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| Author | : Congress for the New Urbanism |
| Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
An agenda for thriving urban centers, the San Francisco-based Congress for the New Urbanism is a leading force for modern design that encourages viable neighborhoods, conserves natural environments, and preserves our architectural heritage. Charter of the New Urbanism introduces you to the work of the world-class planners, architects and other professionals who are making the new urbanism happen. Charter contributors, including Andres Duany, Peter Calthorpe, and Liz Moule, explain strategies that range from large-scale, regional, to small-scale: blocks, streets and buildings. Revealing case studies help you understand the impact of geography, economics,development and urban patterns, public and private uses, transportation and pedestrian access, housing, building densities and land uses, codes, parks, shared use, safety, preservation and renewal, community identity and much more in this invaluable resource for design professionals.
| Author | : Emily Talen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2005-11-16 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1135992622 |
Surveying four approaches to city-making, the author here gives an assessment of the development of American urbanism, highlighting recurrent themes and how these interact, merge and conflict.
| Author | : Jill Grant |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780415700740 |
An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals, the author asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to creating good communities. With examples drawn principally from North America, Europe and Japan, Planning the Good Community explores new urban approaches in a wide range of settings. It compares the movement for urban renaissance in Europe with the New Urbanism of the United States and Canada, and asks whether the concerns that drive today's planning theory - issues like power, democracy, spatial patterns and globalisation- receive adequate attention in new urban approaches. The issue of aesthetics is also raised, as the author questions whether communities must be more than just attractive in order to be good. With the benefit of twenty years' hindsight and a world-wide perspective, this book offers the reader unparalleled insight as well as a rigorous and considered critical analysis.
| Author | : Christopher B. Leinberger |
| Publisher | : Island Press |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2010-03-18 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1597267767 |
Americans are voting with their feet to abandon strip malls and suburban sprawl, embracing instead a new type of community where they can live, work, shop, and play within easy walking distance. In The Option of Urbanism visionary developer and strategist Christopher B. Leinberger explains why government policies have tilted the playing field toward one form of development over the last sixty years: the drivable suburb. Rooted in the driving forces of the economy—car manufacturing and the oil industry—this type of growth has fostered the decline of community, contributed to urban decay, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and contributed to the rise in obesity and asthma. Highlighting both the challenges and the opportunities for this type of development, The Option of Urbanism shows how the American Dream is shifting to include cities as well as suburbs and how the financial and real estate communities need to respond to build communities that are more environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable.
| Author | : Joseph A. Rodriguez |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2014-08-26 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0739186132 |
Joseph A. Rodriguez critically examines the urban design and revitalization initiatives undertaken by both the government and the people of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the 1990s, New Urbanists followed a city tradition of using urban design to solve problems while seeking to elevate the city’s national reputation and status. While New Urbanism was not the only design element undertaken to further Milwaukee’s redevelopment, the elite focus on New Urbanism reflected an attempt to fashion a self-help narrative for the revitalization of the city. This approach linked New Urbanist design to the strengthening of grassroots community organizing and volunteerism to solve urban problems. Bootstrap New Urbanism: Design, Race, and Redevelopment in Milwaukee uncovers a practice with implications for urban history, architectural history, planning history, environmental design, ethnic studies, and urban politics.
| Author | : John A. Dutton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
This book reviews the recent resurgence of town and urban design in America, with particular attention to the return to traditional forms of urbanism and building conventions.
| Author | : Fulong Wu |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 422 |
| Release | : 2007-11-13 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1134117701 |
With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material on Chinese urban development. Demonstrating how it transcends the centrally-planned model of economic growth, and assessing the extent to which it has gone beyond the common wisdom of Chinese ‘gradualism’, the book covers a wide range of important topics, including: local land development the local state private-public partnership foreign investment urbanization ageing home ownership. Providing a clear appraisal of recent trends in Chinese urbanism, this book puts forward important new conceptual resources to fill the gap between the outdated model of the ‘Third World’ city and the globalizing cities of the West.
| Author | : Tigran Haas |
| Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780847831111 |
Best defined as the art of shaping the built environment, urban design seeks to understand and analyze the variety of forces—social, economic, cultural, legal, ecological, and aesthetic—that affect how we live. The complex challenges facing cities today—scarcity of resources, growing economic divisions, and rampant sprawl, among others—are forcing a reconsideration of urban design. New Urbanism, a leading movement within urban design, advocates a return to small-town urban forms: human-scale, pedestrian-friendly streets, a reinvigoration of cities, and a stop to suburban sprawl. This new volume, drawing on a conference and debates at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, comprehensively examines New Urbanism today and speculates about it’s future. With contributions from Christopher Alexander, Leon Krier, Peter Hall, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck, William McDonough, Peter Calthorpe, Jan Gehl, Lars Lerup, Edward Soja, and Saskia Sassen, among others, New Urbanism and Beyond is both a comprehensive primer on urban design and a provocation for practitioners, historians, and citizens everywhere.
| Author | : Congress for the New Urbanism |
| Publisher | : Amer Planning Assn |
| Total Pages | : 97 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9781932364002 |
For planners, officials, and citizens seeking to employ the principles of new urbanism to development in their community, Codifying New Urbanism, by the Congress for the New Urbanism, examines the various ways to do so by modifying their land development regulations. Heavily illustrated and in full color, this report describes new urbanist essentials, the steps to putting new urbanism to work in your community, and the successes of 12 communities who have followed the approaches described in the report. It also contains an extensive interview with a practitioner about his experience in championing and implementing new urbanism. Finally, it contains a survey of communities using new urbanism.
| Author | : James Howard Kunstler |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1994-07-26 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0671888250 |
Argues that much of what surrounds Americans is depressing, ugly, and unhealthy; and traces America's evolution from a land of village commons to a man-made landscape that ignores nature and human needs.
