Streetscapes

Author : Harvey M. Rubenstein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992-11-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471546801

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Pedestrian Malls, Streetscapes, and Urban Spaces by Harvey M. Rubenstein Pdf

An analysis of the pedestrian malls built during the urban renewal period of the 60's and 70's, and of new urban open space designs. Explores the trend towards, and away from, full pedestrian malls, and analyzes newer project types, such as festival marketplaces and mixed-use urban spaces. Describes mall development processes such as feasibility analysis, planning and design. Also covers street furnishings ranging from paving, fountains and sculpture to lighting, canopies and seating. Offers updated coverage of new projects in New York, Tampa, Memphis, Louisville and Minneapolis. Also features over 250 photographs as well as detailed site plans of the projects covered.

Author : Reuben Rose-Redwood,Derek Alderman,Maoz Azaryahu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317020714

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The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes by Reuben Rose-Redwood,Derek Alderman,Maoz Azaryahu Pdf

Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has played in the political life of urban streetscapes in both historical and contemporary cities. The renaming of streets and remaking of urban commemorative landscapes have long been key strategies that different political regimes have employed to legitimize spatial assertions of sovereign authority, ideological hegemony, and symbolic power. Over the past few decades, a rich body of critical scholarship has explored the politics of urban toponymy, and the present collection brings together the works of geographers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, planners, and political scientists to examine the power of street naming as an urban place-making practice. Covering a wide range of case studies from cities in Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, the contributions to this volume illustrate how the naming of streets has been instrumental to the reshaping of urban spatial imaginaries and the cultural politics of place.

Author : Johanna Gibbons,Bernard Oberholzer
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015025154132

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Urban Streetscapes by Johanna Gibbons,Bernard Oberholzer Pdf

Author : Maria Höök,Pia Jonsson (Landscape architect),Emma Skottke,Marlene Thelandersson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
ISBN : UCBK:C110538098

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Korogocho Streetscapes by Maria Höök,Pia Jonsson (Landscape architect),Emma Skottke,Marlene Thelandersson Pdf

Author : Marjorie Mayers
Publisher : New York : P. Lang
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Homeless youth
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110183436

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Street Kids & Streetscapes by Marjorie Mayers Pdf

This book illuminates how panhandling acts as the embodiment of the experiences of street life for kids as well as how the streetscape functions as the interface between street kids and the mainstream.

Author : Colin Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1859466346

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Streetscapes by Colin Davis Pdf

Written in accessible and practical terms, Streetscapes establishes the basic principles of quality, comprehensive street design. Each element of a streetscape is examined and explained in turn, and richly-illustrated case studies analyse how all of these elements can be brought together successfully. Breaking down both the technical considerations and the design needs and challenges, Streetscapes: A Guide to Better Street Design is an essential text for anyone interested in the creation or improvement of quality public environments.

Author : Christopher Gray,Suzanne Braley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015056663498

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New York Streetscapes by Christopher Gray,Suzanne Braley Pdf

Collects vignettes depicting unique sites and buildings of New York, with each location accompanied by a period photograph.

Author : Reuben Rose-Redwood,Derek Alderman,Maoz Azaryahu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317020707

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The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes by Reuben Rose-Redwood,Derek Alderman,Maoz Azaryahu Pdf

Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has played in the political life of urban streetscapes in both historical and contemporary cities. The renaming of streets and remaking of urban commemorative landscapes have long been key strategies that different political regimes have employed to legitimize spatial assertions of sovereign authority, ideological hegemony, and symbolic power. Over the past few decades, a rich body of critical scholarship has explored the politics of urban toponymy, and the present collection brings together the works of geographers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, planners, and political scientists to examine the power of street naming as an urban place-making practice. Covering a wide range of case studies from cities in Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, the contributions to this volume illustrate how the naming of streets has been instrumental to the reshaping of urban spatial imaginaries and the cultural politics of place.

Author : Marc Glenn Berman
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9782889198504

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Nature and Environment: The Psychology of Its Benefits and Its Protection by Marc Glenn Berman Pdf

Our Research Topic section entitled: "Nature and the environment: The psychology of its benefits and its protection" will have two main lines. The first line of articles will center upon cutting-edge research showing how interacting with nature, can affect health, well-being, and overall improve cognition and affect. Articles in this line will stress in what ways nature can improve psychological functioning and health and also discuss the theories and evidence as to why nature can improve psychological functioning. For this line, we welcome submission of articles that discuss the psychological, health and well-being benefits from interacting with nature as well as submissions that focus on theoretical considerations and underlying mechanisms that lead to the restorative effects of interacting with nature. Given that nature can have a positive impact on psychological functioning and overall health, it is also important to understand the variables that facilitate people’s recognition of environmental issues that can help foster a more positive attitude towards the preservation of nature. This brings us to the second line of articles which will center upon the psychological mechanisms that make individuals more or less likely to accept the seriousness of environmental challenges such as climate change. Given the new cutting-edge research in this field we may be able to make individuals more proactive in the protection of the environment and more accepting of policy measures required to mitigate climate change. We see this research topic as a way for psychological scientists to contribute substantially to an important area of public debate and policy. For this line we welcome articles that will focus on ways in which people respond to various framings of policy relevant information and how morality may play into the individuals policy views that center on climate change and environmental protection.

