Measuring Urban Design

Author : Reid Ewing,Otto Clemente
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610911938

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Measuring Urban Design by Reid Ewing,Otto Clemente Pdf

What makes strolling down a particular street enjoyable? The authors of Measuring Urban Design argue it's not an idle question. Inviting streets are the centerpiece of thriving, sustainable communities, but it can be difficult to pinpoint the precise design elements that make an area appealing. This accessible guide removes the mystery, providing clear methods to measure urban design. In recent years, many "walking audit instruments" have been developed to measure qualities like building height, block length, and sidewalk width. But while easily quantifiable, these physical features do not fully capture the experience of walking down a street. In contrast, this book addresses broad perceptions of street environments. It provides operational definitions and measurement protocols of five intangible qualities of urban design, specifically imageability, visual enclosure, human scale, transparency, and complexity. The result is a reliable field survey instrument grounded in constructs from architecture, urban design, and planning. Readers will also find a case study applying the instrument to 588 streets in New York City, which shows that it can be used effectively to measure the built environment's impact on social, psychological, and physical well-being. Finally, readers will find illustrated, step-by-step instructions to use the instrument and a scoring sheet for easy calculation of urban design quality scores. For the first time, researchers, designers, planners, and lay people have an empirically tested tool to measure those elusive qualities that make us want to take a stroll. Urban policymakers and planners as well as students in urban policy, design, and environmental health will find the tools and methods in Measuring Urban Design especially useful.

Author : Great Britain. Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Publisher : Thomas Telford
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0727729810

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The Value of Urban Design by Great Britain. Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment Pdf

Good urban design offers strong competitive advantages and does not necessarily cost more to deliver. This ground-breaking report examines the way in which superior urban design adds value by increasing the economic viability of development and by delivering social and environmental benefits.

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1964-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262620014

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The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch Pdf

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 : Jenny Roe,Layla McCay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350112896

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Restorative Cities by Jenny Roe,Layla McCay Pdf

Overcrowding, noise and air pollution, long commutes and lack of daylight can take a huge toll on the mental well-being of city-dwellers. With mental healthcare services under increasing pressure, could a better approach to urban design and planning provide a solution? The restrictions faced by city residents around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought home just how much urban design can affect our mental health – and created an imperative to seize this opportunity. Restorative Cities explores a new way of designing cities, one which places mental health and wellness at the forefront. Establishing a blueprint for urban design for mental health, it examines a range of strategies – from sensory architecture to place-making for creativity and community – and brings a genuinely evidence-based approach that will appeal to designers and planners, health practitioners and researchers alike - and provide compelling insights for anyone who cares about how our surroundings affect us. Written by a psychiatrist and public health specialist, and an environmental psychologist with extensive experience of architectural practice, this much-needed work will prompt debate and inspire built environment students and professionals to think more about the positive potential of their designs for mental well-being.

Author : Donald Watson,Alan J. Plattus,Robert G. Shibley
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951D023732445

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Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design by Donald Watson,Alan J. Plattus,Robert G. Shibley Pdf

* The foremost professional reference on the physical design of cities and urban places * International coverage including recent European and Asian sustainability initiatives * Covers essential topics such as preservation, renewal, patterns of settlement and more * Outstanding contributors include Alan Plattus, Dean of the College of Architecture, Yale University

Author : Georgiana Varna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317099130

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Measuring Public Space: The Star Model by Georgiana Varna Pdf

In the rapidly expanding public space debate of the past few years, a recurring theme is the ’loss of publicness’ of contemporary urban public places. This book takes up the challenge to find an objective way to prove or disprove this phenomenon. By taking the reader through a systematic and multi-disciplinary literature review it asks the deceptively simple question: ’What is publicness?’ It answers this by first developing a new theoretical approach - ’The dual nature of public space’, and secondly a new analytical tool for measuring it - ’The Star Model of Publicness’. This pragmatic approach to analysing public space is tested then on three new public places recently created on the post-industrial waterfront of the River Clyde, in the city of Glasgow, UK. By seeing where and why certain public places fail, direct and informed interventions can be made to improve them, and through this contribute to the building of more attractive and sustainable cities. By adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to shed light on this ’slippery’ concept, this book shows how urban design can complement other disciplines when tackling the complex task of understanding and improving the built environment’s public realm. It also bridges the gap between theory and practice as it draws from empirical research to suggest more quantitative approaches towards auditing and improving public places.

