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Author: Nigel Taylor Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 9780761960935 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 196
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Taylor describes the development of urban planning ideas since the end of the Second World War, outlining the main theories from the traditional view of planning as an exercise in physical design to recent views of planning as 'communicative action'.
Author: Nigel Taylor Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 9780761960935 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 196
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Taylor describes the development of urban planning ideas since the end of the Second World War, outlining the main theories from the traditional view of planning as an exercise in physical design to recent views of planning as 'communicative action'.
Author: Walter Gropius Publisher: Mit Press ISBN: 9780262070294 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 72
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"A town, as a living organism, is subject to continuous change. Its basic structure generated by the character of the life of its population constitutes its identity. Its growth cannot be left to chance but should be consciously developed and controlled by act of will. The final aim of successful planning is to raise the standard of town life which will express—practically and aesthetically—the pride of its inhabitants." —Walter Gropius The development of a master plan for Selb, a town of 20,000 in northeast Bavaria, was the last extended work of Walter Gropius, undertaken in collaboration with other members of his firm. This book presents that plan, together with the concurrently developed traffic control system. The principal designers and the town's mayor have contributed written accounts, but the greater part of the presentation takes the form of multicolored graphs, maps, photographs, and drawings. The plan for the town proper telescopes forward to encompass four stages of growth. The separate proposals for these are not to be implemented in terms of a rigid timetable but are geared to the rate of population growth. Since most of the town was destroyed in a disastrous fire in the middle of the last century, few structures of historic or architectural interest remain. It was nevertheless decided that as many of the existing buildings as possible be incorporated as integral parts of the new plans. This is especially true of the envisioned town core, designed with magnified attention to detail, which is to include shopping and service facilities, and malls where pedestrians are able to reassert their right of way: vehicular traffic is excluded. This is the first requirement if the "heart" of town, as Gropius liked to call it, is to be revitalized. He notes that "Many plazas of old towns have lost their former meaning to serve as receptacle for public life since the automobile has pushed the pedestrian against their walls." A basic feature of the planned traffic network is a ring road crossed by three major thoroughfares that in turn intersect with each other inside the ring. Since each of these three streets crosses the other two at different points, they circumscribe an area roughly triangular in shape. This is the area that constitutes the town core. Selb is known as the "city of porcelain," and it was the head of one of its most prominent family firms, Philip Rosenthal, who was instrumental in initiating the negotiations that brought Gropius and his firm to the project. But diversification of industry is one of of the goals of the town administration; it is this consideration that makes intelligent town planning at just this point imperative.
Author: Michael J. Lewis Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400884314 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 257
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A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinking The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis takes readers across centuries and continents to show how Utopian town planning produced a distinctive type of settlement characterized by its square plan, collective ownership of properties, and communal dormitories. Some of these settlements were sanctuaries from religious persecution, like those of the German Rappites, French Huguenots, and American Shakers, while others were sanctuaries from the Industrial Revolution, like those imagined by Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, and other Utopian visionaries. Because of their differences in ideology and theology, these settlements have traditionally been viewed separately, but Lewis shows how they are part of a continuous intellectual tradition that stretches from the early Protestant Reformation into modern times. Through close readings of architectural plans and archival documents, many previously unpublished, he shows the network of connections between these seemingly disparate Utopian settlements—including even such well-known town plans as those of New Haven and Philadelphia. The most remarkable aspect of the city of refuge is the inventive way it fused its eclectic sources, ranging from the encampments of the ancient Israelites as described in the Bible to the detailed social program of Thomas More's Utopia to modern thought about education, science, and technology. Delving into the historical evolution and antecedents of Utopian towns and cities, City of Refuge alters notions of what a Utopian community can and should be.
Author: Andres Duany Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: 9780847821860 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 384
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This book updates and thoroughly details the most important recent trends in civic architecture and planning, but does not limit itself to this; time-honored precedents, in some cases centuries old, are referenced. This massive, encyclopedic display, drawn from over 200 international sources, has been carefully selected for use not only by trained professionals but for everyone involved in the shaping of cities and the built environment. Numerous examples culled from the works of such notable architects as Arata Isozaki, Frank Gehry, Robert A.M. Stern, Rob Krier, and many others cover all aspects of the environment, from large regional concerns down to details of the private realm.
Author: Lewis Mumford Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780156180351 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 788
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The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. "One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.
Author: Thomas D. Wilson Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813937116 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 342
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The statesman and reformer James Oglethorpe was a significant figure in the philosophical and political landscape of eighteenth-century British America. His social contributions—all informed by Enlightenment ideals—included prison reform, the founding of the Georgia Colony on behalf of the "worthy poor," and stirring the founders of the abolitionist movement. He also developed the famous ward design for the city of Savannah, a design that became one of the most important planning innovations in American history. Multilayered and connecting the urban core to peripheral garden and farm lots, the Oglethorpe Plan was intended by its author to both exhibit and foster his utopian ideas of agrarian equality. In his new book, the professional planner Thomas D. Wilson reconsiders the Oglethorpe Plan, revealing that Oglethorpe was a more dynamic force in urban planning than has generally been supposed. In essence, claims Wilson, the Oglethorpe Plan offers a portrait of the Enlightenment, and embodies all of the major themes of that era, including science, humanism, and secularism. The vibrancy of the ideas behind its conception invites an exploration of the plan's enduring qualities. In addition to surveying historical context and intellectual origins, this book aims to rescue Oglethorpe’s work from its relegation to the status of a living museum in a revered historic district, and to demonstrate instead how modern-day town planners might employ its principles. Unique in its exclusive focus on the topic and written in a clear and readable style, The Oglethorpe Plan explores this design as a bridge between New Urbanism and other more naturally evolving and socially engaged modes of urban development.
Author: Barry Cullingworth Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134246099 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 625
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This revised fourteenth edition reinforces this title's reputation as the bible of British planning. It provides a through explanation of planning processes including the institutions involved, tools, systems, policies and changes to land use.
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Author: Walter Gropius
Author: Michael J. Lewis
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Author: Barry Cullingworth