Old Towns and New Needs; and The Town Extension Plan

Old Towns and New Needs; and The Town Extension Plan
Author: Paul Waterhouse
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2021-04-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

In this book, the author argues that while the expression "town planning" is widely recognized, in practice the phrase is meaningless since most towns are not planned organically as a whole, but rather, grow haphazardly. Unlike a house, no town is created from a complete design. This leads to towns that are unsuccessful as organisms.

The Living City

The Living City
Author: Roberta Brandes Gratz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1995-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780471144250

THE LIVING CITY "An intelligent analysis. Sensible, undoctrinaire, evengood-humored. An appealing mixture of passion and clinicaldispassion." -Washington Post Book World "The best antidote I've read to the doom-and-gloom propheciesconcerning the future of urban America." -Bill Moyers "This is fresh and fascinating material; it is essential forunderstanding not only how to avoid repeating terrible mistakes ofthe past, but also how to recover from them." -Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great AmericanCities From coast to coast across America there are countless urbansuccess stories about rejuvenated neighborhoods and resurgentbusiness districts. Roberta Brandes Gratz defines the phenomenon as"urban husbandry"-the care, management, and preservation of thebuilt environment nurtured by genuine participatory planningefforts of government, urban planners, and average citizens.

Lords and Towns in Medieval Europe

Lords and Towns in Medieval Europe
Author: Howard B. Clarke
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2017-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351921290

This volume is the first publication to draw upon the mass of information provided by the Historic Towns Atlases in order to explore comparative questions in medieval urban history. The volume addresses the wider question of comparative urban studies, the processes that determined the morphological formation of towns, and the symbolic meaning of large-scale town plans in their cultural context.

The Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects Town Planning Conference, London, 10-15 October 1910

The Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects Town Planning Conference, London, 10-15 October 1910
Author: Riba
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 889
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136668578

In October 1910 the Royal Institute of British Architects hosted the first ever international conference on Town Planning. The Transactions of this critical event in the development of planning as a profession and as a discipline were published a year later in 1911. Long out of print and very difficult to obtain, this new facsimile edition of the Transactions of the 1910 Conference now makes available – for planners and historians alike – this valuable primary resource.

Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America

Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America
Author: James D. Kornwolf
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780801859861

Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.