutting across methods, or focusing on theory, all include discussion of actual research projects to illustrate their application to 'real world' problems. This book will be valuable to everyone from the informed undergraduate student about to embark on their first dissertation, to PhD students and seasoned researchers immersed in methodological and conceptual complexity and wishing to compare available and appropriate methodological paths.

New Towns

Author : Katy Lock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000033279
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Towns written by Katy Lock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often misunderstood, the New Towns story is a fascinating one of anarchists, artists, visionaries, and the promise of a new beginning for millions of people. New Towns: The Rise Fall and Rebirth offers a new perspective on the New Towns Record and uses case-studies to address the myths and realities of the programme. It provides valuable lessons for the growth and renewal of the existing New Towns and post-war housing estates and town centres, including recommendations for practitioners, politicians and communities interested in the renewal of existing New Towns and the creation of new communities for the 21st century.

Urban Transformations and the Architecture of Additions

Author : Rodrigo Perez de Arce
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317621212
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Urban Transformations and the Architecture of Additions written by Rodrigo Perez de Arce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodrigo Perez de Arce's essay Urban Transformations and Architectural Additions was published during the formative stages of Post Modernism, at the point where theory was becoming seriously established. Jencks' first essays formalising the term Post Modernism in architecture and the revised Learning from Las Vegas were published the previous year. In planning terms, modernism had become associated with comprehensive redevelopment and forms of urban organisation that ignored context, history and any sense of tradition. De Arce considered the essential nature of buildings and the richness of historic urban form and explored how robust that essence was over time. He looked at the value of essential remnants and rich complexities in maintaining a sense of continuity and relevance. Having explored the adaptation process in history, de Arce went on to see how such a process might be simulated in contemporary cities with modern buildings, using additions and layers to change them from objects in infinite windswept space to being part of a rich urban fabric which described urban place. To do this he used concrete examples; housing schemes by James Stirling, new government centres in Chandigrah and Dacca and more prosaic 60's housing blocks. The paper had a fundamental influence on the way that architects and planners thought about the nature of cities: as dynamic organisms that were tangible to human beings, completely opposite to the systems thinking of the time. It contributed to ideas about the importance of street, place and city block which influenced so much recent regeneration practice. As we enter a phase of development where the reuse and adaptation of existing buildings is becoming paramount from both an economic and sustainable point of view, Perez de Arce's paper gives important insights into how to think about the process positively.

New Towns for the Twenty-First Century

Author : Richard Peiser
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812251911
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book New Towns for the Twenty-First Century written by Richard Peiser and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New towns—large, comprehensively planned developments on newly urbanized land—boast a mix of spaces that, in their ideal form, provide opportunities for all of the activities of daily life. From garden cities to science cities, new capitals to large military facilities, hundreds were built in the twentieth century and their approaches to planning and development were influential far beyond the new towns themselves. Although new towns are notoriously difficult to execute and their popularity has waxed and waned, major new town initiatives are increasing around the globe, notably in East Asia, South Asia, and Africa. New Towns for the Twenty-First Century considers the ideals behind new-town development, the practice of building them, and their outcomes. A roster of international and interdisciplinary contributors examines their design, planning, finances, management, governance, quality of life, and sustainability. Case studies provide histories of new towns in the United States, Asia, Africa, and Europe and impart lessons learned from practitioners. The volume identifies opportunities afforded by new towns for confronting future challenges related to climate change, urban population growth, affordable housing, economic development, and quality of life. Featuring inventories of classic new towns, twentieth-century new towns with populations over 30,000, and twenty-first-century new towns, the volume is a valuable resource for governments, policy makers, and real estate developers as well as planners, designers, and educators. Contributors: Sandy Apgar, Sai Balakrishnan, JaapJan Berg, Paul Buckhurst, Felipe Correa, Carl Duke, Reid Ewing, Ann Forsyth, Robert Freestone, Shikyo Fu, Pascaline Gaborit, Elie Gamburg, Alexander Garvin, David R. Godschalk, Tony Green, ChengHe Guan, Rachel Keeton, Steven Kellenberg, Kyung-Min Kim, Gene Kohn, Todd Mansfield, Robert W. Marans, Robert Nelson, Pike Oliver, Richard Peiser, Michelle Provoost, Peter G. Rowe, Jongpil Ryu, Andrew Stokols, Adam Tanaka, Jamie von Klemperer, Fulong Wu, Ying Xu, Anthony Gar-On Yeh, Chaobin Zhou.

