What Makes A City Planning For Quality Of Place

Author : J.J. Trip
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781607502272

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What Makes a City? Planning for 'Quality of Place' by J.J. Trip Pdf

Urban quality is generally considered increasingly important for urban competitiveness. Nevertheless, large urban redevelopment schemes often fail to provide sufficient quality from a user’s perspective. This study therefore investigates the role of urban quality in large-scale urban redevelopment, which is here elaborated in terms of Richard Florida’s concept of quality of place. In a number of extensive case studies, it focuses on prestigious redevelopment projects around the high-speed rail stations in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Lille. It provides an analysis of the role of urban quality in the development of these projects, as well as some insights in the applicability of quality of place in a wider Dutch context. In addition, the study advocates a more open and flexible planning process, based on a distinctly long-term perspective on urban quality.

Author : Michael Parfect
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415159679

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Planning for Urban Quality by Michael Parfect Pdf

Author : David Adams,Steven Tiesdell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415497961

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Shaping Places by David Adams,Steven Tiesdell Pdf

Shaping Places explains how towns and cities can turn real estate development to their advantage to create the kind of places where people want to live, work, relax and invest. It contends that the production of quality places which enhance economic prosperity, social cohesion and environmental sustainability require a transformation of market outcomes. The core of the book explores why this is essential, and how it can be delivered, by linking a clear vision for the future with the necessary means to achieve it. Crucially, the book argues that public authorities should seek to shape, regulate and stimulate real estate development so that developers, landowners and funders see real benefit in creating better places. Key to this is seeing planners as market actors, whose potential to shape the built environment depends on their capacity to understand and transform the embedded attitudes and practices of other market actors. This requires planners to be skilled in understanding the political economy of real estate development and successful in changing its outcomes through smart intervention. Drawing on a strong theoretical framework, the book reveals how the future of places will come to be shaped through constant interaction between State and market power. Filled with international examples, essential case studies, color diagrams and photographs, this is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students taking planning, property, real estate or urban design courses as well as for social science students more widely who wish to know how the shaping of place really occurs.

Author : Alexander Garvin
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610917582

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What Makes a Great City by Alexander Garvin Pdf

One of Planetizen's Top Planning Books for 2017 - San Francisco Chronicle's 2016 Holiday Books Gift Guide Pick What makes a great city? City planner and architect Alexander Garvin set out to answer this question by observing cities, largely in North America and Europe, with special attention to Paris, London, New York, and Vienna. For Garvin, greatness is about what people who shape cities can do to make a city great. A great city is a dynamic, constantly changing place that residents and their leaders can reshape to satisfy their demands. Most importantly, it is about the interplay between people and public realm, and how they have interacted throughout history to create great cities. What Makes a Great City will help readers understand that any city can be changed for the better and inspire entrepreneurs, public officials, and city residents to do it themselves.

Author : Jordan Yin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118101674

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Urban Planning For Dummies by Jordan Yin Pdf

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.

Author : Robert W. Marans,Robert J. Stimson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,5 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.

Author : Thomas A. Reiner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781512806106

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The Place of the Ideal Community in Urban Planning by Thomas A. Reiner Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : John MacDonald,Charles Branas,Robert Stokes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691234434

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Changing Places by John MacDonald,Charles Branas,Robert Stokes Pdf

How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livable The design of every aspect of the urban landscape—from streets and sidewalks to green spaces, mass transit, and housing—fundamentally influences the health and safety of the communities who live there. It can affect people's stress levels and determine whether they walk or drive, the quality of the air they breathe, and how free they are from crime. Changing Places provides a compelling look at the new science and art of urban planning, showing how scientists, planners, and citizens can work together to reshape city life in measurably positive ways. Drawing on the latest research in city planning, economics, criminology, public health, and other fields, Changing Places demonstrates how well-designed changes to place can significantly improve the well-being of large groups of people. The book argues that there is a disconnect between those who implement place-based changes, such as planners and developers, and the urban scientists who are now able to rigorously evaluate these changes through testing and experimentation. This compelling book covers a broad range of structural interventions, such as building and housing, land and open space, transportation and street environments, and entertainment and recreation centers. Science shows we can enhance people's health and safety by changing neighborhoods block-by-block. Changing Places explains why planners and developers need to recognize the value of scientific testing, and why scientists need to embrace the indispensable know-how of planners and developers. This book reveals how these professionals, working together and with urban residents, can create place-based interventions that are simple, affordable, and scalable to entire cities.

