Author: Seattle (Wash.). CityDesignPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An Urban Design Resource Center for Seattle
Author: Seattle (Wash.). CityDesignPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An Urban Design Resource Center for Seattle
Author: Seattle (Wash.). CityDesignPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
A Visual Inventory of Buildings & Urban Design Resources for Seattle, Washington
Author: Historic Seattle PreservationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : de
Pages :
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Urban Street Design Guide
Author: National Association of City Transportation OfficialsPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 9781610914949
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than solely being conduits for traffic. The well-illustrated guide offers blueprints of street design from multiple perspectives, from the bird’s eye view to granular details. Case studies from around the country clearly show how to implement best practices, as well as provide guidance for customizing design applications to a city’s unique needs. Urban Street Design Guide outlines five goals and tenets of world-class street design: • Streets are public spaces. Streets play a much larger role in the public life of cities and communities than just thoroughfares for traffic. • Great streets are great for business. Well-designed streets generate higher revenues for businesses and higher values for homeowners. • Design for safety. Traffic engineers can and should design streets where people walking, parking, shopping, bicycling, working, and driving can cross paths safely. • Streets can be changed. Transportation engineers can work flexibly within the building envelope of a street. Many city streets were created in a different era and need to be reconfigured to meet new needs. • Act now! Implement projects quickly using temporary materials to help inform public decision making. Elaborating on these fundamental principles, the guide offers substantive direction for cities seeking to improve street design to create more inclusive, multi-modal urban environments. It is an exceptional resource for redesigning streets to serve the needs of 21st century cities, whose residents and visitors demand a variety of transportation options, safer streets, and vibrant community life.
A Visual Inventory of Buildings & Urban Design Resources for Seattle Washington
Author: Historic Seattle Preservation and Development AuthorityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Global Street Design Guide
Author: Global Designing Cities InitiativePublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1610917014
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
The Global Street Design Guide is a timely resource that sets a global baseline for designing streets and public spaces and redefines the role of streets in a rapidly urbanizing world. The guide will broaden how to measure the success of urban streets to include: access, safety, mobility for all users, environmental quality, economic benefit, public health, and overall quality of life. The first-ever worldwide standards for designing city streets and prioritizing safety, pedestrians, transit, and sustainable mobility are presented in the guide. Participating experts from global cities have helped to develop the principles that organize the guide. The Global Street Design Guide builds off the successful tools and tactics defined in NACTO's Urban Street Design Guide and Urban Bikeway Design Guide while addressing a variety of street typologies and design elements found in various contexts around the world.
Model Neighborhoods in Demonstration Cities
Author: Urban Planning and Research AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Urban Landscapes
Author: P. J. LarkhamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113467886X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Taking a multidisciplinary approach this addresses the academic and practical issues concerning the present and future of the built environment, arguing for its enlightened management in the future of our present-day environment.
Just Urban Design
Author: Kian GohPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026254427X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Contributions by urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, and landscape architects on the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities. Scholars who write about justice and the city rarely consider the practices and processes of urban design, while discourses on urban design often neglect concerns about justice. The editors of Just Urban Design take the position that urban design interventions have direct and important implications for justice in the city. The contributions in this volume contextualize the state of knowledge about urban design for justice, stress inclusivity as the key to justice in the city, affirm community participation and organizing as cornerstones of greater equity, and assert that a just urban design must center and privilege our most marginalized individuals and communities. Approaching spatial and social justice in the city through the lens of urban design, the contributors explore the possibility of envisioning and delivering social, spatial, and environmental justice in cities through urban design and the material reality of built environment interventions. The editors’ combined expertise includes urban politics and climate change, public space, mobility justice, community development, housing, and informality, and the contributors include researchers and practitioners from urban planning, sociology, anthropology, architecture, and landscape architecture. Contributors: Rachel Berney, Rebecca Choi, Teddy Cruz, Diane E. Davis, Fonna Forman, Christopher Giamarino, Kian Goh, Alison B. Hirsch, Jeffrey Hou, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Setha Low, Matthew Jordan Miller, Vinit Mukhija, Chelina Odbert, Francesca Piazzoni, and Michael Rios.
Annual Report
Author: National Endowment for the ArtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to the arts
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Reports for 1980-19 also include the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.