Britain's New Towns

Author : Anthony Alexander
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415475120
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Britain's New Towns written by Anthony Alexander and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Towns Programme of 1946 to 1970 represents one of the most substantial periods of urban development in Britain. This text covers the story of how these towns came to be built, how they aged, and the challenges and opportunities they now face as they begin phases of renewal.

Britain's New Towns

Author : Anthony Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134025513
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Britain's New Towns written by Anthony Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Towns Programme of 1946 to 1970 was one of the most substantial periods of urban development in Britain. The New Towns have often been described as a social experiment; so what has this experiment proved? This book covers the story of how these towns came to be built, how they aged, and the challenges and opportunities they now face as they begin phases of renewal. The new approaches in design throughout their past development reflect changes in society throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. These changes are now at the heart of the challenge of sustainable development. The New Towns provide lessons for social, economic and environmental sustainability. These lessons are of great relevance for the regeneration of twentieth century urbanism and the creation of new urban developments today.

Lessons from the British and French New Towns

Author : David Fée
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 183909432X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Lessons from the British and French New Towns written by David Fée and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the evolution of New Towns in France and the UK in a number of areas (governance, planning and heritage) and assess whether their legacy can inspire current planned settlements.

Architecture and the Housing Question

Author : Can Bilsel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351182951
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and the Housing Question written by Can Bilsel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture and the Housing Question examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing political projects and to the architecture profession. How have architects acting as housing experts helped alleviate or enforce class, race, and gender inequality? What are the disciplinary implications of taking on shelter for the multitude as an architectural assignment and responsibility? The book features essays in the historiography of architecture and the housing question, and a collection of historical case studies from Belgium, China, France, Ghana, the Netherlands, Kenya, the Soviet Union, Turkey, and the United States. The thematic organization of the collection, interrogating housing expertise, the state apparatus, segregation and colonialism, highlights the methodological questions that underpin its international outlook. The book will appeal to students and scholars in architecture, architectural history, theory, and urban studies.

Building a New Town: Finland's New Garden City, Tapiola

Author : Heikki von Hertzen
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Building a New Town: Finland's New Garden City, Tapiola written by Heikki von Hertzen and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1973 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A case study of the creation of a recent new town.

Boom Cities

Author : Otto Saumarez Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192573470
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Boom Cities written by Otto Saumarez Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boom Cities is the first published history of the profound transformations of British city centres in the 1960s. It has often been said that urban planners did more damage to Britain's cities than even the Luftwaffe had managed, and this study details the rise and fall of modernist urban planning, revealing its origins and the dissolution of the cross-party consensus, before the ideological smearing that has ever since characterized the high-rise towers, dizzying ring roads, and concrete precincts that were left behind. The rebuilding of British city centres during the 1960s drastically affected the built form of urban Britain, including places ranging from traditional cathedral cities through to the decaying towns of the industrial revolution. Boom Cities uncovers both the planning philosophy, and the political, cultural, and legislative background that created the conditions for these processes to occur across the country. Boom Cities reveals the role of architect-planners in these transformations. The volume also provides an unconventional account of the end of modernist approaches to the built environment, showing it from the perspective of planning and policy elites, rather than through the emergence of public opposition to planning.

Urban Planning Theory Since 1945

Author : Nigel Taylor
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761960935
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Urban Planning Theory Since 1945 written by Nigel Taylor and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-12-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylor describes the development of urban planning ideas since the end of the Second World War, outlining the main theories from the traditional view of planning as an exercise in physical design to recent views of planning as 'communicative action'.

