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Urban Design in the 20th Century

Author : Tom Avermaete
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783856764180
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Urban Design in the 20th Century written by Tom Avermaete and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of urban design in the 20th century. Our time is an urban age. More people live in cities than ever before, cities are growing larger and denser than ever, and urbanity has reached unprecedented levels of complexity. This boom in urbanization began in earnest around the turn of the twentieth century when technological advancement and the extraction of seemingly endless supplies of natural resources propelled urban development. As urban populations steadily increased, architects and planners were not only faced with designing housing and public space but also with responding to emerging societal challenges such as political tensions, reconstruction, decolonization, economic crises, growing climatic concerns, and cultural shifts. Through the analysis of more than one hundred richly illustrated urban design projects and initiatives, this book provides a comprehensive history of how these challenges have fomented new attitudes and approaches in the discipline of urban design.

Urbanity and Density

Author : Wolfgang Sonne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783869224916
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book Urbanity and Density written by Wolfgang Sonne and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the writing of urban design history of the twentieth century, functionalist and avant-garde models of the dissolution of the city are dominating. In contrast this book presents projects whose goal is the ideal of a dense and urbane city. Drawing on plans, built examples and theories of dense and urban cities and city districts in the twentieth century, modern examples of urban design are analyzed and highlighted, which until now have been evaluated more as fringe phenomena. These include examples characterized by functional mixture, social openness, spatially defined public spaces, urbanarchitecture, historical reference and a cultural understanding of the city. The book's new evaluation of modern urbandesign history creates opportunities for current planning by offering bestpractice models, which better reflect the striving for urbanity and density.

Urban Design & Architecture

Author : Hendrik Neubauer
Publisher : H F Ullmann
ISBN 13 : 9783833153181
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Urban Design & Architecture written by Hendrik Neubauer and published by H F Ullmann. This book was released on 2010 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Design & Architecture is a richly illustrated journey in the architectural events of the 20th century. At the same time, it offers an exciting documentation of the interrelation of people, time, and architecture.

Planning the Twentieth-century American City

Author : Mary Corbin Sies
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801851643
Total Pages : 1226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Planning the Twentieth-century American City by : Mary Corbin Sies

Download or read book Planning the Twentieth-century American City written by Mary Corbin Sies and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that planning in practice is far more complicated than historians usually depict, the authors examine closely the everyday social, political, economic, ideological, bureaucratic, and environmental contexts in which planning has occurred. In so doing, they redefine the nature of planning practice, expanding the range of actors and actions that we understand to have shaped urban development.

Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century

Author : Hilary French
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393732467
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (324 download)

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Book Synopsis Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century by : Hilary French

Download or read book Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century written by Hilary French and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of housing designs built over the last hundred years, illustrating innovative approaches. Fourth in the Key series, with newly drawn plans suitable for study in architecture schools, this volume will appeal to students of urban design and planning as well as architecture. Key developments covered include early apartment blocks, the projects of European modernism, high-rise and large-scale schemes, and postmodernism. Exterior and interior photographs show materials, massing, and context. 150 color photographs, 500 line drawings.

Urban Planning in a Changing World

Author : Robert Freestone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0419246509
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Urban Planning in a Changing World written by Robert Freestone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban planning in today's world is inextricably linked to the processes of mass urbanization and modernization which have transformed our lives over the last hundred years. Written by leading experts and commentators from around the world, this collection of original essays will form an unprecedented critical survey of the state of urban planning at the end of the millennium.

Greening the City

Author : Dorothee Brantz
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 081393138X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Greening the City written by Dorothee Brantz and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern city is not only pavement and concrete. Parks, gardens, trees, and other plants are an integral part of the urban environment. Often the focal points of social movements and political interests, green spaces represent far more than simply an effort to balance the man-made with the natural. A city’s history with—and approach to—its parks and gardens reveals much about its workings and the forces acting upon it. Our green spaces offer a unique and valuable window on the history of city life. The essays in Greening the City span over a century of urban history, moving from fin-de-siècle Sofia to green efforts in urban Seattle. The authors present a wide array of cases that speak to global concerns through the local and specific, with topics that include green-space planning in Barcelona and Mexico City, the distinction between public and private nature in Los Angeles, the ecological diversity of West Berlin, and the historical and cultural significance of hybrid spaces designed for sports. The essays collected here will make us think differently about how we study cities, as well as how we live in them. Contributors: Dorothee Brantz, Technische Universität Berlin * Peter Clark, University of Helsinki * Lawrence Culver, Utah State University * Konstanze Sylva Domhardt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich * Sonja Dümpelmann, University of Maryland * Zachary J. S. Falck, Independent Scholar* Stefanie Hennecke, Technical University Munich * Sonia Hirt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * Salla Jokela, University of Helsinki * Jens Lachmund, Maastricht University * Gary McDonogh, Bryn Mawr College * Jarmo Saarikivi, University of Helsinki * Jeffrey Craig Sanders, Washington State University