Author : Michael Parfect,Gordon Power
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134687893

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Planning for Urban Quality by Michael Parfect,Gordon Power Pdf

Rapid regeneration of city areas has placed the quality of urban design high on public and policy agendas worldwide. Planning for Urban Quality examines the achievement of quality in the urban environment, in a planning context. Tracing urban design from its roots, the authors draw on both historical and current practices to examine the key physical, political and economic forces at play and the social pressures and impacts brought about by both failures and achievements in urban design. This highly illustrated critique of towns and cities draws on examples from across Western Europe, South Africa and USA to examine both public and private sector development practices, controls and fiscal policies within a diverse range of localities. The authors indicate the need for a reinstitution of region-provincial approaches, for closer co-ordination bewteen sectors, and revised fiscal policies in planning and development in order to enhance the quality of urban social experience and environments. Providing a deeper understanding of the many diverse strands of Urban Quality, the authors provide a firm basis from which to analyse urban planning achievements and to assess the relevance and value of urban scapes.

Author : Gert de Roo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351927222

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Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement by Gert de Roo Pdf

Since Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement was originally published in 1999, the practice of integrating urban physical planning and environmental quality management has been widely adopted by governments worldwide. Fully revised and updated with a new preface by editors Donald Miller and Gert de Roo and new figures throughout, this second edition reports on the experience of 23 innovative programmes from 11 countries. Mostly written by practicing planners and government officials, the book looks at a wide range of integrated approaches which have been implemented and the critical assessment of these provides lessons for local and national governments interested in setting up similar schemes and suggesting ways of further innovation. While the Rio Earth summit, Habitat II and Kyoto have been a source of global principles for improving the environmental quality of human settlements, this book explores approaches to implement these policy positions and to make these calls for action operational. Consequently, the presentation of these cases deals not only with the technical aspects of measuring and controlling environmental spillovers, but also with the institutional, political and financial aspects of these programmes.

Author : C.S. Yadav (ed.)
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8170220033

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City Planning : Problems And Prospects (pug-14) by C.S. Yadav (ed.) Pdf

Author : Michael Parfect,Gordon Power
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134687824

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Planning for Urban Quality by Michael Parfect,Gordon Power Pdf

Rapid regeneration of city areas has placed the quality of urban design high on public and policy agendas worldwide. Planning for Urban Quality examines the achievement of quality in the urban environment, in a planning context. Tracing urban design from its roots, the authors draw on both historical and current practices to examine the key physical, political and economic forces at play and the social pressures and impacts brought about by both failures and achievements in urban design. This highly illustrated critique of towns and cities draws on examples from across Western Europe, South Africa and USA to examine both public and private sector development practices, controls and fiscal policies within a diverse range of localities. The authors indicate the need for a reinstitution of region-provincial approaches, for closer co-ordination bewteen sectors, and revised fiscal policies in planning and development in order to enhance the quality of urban social experience and environments. Providing a deeper understanding of the many diverse strands of Urban Quality, the authors provide a firm basis from which to analyse urban planning achievements and to assess the relevance and value of urban scapes.

Author : Pablo Vaggione
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : City planning
ISBN : IND:30000144515719

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Urban Planning for City Leaders by Pablo Vaggione Pdf

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Dan Soen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483145761

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New Trends in Urban Planning by Dan Soen Pdf

New Trends in Urban Planning: Studies in Housing, Urban Design and Planning presents the trends in urban planning with a wide array of theory and practice in various countries. This book deals with the overall problems facing urban planners in their striving at an enhanced quality of life in human settlements. Organized into seven panels encompassing 29 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the planning aspects of a general nature. This text then highlights some of the important trends in the recent change of focus due to the view that the settlement is a better contemporary definition than urban planning. Other chapters consider that the theory and practice of urban planning is found to be inadequate for the purpose of remedying deficiencies in urban areas. The final chapter deals with the specific developments that are taking place in Israel and elsewhere. This book is a valuable resource for teachers, practitioners, researchers, administrators, and politicians.