Authors:Urban Design Associates, Urban Design Associate,
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Keywords: working, methods, techniques, handbook, design, urban
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0393731065
ISBN-13: 9780393731064

A comprehensive, beautifully designed guide to the complex process of urban design. From an important urban design and architecture firm comes this manual for urban designers, based on the firm’s in-house practice and procedures. Covering the process from basic principles to developed design, this invaluable book can serve as an introductory course in urbanism as well as an operations handbook for architects, planners, developers, and public officials. 200 color illustrations.

Authors:Urban Design Associates, Urban Design Associates,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: building, neighborhoods, tool, book, pattern, architectural
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-08-23
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0393731340
ISBN-13: 9780393731347

Documents the revival of the traditional architectural pattern book as a means of implementing urban design. From the firm that produced The Urban Design Handbook comes a practical guide to developing and using pattern books—a tradition stretching back to Vitruvius and Palladio, and the source of many beautiful houses—to design neighborhoods today. It describes techniques and working methods for contemporary development and construction processes. 200 color illustrations.

Author: Chen Design Associate
Publisher: How
Keywords: elements, graphic, design, made, hand, art, using, fingerprint
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2006-10-19
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1581808712
ISBN-13: 9781581808711

Make Your Mark Design is at a turning point. Our infatuation with--and the backlash against--technology is over. Today’s best designers have learned to embrace its advantages and think beyond its limitations by combining the power of the computer with the tactile qualities of handmade elements. Inside you’ll find examples of work that showcase a variety of design methods, including mixed media, illustration, letterpress, screenprinting and collage. You’ll find inspiration in examples from outstanding designers and see how traditional elements can make a more powerful statemen

Author: Robert Cowan/Urban Design Group
Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing
Keywords: urban, design, master, plans, briefs, frameworks, guidance, development
Number of Pages: 68
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0727731351
ISBN-13: 9780727731357

The publication of the Green Paper on Planning has magnified the significance of urban design frameworks, development briefs and master plans. Despite general recognition that making places socially, economically and environmentally successful depends on high standards of urban design, there is less understanding of how good design can be delivered. The challenge is to influence the development process, not only on high profile sites, but wherever urban change is reshaping places.

Authors:Mine Design, Top Studio Design, Stoltz Design, Sayles
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Keywords: design, logo, amp, letterhead
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1592536301
ISBN-13: 9781592536306

The best-selling Letterhead and Logo Design now compiles the most creative and inspiring work in the field in a stunning collection featuring the best of the past four volumes. From well-known design leaders, new design firms, and cutting-edge artists, this collection includes everything identity, from logos to labels, business cards to envelopes, and the creative techniques and full-color images portrayed in this broad range of work will inspire new design solutions for age-old challenges that beg for a fresh approach. This book is an invaluable resource for both design firms and their client

Author: Associate Professor Arnetha F. BallAssociate Prof
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: classroom, studies, writing, rhetoric, composition, english, american, literacies, unleashed, vernacular, african
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2005-12-13
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0809326604
ISBN-13: 9780809326600

This pioneering study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues linguistically diverse students. African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and the Composition Classroom approaches the issue of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in terms of teacher knowledge and prevailing attitudes, and it attempts to change current pedagogical approaches with a highly readable combination of traditional academic discourse and personal narratives.Realizing that composition is a particular form o

Author: Associate Professor Gesa KirschAssociate Professo
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: research, composition, methodology, methods
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1992-06-03
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0809317273
ISBN-13: 9780809317271

In original essays, fourteen nationally known scholars examine the practical, philosophical, and epistemological implications of a variety of research traditions. Included are discussions of historical, theoretical, and feminist scholarship; case-study and ethnographic research; text and conversation analysis; and cognitive, experimental, and descriptive research. Issues that cross methodological boundaries, such as the nature of collaborative research and writing, methodological pluralism, the classification and coding of research data, and the politics of composition research, are also exami