Humanizing The High Rise City

Author : Kheir Al-Kodmany
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781040052440

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Humanizing the High-Rise City by Kheir Al-Kodmany Pdf

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Podiums, Plazas, Parks, Pedestrian Networks, and Public Art. This captivating exploration delves into the art of turning towering skyscraper cities into vibrant havens that foster human connection, celebrate culture, and build communities. Unveiling the secrets behind the creation of urban spaces, from dynamic plazas that encourage social interaction to tranquil parks that infuse life into steel and glass, the book unfolds a narrative that resonates with the innate rhythms of humanity. Examining 20 major high-rise cities worldwide (including Chicago, New York City, Dubai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore, among others), synthesizing extensive literature, and enriched with over 200 photographs, this book showcases projects seamlessly weaving nature, art, and connectivity into the urban fabric. These endeavors craft environments that enhance well-being and instill a profound sense of belonging amid the challenges of urban density. As the global landscape increasingly tilts toward vertical living, this book serves as a guiding light, illuminating the path to a heightened and enriched experience of high-rise urban living. This book will be useful to practitioners and students of architecture, urban planning, and urban design interested in improving high-rise cities.

Author : KHEIR. AL-KODMANY
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1032362642

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Humanizing the High-Rise City by KHEIR. AL-KODMANY Pdf

This book delves into the art of turning towering skyscraper cities into vibrant havens that foster human connection. Examining 20 major high-rise cities worldwide, synthesizing extensive literature, and enriched with over 200 photographs, this book showcases projects seamlessly weaving nature, art, and connectivity into the urban fabric.

Author : Kheir Al-Kodmany
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317608653

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Understanding Tall Buildings by Kheir Al-Kodmany Pdf

In recent years, the rapid pace of tall building construction has fostered a certain kind of placelessness, with many new tall buildings being built out of scale, context and place. By analyzing hundreds of tall buildings and by providing hundreds of visuals that inspire, stimulate and engage, Understanding Tall Buildings contends that well-designed tall buildings can rejuvenate cities, ignite economic activity, support social life and boost city pride. Although this book does not claim to possess all the solutions, it does propose specific tall building design guidelines that may help to promote placemaking. Through this work, it is the author’s hope that ill-conceived developments will become less common in the future and that good placemaking will become the norm, not the exception. This book is a must-read for students and practitioners working to create better tall buildings and better urban environments.

Author : Ashok Kumar,D.S. Meshram
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000598940

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Future of Cities by Ashok Kumar,D.S. Meshram Pdf

This book critically analyses the existing condition of cities in developing countries with special reference to planning and infrastructure networks in India. It provides an overview of the nature of opportunities presented by cities; major challenges that cities would face in future; and codifies the ways and means to transcend the challenges of contemporary urban growth and quality of urbanisation. It discusses key themes such as architecture of density, transformation of land-use zones to development zones, development of railway infrastructure, planning and design guidelines for bus rapid transit, and urban water planning and universal access to housing to create an enabling environment for deliberations and a better future for cities in the developing world. The book integrates insights from governance, planning, and design and highlights implications of spatial integration. It brings together current issues in Indian urbanisation, smart technologies used in building smart cities and high-rises, and urban and regional governance to explore forms of sustainable development planning that factor human needs. Accessible and topical, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of urban studies, urban and city planning, development studies, sociology, public policy and administration, political sociology, anthropology, architecture, geography, and economics, as well as to professionals, planners, policymakers, and non-governmental organisations.

Author : Rameshwar Prasad Misra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Community development
ISBN : UCAL:B2501109

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Humanizing Development by Rameshwar Prasad Misra Pdf

Monograph on the humanization of economic and social development, i.e. The adaptation of development theory and development planning to human survival, quality of life and welfare - covers urbanization, rural development, regional development, poverty alleviation, self reliance policies, mostly in South East Asia, and includes a paper on the preservation of unit-specific micro-decisions in statistical analysis, and biographycal notes. Diagrams, maps and references. Festschrift Honjo M, Director of UNCRD, Nagoya.

Author : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:31951000105420N

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Humanizing Education: the Person in the Process by Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Pdf

Author : Laurence S. Cutler,Sherrie Stephens Cutler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015031572558

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Recycling Cities for People by Laurence S. Cutler,Sherrie Stephens Cutler Pdf

Outstanding and innovative text on urban design principles and practice. The well-written easy-to-understand text is augmented with dozens of line drawings, photographs and charts. This is a must for any serious urban planner. Includes a useful glossary and index. Slight wear to wraps and text has no writing or highlighting.