The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design

Author : Jon Lang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000206238
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design written by Jon Lang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years. The ideas and projects, hypothetical and built, range in scale from the city to the urban block level. The focus is on where the generic ideas originated, the projects that were designed following their precepts, the functions they address and/or afford, and what we can learn from them. The morphology of a city—its built environment—evolves unselfconsciously as private and governmental investors self-consciously erect buildings and infrastructure in a pragmatic, piecemeal manner to meet their own ends. Philosophers, novelists, architects, and social scientists have produced myriad ideas about the nature of the built environment that they consider to be superior to those forms resulting from a laissez-faire attitude to urban development. Rationalist theorists dream of ideal futures based on assumptions about what is good; empiricists draw inspirations from what they perceive to be working well in existing situations. Both groups have presented their advocacies in manifestoes and often in the form of generic solutions or illustrative designs. This book traces the history of these ideas and will become a standard reference for scholars and students interested in the history of urban spaces, including architects, planners, urban historians, urban geographers, and urban morphologists.

American Urbanist

Author : Richard K. Rein
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831700
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book American Urbanist written by Richard K. Rein and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William H. Whyte's curiosity compelled him to question the status quo--whether helping to make Fortune Magazine essential reading for business leaders, warning of "groupthink" in his bestseller The Organization Man, or standing up for Jane Jacobs as she advocated for the vitality of city life and public space. This compelling biography sheds light on Whyte's bold way of thinking, ripe for rediscovery at a time when we are reshaping our communities into places of opportunity and empowerment for all citizens" -- Backcover.

Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities

Author : David Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134463367
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities written by David Gordon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of capital cities worldwide – in 1900 there were only about forty, but by 2000 there were more than two hundred. And this, surely, is reason enough for a book devoted to the planning and development of capital cities in the twentieth century. However, the focus here is not only on recently created capitals. Indeed, the case studies which make up the core of the book show that, while very different, the development of London or Rome presents as great a challenge to planners and politicians as the design and building of Brasília or Chandigarh. Put simply, this book sets out to explore what makes capital cities different from other cities, why their planning is unique, and why there is such variety from one city to another. Sir Peter Hall’s ‘Seven Types of Capital City’ and Lawrence Vale’s ‘The Urban Design of Twentieth Century Capital Cities’ provide the setting for the fifteen case studies which follow – Paris, Moscow and St Petersburg, Helsinki, London, Tokyo, Washington, Canberra, Ottawa-Hull, Brasília, New Delhi, Berlin, Rome, Chandigarh, Brussels, New York. To bring the book to a close Peter Hall looks to the future of capital cities in the twenty-first century. For anyone with an interest in urban planning and design, architectural, planning and urban history, urban geography, or simply capital cities and why they are what they are, Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities will be the key source book for a long time to come.

Urban Design & Architecture

Author : Kunibert Wachten
Publisher : Hf Ullmann
ISBN 13 : 9780841672253
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Urban Design & Architecture written by Kunibert Wachten and published by Hf Ullmann. This book was released on 2010 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much more than just a façade…certain cities are just magical. They are artificial worlds that have grown like organic entities over centuries. Here futuristic experimental buildings contrast with historical monuments, and spectacular pomp is found alongside minimalist elegance. Our major cities are condensed cultural histories that provide evidence of the changing rhythms of life both past and present day. Urban Design & Architecture is a richly illustrated journey in the architectural events of the 20th century. At the same time, it offers and exciting documentation of the interrelation or people, time, and architecture.

