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Pedestrian Circulation In Suburban Communities A Study Focusing On Planning And Design In Lafayette California
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Book Synopsis Pedestrian Circulation in Suburban Communities, a Study Focusing on Planning and Design in Lafayette, California by : Joan Patch Konrad
Download or read book Pedestrian Circulation in Suburban Communities, a Study Focusing on Planning and Design in Lafayette, California written by Joan Patch Konrad and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stepping in Suburbia by : Jay Thacker
Download or read book Stepping in Suburbia written by Jay Thacker and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with the rest of suburbia, the suburban commercial strip has been criticized for decades for its antagonism towards the pedestrian - toward walking as a way of coming or going somewhere. The buildings along suburban commercial strips are separated by terrain that is unfriendly to the pedestrian. Parking lots, driveways, wide avenues, perimeter fences, and even landscaping prevent pedestrian connectivity and comfort and therefore discourage individuals from walking rather than driving, even for short distances. What can be done to adapt these environments not just to accommodate pedestrian circulation, but to create a desirable pedestrian experience while still efficiently accommodating automobiles? What is being asked for is 'good' pedestrian spaces for suburban commercial districts. The solution to this problem involves pedestrian oriented space, its character, and its features and the composition of those features. Pedestrian spaces have been studied by many authors and architects, from Louis Mumford to Mark Childs. Increasing credence is being given to community design that seeks to restore the notion of walking as a realistic method of going places in the suburbs. What is proposed here is a thesis that draws from those studies a set of principles that will function as a guide for interventions in the suburban commercial strip. When implemented, these principles will result in good pedestrian spaces - spaces that are comfortable, beautiful, and enjoyable. The principles and the research from which they were drawn will be presented in this thesis document. They will then be put to use in a design project focused on the suburban commercial strip toward the end that its visitors will walk a little more, drive a little less, linger and even loiter, and experience a sense of place and of community. This study will be valuable to anyone who is interested in urban design in the suburbs or is concerned with and looking for solutions to the ravages of the automobile on the suburban commercial strip that have rendered it unsightly, uncomfortable, and plain unaccommodating to the pedestrian.
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Book Synopsis Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities by : James M. Daisa
Download or read book Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities written by James M. Daisa and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rideshare Programs by : National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board
Download or read book Rideshare Programs written by National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historic Residential Suburbs by : David L. Ames
Download or read book Historic Residential Suburbs written by David L. Ames and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis EDRA; Proceedings of the Annual Environmental Design Research Association Conference by : Environmental Design Research Association
Download or read book EDRA; Proceedings of the Annual Environmental Design Research Association Conference written by Environmental Design Research Association and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Boulevard Book by : Allan B. Jacobs
Download or read book The Boulevard Book written by Allan B. Jacobs and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the multiway boulevard and an argument for its revival, with design guidelines and historic examples. First built in Europe and grandly imported to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, the classic multiway boulevard has been in decline for many years, victim of a narrowly focused approach to street design that views unencumbered vehicular traffic flow as the highest priority. The American preoccupation with destination and speed has made multiway boulevards increasingly rare as artifacts of the urban landscape. This book reintroduces the boulevard, tree-lined and with separate realms for through traffic and for slow-paced vehicular-pedestrian movement, as an important and often crucial feature of both historic and contemporary cities. It presents more than fifty boulevards—as varied as Avenue Montaigne, in Paris; C. G. Road, in Ahmedabad, India; and The Esplanade, in Chico, California—celebrating their usefulness and beauty. It discusses their history and evolution, the misconceptions that led to their near-demise in the United States, and their potential as a modern street type. Based on wide research, The Boulevard Book examines the safety of these streets and offers design guidelines for professionals, scholars, and community decision makers. Extensive plans, cross sections, and perspective drawings permit visual comparisons. The book shows how multiway boulevards respond to many issues that are central to urban life, including livability, mobility, safety, interest, economic opportunity, mass transit, and open space.
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Book Synopsis Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Second Edition by : National Association of City Transportation Officials
Download or read book Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Second Edition written by National Association of City Transportation Officials and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NACTO's Urban Bikeway Design Guide quickly emerged as the preeminent resource for designing safe, protected bikeways in cities across the United States. It has been completely re-designed with an even more accessible layout. The Guide offers updated graphic profiles for all of its bicycle facilities, a subsection on bicycle boulevard planning and design, and a survey of materials used for green color in bikeways. The Guide continues to build upon the fast-changing state of the practice at the local level. It responds to and accelerates innovative street design and practice around the nation.
