Author: James P. CramerPublisher: Greenway Communications
ISBN: 9780967547794
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Almanac of Architecture & Design, 2005
Author: James P. CramerPublisher: Greenway Communications
ISBN: 9780967547794
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Rio Del Oro Specific Plan Project, Sacramento County
Author: Urban Design
Author: Jon LangPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317282914
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the field and addressing the controversies and goals of urban design. Including over 50 updated international case studies, this new edition presents a three-dimensional model with which to categorize the processes and products involved: product type, paradigm type, and procedural type. The case studies not only illuminate the typology but provide information that designers can use as precedents in their own work. Uniquely, these case study projects are framed by the design paradigm employed, categorized by procedural type instead of instrumental or land use function. The categories used here are Total Urban Design, All-of-a-piece Urban Design, Plug-in Urban Design, and Piece-by-piece Urban Design. Written for both professionals and those encountering urban design in their day-to-day life, Urban Design is an essential introduction to the field and practice, considering the future direction of the field and what can be learned from the past.
The 100 Best Small Towns in America
Author: Norman CramptonPublisher: Arco Pub
ISBN: 9780028605777
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Provides information on growth rate, per capita income, economic base, media, health care, schools, churches, and housing costs
Beiträge Zur 15. Internationalen Konferenz Zu Stadtplanung, Regionalentwicklung und Informationsgesellschaft
Author: Manfred SchrenkPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 3950213996
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 693
Book Description
Planning for Coastal Resilience
Author: Timothy BeatleyPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1610911423
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency and magnitude of coastal storms around the globe, and the anticipated rise of sea levels will have enormous impact on fragile and vulnerable coastal regions. In the U.S., more than 50% of the population inhabits coastal areas. In Planning for Coastal Resilience, Tim Beatley argues that, in the face of such threats, all future coastal planning and management must reflect a commitment to the concept of resilience. In this timely book, he writes that coastal resilience must become the primary design and planning principle to guide all future development and all future infrastructure decisions. Resilience, Beatley explains, is a profoundly new way of viewing coastal infrastructure—an approach that values smaller, decentralized kinds of energy, water, and transport more suited to the serious physical conditions coastal communities will likely face. Implicit in the notion is an emphasis on taking steps to build adaptive capacity, to be ready ahead of a crisis or disaster. It is anticipatory, conscious, and intentional in its outlook. After defining and explaining coastal resilience, Beatley focuses on what it means in practice. Resilience goes beyond reactive steps to prevent or handle a disaster. It takes a holistic approach to what makes a community resilient, including such factors as social capital and sense of place. Beatley provides case studies of five U.S. coastal communities, and “resilience profiles” of six North American communities, to suggest best practices and to propose guidelines for increasing resilience in threatened communities.
Folsom South of U.S. 50 Specific Plan Project, Sacramento County
Author: The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide to the 331 Most Interesting Colleges 2005
Author: Kaplan, IncPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743251990
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Engaging and informative, "The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide to the 331 Most Interesting Colleges 2005" is a must-read reference for every college-bound student.
Classical New York
Author: Elizabeth Macaulay-LewisPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823281035
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Essays on the historical Greco-Roman influence on the evolving architectural landscape of New York City. During its rise from capital of an upstart nation to global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of New York’s art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a survey of diverse reinterpretations of classical forms in some of the city’s most iconic buildings, public monuments, and civic spaces. Classical New York examines the influence of Greco-Roman thought and design from the Greek Revival of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the late-nineteenth-century American Renaissance and Beaux Arts period and into the twentieth century’s Art Deco. At every juncture, New Yorkers looked to the classical past for knowledge and inspiration in seeking out new ways to cultivate a civic identity and to structure their public and private spaces. Specialists from a range of disciplines—archaeology, architectural history, art history, classics, and history— focus on how classical art and architecture are repurposed to help shape many of New York City’s most evocative buildings and works of art. Federal Hall evoked the Parthenon as an architectural and democratic model; the Pantheon served as a model for the creation of libraries at New York University and Columbia University; Pennsylvania Station derived its form from the Baths of Caracalla; and Atlas and Prometheus of Rockefeller Center recast ancient myths in a new light during the Great Depression. This examination of post-Revolutionary art, politics, and philosophy enriches the conversation about how we shape space—be it civic, religious, academic, theatrical, or domestic—and how we make use of that space and the objects in it.
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