Authors:Peter Calthorpe, George Baird, Robert Fishman, Doug K
Publisher: University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Keywords: urbanism, debates, michigan, new
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2005-02-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1891197355
ISBN-13: 9781891197352
In this volume Peter Calthorpe, renowned West Coast town planner and author, presents the case for New Urbanism, a movement that has enjoyed meteoric success since he co-founded it in the early 1990s. More utopian and civic than Everyday Urbanism, it promotes mixed-use and transit-oriented development and redevelopment of our cities, as well as walkability and socio-economic diversity. Less avant-garde than Post Urbanism, it embraces traditional urban and architectural scale and typologies. Lars Lerup, Dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University and author, responds with counter-argu
Author: Nan Elli
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: urbanism, integral
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2006-06-28
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 041595228X
ISBN-13: 9780415952286
Integral Urbanism is an ambitious and forward-looking theory of urbanism intended for planners and architects looking for new models to improve the quality of urban life. The model that Ellin proposes stands as an antidote to the problems engendered by modern and postmodern urban planning and architecture: sprawl, anomie, a pervasive culture (and architecture) of fear in cities, and a disregard for environmental issues. Moving away from the escapist and reactive tendencies of modern and postmodern planning, Ellin champions an "integral" approach, arguing that we should work towards the re-inte
Author: Nan Ellin
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: urbanism, postmodern
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 156898135X
ISBN-13: 9781568981352
"Like a good city, Postmodern Urbanism can be read from many perspectives as a rich conversation of world views, languages, and artifacts....It’s a generous and thoughtful piece of scholarship which is unlikely to be superseded." --Charles Jencks Since the 1960s, many architects and urban planners have reacted against the drab universalism and inhuman scale of modern architecture and urbanism, seeking instead to recover a sense of community and place. It is apparent to these architects and planners, as well as segments of the general public, that something needs to be done to
Author: David R. Diaz
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: urbanism, barrio
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-06-27
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0415945410
ISBN-13: 9780415945417
This, the first book on Latinos in America from an urban planning/policy perspective, covers the last century, and includes a substantial historical overview the subject. The authors trace the movement of Latinos (primarily Chicanos) into American cities from Mexico and then describe the problems facing them in those cities. They then show how the planning profession and developers consistently failed to meet their needs due to both poverty and racism. Attention is also paid to the most pressing concerns in Latino barrios during recent times, including environmental degradation and justice, la
Author: Charles Waldheim
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pre
Keywords: reader, urbanism, landscape
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-06-08
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1568984391
ISBN-13: 9781568984391
With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first-century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discourse has emerged: landscape urbanism. In The Landscape Urbanism Reader Charles Waldheim who is at the forefront of this new movement has assembled the definitive collection of essays by many of the field’s top practitioners. Fourteen essays written by leading figures across a range of disciplines and from around the world including James Corner, Linda Pollak, Alan Berger, Pierre B
Author: Peter Katz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: community, architecture, urbanism, new
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1993-10-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0070338892
ISBN-13: 9780070338890
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,
Author: Diego Ramirez-Lovering
Publisher: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT
Keywords: urbanism, opportunistic
Published: 2008-10
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1921426047
ISBN-13: 9781921426049
