Author: Alessandro Melis
Publisher: D Editore
ISBN: 8894830179
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Over thousands of years, human beings have built habitats in response to their increasingly complex needs. The ultimate form of these habitats is the modern city: a feat in which the benefits are self-evident. However, the city has grown into a paradoxical phenomenon. Providing for the present compromises the ability to provide for the future. The unidirectional metabolism of the city is consuming the world’s resources and disrupting the climate system at a rate that is not sustainable. Cities need to undergo profound physical and systemic changes if they are to provide for the future needs of human beings. This book critically examines the implication of the environmental crisis on conventional methods of urban development and architectural thinking. In contention with conservative ‘green’ building schemes, this work undertakes a radical and systemic renegotiation of environmental, population, and life-quality issues in architecture and urban design.
How to Build Cities and Destroy Motorways
Author: Alessandro Melis
Publisher: D Editore
ISBN: 8894830179
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Over thousands of years, human beings have built habitats in response to their increasingly complex needs. The ultimate form of these habitats is the modern city: a feat in which the benefits are self-evident. However, the city has grown into a paradoxical phenomenon. Providing for the present compromises the ability to provide for the future. The unidirectional metabolism of the city is consuming the world’s resources and disrupting the climate system at a rate that is not sustainable. Cities need to undergo profound physical and systemic changes if they are to provide for the future needs of human beings. This book critically examines the implication of the environmental crisis on conventional methods of urban development and architectural thinking. In contention with conservative ‘green’ building schemes, this work undertakes a radical and systemic renegotiation of environmental, population, and life-quality issues in architecture and urban design.
Publisher: D Editore
ISBN: 8894830179
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Over thousands of years, human beings have built habitats in response to their increasingly complex needs. The ultimate form of these habitats is the modern city: a feat in which the benefits are self-evident. However, the city has grown into a paradoxical phenomenon. Providing for the present compromises the ability to provide for the future. The unidirectional metabolism of the city is consuming the world’s resources and disrupting the climate system at a rate that is not sustainable. Cities need to undergo profound physical and systemic changes if they are to provide for the future needs of human beings. This book critically examines the implication of the environmental crisis on conventional methods of urban development and architectural thinking. In contention with conservative ‘green’ building schemes, this work undertakes a radical and systemic renegotiation of environmental, population, and life-quality issues in architecture and urban design.
Walkable City
Author: Jeff Speck
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0865477728
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Presents a plan for American cities that focuses on making downtowns walkable and less attractive to drivers through smart growth and sustainable design
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0865477728
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Presents a plan for American cities that focuses on making downtowns walkable and less attractive to drivers through smart growth and sustainable design
Building American Cities
Author: Joe R. Feagin
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 1587981483
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This is a reprint of a 1990 book A comprehensive analysis of how cities grow, change, deteriorate and are resuscitated
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 1587981483
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This is a reprint of a 1990 book A comprehensive analysis of how cities grow, change, deteriorate and are resuscitated
Good Roads
Regulation of Sizes and Weights of Motor Vehicles
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Route 71, South Midtown Freeway Construction, Kansas City
Transportation Plan for the National Capital Region
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Reviews the D.C. mass transportation plans. Includes Interim Report of the Joint Commission To Study Passenger Carrier Facilities and Services in the Washington Metropolitan Area, Feb. 1956 (p. 309-362)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local transit
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Reviews the D.C. mass transportation plans. Includes Interim Report of the Joint Commission To Study Passenger Carrier Facilities and Services in the Washington Metropolitan Area, Feb. 1956 (p. 309-362)
National Capital Transportation Act of 1960
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Washington Metropolitan Problems
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
Considers S. 3193 and identical H.R. 11135, to aid in development of unified and integrated transportation system for D.C. and environs; to create temporary National Capital Transportation Agency; to authorize creation of National Capital Transportation Corp.; and to authorize negotiation to create interstate transportation agency.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
Considers S. 3193 and identical H.R. 11135, to aid in development of unified and integrated transportation system for D.C. and environs; to create temporary National Capital Transportation Agency; to authorize creation of National Capital Transportation Corp.; and to authorize negotiation to create interstate transportation agency.
Southwest Builder and Contractor
Academic American Encyclopedia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A twenty-one volume set of encyclopedias providing an alphabetical listing of information on a variety of topics.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A twenty-one volume set of encyclopedias providing an alphabetical listing of information on a variety of topics.