Reweaving the Urban Fabric

Reweaving the Urban Fabric
Author: Ghislaine Hermanuz
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780962176593

Town and Terraced Housing

Town and Terraced Housing
Author: Avi Friedman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012-06-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136638431

A systematic approach is used to cover the many facets of terraced and townhouses – a style of building which has been in use since the Roman era and is still useful today. The whole range of this style of housing is covered from interior design and construction methods, to more social factors like the issues of parking and street configurations. Alongside over 150 diagrams and eighty photos, Avi Friedman creates a book which will be a valuable resource for all those involved in the planning, design and creation of terraced and town houses.

The Roots of Urban Renaissance

The Roots of Urban Renaissance
Author: Brian D. Goldstein
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2023-03-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0691234752

An acclaimed history of Harlem’s journey from urban crisis to urban renaissance With its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today’s Harlem bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis. Brian Goldstein traces Harlem’s Second Renaissance to a surprising source: the radical social movements of the 1960s that resisted city officials and fought to give Harlemites control of their own destiny. Young Harlem activists, inspired by the civil rights movement, envisioned a Harlem built by and for its low-income, predominantly African American population. In the succeeding decades, however, the community-based organizations they founded came to pursue a very different goal: a neighborhood with national retailers and increasingly affluent residents. The Roots of Urban Renaissance demonstrates that gentrification was not imposed on an unwitting community by unscrupulous developers or opportunistic outsiders. Rather, it grew from the neighborhood’s grassroots, producing a legacy that benefited some longtime residents and threatened others.

A History of Housing in New York City

A History of Housing in New York City
Author: Richard Plunz
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0231543107

Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very rich were building palaces along Fifth Avenue; public housing for the poor originated in New York, as did government subsidies for middle-class housing. A standard in the field since its publication in 1992, A History of Housing in New York City traces New York's housing development from 1850 to the present in text and profuse illustrations. Richard Plunz explores the housing of all classes, with comparative discussion of the development of types ranging from the single-family house to the high-rise apartment tower. His analysis is placed within the context of the broader political and cultural development of New York City. This revised edition extends the scope of the book into the city's recent history, adding three decades to the study, covering the recent housing bubble crisis, the rebound and gentrification of the five boroughs, and the ecological issues facing the next generation of New Yorkers. More than 300 illustrations are integrated throughout the text, depicting housing plans, neighborhood changes, and city architecture over the past 130 years. This new edition also features a foreword by the distinguished urban historian Kenneth T. Jackson.

Ten Years, Realized Works

Ten Years, Realized Works
Author: Erick van Egeraat
Publisher: Images Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781864701319

The work of EEA, as presented in this retrospective of the past 10 years of its work, covers the full architectural gamut including public, educational, residential, interior design, exhibition design and the design of furniture and objects.

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Total Pages: 140
Release: 1990
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