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Author: Rebecca Felix Publisher: Cherry Lake ISBN: 1631889540 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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This Level 2 guided reader illustrates examples of patterns found in an urban setting. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning to identify how repeating shapes, colors, or lines form a pattern.
Author: Rebecca Felix Publisher: Cherry Lake ISBN: 1631889540 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 26
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This Level 2 guided reader illustrates examples of patterns found in an urban setting. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning to identify how repeating shapes, colors, or lines form a pattern.
Author: Christopher Alexander Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190050357 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages :
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You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building and planning, which will we hope replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The Timeless Way of Building, The Oregon Experiment, and this book, A Pattern Language. At the core of these books is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets, and communities. This idea may be radical (it implies a radical transformation of the architectural profession) but it comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people. At the core of the books, too, is the point that in designing their environments people always rely on certain "languages," which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a forma system which gives them coherence. This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable a person to make a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. "Patterns," the units of this language, are answers to design problems (How high should a window sill be? How many stories should a building have? How much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?). More than 250 of the patterns in this pattern language are given: each consists of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seemly likely that they will be a part of human nature, and human action, as much in five hundred years as they are today.
Author: Nathan Olson Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 9780736867306 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 68
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Giant skyscrapers, checkered taxi cabs, and stretching sidewalks all have patterns. Search high and low to find repeated shapes, colors, and other fun patterns in the city.
Author: Stanley D. Brunn Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538126354 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 609
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Remarkably, more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and the numbers grow daily as people abandon rural areas. This fully updated and revised seventh edition of the classic text offers readers a comprehensive set of tools for understanding the urban landscape, and, by extension, the world's politics, cultures, and economies. Providing a sweeping overview of world urban geography, noted experts explore the eleven major global regions. Each regional chapter considers urban history, economy, culture, and environment, as well as urban spatial models and problems and prospects. Each begins with two facing pages: a regional map that shows the major cities and a table of basic statistical information about cities and urbanization in each region and a list of ten salient points about that region’s urban experience. Chapters conclude with a list of references, including films and webpages, which can be used by the student and instructor for additional information about specific cities. This edition adds the important new themes of climate change and migration, while continuing to focus specifically on sustainability, water, technology, social and environmental justice, security and conflict, the history of urban settlement, urban planning trends, and daily life. Vignettes of key cities give the reader a vivid understanding of daily life and the "spirit of place." The opening chapter presents an overview of key terms and concepts and explores contemporary world urbanization, and a concluding chapter projects the world's urban future. Liberally illustrated in full color with a new selection of photographs, maps, and diagrams, the text also includes a rich array of textboxes to highlight key topics ranging from migration and immigration to LBGTQ activism, human security, and climate change. Clearly written and timely, Cities of the World will be invaluable for those teaching introductory or advanced classes on global cities, regional geography, the developing world, and urban studies.
Author: Spiro Kostof Publisher: ISBN: 9780500280997 Category : Cities and towns Languages : en Pages : 352
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The book is about the universal phenomenon of citymaking seen in a historical perspective - how and why cities took the shape they did. It focuses on a number of themes - organic patterns, the grid, the city as a diagram, the grand manner, and the skyline - and moves through time and place to interpret the hidden order inscribed in urban patterns.
Author: J. Clark Sawyer Publisher: Bearport Publishing ISBN: 1627243925 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
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A family walking down the street makes an alternating pattern: tall, short, tall, short. The buttons on an elevator form a pattern of circles. A huge staircase goes round and round, making a spiral pattern. In this visually dazzling book, beginning readers will learn all about the shapes and colors that make up patterns in the big city. Each 32-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The lively text, colorful pages, and exquisite photos are sure to delight and engage emergent readers.
Author: Institute of British Geographers. Urban Study Group Publisher: London : Institute of British Geographers ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 212
Author: Rebecca Felix
Author: Rebecca Felix
Author: Christopher Alexander
Author: Nathan Olson
Author: Stanley D. Brunn
Author: Spiro Kostof
Author: Arthur James Rose
Author: J. Clark Sawyer
Author: Spiro Kostof
Author: Philip Kivell
Author: Institute of British Geographers. Urban Study Group