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Book The Image of the City

Download or read book The Image of the City written by Kevin Lynch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Book In the Images of Development

Download or read book In the Images of Development written by Tridib Banerjee and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urban legacy of the Global South since the colonial era and how sustainable development and environmental and social justice can be achieved. Remarkably little of the expansive literature on development and globalization considers actual urban form and the physical design of cities as outcomes of these phenomena. The development that has shaped historic transformations in urban form and urbanism—and the consequent human experiences—remains largely unexplored. In this book, Tridib Banerjee fills this void by linking the idea of development with those of urbanism, urban form, and urban design, focusing primarily on the contemporary cities in the developing world—the Global South—and their intrinsic prospects in city design. Further, he examines the endogenous possibilities for the future design of these cities that may address growing inequality and the environmental crisis. Banerjee deftly traces the urban legacy of the Global South from the beginning of the colonial era, closely examining the economic, political, and ideological forces that influenced colonial and postcolonial development, drawing from relevant experiences of different cities in the developing world and discussing the arguments for the historic parity of these cities with their Western counterparts. Finally, Banerjee considers essential notions of future city design that are grounded in the critical challenges of sustainable development, equity, environmental and social justice, and diversity, and how such outcomes can be achieved. This book serves as the opening of a long overdue conversation among design, development, and planning scholars and practitioners, and those interested in the urban development of the Global South.

Book Imaging the City

Download or read book Imaging the City written by Jr. Warner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planners face a controversial task because their professional role requires them to be spokespersons for the public interest. In a welter of conflicting pictures and voices, how might the public interest be discovered? Once identified, how might it be expressed so that competing publics attend to it? There are no easy answers, but the experience of planners today suggests ways of working and innovations of promise.The focus on planning practice prompted the editors to analyze images that are now at work in our cities. For Vale and Warner, all city design and constructions offer material that people should include in images of their environment. The built and building city are part of the experience of all city dwellers; it is theirs to incorporate, interpret, or ignore. Essays included in this text trace the interplay between physical objects of planners and architects and the social experience and outlooks of image makers and their audiences.Imaging the City explores urban image making from civic boosterism of medieval cities to iconic imagery of Times Square. Vale and Warner bring together urban historians, geographers, city planners, architects, and cultural commentators to analyze the creation of urban imagery from the signature skyscrapers of Kuala Lumpur to the re-creation of the South Bronx and the use of city images in film, literature, television, and on the Internet. Urban dwellers, urban planners, architects, municipal officials, sociologists, urban historians - all will perceive their worlds with a heightened sense of awareness after reading this book.

Book City Branding

    Book Details:
  • Author : Véronique Patteeuw
  • Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9789056622626
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book City Branding written by Véronique Patteeuw and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this era of 'experience economy' and the leisure industry, cities face increasing pressure to distinguish themselves. Ever since Frank Gehry put the city of Bilbao into the international spotlight with his design for the Guggenheim museum, architecture played a more and more important role within this competition between cities. City branding, the planned image or brand of a city, now forms a challenge for architects and urban planners. How do you position a city in a culture dominated by globalization? What are the priorities for inhabitants, companies and investors? Group portraits of young architects 2002 brought together four occasional groups of architects, which each developed a project for two cities in the Netherlands based on city branding. Critical essays on the subject by Berci Florian, Hans Mommaas and Michael Speaks. Koen van Synghel puts the projects in perspective.

Book Creating Your City s Image

Download or read book Creating Your City s Image written by Sherry Kafka Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Evaluative Image of the City

Download or read book The Evaluative Image of the City written by Jack L. Nasar and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960, Kevin Lynch wrote The Image of the City, which transformed the way design professionals and social scientists dealt with the urban form and design. The Evaluative Image of the City follows the work of Lynch and further explores the role of human evaluations of the cityscape. This book describes how to assess, plan, and design the appearance of cities to please inhabitants. It presents a series of studies on evaluative images and discusses methodologies, findings, and applications to design and planning at various stages. Designers, planners, and businesspeople, as well as the general public, will find this book a valuable guide for improving the image of their surroundings.

Book Make Your Own Maps

Download or read book Make Your Own Maps written by Graham Davis and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multimedia book and DVD kit covers the entire world! Featuring 160 ready-made maps of every country and major geographical area, it’s a revolutionary new resource for the home (to remember a vacation, for example) and the classroom. The DVD contains the maps themselves, each in the form of a PC and Mac-friendly Photoshop file. Inside the book, there are simple instructions for adapting those maps to your own requirements, and then printing them out, distributing them, or publishing them online. All the maps contain 15 different Photoshop layers, offering a wide choice of cartographic styles, and you can turn country borders, place names, and other elements on or off at will. Every map will print perfectly on a desktop printer, fits on letter-sized paper, and can easily accommodate added graphics, photos, or text.

Book Photoplay

Download or read book Photoplay written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Editor   Publisher

Download or read book Editor Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth estate.

Book Soldiers

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 654 pages

Download or read book Soldiers written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Moving Picture World

Download or read book The Moving Picture World written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Association Men

Download or read book Association Men written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creating HDR Photos

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harold Davis
  • Publisher : Amphoto Books
  • Release : 2012-07-24
  • ISBN : 0823085864
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Creating HDR Photos written by Harold Davis and published by Amphoto Books. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the days of the first photographs, artists have used various techniques to extend the range of lights and darks in their photos. Photographic masters such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston spent countless hours burning and dodging their prints to create images with extended dynamic range. With the advent of digital photography, new horizons in extending dynamic range are possible. HDR techniques now make it easy to extend the dynamic range of an image well beyond the capability of the human eye. In Creating HDR Photos, bestselling author Harold Davis covers the complete HDR workflow, from choosing the subjects that work best for HDR through processing RAW files to unlock the dynamic power of HDR. You’ll learn how to photograph multiple exposures and blend them into a single HDR image using various software programs. Best of all, you will find out how to control the style of your HDR images, from subtle to hyper-real, using a range of photographic and post-processing techniques. Packed with stunning image examples, Creating HDR Photos brings this essential digital technique within every photographer’s grasp.

Book The Popular Science Monthly

Download or read book The Popular Science Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Town Development

Download or read book Town Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lather

Download or read book The Lather written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Buildings and Building Management

Download or read book Buildings and Building Management written by Frank J. Zorn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: