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| Author | : Gerard Koeppel |
| Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2015-11-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0306822857 |
Winner of the 2015New York City Book Award The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. This is its story. Praise for City on a Grid "The best account to date of the process by which an odd amalgamation of democracy and capitalism got written into New York's physical DNA."--New York Times Book Review "Intriguing...breezy and highly readable."--Wall Street Journal "City on a Grid tells the too little-known tale of how and why Manhattan came to be the waffle-board city we know."--The New Yorker "[An] expert investigation into what made the city special."--Publishers Weekly "A fun, fascinating, and accessible read for those curious enough to delve into the origins of an amazing city."--New York Journal of Books "Koeppel is the very best sort of writer for this sort of history."--Roanoke Times
| Author | : Scott Huler |
| Publisher | : Rodale |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2010-05-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1605296473 |
Investigates the systems of infrastructure that sustain the world and the cultures of historical periods, following various elements, from electricity and pavement to water and waste disposal, back to their origins and people who operate them.
| Author | : Hilary Ballon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Atlases |
| ISBN | : 9780231159906 |
"Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrating the bicentennial of the 1811 Commissioners' Plan of Manhattan, this volume does more than memorialize such a visionary effort, it serves as an enduring reference full of rare images and information."--P. [4] of cover.
| Author | : Fanis Grammenos |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2015-03-07 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1476617686 |
Of all the elements of a neighborhood, the pattern of streets and their infrastructure is the most enduring. Given the 20th century's additions to the range of transportation means--trains, subways, buses, trucks, bicycles, motorbikes and cars--all vying for space and effectiveness, a fresh look at the streets is warranted. This book contributes a new system of neighborhood design with a focus on contemporary planning priorities. Drawing lessons from historic and current development, it proposes a new pattern more fitting for modern culture, addressing such issues as walkability, mobility, health, safety, security, cost and greenhouse gas emissions. Case studies of national and international neighborhoods and districts based on the new network model demonstrate its application in real-world situations. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
| Author | : Joan Busquets |
| Publisher | : Oro Editions |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : City planning |
| ISBN | : 9781940743950 |
Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design' is the result of a five-year design research project undertaken by professor Joan Busquets and Dingliang Yang at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The research that is the foundation for this publication emphasizes the value of open forms for city design, a publication that specifically insists that the grid has the unique capacity to absorb and channel urban transformation flexibly and productively. 'Urban Grids' analyzes cities and urban projects that utilize the grid as the main structural device for allowing rational development, and goes further to propose speculative design projects capable of suggesting new urban paradigms drawn from the grid as a design tool. Consisting of six major parts, it is divided into the following topics: 1) the atlas of grid cities, 2) grid projects through history, 3) the 20th-century dilemma, 4) the atlas of contemporary grid projects, 5) projective tools for the future, and 6) goodgrid city as an open form coping with new urban issues.
| Author | : Andres Luque-Ayala |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2016-04-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1317143566 |
Providing a global overview of experiments around the transformation of cities' electricity networks and the social struggles associated with this change, this book explores the centrality of electricity infrastructures in the urban configuration of social control, segregation, integration, resource access and poverty alleviation. Through multiple accounts from a range of global cities, this edited collection establishes an agenda that recognises the uneven, and often historical, geographies of urban electricity networks, prompting attempts to re-wire the infrastructure configurations of cities and predicating protest and resistance from residents and social movements alike. Through a robust theoretical engagement with established work around the politics of urban infrastructures, the book frames the transformation of electricity systems in the context of power and resistance across urban life, drawing links between environmental and social forms of sustainability. Such an agenda can provide both insight and inspiration in seeking to build fairer and more sustainable urban futures that bring electricity infrastructures to the fore of academic and policy attention.
| Author | : Christina Dietz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2021-07-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781737249900 |
In Thriving on a City Grid, Christina Dietz suggests that we can bring the relaxation, joy, and presence of our natural selves-as we would be in nature-into manmade urban settings. The contemporary world, which is driven by technology and mass consciousness, pressures us to move at an artificial pace. Sadly, this wreaks havoc on our minds and bodies. For restoration and flourishing, Dietz suggests a lifestyle downshift to a self-nurturing oasis or island-time mentality, where we eat more healthfully, cultivate stillness, increase our exposure to green spaces, and play freely. Part mindset guidance, part holistic and toxin-free lifestyle guidance, this is a book for a generation of people who desire to recreate the entire experience of urban dwelling as a haven for people of awakened minds.
| Author | : Elizabeth Milroy |
| Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780271066769 |
"A collection of essays examining how patterns of use and attitudes to green spaces within Penn's city plan and along the Schuylkill informed notions of place from the time of Philadelphia's founding to the formation of the modern Fairmount Park system in the mid-19th century"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Liang-Yee Cheng |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 1080 |
| Release | : 2022-08-12 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 3031135881 |
This book covers recent achievements on the ever-expanding field of Geometry and Graphics on both analogical and digital fronts, from theoretical investigations to a broad range of applications, new teaching methodologies, and historical aspects. It is from 20th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics (ICGG2022), a series of conference that started in 1978 and promoted by International Society for Geometry and Graphics, which aims to foster international collaboration and stimulate the scientific research and teaching innovations in the multidisciplinary field. The contents of the book are organized in: Theoretical Geometry and Graphics; Applied Geometry and Graphics; Engineering Computer Graphics; Graphics Education; Geometry and Graphics in History, and are intent for the academics, researchers, and professionals in architecture, engineering, industrial design, mathematics, and arts.
| Author | : Yibo Xu |
| Publisher | : Altralinea Edizioni |
| Total Pages | : 596 |
| Release | : 2019-11-29 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 8894869644 |
The book is the first to define the meaning and components of the grid and apply it in Chinese planning history. It provides a fresh methodology, pushing the boundary of planning by this new practical tool for planners and governors and new perspective for the architecture and city planning faculties. From graphs to rules, from facts to in-depth analysis, this book focuses on the tool of urban planning, the grid, with thoughtful organization of knowledge from Chinese history, architecture and city planning discipline, providing knowledge along with politics, military, customs, mysterious Fengshui theories and astrology beliefs. Moreover, the book proved the link between grids and social aims, discussing each kind of aim by thoughtful organization of data collected from 301 prefecture cities, unfolding the powers propelling the city formation and shedding light on what shaped our cities today.
