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Author : Randolph T. Hester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934203067
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Community Design Primer written by Randolph T. Hester and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lane H. Kendig
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597269700
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)
Download or read book Community Character written by Lane H. Kendig and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities but accounts for how people who participate in a community live, work, and shop there. The relationships that Lane Kendig defines here reflect the complexity of the interaction of the built environment with its social and economic uses, taking into account the diverse desires of municipalities and citizens. Among the many classifications for a community’s “character” are its relationship to other communities, its size and the resulting social and economic characteristics. According to Kendig, most comprehensive plans and zoning regulations are based entirely on density and land use, neither of which effectively or consistently measures character or quality of development. As Kendig shows, there is a wide range of measures that define character and these vary with the type of character a community desires to create. Taking a much more comprehensive view, this book offers “community character” as a real-world framework for planning for communities of all kinds and sizes. A companion book, A Practical Guide to Planning with Community Character, provides a detailed explanation of applying community character in a comprehensive plan, with chapters on designing urban, sub-urban, and rural character types, using character in comprehensive plans, and strategies for addressing characteristic challenges of planning and zoning in the 21st century.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (977 download)
Download or read book A Primer for Community Design Centers written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Konya
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 148314108X
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Design Primer for Hot Climates written by Allan Konya and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design Primer for Hot Climates offers a discussion of architecture and planning for hot climates. The hot tropical and sub-tropical regions contain most of the world's population and, it is here that the majority of new buildings will be built. For this reason this book concentrates on these regions but serves only as a broad outline of the climatic, environmental, and technological conditions. The book begins with a discussion of climatic elements, climatic zones, and comfort. This is followed by separate chapters on climatic design; regional hazards (e.g., condensation, lightning, storms, earthquakes, etc.) that must be considered during the design stage; and factors such as site accessibility, materials selection, water and labor supply, and building regulations and standards. This book is meant not only for designers from temperate climatic areas but also for those who live in these regions, in the hope that they will be stimulated to re-examine conditions which may have become over-familiar to them.
Author : Susan G. Wheeler
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Visual Design Primer written by Susan G. Wheeler and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For undergraduate courses in Graphic Design Fundamentals and Introduction to Design where students learn the foundations of design before choosing a specific design focus. Filled with step-by-step design development examples, this easy-to-use, "how-to" introductory design book clearly explains the basic building blocks of design--how to stimulate creativity, the process of design (from thumbnails to layouts to comprehensives), and the immediate application of these concepts to specific design projects for print and electronic media. Exceptionally student-friendly in tone and format, it is fully in tune with the needs and concerns of students contemplating an exciting and rewarding career in design--covering material in a simple and accessible manner, and offering a brief history of the field and preparation for entering the profession. Presenting information in a variety of styles, from summary notes to annotated illustrated examples to extended text paragraphs, it serves as a trigger for each topic by laying out the high-points with a wealth of practical design tips and examples that can be supplemented with instructor-assigned projects, demonstrations, examples, and in-class lab activities.
Author : Philip Oldfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317443683
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Sustainable Tall Building written by Philip Oldfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sustainable Tall Building: A Design Primer is an accessible and highly illustrated guide, which primes those involved in the design and research of tall buildings to dramatically improve their performance. Using a mixture of original research and analysis, best-practice design thinking and a detailed look at exemplar case studies, author Philip Oldfield takes the reader through the architectural ideas, engineering strategies and cutting-edge technologies that are available to the tall building design team. The book takes a global perspective, examining high-rise design in different climates, cultures and contexts. It considers common functions such as high-rise housing and offices, to more radical designs such as vertical farming and vertical cemeteries. Innovation is provided by examining not only the environmental performance of tall buildings but also their social sustainability, guiding the reader through strategies to create successful communities at height. The book starts by critically appraising the sustainability of tall building architecture past and present, before demonstrating innovative ways for future tall buildings to be designed. These include themes such as climatically responsive architecture, siting a tall building in the city, zero-carbon towers, skygardens and community spaces at height, sustainable structural systems and novel façades. In doing so, the book provides essential reading for architects, engineers, consultants, developers, researchers and students engaged with sustainable design and high-rise architecture.
Author : Architects Workshop, Philadelphia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Primer for Community Design Centers written by Architects Workshop, Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leon Krier
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610911245
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Architecture of Community written by Leon Krier and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2009-05-08 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Krier is one of the best-known—and most provocative—architects and urban theoreticians in the world. Until now, however, his ideas have circulated mostly among a professional audience of architects, city planners, and academics. In The Architecture of Community, Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book Architecture: Choice or Fate. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. With three new chapters, The Architecture of Community provides a contemporary road map for designing or completing today’s fragmented communities. Illustrated throughout with Krier’s original drawings, The Architecture of Community explains his theories on classical and vernacular urbanism and architecture, while providing practical design guidelines for creating livable towns. The book contains descriptions and images of the author’s built and unbuilt projects, including the Krier House and Tower in Seaside, Florida, as well as the town of Poundbury in England. Commissioned by the Prince of Wales in 1988, Krier’s design for Poundbury in Dorset has become a reference model for ecological planning and building that can meet contemporary needs.
