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City on a Grid

Author : Gerard Koeppel
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306822857
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book City on a Grid written by Gerard Koeppel and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 New York City Book Award The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. This is its story. Praise for City on a Grid "The best account to date of the process by which an odd amalgamation of democracy and capitalism got written into New York's physical DNA."--New York Times Book Review "Intriguing...breezy and highly readable."--Wall Street Journal "City on a Grid tells the too little-known tale of how and why Manhattan came to be the waffle-board city we know."--The New Yorker "[An] expert investigation into what made the city special."--Publishers Weekly "A fun, fascinating, and accessible read for those curious enough to delve into the origins of an amazing city."--New York Journal of Books "Koeppel is the very best sort of writer for this sort of history."--Roanoke Times

The Greatest Grid

Author : Hilary Ballon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231159906
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Grid written by Hilary Ballon and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrating the bicentennial of the 1811 Commissioners' Plan of Manhattan, this volume does more than memorialize such a visionary effort, it serves as an enduring reference full of rare images and information."--P. [4] of cover.

Urban Grids

Author : Joan Busquets
Publisher : Oro Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781940743950
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Urban Grids written by Joan Busquets and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design' is the result of a five-year design research project undertaken by professor Joan Busquets and Dingliang Yang at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The research that is the foundation for this publication emphasizes the value of open forms for city design, a publication that specifically insists that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly and productively. 'Urban Grids' analyzes cities and urban projects that utilize the grid as the main structural device for allowing rational development, and goes further to propose speculative design projects capable of suggesting new urban paradigms drawn from the grid as a design tool. Consisting of six major parts, it is divided into the following topics: 1) the atlas of grid cities, 2) grid projects through history, 3) the 20th-century dilemma, 4) the atlas of contemporary grid projects, 5) projective tools for the future, and 6) goodgrid city as an open form coping with new urban issues.

On the Grid

Author : Scott Huler
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 1605296473
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book On the Grid written by Scott Huler and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the systems of infrastructure that sustain the world and the cultures of historical periods, following various elements, from electricity and pavement to water and waste disposal, back to their origins and people who operate them.

Remaking the City Street Grid

Author : Fanis Grammenos
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476617686
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Remaking the City Street Grid written by Fanis Grammenos and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the elements of a neighborhood, the pattern of streets and their infrastructure is the most enduring. Given the 20th century’s additions to the range of transportation means—trains, subways, buses, trucks, bicycles, motorbikes and cars—all vying for space and effectiveness, a fresh look at the streets is warranted. This book contributes a new system of neighborhood design with a focus on contemporary planning priorities. Drawing lessons from historic and current development, it proposes a new pattern more fitting for modern culture, addressing such issues as walkability, mobility, health, safety, security, cost and greenhouse gas emissions. Case studies of national and international neighborhoods and districts based on the new network model demonstrate its application in real-world situations. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Grid/ Street/ Place

Author : Nathan Cherry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351177966
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Grid/ Street/ Place written by Nathan Cherry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's urban resident is seeking a more flexible, sustainable environment-representing a unique, diverse, vibrant, and responsible way of living-as an alternative to the typical development patterns of suburban and semi-urban sprawl. Can urban design help create this type of sustainable urbanism? Grid Street Place presents a unique approach to understanding urban design through scientific, empirical research. The authors examined more than 100 successful projects throughout North America to identify differences and commonalities, and they discovered universal elements that characterize sustainable urban districts. By applying these essential elements, designers and developers can recreate and extend the experience of successful places to their communities. Myriad plans, sections, diagrams, and charts illustrate how each district work-at an extremely detailed level. Concrete examples, as opposed to generalities, make Grid Street Place a must-read for anyone interested in the working strategies of urban design.

Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid

Author : Andres Luque-Ayala
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317143566
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid written by Andres Luque-Ayala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a global overview of experiments around the transformation of cities' electricity networks and the social struggles associated with this change, this book explores the centrality of electricity infrastructures in the urban configuration of social control, segregation, integration, resource access and poverty alleviation. Through multiple accounts from a range of global cities, this edited collection establishes an agenda that recognises the uneven, and often historical, geographies of urban electricity networks, prompting attempts to re-wire the infrastructure configurations of cities and predicating protest and resistance from residents and social movements alike. Through a robust theoretical engagement with established work around the politics of urban infrastructures, the book frames the transformation of electricity systems in the context of power and resistance across urban life, drawing links between environmental and social forms of sustainability. Such an agenda can provide both insight and inspiration in seeking to build fairer and more sustainable urban futures that bring electricity infrastructures to the fore of academic and policy attention.

The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor

Author : Marguerite Holloway
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393071251
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor written by Marguerite Holloway and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of an unrecognized, 19th-century genius, the man who plotted Manhattan's famous city grid.

Grid Systems

Author : Kimberly Elam
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616893478
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Grid Systems written by Kimberly Elam and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although grid systems are the foundation for almost all typographic design, they are often associated with rigid, formulaic solutions. However, the belief that all great design is nonetheless based on grid systems (even if only subverted ones) suggests that few designers truly understand the complexities and potential riches of grid composition.

Bond of Union

Author : Gerard Koeppel
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786745444
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Bond of Union written by Gerard Koeppel and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal and the memorable characters who turned a visionary plan into a successful venture. Koeppel's long years of research fill the pages with new findings about the construction of the canal and its enormous impact, providing a unique perspective on America's self perception as an empire destined to expand to the Pacific.

The Grid and the River

Author : Elizabeth Milroy
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271066769
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book The Grid and the River written by Elizabeth Milroy and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays examining how patterns of use and attitudes to green spaces within Penn's city plan and along the Schuylkill informed notions of place from the time of Philadelphia's founding to the formation of the modern Fairmount Park system in the mid-19th century"--Provided by publisher.

Snap to Grid

Author : Peter Lunenfeld
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262621588
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Snap to Grid written by Peter Lunenfeld and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant guide to the artistic, cultural, and social faces of the new media.

Arbitrary Lines

Author : M. Nolan Gray
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642832545
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Arbitrary Lines written by M. Nolan Gray and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary--if not sufficient--condition for building more affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities. Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common misconceptions about how American cities regulate growth and examining four contemporary critiques of zoning (its role in increasing housing costs, restricting growth in our most productive cities, institutionalizing racial and economic segregation, and mandating sprawl). He sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city. Arbitrary Lines is an invitation to rethink the rules that will continue to shape American life--where we may live or work, who we may encounter, how we may travel. If the task seems daunting, the good news is that we have nowhere to go but up

Buskers

Author : Heth Weinstein
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 159376412X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Buskers written by Heth Weinstein and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frustrated by the indifference of the music industry and the stacks of homemade CDs gathering dust in their closets, brothers Heth and Jed Weinstein made the radical decision to bring their music directly to the masses. They began playing on street corners, in subway stations, and wherever else they could connect with a live audience. To their surprise, far from this being the terminal stop of a dead-end career, busking turned out to be just the beginning as crowds of stressed-out commuters gathered around, cheering them on, subscribing to their mailing lists, and actually buying some of those stockpiled CDs—40,000 and counting. In Buskers, Heth and Jed recount their turbulent, drug- and crime-filled adolescence in the nowhere-land of Livingston, New Jersey, their valiant attempts to achieve rock ’n’ roll success through traditional channels, and their unexpected path to circumventing the outmoded music industry. They divulge fascinating details about the technical and legal aspects of street performance, New York busking culture, and the lives of their fellow troubadours. A world of possibilities opens up when the brothers take it to the streets, proving the value of their music to themselves and anyone who’ll listen. Read their story, and your commute will never be the same.

