American Urban Architecture
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American Urban Architecture
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Author : Wayne Attoe
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1989-01-01
American Urban Architecture written by Wayne Attoe and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Architecture categories.
Attoe and Logan propose a specifically American theory of urban design. Arguing that theories of urban design, especially theories about the remaking of cities, have been largely European in origin and thus of questionable value in American contexts, the authors see the characteristic features of American cities--the grid, loft buildings, distinctive styling, and so forth--as opportunities for a specifically American urbanism.
The Evolution Of American Urban Design
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Author : David Gosling
language : en
Publisher: Academy Press
Release Date : 2003
The Evolution Of American Urban Design written by David Gosling and has been published by Academy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Architecture categories.
This is the first time an overview of the theories and practice of urban design has been offered. Covering a 50-year span, the book seeks to identify built urban design projects and traces the evolution and separation of American urban design theories up to the end of the twentieth century. It includes contemporary designs, projects, and writings in an attempt to identify future directions of the next century.
The City
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-01-01
The City written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with categories.
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Urban Design
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Author : Jon Lang
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1994-02-25
Urban Design written by Jon Lang and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-02-25 with Architecture categories.
Urban Design the American Experience Jon Lang Urban Design: The American Experience places social and environmental concerns within the context of American history. It returns the focus of urban design to the creation of a better world. It evaluates the efforts of designers who apply knowledge about the environment and people to the creation of livable, enjoyable, and even inspiring built worlds. Urban Design: The American Experience emphasizes that urban design must take a user-oriented approach to achieve a higher quality of life in human settlements. All the keys to this approach are spelled out in chapters that address: Urban design as both a product and process of communal decision-making Types of knowledge required as a base for urban design action How to apply recent environmental and behavioral research to professional design How human needs are fulfilled through design The true role of functionalism in design Urban design efforts of the twentieth century in the United States are examined within their socio-political context. Jon Lang reviews the urban design experience from the beginning of the "City Beautiful" movement, paying particular attention to developments since World War II. He explores how the twentieth-century city has developed, as well as discusses the attitudes that have driven major movements in urban design. Readers learn a neo-Modernist approach that builds on the successes and failures of Rationalism and Empiricism, the two major streams of Modernist thought in architecture and urban design. They also gain an understanding of how the environment is experienced by people, and the implications of this experiencing for architectural and urban design. Numerous illustrations throughout demonstrate how various design schemes can be used. Urban Design: The American Experience provides architects, designers, city planners, and students in these fields with a model for their own future development as professionals. It is a valuable guide to design methodology (procedural theory) and other issues related to creating optimal urban environments.
X Urbanism
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Author : Mario Gandelsonas
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 1999
X Urbanism written by Mario Gandelsonas and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with City planning categories.
Examines configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground.
Rebuilding The American City
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Author : David Gamble
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-22
Rebuilding The American City written by David Gamble and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-22 with Architecture categories.
Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick. It takes a delicate alignment of goals, power, leadership and sustained advocacy on the part of many. Rebuilding the American City highlights 15 urban design and planning projects in the U.S. that have been catalysts for their downtowns—yet were implemented during the tumultuous start of the 21st century. The book presents five paradigms for redevelopment and a range of perspectives on the complexities, successes and challenges inherent to rebuilding American cities today. Rebuilding the American City is essential reading for practitioners and students in urban design, planning, and public policy looking for diverse models of urban transformation to create resilient urban cores.
The Making Of Urban America
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Author : John William Reps
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-12
The Making Of Urban America written by John William Reps and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with History categories.
This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.
Planning The Twentieth Century American City
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Author : Mary Corbin Sies
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1996
Planning The Twentieth Century American City written by Mary Corbin Sies and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Architecture categories.
Arguing that planning in practice is far more complicated than historians usually depict, the authors examine closely the everyday social, political, economic, ideological, bureaucratic, and environmental contexts in which planning has occurred. In so doing, they redefine the nature of planning practice, expanding the range of actors and actions that we understand to have shaped urban development.
Downtown Usa
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Author : Kenneth Halpern
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Downtown Usa written by Kenneth Halpern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Political Science categories.
Interior Urbanism
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Author : Charles Rice
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-02-25
Interior Urbanism written by Charles Rice and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-25 with Architecture categories.
Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being 'inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and claims that they can destroy the quality of a city's authentic life 'on the outside'. Interior Urbanism explores the roots of this contemporary tension between inside and outside, identifying and analysing the concept of interior urbanism and tracing its history back to the works of John Portman and Associates in 1960s and 70s America. Portman – increasingly recognised as an influential yet understudied figure – was responsible for projects such as Peachtree Center in Atlanta and the Los Angeles Bonaventure Hotel, developments that employed vast internal atriums to define a world of possibilities not just for hotels and commercial spaces, but for the future of the American downtown amid the upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. The book analyses Portman's architecture in order to reconsider major contexts of debate in architecture and urbanism in this period, including the massive expansion of a commercial imperative in architecture, shifts in the governance and development of cities amid social and economic instability, the rise of postmodernism and critical urban studies, and the defence of the street and public space amid the continual upheavals of urban development. In this way the book reconsiders the American city at a crucial time in its development, identifying lessons for how we consider the forces at work, and the spaces produced, in cities in the present.