Author : Diana Balmori
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119967023
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Drawing and Reinventing Landscape written by Diana Balmori and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to tackle representation in landscape design Representation is a hot topic in landscape architecture. While computerization has been a catalyst for change across many fields in design, no other design field has experienced such drastic reinvention as has landscape architecture. As the world urbanizes rapidly and our relationship with nature changes, it is vitally important that landscape designers adopt innovative forms of representation—whether digital, analog, or hybrid. In this book, author Diana Balmori explores notions of representation in the discipline at large and across time. She takes readers from landscape design's roots in seventeenth-century France and eighteenth-century England through to modern attempts at representation made by contemporary landscape artists. Addresses a central topic in the discipline of landscape architecture Features historic works and those by leading contemporary practitioners, such as Bernard Lassus, Richard Haag, Stig L Andersson, Lawrence Halprin, and Patricia Johanson Written by a renowned practitioner and educator Features 150 full-color images Drawing and Reinventing Landscape, AD Primer is an informative investigation of beauty in landscape design, offering inspiring creative perspectives for students and professionals.
Author : Randolph T. Hester, Jr.
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262515008
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Design for Ecological Democracy written by Randolph T. Hester, Jr. and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how to combine the forces of ecological science and participatory democracy to design urban landscapes that enable us to act as communities, are resilient rather than imperiled, and touch our hearts. Over the last fifty years, the process of community building has been lost in the process of city building. City and suburban design divides us from others in our communities, destroys natural habitats, and fails to provide a joyful context for our lives. In Design for Ecological Democracy, Randolph Hester proposes a remedy for our urban anomie. He outlines new principles for urban design that will allow us to forge connections with our fellow citizens and our natural environment. He demonstrates these principles with abundantly illustrated examples—drawn from forty years of design and planning practice—showing how we can design cities that are ecologically resilient, that enhance community, and that give us pleasure. Hester argues that it is only by combining the powerful forces of ecology and democracy that the needed revolution in design will take place. Democracy bestows freedom; ecology creates responsible freedom by explaining our interconnectedness with all creatures. Hester's new design principles are founded on three fundamental issues that integrate democracy and ecology: enabling form, resilient form, and impelling form. Urban design must enable us to be communities rather than zoning-segregated enclaves and to function as informed democracies. A simple bench at a centrally located post office, for example, provides an opportunity for connection and shared experience. Cities must be ecologically resilient rather than ecologically imperiled, adaptable to the surrounding ecology rather than dependent on technological fixes. Resilient form turns increased urban density, for example, into an advantage. And cities should impel us by joy rather than compel us by fear; good cities enrich us rather than limit us. Design for Ecological Democracy is essential reading for designers, planners, environmentalists, community activists, and anyone else who wants to improve a local community.
Author : Nino Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Waimea, Facing Future written by Nino Walker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Shea
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781616890476
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Designing For Social Change written by Andrew Shea and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newest title in the design briefs series is a compact, hands-on guide for graphic design professionals who want to start helping communities and effectuating social change in the world. Author Andrew Shea presents ten strategies for successful community engagement, grounding each one in two real world case studies. The twenty projects featured in the book are by both design professionals and students and range from creating a map of services for the homeless community in Santa Monica, helping Chicago's Humboldt Park community by designing a website where donors can buy essential items for community members, to encouraging LA's Latina community to go for an annual PAP exam in an attempt to prevent cervical cancer through carefully designed posters, murals, and other material. Designing for Social Change is both an inspiration and a how-to book that encourages graphic designers everywhere to go out and do good with their work, providing them with the tools to complete successful projects in their communities.
Author : Umut Toker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351177419
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Making Community Design Work written by Umut Toker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the earliest settlements, people have deliberated the issues that affect their future together. Making Community Design Work shows how planners can guide the process toward effective decision making and beneficial community design. This well-crafted book distills decades of community design experience into a sound conceptual framework of value to practicing planners as well as planning students. Umut Toker covers a broad range of planning scales and introduces field-tested tools for participatory decision making at regional, city, community, and site-specific levels. To succeed, any planning project must address both the physical space and its users. From setting goals to evaluating results, Making Community Design Work helps planners navigate the process of creating environments that meet the needs of the people they serve.
Author : Karen Hobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (238 download)
Download or read book The Community Energy Design Primer written by Karen Hobson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ray Eisenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Building Community written by Ray Eisenberg and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Community Building Primer is a publication of Communities Reinvented, a Center of Excellence within the World Bank Group whose mission is to enable teams, units and departments to create and sustain communities of practice in a way that fosters learning, collaboration and innovation across the entire institution and beyond to drive real development impact. The Primer provides concrete steps and tools to help you build a community of practitioners and/or online community. The primer is divided into four sections: community design and building; community management; work book; and resources.
Author : W. Arthur Mehrhoff
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761905979
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Community Design written by W. Arthur Mehrhoff and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-06-10 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Mehrhoff's Community Design represents a unique way of analyzing a community and the steps needed to help design a sustainable community. In this important contribution, Mehrhoff, through his work with the Minnesota Design Team, seeks to "help communities take control of shaping a sustainable future of their own by means of information, insight, and civic dialogue." He urges readers to rethink the shape and shaping of their communities by looking at "community" in a more holistic and multidisciplinary manner. Mehrhoff tackles such topics as defining community, understanding the history of a community, understanding the issues and problems affecting a community, examining the visual aspects of a community, and obtaining citizen opinion throughout the process of becoming a sustainable community. Small communities everywhere can replicate the process discussed in this book. Community Design is well written and thought-provoking and provides a nice blend of theory and practice. This book should be useful to all students, academics, local policy makers, and citizens who are interested in creating a common sustainable vision for their communities.
Author : John Reekie
Publisher : Software Architecture Primer
ISBN 13 : 0646458418
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)
Download or read book A Software Architecture Primer written by John Reekie and published by Software Architecture Primer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present a fresh, pragmatic approach to the study of software architecture. This edition contains a series of chapters that introduce and develop an understanding of software architecture by means of careful explanation and elaboration of a range of key concepts. (Computer Books)
