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Urban Design Reclaimed

Author : Emily Talen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781932364637
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Urban Design Reclaimed written by Emily Talen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing a good community entails so much more than architecture. But too often architects lead the discussion on urban design. In her clarion call for real community-based urban design, Emily Talen challenges planners to reengage in urban design to ensure that it supports and promotes diverse, sustainable, vibrant, and equitable communities. This book is a step-by-step guide to observing, analyzing, and designing civic-minded, well -functioning, and pedestrian-oriented places. For planners to connect urban design to social objectives, they need the proper urban design tools, and this book provides them. It is organized as an easy-to-use manual of 10 exercises that rely on three types of software: mapping/spatial analysis (GIS), 3-D modeling (SketchUp), and graphics (Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop). The book includes an extensive list of discussion questions and additional activities to help planners understand and execute urban design. Urban Design Reclaimed is for anyone with an interest in the built environment.

Terra-Sorta-Firma

Author : Fadi Masoud
Publisher : Actar
ISBN 13 : 9781948765381
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Terra-Sorta-Firma written by Fadi Masoud and published by Actar. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world's continuously urbanizing and expanding coastline. For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds; "reclaiming" land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and seabeds. While these artificial coastlines are sites of tremendous real estate, civic, and infrastructural investments, they are also the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Terra-Sorta-Firma documents the global extent of reclaimed coastal lands, and provides a framework for comparison across varying geographies, cultures, and histories. It renders visible the ubiquity and precarity of urban coastal reclamation in an age of increased environmental and economic indeterminacy. It challenges designers, developers, policymakers, engineers, and urbanists to reconsider the design and construction of land itself, and to re-imagine this most fundamental of all infrastructures along a gradient of inundation.

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

Author : Charles Montgomery
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429969539
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by : Charles Montgomery

Download or read book Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design written by Charles Montgomery and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier people Charles Montgomery's Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life. After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks, and tower dwelling an improvement on the car-dependence of sprawl? The award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery finds answers to such questions at the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness, and during an exhilarating journey through some of the world's most dynamic cities. He meets the visionary mayor who introduced a "sexy" lipstick-red bus to ease status anxiety in Bogotá; the architect who brought the lessons of medieval Tuscan hill towns to modern-day New York City; the activist who turned Paris's urban freeways into beaches; and an army of American suburbanites who have transformed their lives by hacking the design of their streets and neighborhoods. Full of rich historical detail and new insights from psychologists and Montgomery's own urban experiments, Happy City is an essential tool for understanding and improving our own communities. The message is as surprising as it is hopeful: by retrofitting our cities for happiness, we can tackle the urgent challenges of our age. The happy city, the green city, and the low-carbon city are the same place, and we can all help build it.

Salvage Secrets Design & Decor: Transform Your Home with Reclaimed Materials

Author : Joanne Palmisano
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393733882
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)

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Book Synopsis Salvage Secrets Design & Decor: Transform Your Home with Reclaimed Materials by : Joanne Palmisano

Download or read book Salvage Secrets Design & Decor: Transform Your Home with Reclaimed Materials written by Joanne Palmisano and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visually sumptuous idea book, showcasing an eclectic array of interior design possibilities using salvaged goods. Following up on her celebrated first Salvage Secrets book, which Fine Homebuilding called “An invaluable first step in the salvage-for-design journey,” here salvage design guru Joanne Palmisano takes readers further, exploring a wealth of smaller-scale interior design and decor concepts. Bottle caps turned into a kitchen backsplash, old bed springs reinvented as candle holders, and a recycled shipping container-turned-guesthouse are just a few examples of the innovative repurposing of second-hand items that readers will discover. From retro and modern to classic, “cottage,” and urban chic, Palmisano takes readers on a sumptuous visual journey featuring unique salvage ideas in an eclectic array of styles, for every room in the house—kitchens and dining rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms, living rooms and dens, and entryways and outdoor areas. The journey continues with a sampling of cutting-edge retail spaces, hotels, cafes, and boutiques across the country that incorporate salvage into their designs, such as Industrie Denim in San Francisco, Stowe Mountain Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, and Rejuvenation in Portland. Profiles of thirteen “salvage success stories” are also included, showcasing the imaginative designs of creative homeowners. And lastly, fourteen easy, do-it-yourself projects are included at the back of the book (with step-by-step instructions), not to mention a comprehensive “Where to Find Salvage” resource section. Packed with over 350 color photos, Salvage Secrets Design & Decor offers a trove of salvage ideas to inspire, proving that you need look no further than your local rebuild center, architectural salvage shop, or flea market to transform your living space.

New Urbanism and American Planning

Author : Emily Talen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135992614
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book New Urbanism and American Planning written by Emily Talen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners’ quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth century. In her survey of the last hundred or so years of urbanist ideals, Emily Talen identifies four approaches to city-making, which she terms ‘cultures’: incrementalism, plan-making, planned communities, and regionalism. She shows how these cultures connect, overlap, and conflict and how most of the ideas about building better settlements are recurrent. In the first part of the book Talen sets her theoretical framework and in the second part provides detailed analysis of her four ‘cultures’.She concludes with an assessment of the successes and failures of the four cultures and the need to integrate these ideas as a means to promoting good urbanism in America.