Author : Im Sik Cho,Chye-Kiang Heng,Zdravko Trivic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317533061

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Re-Framing Urban Space by Im Sik Cho,Chye-Kiang Heng,Zdravko Trivic Pdf

Re-framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions rethinks the role and meaning of urban spaces through current trends and challenges in urban development. In emerging dense, hybrid, complex and dynamic urban conditions, public urban space is not only a precious and contested commodity, but also one of the key vehicles for achieving socially, environmentally and economically sustainable urban living. Past research has been predominantly focused on familiar models of urban space, such as squares, plazas, streets, parks and arcades, without consistent and clear rules on what constitutes good urban space, let alone what constitutes good urban space in ‘high-density context’. Through an innovative and integrative research framework, Re-Framing Urban Space guides the assessment, planning, design and re-design of urban spaces at various stages of the decision-making process, facilitating an understanding of how enduring qualities are expressed and negotiated through design measures in high-density urban environments. This book explores over 50 best practice case studies of recent urban design projects in high-density contexts, including Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, New York, and Rotterdam. Visually compelling and insightful, Re-Framing Urban Space provides a comprehensive and accessible means to understand the critical properties that shape new urban spaces, illustrating key design components and principles. An invaluable guide to the stages of urban design, planning, policy and decision making, this book is essential reading for urban design and planning professionals, academics and students interested in public spaces within high-density urban development.

Author : Yoshiki Yamagata,Perry P. J. Yang
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780128162934

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Urban Systems Design by Yoshiki Yamagata,Perry P. J. Yang Pdf

Urban Systems Design: Creating Sustainable Smart Cities in the Internet of Things Era shows how to design, model and monitor smart communities using a distinctive IoT-based urban systems approach. Focusing on the essential dimensions that constitute smart communities energy, transport, urban form, and human comfort, this helpful guide explores how IoT-based sharing platforms can achieve greater community health and well-being based on relationship building, trust, and resilience. Uncovering the achievements of the most recent research on the potential of IoT and big data, this book shows how to identify, structure, measure and monitor multi-dimensional urban sustainability standards and progress. This thorough book demonstrates how to select a project, which technologies are most cost-effective, and their cost-benefit considerations. The book also illustrates the financial, institutional, policy and technological needs for the successful transition to smart cities, and concludes by discussing both the conventional and innovative regulatory instruments needed for a fast and smooth transition to smart, sustainable communities. Provides operational case studies and best practices from cities throughout Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, Australia, and Africa, providing instructive examples of the social, environmental, and economic aspects of “smartification Reviews assessment and urban sustainability certification systems such as LEED, BREEAM, and CASBEE, examining how each addresses smart technologies criteria Examines existing technologies for efficient energy management, including HEMS, BEMS, energy harvesting, electric vehicles, smart grids, and more

Author : Jared Katseff
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Real property
ISBN : 9781329189492

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Marrying Market Timing with Human-Centered Urban Design: How Investors and Municipalities Can Better Realize Transit Oriented Development by Jared Katseff Pdf

Author : Assoc Prof Tigran Haas,Dr Krister Olsson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472407467

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Emergent Urbanism by Assoc Prof Tigran Haas,Dr Krister Olsson Pdf

In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change. Strategies for urban regeneration include investments in infrastructures for production, consumption and communication, as well as marketing and branding measures, and urban design schemes. Bringing together leading academics from across a range of disciplines, including Douglas Kelbaugh, Ali Madanipour, Saskia Sassen, Gregory Ashworth, Nan Elin, Emily Talen, and many others, Emergent Urbanism identifies the specific issues dominating today’s urban planning and urban design discourse, arguing that urban planning and design not only results from deliberate planning and design measures, but how these combine with infrastructure planning, and derive from economic, social and spatial processes of structural change. Combining explorations from urban planning, urban theory, human geography, sociology, urban design and architecture, the volume provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview, highlighting the complexities of these interactions in space and place, process and design.