Author : Ákos Moravánszky,Judith Hopfengärtner
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035608113

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Re-Humanizing Architecture by Ákos Moravánszky,Judith Hopfengärtner Pdf

After the Second World War, a divided Europe was much affected by a period of reconstruction. This was influenced by the different political systems – in the socialist East and in the capitalist West, the focus was on cohesion in society and its cultural and architectural expression. In parallel to the rapidly progressing industrialization of the building industry, debates on the humanization of the built environment were led on both sides with great intensity. The volume shows how, on the back of existentialism, new monumentality, and socialist realism, quite similar concepts and strategies were developed in order to find answers to questions relating to adequate structures for new forms of community and identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Journalism
ISBN : MINN:31951D00388004A

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Atlas World Press Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9789231001703

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Culture: urban future by UNESCO Pdf

Report presents a series of analyses and recommendations for fostering the role of culture for sustainable development. Drawing on a global survey implemented with nine regional partners and insights from scholars, NGOs and urban thinkers, the report offers a global overview of urban heritage safeguarding, conservation and management, as well as the promotion of cultural and creative industries, highlighting their role as resources for sustainable urban development. Report is intended as a policy framework document to support governments in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Urban Development and the New Urban Agenda.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : UOM:39015043650681

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Alternatives by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226826516

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Bettering Humanomics by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey Pdf

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey's latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more "human" science. Economic historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has distinguished herself through her writing on the Great Enrichment and the betterment of the poor—not just materially but spiritually. In Bettering Humanomics she continues her intellectually playful yet rigorous analysis with a focus on humans rather than the institutions. Going against the grain of contemporary neo-institutional and behavioral economics which privilege observation over understanding, she asserts her vision of “humanomics,” which draws on the work of Bart Wilson, Vernon Smith, and most prominently, Adam Smith. She argues for an economics that uses a comprehensive understanding of human action beyond behaviorism. McCloskey clearly articulates her points of contention with believers in “imperfections,” from Samuelson to Stiglitz, claiming that they have neglected scientific analysis in their haste to diagnose the ills of the system. In an engaging and erudite manner, she reaffirms the global successes of market-tested betterment and calls for empirical investigation that advances from material incentives to an awareness of the human within historical and ethical frameworks. Bettering Humanomics offers a critique of contemporary economics and a proposal for an economics as a better human science.

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781684516148

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The Essential Russell Kirk by Russell Kirk Pdf

As the author of The Conservative Mind and other seminal books, Russell Kirk is usually thought of as one of the American conservative political movement’s most important progenitors. But as this collection demonstrates, Kirk was perhaps at his best as an essayist. This volume also confirms that Kirk’s was principally a literary and historical conservatism that refused to fit the irreducible complexity of human experience to the requirements of any ideological straitjacket. With The Essential Russell Kirk, literary critic George A. Panichas captures the breadth and depth of Kirk’s intellectual project by gathering together forty-four of the most masterful of Kirk’s essays, along with a unique chronology told in Kirk’s own words and a substantial introduction that articulates the deep humanism that animated Kirk’s philosophy. The result is a carefully assembled volume that gives us a fuller picture of an extraordinary man and writer, one whose labors had, and continue to have, remarkable repercussions on the American literary and political landscape.

Author : Margaret Hannah
Publisher : Triarchy Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781911193234

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Humanising Healthcare by Margaret Hannah Pdf

A practical strategy for transforming the UK and other healthcare systems... offering an affordable, sustainable and compassionate alternative to the present mess.

Author : Avi Friedman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031353680

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Fundamentals of Innovative Sustainable Homes Design and Construction by Avi Friedman Pdf

This book offers ideas and practices on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with plans and photographs of outstanding examples. Current planning and design modes of dwellings and neighborhoods are facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic and social aspects. The depletion of non-renewable natural resources and climate change are a few of the environmental challenges. Increasing costs of material, labor, land and infrastructure have posed economic challenges with affordability being paramount among them. Social challenges are also drawing the attention of designers, builders and homeowners. Walkable communities, aging in place and multigenerational living are some of the concepts considered. In addition, live-work environments have become part of the economic reality for those who wish to work from home—which has become possible through digital advances. The text would be of interest to scholars working in: architecture, urban planning, and construction.