What Cities Say

Author : Emily Talen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197647774
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book What Cities Say written by Emily Talen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What Cities Say, Emily Talen provides a wide-ranging yet concise synthesis of the fundamental drivers of built form, its social and cultural meaning, and how we should interpret it. Including thirty-five distinct city patterns and forms, Talen develops a language of interpretation to understand the motive and meaning behind the city and its elements. By exposing these meanings, Talen asserts that we will be in a stronger position to articulate, and argue for, the kinds of cities we want.

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.

Housing Reclaimed

Author : Jessica Kellner
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 086571696X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Housing Reclaimed written by Jessica Kellner and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide for nonconventional home builders provides inspiration for using salvaged and reclaimed materials to build affordable, environmentally friendly dwellings and offers case studies of projects meeting this challenge, including Phoenix Commotion, Haberae and Builders of Hope. Original

Designing the Reclaimed Landscape

Author : Alan Berger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135979049
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Designing the Reclaimed Landscape written by Alan Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First practical but in-depth exploration of how to reclaim the post-industrial landscape Draws on work of well-known think tank on reclamation practice, based at Harvard Excellent case studies by practitioners and policy makers from around the United States illustrate the book in practical terms.

Urban Design Reader

Author : Steve Tiesdell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136350624
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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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.

Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents

Author : Andrs Duany
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0865717400
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents written by Andrs Duany and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape Urbanism vs. the New Urbanism—negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world.

Urban Design

Author : John Yarwood
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443867934
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Urban Design written by John Yarwood and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about three different types of continuity from historic precedent to current practice in the field of urban planning and particularly that of urban design. The book begins by defining, describing and analyzing the three forms, which are: • Urban conservation, • Cultural tourism, and • Permanencies or Persistencies of Form. The book cites examples of each such case which the author worked on. (However, cases concerning (i) the Middle East and (ii) war, disaster and disintegration, were not included here, because the author’s last two books dwelt specifically upon them.) Amongst others, this book includes designs from the following towns: • Urban conservation: St Petersburg, Russia; Greifswald, Germany; Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia; • Cultural tourism: St Ann’s Bay, Jamaica; • Persistencies of Form: Telford; Thamesmead, London; Tampere, Finland; Silvertown Bridge, London; Herouville Saint Clair, Caen; Tete Defense, Paris. Numerous drawings, prepared by the author (for the greater part), are included in order to illustrate the points made by the text.

New American Urbanism

Author : John A. Dutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book New American Urbanism written by John A. Dutton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the recent resurgence of town and urban design in America, with particular attention to the return to traditional forms of urbanism and building conventions.

A Research Agenda for New Urbanism

Author : Emily Talen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788118634
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book A Research Agenda for New Urbanism written by Emily Talen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Urbanism, a movement devoted to building walkable, socially diversity cities, has garnered some successes and some failures over the past several decades. A Research Agenda for New Urbanism is a forward-looking book composed of chapters by leading scholars of New Urbanism. Authors focus on multiple topics, including affordability, transportation, social life and retail to highlight the areas of research that are most important for the future of the field. The book summarizes what we know and what we need to know to provide a research agenda that will have the greatest promise and most positive impact on building the best possible human habitat—which is the aim of New Urbanism.

City Rules

Author : Emily Talen
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610911768
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book City Rules written by Emily Talen and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle, our communities. Emily Talen demonstrates that regulations are a primary detriment to the creation of a desirable urban form. While many contemporary codes encourage sprawl and even urban blight, that hasn't always been the case-and it shouldn't be in the future. Talen provides a visually rich history, showing how certain eras used rules to produce beautiful, walkable, and sustainable communities, while others created just the opposite. She makes complex regulations understandable, demystifying city rules like zoning and illustrating how written codes translate into real-world consequences. Most importantly, Talen proposes changes to these rules that will actually enhance communities' freedom to develop unique spaces.

Urban Design Downtown

Author : Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520209303
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Urban Design Downtown written by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-10-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's case studies of individual West Coast downtown projects capture the essence of late 20th-century urbanism with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions. The authors explore both the poetics of design and the politics and economics of development decisions. 98 photos. 26 line illustrations. 23 maps.

Urban Design: Ornament and Decoration

Author : Taner Oc
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136350411
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Urban Design: Ornament and Decoration written by Taner Oc and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Urban Design: Ornament and Decoration' focuses on decorating the city and how ornament has been used to bring delight to the urban scene. The authors show how the pattern and distribution of street and square and other major elements in the city can be enhanced by the judicious use of decorative surface treatment and by the careful placing of hard and soft landscape features. This second edition, updated by Cliff Moughtin and now available in paperback, includes a new chapter on mud architecture. Case studies of city decoration are also outlined to bring together the ideas discussed and to show how ornament and decoration can be used to emphasize the five components of city form: the path, the node, the edge, the landmark and the district.