The Evolution Of American Urban Design

Author : David Gosling,Maria-Cristina Gosling
Publisher : Academy Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015056180402

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This is the first time an overview of the theories and practice of urban design has been offered. Covering a 50-year span, the book seeks to identify built urban design projects and traces the evolution and separation of American urban design theories up to the end of the twentieth century. It includes contemporary designs, projects, and writings in an attempt to identify future directions of the next century.

Author : Jon Lang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994-02-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471285420

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Urban Design by Jon Lang Pdf

Urban Design the American Experience Jon Lang Urban Design: The American Experience places social and environmental concerns within the context of American history. It returns the focus of urban design to the creation of a better world. It evaluates the efforts of designers who apply knowledge about the environment and people to the creation of livable, enjoyable, and even inspiring built worlds. Urban Design: The American Experience emphasizes that urban design must take a user-oriented approach to achieve a higher quality of life in human settlements. All the keys to this approach are spelled out in chapters that address: Urban design as both a product and process of communal decision-making Types of knowledge required as a base for urban design action How to apply recent environmental and behavioral research to professional design How human needs are fulfilled through design The true role of functionalism in design Urban design efforts of the twentieth century in the United States are examined within their socio-political context. Jon Lang reviews the urban design experience from the beginning of the "City Beautiful" movement, paying particular attention to developments since World War II. He explores how the twentieth-century city has developed, as well as discusses the attitudes that have driven major movements in urban design. Readers learn a neo-Modernist approach that builds on the successes and failures of Rationalism and Empiricism, the two major streams of Modernist thought in architecture and urban design. They also gain an understanding of how the environment is experienced by people, and the implications of this experiencing for architectural and urban design. Numerous illustrations throughout demonstrate how various design schemes can be used. Urban Design: The American Experience provides architects, designers, city planners, and students in these fields with a model for their own future development as professionals. It is a valuable guide to design methodology (procedural theory) and other issues related to creating optimal urban environments.

Author : Richard K. Rein
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642831702

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American Urbanist by Richard K. Rein Pdf

"William H. Whyte's curiosity compelled him to question the status quo--whether helping to make Fortune Magazine essential reading for business leaders, warning of "groupthink" in his bestseller The Organization Man, or standing up for Jane Jacobs as she advocated for the vitality of city life and public space. This compelling biography sheds light on Whyte's bold way of thinking, ripe for rediscovery at a time when we are reshaping our communities into places of opportunity and empowerment for all citizens" -- Backcover.

Author : Charles Montgomery
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780385669139

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Happy City by Charles Montgomery Pdf

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 condo towers 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, during an exhilarating journey through some of the world’s most dynamic cities. He meets the visionary mayor who introduced a “sexy” 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 hacked the design of their own streets and neighborhoods. Rich with new insights from psychology, neuroscience and Montgomery’s own urban experiments, Happy City reveals how our cities can shape our thoughts as well as our behavior. The message is as surprising as it is hopeful: by retrofitting cities and our own lives for happiness, we can tackle the urgent challenges of our age. The happy city can save the world--and all of us can help build it.

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : City planning
ISBN : OCLC:244302808

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Pdf

Author : Mel Scott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520020510

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American City Planning Since 1890 by Mel Scott Pdf

Author : Brenda Case Scheer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351178037

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The Evolution of Urban Form by Brenda Case Scheer Pdf

Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change? The author tackles this question in her comprehensive guide for planners, designers, and students concerned with how cities take shape. This book provides a fundamental understanding of how physical environments are created, changed, and transformed through ordinary processes over time. Most of the built environment adheres to a few physical patterns, or types, that occur over and over. Planners and architects, consciously and unconsciously, refer to building types as they work through urban design problems and regulations. Suitable for professional planners, architects, urban designers, and students, This book includes practical examples of how typology is critical to analytical, design, and regulatory situations.

Author : Wayne Attoe,Donn Logan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520061527

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American Urban Architecture by Wayne Attoe,Donn Logan Pdf

Attoe and Logan propose a specifically American theory of urban design. Arguing that theories of urban design, especially theories about the remaking of cities, have been largely European in origin and thus of questionable value in American contexts, the authors see the characteristic features of American cities--the grid, loft buildings, distinctive styling, and so forth--as opportunities for a specifically American urbanism.

Author : David Gamble,Patty Heyda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317631057

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Rebuilding the American City by David Gamble,Patty Heyda Pdf

Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick. It takes a delicate alignment of goals, power, leadership and sustained advocacy on the part of many. Rebuilding the American City highlights 15 urban design and planning projects in the U.S. that have been catalysts for their downtowns—yet were implemented during the tumultuous start of the 21st century. The book presents five paradigms for redevelopment and a range of perspectives on the complexities, successes and challenges inherent to rebuilding American cities today. Rebuilding the American City is essential reading for practitioners and students in urban design, planning, and public policy looking for diverse models of urban transformation to create resilient urban cores.

Author : John William Reps
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691238241

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The Making of Urban America by John William Reps Pdf

This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.

Author : Sam Bass Warner, Jr.,Andrew Whittemore
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262525329

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American Urban Form by Sam Bass Warner, Jr.,Andrew Whittemore Pdf

An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis. American Urban Form—the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life—has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings, streets, parks, pipes and wires, wharves, railroads, highways, and airports reflect changing patterns of the social, political, and economic processes that shape the city. In this book, Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore map more than three hundred years of the American city through the evolution of urban form. They do this by offering an illustrated history of “the City”—a hypothetical city (constructed from the histories of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York) that exemplifies the American city's transformation from village to regional metropolis. In an engaging text accompanied by Whittemore's detailed, meticulous drawings, they chart the City's changes. Planning for the future of cities, they remind us, requires an understanding of the forces that shaped the city's past.

Author : Emily Talen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135992613

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New Urbanism and American Planning by Emily Talen Pdf

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.

Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1057 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761928843

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Encyclopedia of American Urban History by David Goldfield Pdf

Edited by one of the leading scholars of urban studies, this encyclopedia offers an accurate and authoritative historical approach to the dramatic urban growth experienced in the United States during the 20th century.

Author : Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris,Tridib Banerjee
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520209305

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Urban Design Downtown by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris,Tridib Banerjee Pdf

"Insightful and a delight to read, the book should be read by city officials, land developers, and anyone involved or merely interested in the evolution and design of urban form and space."—Richard T. Lai, Arizona State University

Author : John William Reps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:64023414

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The Making of Urban America by John William Reps Pdf