The New Urbanism

Author : Congress for the New Urbanism
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015048862653

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Charter of the New Urbanism by Congress for the New Urbanism Pdf

An agenda for thriving urban centers, the San Francisco-based Congress for the New Urbanism is a leading force for modern design that encourages viable neighborhoods, conserves natural environments, and preserves our architectural heritage. Charter of the New Urbanism introduces you to the work of the world-class planners, architects and other professionals who are making the new urbanism happen. Charter contributors, including Andres Duany, Peter Calthorpe, and Liz Moule, explain strategies that range from large-scale, regional, to small-scale: blocks, streets and buildings. Revealing case studies help you understand the impact of geography, economics,development and urban patterns, public and private uses, transportation and pedestrian access, housing, building densities and land uses, codes, parks, shared use, safety, preservation and renewal, community identity and much more in this invaluable resource for design professionals.

Author : Emily Talen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Emily Talen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781788118637

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A Research Agenda for New Urbanism by Emily Talen Pdf

New Urbanism, a movement devoted to building walkable, socially diversity cities, has garnered some successes and some failures over the past several decades. A Research Agenda for New Urbanism is a forward-looking book composed of chapters by leading scholars of New Urbanism. Authors focus on multiple topics, including affordability, transportation, social life and retail to highlight the areas of research that are most important for the future of the field. The book summarizes what we know and what we need to know to provide a research agenda that will have the greatest promise and most positive impact on building the best possible human habitat—which is the aim of New Urbanism.

Author : Tigran Haas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architects and community
ISBN : 0847831116

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New Urbanism and Beyond by Tigran Haas Pdf

Author : Jill Grant
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415700744

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Planning the Good Community by Jill Grant Pdf

An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals, the author asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to creating good communities. With examples drawn principally from North America, Europe and Japan, Planning the Good Community explores new urban approaches in a wide range of settings. It compares the movement for urban renaissance in Europe with the New Urbanism of the United States and Canada, and asks whether the concerns that drive today's planning theory - issues like power, democracy, spatial patterns and globalisation- receive adequate attention in new urban approaches. The issue of aesthetics is also raised, as the author questions whether communities must be more than just attractive in order to be good. With the benefit of twenty years' hindsight and a world-wide perspective, this book offers the reader unparalleled insight as well as a rigorous and considered critical analysis.

Author : Christopher B. Leinberger
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597267762

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The Option of Urbanism by Christopher B. Leinberger Pdf

Americans are voting with their feet to abandon strip malls and suburban sprawl, embracing instead a new type of community where they can live, work, shop, and play within easy walking distance. In The Option of Urbanism visionary developer and strategist Christopher B. Leinberger explains why government policies have tilted the playing field toward one form of development over the last sixty years: the drivable suburb. Rooted in the driving forces of the economy—car manufacturing and the oil industry—this type of growth has fostered the decline of community, contributed to urban decay, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and contributed to the rise in obesity and asthma. Highlighting both the challenges and the opportunities for this type of development, The Option of Urbanism shows how the American Dream is shifting to include cities as well as suburbs and how the financial and real estate communities need to respond to build communities that are more environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable.

Author : Peter Katz
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780071849128

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The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community by Peter Katz Pdf

The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small towns'' in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. You'll discover the amazing potential for this kind of work as well as case studies, site plans, project analyses, and 180 beautiful photographs. This unique reference also tackles--and answers--the critical issues of crime, health, traffic, environmental degradation, and economic vitality and opens a startling window on the look and feel of future communities. Every designer can profit from this guide to building the utopias of tomorrow--today!

Author : Mark J. Eppli,Charles C. Tu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951P00668662N

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Valuing the New Urbanism by Mark J. Eppli,Charles C. Tu Pdf

Author : James Howard Kunstler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994-07-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780671888251

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Geography Of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler Pdf

Argues that much of what surrounds Americans is depressing, ugly, and unhealthy; and traces America's evolution from a land of village commons to a man-made landscape that ignores nature and human needs.

Author : Leon Krier
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610911245

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The Architecture of Community by Leon Krier Pdf

Leon Krier is one of the best-known—and most provocative—architects and urban theoreticians in the world. Until now, however, his ideas have circulated mostly among a professional audience of architects, city planners, and academics. In The Architecture of Community, Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book Architecture: Choice or Fate. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. With three new chapters, The Architecture of Community provides a contemporary road map for designing or completing today’s fragmented communities. Illustrated throughout with Krier’s original drawings, The Architecture of Community explains his theories on classical and vernacular urbanism and architecture, while providing practical design guidelines for creating livable towns. The book contains descriptions and images of the author’s built and unbuilt projects, including the Krier House and Tower in Seaside, Florida, as well as the town of Poundbury in England. Commissioned by the Prince of Wales in 1988, Krier’s design for Poundbury in Dorset has become a reference model for ecological planning and building that can meet contemporary needs.

Author : Andrés Duany,Emily Talen
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781550925364

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Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents by Andrés Duany,Emily Talen Pdf

Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism - negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite. This apparent dichotomy ignores the interdependence between human settlement and the natural world. In fact, one of the most pressing problems facing urban theorists today is determining how to resolve the tension between the built and natural environments, in the process creating truly sustainable cities. Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents is a collection of essays exploring the debate over urban reform, now polarized around the two competing paradigms of Landscape Urbanism and the New Urbanism. Landscape Urbanism is conceived as a more ecologically based approach, while New Urbanism is more concerned with the built form. Well-known and influential urban theorists such as Andrés Duany and James Howard Kunstler delve into the impact of the tension between the two perspectives on: Smart growth Neighborhood design Sustainable development Creating cities that are in balance with nature While there is significant overlap between Landscape Urbanism and the New Urbanism, the former has assumed prominence amongst most critical theorists, whereas the latter's proponents are more practically oriented. Given that these two sets of ideas are at the forefront of sustainable urban design, the analysis– and potential reconciliation—offered by Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents is long overdue. Andrés Duany is a leading proponent of the New Urbanism and is a founding principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. Emily Talen is a professor at Arizona State University and the author of four previous books on urban design.

Author : Fulong Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134117710

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China's Emerging Cities by Fulong Wu Pdf

With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material and covers key topics on Chinese urban development.

Author : John A. Dutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015050170714

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New American Urbanism by John A. Dutton Pdf

This book reviews the recent resurgence of town and urban design in America, with particular attention to the return to traditional forms of urbanism and building conventions.

Author : Aaron Passell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415538978

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Building the New Urbanism by Aaron Passell Pdf

The volume encapsulates and engages the dominant history of American suburbia, brings the work of prominent theorists of culture and science into the investigation of urban and suburban development, and broadens the focus of urban studies to the metropolitan region. It will be of particular interest to scholars of urban and suburban development, material culture, and professions, but is accessible enough for use in sociology, geography, planning, and urban and suburban studies courses.

Author : Richard Florida
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1541644123

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The New Urban Crisis by Richard Florida Pdf

Richard Florida, one of the world's leading urbanists and author of The Rise of the Creative Class, confronts the dark side of the back-to-the-city movement In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. and yet all is not well. In The New Urban Crisis, Richard Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement, demonstrates how the forces that drive urban growth also generate cities' vexing challenges, such as gentrification, segregation, and inequality. Meanwhile, many more cities still stagnate, and middle-class neighborhoods everywhere are disappearing. We must rebuild cities and suburbs by empowering them to address their challenges. The New Urban Crisis is a bracingly original work of research and analysis that offers a compelling diagnosis of our economic ills and a bold prescription for more inclusive cities capable of ensuring prosperity for all.