Charter of the New Urbanism

Charter of the New Urbanism
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.

Tactical Urbanism

Tactical Urbanism
Author: Mike Lydon
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-03-17
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1610915267

Begins with an in-depth history of the Tactical Urbanism movement and its place among other social, political, and urban planning trends. With a detailed set of case studies that demonstrate the breadth and scalability of tactical urbanism interventions, this book provides a detailed toolkit for conceiving, planning, and carrying out projects.

The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community

The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
Author: Peter Katz
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0071849122

The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small towns'' in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. You'll discover the amazing potential for this kind of work as well as case studies, site plans, project analyses, and 180 beautiful photographs. This unique reference also tackles--and answers--the critical issues of crime, health, traffic, environmental degradation, and economic vitality and opens a startling window on the look and feel of future communities. Every designer can profit from this guide to building the utopias of tomorrow--today!

The Urban Village

The Urban Village
Author: Alberto Magnaghi
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2005-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781842775813

A practical manifesto for how cities can respond to the pressures of globalization

New American Urbanism

New American Urbanism
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.

Planning the Good Community

Planning the Good Community
Author: Jill Grant
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2006
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9780415700757

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.

New Urbanism and Beyond

New Urbanism and Beyond
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.

The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda

The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda
Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Sustainable urban development
ISBN: 9780815379294

The purpose of The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda is to start a discussion that both challenges this status quo and opens up new lines of enquiry. It intentionally does not propose a manifesto made up of simplistic slogans and recommendations as cities in the 21st century are more fragile and complex. Its content, therefore, is intentionally broad, ranging from architecture, planning and urban design, to land ownership and regulation, water management and environmental philosophy. This multifaceted assembly of perspectives critiques the tenets of the Charter of Athens, identify new trends and propose new insights on contemporary urbanization.

A Research Agenda for New Urbanism

A Research Agenda for New Urbanism
Author: Emily Talen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2019
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1788118634

New Urbanism, a movement devoted to building walkable, socially diversity cities, has garnered some successes and some failures over the past several decades. A Research Agenda for New Urbanism is a forward-looking book composed of chapters by leading scholars of New Urbanism. Authors focus on multiple topics, including affordability, transportation, social life and retail to highlight the areas of research that are most important for the future of the field. The book summarizes what we know and what we need to know to provide a research agenda that will have the greatest promise and most positive impact on building the best possible human habitat—which is the aim of New Urbanism.

The Regional City

The Regional City
Author: Peter Calthorpe
Publisher: Shearwater Books
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2001
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

"In The Regional City, two of the most innovative thinkers in the field of urban design and land use planning offer a detailed look at this new metropolitan form: its genesis, physical structure, and policy foundation. Using full-color graphics and in-depth case studies, they provide a thorough examination of the emerging field of regional design, explaining how new forms of smart growth and neighborhood design can help put an end to sprawl, urban disinvestment, and squandered resources." "This book is a must read for environmentalists, planners, architects, landscape architects, local officials, real estate developers, community development advocates, and students in architecture, urban planning, and policy."--BOOK JACKET.