The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe

Author : Steven Hurtt
Publisher : ORO Applied Research + Design
ISBN 13 : 9781940743516
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe written by Steven Hurtt and published by ORO Applied Research + Design. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe describes the ideas developed and described primarily by Colin Rowe, professor of architecture and head of the Urban Design Studio at Cornell, and additionally by his students, his co-authors, and colleagues throughout the course of the last half of his highly influential career spanning the years 1963 till his death in 1999. From the simplest of techniques regularly used in present day planning, urban design, and architectural analysis and design work to the philosophical and aesthetic ideas related to them, these techniques and ideas inform much of current discussion about the appropriate forms of human settlement, sustainability, and even architectural style. Colin Rowe is acknowledged to be the most influential figure in architectural theory in the last half of the 20th century. Although his contribution to the discipline and practice of urban design is equally important, there is no single text which specifically focuses on his work in this sphere. This book intends to address this omission by critically examining Rowe's urban design theory and its evolution, which began at the Cornell University Urban Design program in 1963 and continued until his death in 1999. The text features a score of previously unpublished essays by prominent scholars, educators and practitioners, many of whom were his students or close collaborators. The Urban Design Legacy of Colin Rowe provides a window to explore past, present and future themes central to the discipline of urban design as seen through the critical lens of Colin Rowe and those who continue to define their creative work in relationship to that extraordinary intellect.

Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States

Author : Udo Kultermann
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States written by Udo Kultermann and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coupling case studies with over 100 never before-seen illustrations, this volume chronicles modern architectural developments in the nations of Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, and Sudan. All types of buildings are discussed - from government offices and public spaces, to houses of education and religion. The featured examples include designs for both commercial and private client."--BOOK JACKET.

Invented Edens

Author : Robert H. Kargon
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262293935
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Invented Edens written by Robert H. Kargon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-07-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the design of “techno-cities” that blend the technological and the pastoral. Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky, dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century, urban visionaries were looking for ways to improve both living and working conditions in industrial cities. In Invented Edens, Robert Kargon and Arthur Molella trace the arc of one form of urban design, which they term the techno-city: a planned city developed in conjunction with large industrial or technological enterprises, blending the technological and the pastoral, the mill town and the garden city. Techno-cities of the twentieth century range from factory towns in Mussolini's Italy to the Disney creation of Celebration, Florida. Kargon and Molella show that the techno-city represents an experiment in integrating modern technology into the world of ideal life. Techno-cities mirror society's understanding of current technologies, and at the same time seek to regain the lost virtues of the edenic pre-industrial village. The idea of the techno-city transcended ideologies, crossed national borders, and spanned the entire twentieth century. Kargon and Molella map the concept through a series of exemplars. These include Norris, Tennessee, home to the Tennessee Valley Authority; Torviscosa, Italy, built by Italy's Fascist government to accommodate synthetic textile manufacturing (and featured in an early short by Michelangelo Antonioni); Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, planned by a team from MIT and Harvard; and, finally, Disney's Celebration—perhaps the ultimate techno-city, a fantasy city reflecting an era in which virtual experiences are rapidly replacing actual ones.

20th Century Urban Design in the Netherlands

Author : Hans Ibelings
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book 20th Century Urban Design in the Netherlands written by Hans Ibelings and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Hans Ibelings.

Urban Design Ecologies

Author : Brian McGrath
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470974052
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Urban Design Ecologies written by Brian McGrath and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Urban Design Ecologies Reader stellt Architekten und Stadtplanern wichtige Tools zum besseren Verständnis heutiger städtebaulicher Maßnahmen bereit. Essays führender Experten spannen den Bogen zwischen historischen Entwicklungen und innovativen Ansätzen zur Bewältigung der globalen Herausforderungen rasanter Urbanisierungsprozesse und des Klimawandels. Die neuesten Ansätze in den Bereichen Stadtentwicklung, darunter Kernkonzepte wie Stadtarchitektur, Architektur großer Metropolen (Stichwort "Großarchitektur"), Wucherung der Städte, Megastädte (oder die informelle Stadt) und Metastädte, die von digitalen Technologien und dem Ökologiegedanken getragen werden, werden im Detail erörtert.

The Evolution of American Urban Design

Author : David Gosling
Publisher : Academy Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of American Urban Design written by David Gosling and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first time an overview of the theories and practice of urban design has been offered. Covering a 50-year span, the book seeks to identify built urban design projects and traces the evolution and separation of American urban design theories up to the end of the twentieth century. It includes contemporary designs, projects, and writings in an attempt to identify future directions of the next century.