The Grid

Author : Phillip F. Schewe
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030910260X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Grid written by Phillip F. Schewe and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The electrical grid goes everywhere-it's the largest and most complex machine ever made. Yet the system is built in such a way that the bigger it gets, the more inevitable its collapse. Named the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century by the National Academy of Engineering, the electrical grid is the largest industrial investment in the history of humankind. It reaches into your home, snakes its way to your bedroom, and climbs right up into the lamp next to your pillow. At times, it almost seems alive, like some enormous circulatory system that pumps life to big cities and the most remote rural areas. Constructed of intricately interdependent components, the grid operates on a rapidly shrinking margin for error. Things can-and do-go wrong in this system, no matter how many preventive steps we take. Just look at the colossal 2003 blackout, when 50 million Americans lost power due to a simple error at a power plant in Ohio; or the one a month later, which blacked out 57 million Italians. And these two combined don't even compare to the 2001 outage in India, which affected 226 million people. The Grid is the first history of the electrical grid intended for general readers, and it comes at a time when we badly need such a guide. As we get more and more dependent on electricity to perform even the most mundane daily tasks, the grid's inevitable shortcomings will take a toll on populations around the globe. At a moment when energy issues loom large on the nation's agenda and our hunger for electricity grows, The Grid is as timely as it is compelling.

Grid meets the hills

Author : Florence Lipsky
Publisher : Editions Parenthèses
ISBN 13 : 9782863640777
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Grid meets the hills written by Florence Lipsky and published by Editions Parenthèses. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A San Francisco, on alterne les montées et les descentes pour finalement buter contre un mur qui barre la rue. Là il faut abandonner la machine pour retrouver le pas. Seuls des escaliers permettent de suivre la pente et raccorder deux tronçons de la même rue. Tout au long de ce trajet on enchaîne une vue de la rue montant vers le ciel dans un cadre de tours d'appartements, un panoramique de la ville dans son site, une descente vertigineuse entre des maisons en bois, une autre montée vers le ciel encadrée de maisonnettes décorées, puis un plan rapproché de jardins exubérants sur lesquels s'ouvrent des entrées privées avant de fi sur une vue saisissante de la baie et de l'Oakland Bay Bridge. A chaque sommet, la baie apparaît et souligne les limites du territoire. De colline en colline la cité se regarde dans un incessant jeu de miroir. Dans un paysage grandiose où ponts et autoroutes marient la mer et la terre et où chaque colline est un quartier, Nature et Architecture s'entremêlent pour composer une ville tour à tour triomphante, modeste et familière. Comme la plupart des villes américaines, San Francisco s'est développée suivant un système de grille orthogonale. Son site présentait pourtant une topographie mouvementée ne comptant pas moins de quarante-deux collines. La grille habituellement utilisée en terrain plat rencontre ici une nature rebelle et insoumise. Il en résulte un phénomène peu commun : les rues rectilignes jouent aux montagnes russes car ici l'outil du colonisateur et les reliefs sont entrés en guerre au mépris d'une rationalité évidente. Pourquoi la ville ne s'est-elle pas adaptée à son site comme le laissait prévoir le bon sens usuel ?

The Grid Book

Author : Hannah B Higgins
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262512408
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Grid Book written by Hannah B Higgins and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten grids that changed the world: the emergence and evolution of the most prominent visual structure in Western culture. Emblematic of modernity, the grid is the underlying form of everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to paintings by Mondrian and a piece of computer code. And yet, as Hannah Higgins makes clear in this engaging and evocative book, the grid has a history that long predates modernity; it is the most prominent visual structure in Western culture. In The Grid Book, Higgins examines the history of ten grids that changed the world: the brick, the tablet, the gridiron city plan, the map, musical notation, the ledger, the screen, moveable type, the manufactured box, and the net. Charting the evolution of each grid, from the Paleolithic brick of ancient Mesopotamia through the virtual connections of the Internet, Higgins demonstrates that once a grid is invented, it may bend, crumble, or shatter, but its organizing principle never disappears. The appearance of each grid was a watershed event. Brick, tablet, and city gridiron made possible sturdy housing, the standardization of language, and urban development. Maps, musical notation, financial ledgers, and moveable type promoted the organization of space, music, and time, international trade, and mass literacy. The screen of perspective painting heralded the science of the modern period, classical mechanics, and the screen arts, while the standardization of space made possible by the manufactured box suggested the purified box forms of industrial architecture and visual art. The net, the most ancient grid, made its first appearance in Stone Age Finland; today, the loose but clearly articulated networks of the World Wide Web suggest that we are in the middle of an emergent grid that is reshaping the world, as grids do, in its image.