Author : Martin van Maarseveen,Javier Martinez,Johannes Flacke
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351379090

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GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management by Martin van Maarseveen,Javier Martinez,Johannes Flacke Pdf

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.1201/9781315146638, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. GIS is used today to better understand and solve urban problems. GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management: A Global Perspective, explores and illustrates the capacity that geo-information and GIS have to inform practitioners and other participants in the processes of the planning and management of urban regions. The first part of the book addresses the concept of sustainable urban development, its different frameworks, the many ways of measuring sustainability, and its value in the urban policy arena. The second part discusses how urban planning can shape our cities, examines various spatial configurations of cities, the spread of activities, and the demands placed on different functions to achieve strategic objective. It further focuses on the recognition that urban dwellers are increasingly under threat from natural hazards and climate change. Written by authors with expertise on the applications of geo-information in urban management, this book showcases the importance of GIS in better understanding current urban challenges and provides new insights on how to apply GIS in urban planning. It illustrates through real world cases the use of GIS in analyzing and evaluating the position of disadvantaged groups and areas in cities and provides clear examples of applied GIS in urban sustainability and urban resilience. The idea of sustainable development is still very much central in the new development agenda of the United Nations, and in that sense, it is of particular importance for students from both the Global South and Global North. Professionals, researchers, and students alike will find this book to be an invaluable resource for understanding and solving problems relating to sustainable urban planning and management.

Author : Michael Dobbins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118174234

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Urban Design and People by Michael Dobbins Pdf

This introduction to the field of urban design offers a comprehensive survey of the processes necessary to implement urban design work, explaining the vocabulary, the rules, the tools, the structures, and the resources in clear and accessible style. Providing a comprehensive framework for understanding urban design principles and strategies, the author argues that urban design is both a process and a collaboration in which the different forces involved are knit together. Moving from the regional scale down to the scale of places, the book examines the goals and strategies of the urban designer from the viewpoints of the private sector, public sector, and community. The text is illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings that make theory and practice relevant and alive.

Author : Benjamin Dillenburger,Fabienne Hoelzel,Peter Märkli,Philippe Koch,Oliver Lütjens,Werner Oechslin,Martin Neukom,Thomas Padmanabhan,Isabella Pasqualini,Philippe Rahm,Rainer Schützeichel,Martin Tschanz,Jonathan Sergison
Publisher : Dietrich Reimer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3496016191

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Proportions and Cognition in Architecture and Urban Design by Benjamin Dillenburger,Fabienne Hoelzel,Peter Märkli,Philippe Koch,Oliver Lütjens,Werner Oechslin,Martin Neukom,Thomas Padmanabhan,Isabella Pasqualini,Philippe Rahm,Rainer Schützeichel,Martin Tschanz,Jonathan Sergison Pdf

In Proportions and Cognition in Architecture and Urban Design, practicing architects, historians, and theoreticians discuss the proportional systems that juxtapose aesthetic judgements, forms of practice, and human and social bodies with the norms and ideals that have resulted from these relationships. They retrace the history of these proportional systems, the expectations with which they were associated, how they were introduced into design, and how contemporary practice builds upon this tradition-or allows new interpretations to unfold.

Author : Justin B. Hollander,Ann Sussman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000178357

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Urban Experience and Design by Justin B. Hollander,Ann Sussman Pdf

Embracing a biological and evolutionary perspective to explain the human experience of place, Urban Experience and Design explores how cognitive science and biometric tools provide an evidence-based foundation for architecture and planning. Aiming to promote the creation of a healthier and happier public realm, this book describes how unconscious responses to stimuli, outside our conscious awareness, direct our experience of the built environment and govern human behavior in our surroundings. This collection contains 15 chapters, including contributions from researchers in the US, the UK, the Netherlands, France and Iran. Addressing topics such as the impact of eye-tracking analysis and seeing beauty and empathy within buildings, Urban Experience and Design encourages us to reframe our understanding of design, including the narrative of how modern architecture and planning came to be in the first place. This volume invites students, academics and scholars to see how cognitive science and biometric findings give us remarkable 21st-century metrics for evaluating and improving designs, even before they are built.

Author : Robert W. Marans,Robert J. Stimson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400717428

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Investigating Quality of Urban Life by Robert W. Marans,Robert J. Stimson Pdf

The study of quality of urban life involves both an objective approach to analysis using spatially aggregated secondary data and a subjective approach using unit record survey data whereby people provide subjective evaluations of QOL domains. This book provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on QOUL and methodological approaches to research design to investigate QOUL and measure QOL dimensions. It incorporates empirical investigations into QOUL in a range of cities across the world.