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Author : Daniel Straub
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Water's Edge in the Urban Landscape written by Daniel Straub and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grace Wai-Mun Cheng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Phenomena and Form at the Water's Edge written by Grace Wai-Mun Cheng and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypothesis. Phenomenology of Water and Design Water is an important element in our environment and thus is important in urban, architectural, and landscape design. It also has an inseparable relationship with human beings in our visual, acoustic, olfactory, and tactile environments. This thesis explores the potential for using the qualities of water as an expressive element in design to create poetic spaces. These explorations include a derivation of a language of form from the phenomenology of water: -- The physical nature of water. -- The metaphysical nature of water. -- Experiencing water with the five senses. The Water's Edge: The In-Between Zone. The waterfront is the edge that separates land and water. Historically, cities around the world have increased their footprints by infilling the water for more land. In some cases, the water has disappeared at the end of the process. This one-sided expansion at the edge has caused cities to overlook the value of waterfront. This thesis proposes that we should look at the edge from the other side-the water. The study of the edge conditions between land and water includes the following areas: -- Duality of the edge. -- Types of edge conditions. -- Threshold at the edge. Reclaiming The Water's Edge For People. In America, the water's edge is often used for industrial development. When the wharf era had passed away, the edge is often left with warehouses and factories. Both harbors and river-fronts have often suffered from the same problem of neglect and lack of development. Cities need to reclaim their water's edge as a great asset. Waterfront development should address the question of people's access to the water. Well-developed open spaces should become places where people can experience the power of water. Design Concept: A Contemporary Museum of Arts and a Water Garden. In the design explorations, set out in this thesis, a new scenario for Boston is created- an urban courtyard that stages the drama of water- a place for people to experience the water's edge and to touch water. The site that has been selected is special because it is between the Charles River and the Boston Harbor, acting like a threshold between the two zones. Nevertheless, many attributes of the site apply to other waterfronts since the site is an infilled industrial leftover area with traces of history and thus public memory offering references and meaning for design. Conclusions. The design tested the hypothesis and demonstrated how one can derive form from the phenomenology of water through an integrated design of architecture and the urban landscape. A variation of treatment of the water's edge where it meets the city, buildings, program, and the people is shown. Through the design of thresholds and the movement pattern in penetrating different spatial zones, visitors of the project can percieve the impact of the drama of water.
Author : Ivan Alexander Valin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Reconstructing the Urban Marsh written by Ivan Alexander Valin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin Lynn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393733572
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Guide to New York City Urban Landscapes written by Robin Lynn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of not-to-be-missed public places—parks, plazas, memorials, streets—that shape the New York experience. The thirty-eight urban gems covered here range from newly created linear spaces along the water’s edge, such as Brooklyn Bridge Park and the East River Waterfront Esplanade, to revitalized squares and circles, such as those at Gansevoort Plaza in the Meatpacking District and Columbus Circle, to repurposed open spaces like the freight tracks, now the High Line, and Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx. Readers can discover midtown atriums, mingle with the crowds in Union Square, travel offshore to nearby Governors Island, and enjoy the vistas of historic Green-Wood Cemetery. Pete Hamill writes in his foreword, “I’ve . . . made a list of new places I must visit while there is time. With any luck at all, I’ll see all of them. I hope you, the reader, can find the time too.” Concise descriptions, helpful maps, and vivid photographs capture the New York urban scene.
Author : Charles Atlee Rapp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Water in the Urban Landscape written by Charles Atlee Rapp and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dimitra Babalis
Publisher : Altralinea Edizioni
ISBN 13 : 8894869024
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Waterfront urban space written by Dimitra Babalis and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores potentialities and emerging issues to strategies and waterside planning and design, developing research results and detailed cases of interest in response to city change, to promote sustainable development in a variety of ways. It seeks to include some key waterfront matters in linking new spatial patterns to social dynamics and climate change, for future practice. The book is structuring into two parts: The first one – ‘Advancing Riverfront Transformation’ – examines proposals on urban waterfronts and relations between urban spaces and social dynamics to revitalise and re-appropriate urban environment with sustainable design solutions. The second one – ‘Outlining Blue-Green Opportunities’ – develops proposals on waterfront urban spaces and places with promotion of sociability and enjoyment, integrating cultural and economic values, health and wellbeing.
Author : William S. Saunders
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3034611463
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Designed Ecologies written by William S. Saunders and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kongjian Yu and his office Turenscape are beyond doubt the foremost landscape architecture practice in China today. The vast scale of China and her apparently boundless growth have enabled Yu to test many ideas that are still largely theories in the Western world. His work – increasingly valued and appreciated in Europe and North America - has attained an extremely high and elegant level in both conception and execution. Kongjian Yu is known for his ecological stance, often against the resistance of local authorities. His guiding design principles are the appreciation of the ordinary and a deep embracing of nature, even in its potentially destructive aspects, such as floods. Among his most acclaimed projects are Houtan Park for Shanghai Expo, the Red Ribbon Park in Qinhuangdao, and Shipyard Park in Zhongshan. This book explores Yu’s work in 11 essays by noted authors and documents 22 major projects extensively.
