Rethink Dc Metro Stations
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Rethink Dc Metro Stations
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Author : Yathim Leung
language : en
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2010-07
Rethink Dc Metro Stations written by Yathim Leung and has been published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07 with categories.
The Metro system of the Washington Metropolitan Area is one of the biggest subway systems in the United States. Under the notion of Transit Oriented Development, this book intends to rethink the role of Metro stations. The stations are considered as more than infrastructure, but with potentials to serve as neighborhood centers and vital physical elements in the city. Precedents of railway stations design are analyzed and compared to existing Metro stations. This work anticipates an organic relationship between the station and the neighborhood. It explores the opportunity to connect the architecture of the stations with their urban / suburban, socio-cultural, economic and physical contexts. Design strategies are developed and tested in two neighborhoods: Farragut North and Silver Spring in order to achieve a more dynamic and contextually integrated architecture of Metro stations, and thus to strengthen the urban centers as well as enhance the image of the neighborhoods in the Washington Metropolitan Area.
Rethink Dc Metro Stations
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Author : Yat Him Leung (Peter)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Rethink Dc Metro Stations written by Yat Him Leung (Peter) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Rethinking Third Places
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Author : Joanne Dolley
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2019
Rethinking Third Places written by Joanne Dolley and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Social Science categories.
Ray Oldenburg’s concept of third place is re-visited in this book through contemporary approaches and new examples of third places. Third place is not your home (first place), not your work (second place), but those informal public places in which we interact with the people. Readers will come to understand the importance of third places and how they can be incorporated into urban design to offer places of interaction – promoting togetherness in an urbanised world of mobility and rapid change.
Rethinking The American City
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Author : Miles Orvell
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014
Rethinking The American City written by Miles Orvell and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Architecture categories.
Whether struggling in the wake of postindustrial decay or reinventing themselves with new technologies and populations, cities have once again moved to the center of intellectual and political concern. Rethinking the American City brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to examine an array of topics that illuminate the past, present, and future of cities. Rethinking the American City offers a lively and fascinating survey of contemporary thinking about cities in a transnational context. Utilizing an innovative format, each chapter opens with an iconic image and includes a brief and provocative essay on a single topic followed by an extended dialogue among all the essayists. Topics range from energy use, design, and digital media to transportation systems and housing to public art, urban ruins, and futurist visions. By engaging with key contemporary concerns—public and private space, sustainability, ethnic and racial divisions, and technology—this volume illuminates how global society has imagined American urban life. Contributors: Klaus Benesch, Dolores Hayden, David M. Lubin, Malcolm McCullough, Jeffrey L. Meikle, David E. Nye, Miles Orvell, Andrew Ross, Mabel O. Wilson, Albena Yaneva.
Rethinking The American Dream
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Author : David Goldberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Rethinking The American Dream written by David Goldberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Cities and towns categories.
The Great Society Subway
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Author : Zachary M. Schrag
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2014-08
The Great Society Subway written by Zachary M. Schrag and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08 with Architecture categories.
As Metro stretches to Tysons Corner and beyond, this paperback edition features a new preface from the author. Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two minutes. And parking? Don't bet on it unless you're in the fast lane of the Capital Beltway during rush hour. Little wonder, then, that so many residents and visitors rely on the Washington Metro, the 106-mile rapid transit system that serves the District of Columbia and its inner suburbs. In the first comprehensive history of the Metro, Zachary M. Schrag tells the story of the Great Society Subway from its earliest rumblings to the present day, from Arlington to College Park, Eisenhower to Marion Barry. Unlike the pre–World War II rail systems of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, the Metro was built at a time when most American families already owned cars, and when most American cities had dedicated themselves to freeways, not subways. Why did the nation's capital take a different path? What were the consequences of that decision? Using extensive archival research as well as oral history, Schrag argues that the Metro can be understood only in the political context from which it was born: the Great Society liberalism of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. The Metro emerged from a period when Americans believed in public investments suited to the grandeur and dignity of the world's richest nation. The Metro was built not merely to move commuters, but in the words of Lyndon Johnson, to create "a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community." Schrag scrutinizes the project from its earliest days, including general planning, routes, station architecture, funding decisions, land-use impacts, and the behavior of Metro riders. The story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities.
Television Histories
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Author : Gary R. Edgerton
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-10-17
Television Histories written by Gary R. Edgerton and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-17 with Performing Arts categories.
From Ken Burns's documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A&E's Biography series to CNN, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today. Why has television become such a respected authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths? How is one to know what is real and what is imagined -- or ignored -- by producers, directors, or writers? Gary Edgerton and Peter Rollins have collected a group of essays that answer these and many other questions. The contributors examine the full spectrum of historical genres, but also institutions such as the History Channel and production histories of such series as The Jack Benny Show, which ran for fifteen years. The authors explore the tensions between popular history and professional history, and the tendency of some academics to declare the past "off limits" to nonscholars. Several of them point to the tendency for television histories to embed current concerns and priorities within the past, as in such popular shows as Quantum Leap and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The result is an insightful portrayal of the power television possesses to influence our culture.
New Urban Rail Transit
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
New Urban Rail Transit written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Street-railroads categories.
The Evolution Of Urban Form
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Author : Brenda Case Scheer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-20
The Evolution Of Urban Form written by Brenda Case Scheer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-20 with Architecture categories.
Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change? The author tackles this question in her comprehensive guide for planners, designers, and students concerned with how cities take shape. This book provides a fundamental understanding of how physical environments are created, changed, and transformed through ordinary processes over time. Most of the built environment adheres to a few physical patterns, or types, that occur over and over. Planners and architects, consciously and unconsciously, refer to building types as they work through urban design problems and regulations. Suitable for professional planners, architects, urban designers, and students, This book includes practical examples of how typology is critical to analytical, design, and regulatory situations.
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The Senate Committee On Public Works
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The Senate Committee On Public Works written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Legislative hearings categories.