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Author : John Nolen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : City planning
ISBN : COLUMBIA:AR62502395
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : City planning
ISBN : PSU:000022850812
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015073433693
Author : John Nolen
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0332246574
Excerpt from The Place of the Beautiful in the City Plan What is the test of Beauty? In an address on this subject before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard University delivered a year ago, Ralph Adams Cram said, Bring up to the Courts of Beauty any one of the things that offend us today, no matter what this may be, and abide by the verdict rendered. For the sake of impersonality let it be a modern city, anything, from Somerville to Chicago, and what has beauty to say in the premises? Before beauty's austere regard the bold pleading of business efficiency, of plausible economic law, of material progress, of a mechan istic philosophy of evolution - of Modernism, in a word falls thin and unconvincing. Dead cities rise up before us in vision, cities now marred and degraded yet beautiful still in their delicate vestiges: Venice and Palermo, Le Puy and Carcassonne, Rothenburg and Prague, Bruges and Hildesheim, Oxford and Winchester - and with them beauty calls on us to match Leeds and Birmingham and Essen and Pittsburgh and St. Louis, or as a matter of fact any other city in either hemisphere created or dominated by indus trial civilization. Is the change worth the price, is the criticism lightly to be cast aside as sentimental or efl'emi mate? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Marichela Sepe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135123789
Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city’s uniqueness and make it instantly recognisable. A key task for planners and residents, working together, is to preserve that unique sense of place without making the city a parody of itself. In Planning and Place in the City, Marichela Sepe explores the preservation, reconstruction and enhancement of cultural heritage and place identity. She outlines the history of the concept of placemaking, and sets out the range of different methods of analysis and assessment that are used to help pin down the nature of place identity. This book also uses the author's own survey-based method called PlaceMaker to detect elements that do not feature in traditional mapping and identifies appropriate planning interventions. Case studies investigate cities in Europe, North America and Asia, which demonstrate how surveys and interviews can be used to draw up an analytical map of place identity. This investigative work is a crucial step in identifying cultural elements which will influence what planning decisions should be taken in the future. The maps aim to establish a dialogue with local residents and support planners and administrators in making sustainable changes. The case studies are amply illustrated with survey data sheets, photos, and coloured maps. Innovative and broad-based, Planning and Place in the City lays out an approach to the identification and preservation of place and cultural heritage suitable for students, academics and professionals alike.
Author : American Society of Planning Officials
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015069528696
Author : William L. Garrison,David M. Levinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199862719
"A history of the development of transportation systems, with suggestions for further efficiency"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1964-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262620014
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 : Mike Tedesco
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9781611391053
In the world of municipal politics, truth is stranger than fiction, and there is no truth stranger than La Blanca Gente, Colorado. Tedesco weaves between the anecdotal and the academic to unveil the tactics government employees employ to achieve their own ends.
Author : Nir Haim Buras
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674919242
"An accomplished architect and urbanist goes back to the roots of what makes cities attractive and livable, demonstrating how we can restore function and beauty to our urban spaces for the long term. Nearly everything we treasure in the worldÕs most beautiful cities was built over a century ago. Cities like Prague, Paris, and Lisbon draw millions of visitors from around the world because of their exquisite architecture, walkable neighborhoods, and human scale. Yet a great deal of the knowledge and practice behind successful city planning has been abandoned over the last hundred yearsÑnot because of traffic, population growth, or other practical hurdles, but because of ill-considered theories emerging from Modernism and reactions to it. The errors of urban design over the last century are too great not to question. The solutions being offered todayÑsustainability, walkability, smart and green technologiesÑhint at what has been lost and what may be regained, but they remain piecemeal and superficial. In The Art of Classic Planning, architect and planner Nir Haim Buras documents and extends the time-tested and holistic practices that held sway before the reign of Modernism. With hundreds of full-color illustrations and photographs that will captivate architects, planners, administrators, and developers, The Art of Classic Planning restores and revitalizes the foundations of urban planning. Inspired by venerable cities like Kyoto, Vienna, and Venice, and by the great successes of LÕEnfantÕs Washington, HaussmannÕs Paris, and BurnhamÕs Chicago, Buras combines theory and a host of examples to arrive at clear guidelines for best practices in classic planning for todayÕs world. The Art of Classic Planning celebrates the enduring principles of urban design and invites us to return to building beautiful cities."
Author : John Nolen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317620372
John Nolen’s New Ideals in the Planning of Cities, Towns, and Villages is the most thorough assessment of city planning written by an American practitioner before 1920. It records the interplay of urban reform in Europe and the United States, the rise of the planning expert, the design of new towns, and the technique for directing urban expansion on systematic lines. Most important, it documents the blueprint for investing the "peace dividend" of the Great War to make urban life "more fit for democracy". Written for men fighting to make the world safe for democracy, New Ideals revealed how the domestic part of the peace program could justify their sacrifice. The wartime housing initiative had improved the living conditions of industrial workers and the same public regulation and control of the layout and character of residential neighbourhoods could provide what "men of service expect to find on their return, a new and better type of workman’s home." While New Ideals strained towards the utopian, experience tempered Nolen’s expectations and the high aims of the book were not immediately realised in a post-war society seeking a return to pre-war normalcy. However in the last decade, Nolen’s planned communities have been closely studied as the demand for pedestrian-oriented neighbourhoods set on sustainable lines has moved from novelty to policy. New Ideals is an important text not only for its design template, but also its aspirations. Nolen’s call to "make cites that will serve the needs--physical, economic, and spiritual-- of all people" lays at the heart of the city planning profession and the lessons Nolen imparted inform a new generation planning cities to be both resilient and just.
Author : Deirdre Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Independence National Historical Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
ISBN : IND:30000038672642
Author : Sofia Greaves,Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789257823
According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : City planning
ISBN : OSU:32435058108705
Author : Jordan Yin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118101674
How to create the world's new urban future With the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning—the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially—has become an increasingly vital profession. In Urban Planning For Dummies, readers will get a practical overview of this fascinating field, including studying community demographics, determining the best uses for land, planning economic and transportation development, and implementing plans. Following an introductory course on urban planning, this book is key reading for any urban planning student or anyone involved in urban development. With new studies conclusively demonstrating the dramatic impact of urban design on public psychological and physical health, the impact of the urban planner on a community is immense. And with a wide range of positions for urban planners in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors—including law firms, utility companies, and real estate development firms—having a fundamental understanding of urban planning is key to anyone even considering entry into this field. This book provides a useful introduction and lays the groundwork for serious study. Helps readers understand the essentials of this complex profession Written by a certified practicing urban planner, with extensive practical and community-outreach experience For anyone interested in being in the vanguard of building, designing, and shaping tomorrow's sustainable city, Urban Planning For Dummies offers an informative, entirely accessible introduction on learning how.