Author : Erik Trump,Jake Parcell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666908213

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The Architecture of Survival by Erik Trump,Jake Parcell Pdf

The Architecture of Survival: Setting and Politics in Apocalypse Films offers a compelling exploration of how popular films and TV series from the past two decades use architectural spaces to comment on socio-political issues. The authors harness varied theoretical perspectives to demonstrate how, through set design, these works suggest that certain kinds of architecture support human development, community, and freedom, while other kinds separate us from our fellow humans and make democratic politics impossible. The clean lines of modernist design serve in films such as Contagion and Ex Machina as a metaphor for the sanitized, sterile politics that drive disaster. In The Walking Dead apocalypse survivors favor traditional architectural styles when rebuilding society, a choice that symbolically affirms their democratic principles. The massive walls and super-gentrification as seen in Elysium and Army of the Dead divide humanity, with those on one side wielding illegitimate power. Empty streetscapes intensify loneliness, alienation, and the destruction of civil norms. "Smart cities," offering a blend of high-tech surveillance and big data, erode social capital and community in Her and Transcendence. The book concludes with a somewhat hopeful glimpse into architecture’s potential to mitigate the catastrophic adverse effects of climate change, as seen in films like Zootopia.

Author : Abraham Akkerman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487501266

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The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard by Abraham Akkerman Pdf

Ebenezer Howard, an Englishman, and Jane Jacobs, a naturalized Canadian, personify the twentieth century's opposing outlooks on cities. Howard had envisaged small towns, newly built from scratch, fashioned on single family homes with small gardens. Jacobs embraced existing inner-city neighbourhoods emphasizing the verve of the living street. From Howard's idea, the American Dream of garden suburbs had emerged, yet his conceptualization of a modern city received criticism for being uniform and alienated from the rest of the city. Similarly, at the turn of the new century, Jacobs' inner-city neighbourhoods came to be recognized as the result of commodification, vacillating between poverty and newly discovered hubs of urban authenticity. Presenting Howard and Jacobs within a psychocultural context, The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard addresses our urban crisis in the recognition that "city form" is a gendered, allegorical medium expressing femininity and masculinity within two founding features of the built environment: void and volume. Both founding contrasts bring tensions, but also the opportunities of fusion between pairs of urban polarities: human scale against superscale, gait against speed, and spontaneity against surveillance. Jacobs and Howard, in their respective attitudes, have come to embrace the two ancient archetypes, the Garden and the Citadel, leaving it to future generations to blend their two contrarian stances.

Author : Stella Theocharous
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031544156

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Street Naming and the Politics of Greek-Cypriot Identity by Stella Theocharous Pdf

Author : Abraham Akkerman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030290856

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Philosophical Urbanism by Abraham Akkerman Pdf

This book expands on the thought of Walter Benjamin by exploring the notion of modern mind, pointing to the mutual and ongoing feedback between mind and city-form. Since the Neolithic Age, volumes and voids have been the founding constituents of built environments as projections of gender—as spatial allegories of the masculine and the feminine. While these allegories had been largely in balance throughout the early history of the city, increasingly during modernity, volume has overcome void in city-form. This volume investigates the pattern of Benjamin's thinking and extends it to the larger psycho-cultural and urban contexts of various time periods, pointing to environ/mental progression in the unfolding of modernity.

Author : Julian Bolleter,Cristina E. Ramalho
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030296018

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Greenspace-Oriented Development by Julian Bolleter,Cristina E. Ramalho Pdf

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) planning principles have informed Australian city planning for over two decades. As such, policy makers and planners often unquestioningly apply its principles. In contrast, this book critiques TOD and argues that while orientating development towards public transport hubs makes some sense, the application of TOD principles in Australia has proven a significant challenge. As a complementary strategy, the book stakes out the potential of Greenspace-Oriented Development (GOD) in which urban density is correlated with upgraded green spaces with reasonable access to public transport. Concentrating urban densification around green spaces offers many advantages to residents including ecosystem services such as physical and mental health benefits, the mitigation of extreme heat events, biodiversity and clean air and water. Moreover, the open space and leafy green qualities of GOD will ensure it resonates with the lifestyle aspirations of suburban residents who may otherwise resist urban densification. We believe in this way, that GOD could be an urban dream that befits the challenges of this 21st century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004521124

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Duke House and the Making of Modern New York by Anonim Pdf

An important contribution to understanding the development of modern New York, focusing on elite domestic architecture—in particular the James B. Duke House—within the contexts of social history, urban planning, architecture and interiors, and adaptive reuse for new functions.