Author : Catherine Neal
Publisher : Unh Cooperative Extension
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Landscaping at the Water's Edge an Ecological Approach written by Catherine Neal and published by Unh Cooperative Extension. This book was released on 2007 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manual for New Hampshire landowners and landscapers.
Author : Robin Lynn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393733955
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Guide to New York City Urban Landscapes written by Robin Lynn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of not-to-be-missed public places—parks, plazas, memorials, streets—that shape the New York experience. The thirty-eight urban gems covered here range from newly created linear spaces along the water’s edge, such as Brooklyn Bridge Park and the East River Waterfront Esplanade, to revitalized squares and circles, such as those at Gansevoort Plaza in the Meatpacking District and Columbus Circle, to repurposed open spaces like the freight tracks, now the High Line, and Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx. Readers can discover midtown atriums, mingle with the crowds in Union Square, travel offshore to nearby Governors Island, and enjoy the vistas of historic Green-Wood Cemetery. Pete Hamill writes in his foreword, “I’ve . . . made a list of new places I must visit while there is time. With any luck at all, I’ll see all of them. I hope you, the reader, can find the time too.” Concise descriptions, helpful maps, and vivid photographs capture the New York urban scene.
Author : Matthew Bradbury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100029790X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Water City written by Matthew Bradbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water City offers practical solutions to some of the environmental challenges facing 21st-century cities as a result of climate change. The dense compact nature of the contemporary city makes it difficult to generate urban resilience to the effects of climate change, particularly coastal and pluvial flooding. This book describes a design-led remediation methodology that draws on catchment planning and GIS mapping and analysis to redefine the city as a series of hydrological and ecological systems. Six case studies test the presented methodology, two greenfield and four brownfield sites based in the UK, USA, New Zealand and China. Each case study is illustrated with GIS maps and perspectives. Specific solutions to the environmental problems that will be intensified by climate change are presented. Water City describes adaptation strategies to help practitioners in the urban landscape tackle these issues and make our cities better places to live. This practical guide is a key read for professionals and stakeholders in landscape architecture, urban design, planning and all those interested in how climate change will affect the future of our cities.
Author : Anna Liao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Reclaiming the Water's Edge written by Anna Liao and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book American River Bridge Crossing Project, Folsom written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262620017
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Image of the City written by Kevin Lynch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Author : Conservation Council of Ontario
Publisher : Toronto
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Urban Landscape written by Conservation Council of Ontario and published by Toronto. This book was released on 1971 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer K. Ladino
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 081393334X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Reclaiming Nostalgia written by Jennifer K. Ladino and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often thought of as the quintessential home or the Eden from which humanity has fallen, the natural world has long been a popular object of nostalgic narratives. In Reclaiming Nostalgia, Jennifer Ladino assesses the ideological effects of this phenomenon by tracing its dominant forms in American literature and culture since the closing of the frontier in 1890. While referencing nostalgia for pastoral communities and for untamed and often violent frontiers, she also highlights the ways in which nostalgia for nature has served as a mechanism for social change, a model for ethical relationships, and a motivating force for social and environmental justice.
Author : Dimitra Babalis
Publisher : Altralinea Edizioni
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Public Open Space in Transition for health and well-being written by Dimitra Babalis and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which open spaces and combinations of green-blue infrastructure provide optimum wellbeing benefits? How we do ensure these benefits are available to all? Can we reduce health and well-being inequalities through sensible design? The volume focuses on specific studies in urban design, environmental psychology and public health combining ‘green’ spaces with ‘green-blue’ infrastructures, active mobility and facilities, showing a series of criteria necessary to ensure that ‘green-blue’ space can work optimally. The book is divided in two parts: Part one goes on to demonstrate how design along waterfronts can contribute to support the well-being of people and encourage urban quality. Part two identifies design concepts for health and well-being in urban spaces.
Author : James Hitchmough
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Urban Landscape Management written by James Hitchmough and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1994 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... [This book] has been written for use by students and practitioners of the wide range of disciplines involved in some way in the landscape. ... [Some] of the content is descriptive and addresses the means by which various aspects of landscape management can be carried out most effectively. This is supplemented by a more philosophical discussion on why certain courses of action are or are not undertaken. Whilst the book is concerned primarily with landscape management, rather than design, wherever possible management is set in a context of consideration for the aesthetic values of the urban landscape. ..."--Jacket.
