Author: Tyler E. BurgessPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692145036
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Urban walks from all the Light Rail Stations. Total of 52 walks, 210 miles of the magic that is Seattle.
Seattle Townscape Walks
Author: Tyler E. BurgessPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692145036
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Urban walks from all the Light Rail Stations. Total of 52 walks, 210 miles of the magic that is Seattle.
Seattle Townscape Walks
Author: MS Tyler E BurgessPublisher:
ISBN: 9780981659923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Seattle has one of the world's most lovely natural settings. Explore the waterfront, Pikes Market, charming neighborhoods and the University of Washington on foot. Fall in love with this beautiful city as you walk.
The Image of the City
Author: Kevin LynchPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262620017
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
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.
Eugene and Springfield Townscape Walks
Author: M. S. Tyler E. BurgessPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692136225
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Discover the magic that is Eugene and Springfield, Oregon, in 40 walks in Eugene and 10 walks in Springfield. Easy to follow directions with charming illustrations.
Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
Author: Michael SorkinPublisher: North Point Press
ISBN: 0865477582
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn't in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, he explains what he sees, what he imagines, what he knows—giving us extraordinary access to the layers of history, the feats of engineering and artistry, and the intense social drama that take place along a simple twenty-minute walk.
Eugene, Oregon Walks
Author: Tyler BurgessPublisher:
ISBN: 9780981659909
Category : Eugene (Or.)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Guide, including distances, elevation, level of difficulty and directions for 32 enjoyable walks in Eugene Oregon.
City
Author: William H. WhytePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220834X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time." For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious about the urban environment but seemingly invisible to those responsible for planning it. Whyte uses time-lapse photography to chart the anatomy of metropolitan congestion. Why is traffic so badly distributed on city streets? Why do New Yorkers walk so fast—and jaywalk so incorrigibly? Why aren't there more collisions on the busiest walkways? Why do people who stop to talk gravitate to the center of the pedestrian traffic stream? Why do places designed primarily for security actually worsen it? Why are public restrooms disappearing? "The city is full of vexations," Whyte avers: "Steps too steep; doors too tough to open; ledges you cannot sit on. . . . It is difficult to design an urban space so maladroitly that people will not use it, but there are many such spaces." Yet Whyte finds encouragement in the widespread rediscovery of the city center. The future is not in the suburbs, he believes, but in that center. Like a Greek agora, the city must reassert its most ancient function as a place where people come together face-to-face.
Freehand Drawing and Discovery
Author: James RichardsPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118232100
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Features access to video tutorials! Designed to help architects, planners, and landscape architects use freehand sketching to quickly and creatively generate design concepts, Freehand Drawing and Discovery uses an array of cross-disciplinary examples to help readers develop their drawing skills. Taking a "both/and" approach, this book provides step-by-step guidance on drawing tools and techniques and offers practical suggestions on how to use these skills in conjunction with digital tools on real-world projects. Illustrated with nearly 300 full color drawings, the book includes a series of video demonstrations that reinforces the sketching techniques.
The City at Eye Level
Author: Meredith GlaserPublisher: Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN: 9059727142
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Although rarely explored in academic literature, most inhabitants and visitors interact with an urban landscape on a day-to-day basis is on the street level. Storefronts, first floor apartments, and sidewalks are the most immediate and common experience of a city. These "plinths" are the ground floors that negotiate between inside and outside, the public and private spheres. The City at Eye Level qualitatively evaluates plinths by exploring specific examples from all over the world. Over twenty-five experts investigate the design, land use, and road and foot traffic in rigorously researched essays, case studies, and interviews. These pieces are supplemented by over two hundred beautiful color images and engage not only with issues in design, but also the concerns of urban communities. The editors have put together a comprehensive guide for anyone concerned with improving or building plinths, including planners, building owners, property and shop managers, designers, and architects.
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