Book Synopsis EDRA. by : Environmental Design Research Association
Download or read book EDRA. written by Environmental Design Research Association and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Modern Architecture by : Leonardo Benevolo
Download or read book History of Modern Architecture written by Leonardo Benevolo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A serious and original study of the beginnings and development of modernism in which the pictorial aspects are designed to aid in the communication of the author's closely reasoned formulations. Let it be said at once that the format of this work is richly handsome: it is a two-volume boxed set comprising 844 pages and well over 1,000 high-quality illustrations, and it reflects throughout its publisher's conviction that good design is an essential, not superficial, part of bookmaking. Beyond that, it should be emphasized that this work is not another facile cultural tour of modern architecture. It is a serious and original study of the beginnings and development of modernism in which the pictorial aspects are designed to aid in the communication of the author's closely reasoned formulations, rather than to gloss over a lack of substantive content. The book is a translation of the third Italian edition, published in 1966. Benevolo, who is on the faculty of architecture in Venice, has earned an international reputation as a historian of architecture and town planning, and his publications embrace the span of time from the Renaissance to the foreseeable future. One such publication, The Origins of Modern Town Planning (The MIT Press, 1967), may be read as a prelude to the present work as well as an independent contribution. Perhaps more than any other architectural historian in our time, Benevolo has made a determined effort to place developments in design and planning in their proper social and political settings. Indeed, the author argues that the development of the modern movement in architecture was determined, not by aesthetic formalisms, but largely by the social changes that have occurred since about 1760: "After the middle of the eighteenth century, without the continuity of formal activity being in any way broken, indeed while architectural language seems to be acquiring a particular coherence, the relations between architect and society began to change radically.... New material and spiritual needs, new ideas and modes of procedure arise both within and beyond the traditional limits, and finally they run together to form a new architectural synthesis that is completely different from the old one. In this way it is possible to explain the birth of modern architecture, which otherwise would seem completely incomprehensible...." This second volume is concerned with the modern movement proper, from 1914 to 1966. The author emphasizes the unity of the movement, rejecting the usual treatment that allots to the individual architects separate and unconnected biographical accounts.Benevolo remarks at one point, "When one talks about modern architecture one must bear in mind the fact that it implies not only a new range of forms, but also a new way of thinking, whose consequences have not yet all been calculated." His main concern is to provide a more exact calculation of those consequences.
Book Synopsis Pedestrian- & Transit-oriented Design by : Reid H. Ewing
Download or read book Pedestrian- & Transit-oriented Design written by Reid H. Ewing and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining how to design spaces for pedestrians while also accommodating transit needs, this book is an excellent reference for students, public sector planners and officials, and private sector designers and developers seeking to make places more pedestrian- and transit-friendly. Written by a noted expert on pedestrian design and planning, this handbook contains examples of zoning codes from different localities.
Book Synopsis Geometric Design Practices for European Roads by : James O. Brewer
Download or read book Geometric Design Practices for European Roads written by James O. Brewer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reinventing the Urban Interstate by : Christopher Ferrell
Download or read book Reinventing the Urban Interstate written by Christopher Ferrell and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2011 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 145: Reinventing the Urban Interstate: A New Paradigm for Multimodal Corridors presents strategies for planning, designing, building, and operating multimodal corridors?freeways and high-capacity transit lines running parallel in the same travel corridors.
Book Synopsis Urban Design Reader by : Steve Tiesdell
Download or read book Urban Design Reader written by Steve Tiesdell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-02-07 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the authors of the best selling Public Places Urban Spaces, this indispensable guide includes all the crucial definitions and various understandings of the subject, as well as a practical look at how to implement urban design that readers will need to refer to time and time again. Uniquely, the selections of essays that include the works of Gehl, Jacobs, and Cullen, are presented substantially in their original form, and the truly accessible dip-in-and-out format will enable readers to form a deeper, practical understanding of urban design.
Book Synopsis School Architecture by : John Joseph Donovan
Download or read book School Architecture written by John Joseph Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