Working Cities

Author : Howard Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429827938
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Working Cities written by Howard Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities have historically supported production, commerce, and consumption, all central to urban life. But in the contemporary Western city, production has been hidden or removed, and commerce and consumption have dominated. This book is about the importance of production in the life of the city, and the relationships between production, architecture, and urban form. It answers the question: What will cities be like when they become, once again, places of production and not only of consumption? Through theoretical arguments, historical analysis, and descriptions of new initiatives, Working Cities: Architecture, Place and Production argues that contemporary cities can regain their historic role as places of material production—places where food is processed and things are made. The book looks toward a future that builds on this revival, providing architectural and urban examples and current strategies within the framework of a strong set of historically-based arguments. The book is illustrated in full colour with archival and contemporary photographs, maps, and diagrams especially developed for the book. The diagrams help illustrate the different variables of architectural space, urban location, and production in different historical eras and in different kinds of industries, providing a compelling visual understanding for the reader.

Lessons from British and French New Towns

Author : David Fée
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839094303
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Lessons from British and French New Towns written by David Fée and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the evolution of New Towns in France and the UK in a number of areas (governance, planning and heritage) and assess whether their legacy can inspire current planned settlements.

Everyday Soviet Utopias

Author : Anna Alekseyeva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351019767
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Soviet Utopias written by Anna Alekseyeva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how intellectuals of the later Soviet decades – the 1970s and 1980s – sought to bring about the socialist utopian world. It argues that the last two decades of the Soviet Union were not characterised by state withdrawal and malaise, as some scholars have argued; attempts to envisage and enact Utopia remained as imaginative and creative as ever. The book considers what these utopian ideas looked like through housing schemes, layouts of districts and cities, design of objects and interiors, and proposals for the organisation of family and social life. Relating developments in the Soviet Union to evolving social theory and postmodernism more broadly, the book draws transnational parallels between the intellectual history of east and west in the late twentieth century.

By Design

Author : Great Britain. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Publisher : Thomas Telford
ISBN 13 : 9780727729378
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book By Design written by Great Britain. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide is intended as a companion to Planning Policy Guidance (PPGs) [and subsequent Planning Policy Statements (PPSs)] and aims to encourage better design and to stimulate thinking about urban design. The guide is relevant to all aspects of the built environment, from the design of buildings and spaces, landscapes, to transport systems; and for planning and development at every scale, from streets and their neighbourhoods, villages and cities, to regional planning strategies.

Practicing Utopia

Author : Rosemary Wakeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634603X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Practicing Utopia written by Rosemary Wakeman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosemary Wakeman provides a sweeping history of "new towns"--those created by fiat rather than out of geographic or economic logic and often intended to break with the tendencies of past development. Heralded throughout the twentieth century as solutions to congestion, environmental threats, architectural malaise, and cultural anomie, today they are often seen as sad, pernicious, or merely suburban. Wakeman shows that hundreds of such towns sprang from templates and designs not only in North America and across Europe but around the world, revealing how different cultures dreamed of (re)organizing themselves. Wakeman also illuminates the missteps and unanticipated results of the initial optimistic choices and impulses.

Architecture and the Urban Environment

Author : Derek Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136428674
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and the Urban Environment written by Derek Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well illustrated text forms a critical appraisal of the place and direction of architecture and urban design in a new world order at the start of the 21st century. The book defines architectural and environmental goals for the New Age by analysing recent contemporary work for its responsiveness to important social and environmental issues and comparing it to successful precedents in architecture. It argues that this new sustainable approach to architecture should be recognised as a new development of mainstream architectural history. This practical guide illustrates current social and natural resource issues to aid architects in their approach to future design. Environmental economics is presented as a potential bridge over the divide between the expectations of the business sector and the concerns of environmental lobbies. Through examples and case studies, an accessible analysis of carefully researched data, drawn from primary sources over four continents, allows the author to outline the current urgency for architects and urban designers to respond with real commitment to current and future changing contexts. This book expresses a holistic vision and proposes a value system in response to the diagnosis. It includes: sound architectural and environmental ethics; end user involvement in the design process and technological advances aimed at sustainable resource use. Includes international case studies from Europe, North America, the Developing world including South Africa, South America and Central Asia.