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Book Masterplanning the Adaptive City

Download or read book Masterplanning the Adaptive City written by Tom Verebes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computational design has become widely accepted into mainstream architecture, but this is the first book to advocate applying it to create adaptable masterplans for rapid urban growth, urban heterogeneity, through computational urbanism. Practitioners and researchers here discuss ideas from the fields of architecture, urbanism, the natural sciences, computer science, economics, and mathematics to find solutions for managing urban change in Asia and developing countries throughout the world. Divided into four parts (historical and theoretical background, our current situation, methodologies, and prototypical practices), the book includes a series of essays, interviews, built case studies, and original research to accompany chapters written by editor Tom Verebes to give you the most comprehensive overview of this approach. Essays by Marina Lathouri, Jorge Fiori, Jonathan Solomon, Patrik Schumacher, Peter Trummer, and David Jason Gerber. Interviews with Dana Cuff, Xu Wei Guo, Matthew Prior, Tom Barker, Su Yunsheng, and Brett Steele. Built case studies by Zaha Hadid Architects, James Corner Field Operations, XWG Studio, MAD, OCEAN Consultancy Network, Plasma Studio, Groundlab, Peter Trummer, Serie Architects, dotA, and Rocker-Lange Architects.

Book Masterplanning Futures

Download or read book Masterplanning Futures written by Lucy Bullivant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award! In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as physical form through conventional top down processes. These frequently disregarded existing social and cultural structures, while the old modernist planning model zoned space for home and work. At a time of urban growth, these models are now being replaced by more adaptable, mixed use plans dealing holistically with the physical, social and economic revival of districts, cities and regions. Through today’s public participative approaches and using technologically enabled tools, contemporary masterplanning instruments embody fresh principles, giving cities a greater resilience and capacity for social integration and change in the future. Lucy Bullivant analyses the ideals and processes of international masterplans, and their role in the evolution of many different types of urban contexts in both the developed and developing world. Among the book’s key themes are landscape-driven schemes, social equity through the reevaluation of spatial planning, and the evolution of strategies responding to a range of ecological issues and the demands of social growth. Drawing on first-hand accounts and illustrated throughout with colour photographs, plans and visualizations, the book includes twenty essays introduced by an extensive overview of the field and its objectives. These investigate plans including one-north Singapore, Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, Xochimilco in Mexico City and Waterfront Seattle, illuminating their distinct yet complementary integrated strategies. This is a key book for those interested in today’s multiscalar masterplanning and conceptually advanced methodologies and principles being applied to meet the challenges and opportunities of the urbanizing world. The author's research was enabled by grants from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), the SfA (the Netherlands Architecture Fund), the Danish Embassy and support from the Alfred Herrhausen Society.

Book Masterplanning for Change

Download or read book Masterplanning for Change written by Ombretta Romice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change and rapid urbanisation. However, this idea has still not been fully integrated in to practice. This book presents a practical approach to masterplanning the city and its areas (existing and new) as urban environments for the 21st century, addressing the design of cities as complex adaptive systems.

Book The Urban Masterplanning Handbook

Download or read book The Urban Masterplanning Handbook written by Eric Firley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated reference tool, this handbook provides comparative visual analysis of major urban extensions and masterplans around the world. It places an important new emphasis on the processes and structures that influence urban form, highlighting the significant impact that public or private landownership, management and funding might have on shaping a particular project. Each of the book’s 20 subjects is rigorously analysed through original diagrams, scale drawings and descriptive texts, which are complemented by key statistics and colour photography. The case studies are presented in order of size rather than date or geographical location. This offers design professionals, developers and city planners, as well as students of architecture and urban design informed organisational and formal comparisons, leading to intriguing insights. A wide geographical range of contemporary and historic masterplans are featured. These encompass European projects from the 19th century to the present day: Belgravia in London, Sarphatipark in Amsterdam, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, La Défense Seine Arche in Paris and Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm. In North America, the postwar development of Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan is also the subject of a case study. More recent and ongoing international urban schemes are included, such as Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, Downtown Dubai and the New Central Business District in Beijing.

Book Masterplanning

Download or read book Masterplanning written by Bobb Biehl and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Climax City

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Rudlin
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-06-27
  • ISBN : 100070520X
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Climax City written by David Rudlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Award Finalist for Urban Design Group Awards 2020 Human settlements are the result of a mix of self-organisation and planning. Planners are fighting a losing battle to impose order on chaotic systems. Connections between the process of urban growth and the fields of complexity theory are of increasing importance to planners and urbanists alike; the idea that cities are emergent structures created not by design but from the interplay of relatively simple rules and forces over time. From the the small Tuscan hill town to the megacities of Asia: the struggle between the planned and the unplanned is universal. Based on years of international research, Climax City is a critical exploration of the growth of cities and masterplanning. Challenging the idea that the city can be entirely planned on paper, this book implores you to work with chaos when planning cities. Beautifully illustrated with striking hand-drawn plans of global cities, this is a vital and accessible contribution to urban theory and planning. It’s the perfect title for practitioners and academics across planning and urban design looking to make sense out of chaos.

Book Pahang Tenggara Regional Masterplanning Study

Download or read book Pahang Tenggara Regional Masterplanning Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masterplanning the State of Palestine

Download or read book Masterplanning the State of Palestine written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book EcoMasterplanning

Download or read book EcoMasterplanning written by Ken Yeang and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In planning for a sustainable future for our planet, it is vital that we achieve a seamless and benign biointegration of all human interventions in the natural environment. Finding green design solutions for our built environment must start from the wider scale of regional and urban planning and must then be carried right through to infrastructural engineering, architecture and industrial design. Masterplanning affords the chance to redress current environmental imbalances and to reduce the consequences of our built systems on the environment, with the greater and of reversing climate change. Ecomasterplanning presents a groundbreaking integrative and comprehensive approach to masterplanning, illustrated by examples that Ken Yeang – the original pioneer of the ‘green skyscraper’ – has designed in a highly visually driven format, the book examines over 20 of his masterplans from around the world, including those in the Netherlands, china, India, Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore and North America.

Book The Bigger Picture

Download or read book The Bigger Picture written by Fay Sweet and published by Black Dog Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bigger Picture profiles the internationally renowned architecture and environment consulting practice EDAW and offers an insight into the unique portfolio of EDAW's work. With offices all over the world the firm is at the leading edge of designing for climate change, embracing full environmental, economic and social sustainability and the careful use of the world's natural resources. The Bigger Picture: Designing Better Places provides an insight into the workings of this extraordinary company, in which multidisciplinary teams combine the skills of master-planners and architects with environmental experts, economists and landscape designers to create holistic solutions. The fusion of design, environment, economics and planning allows EDAW to balance aesthetic, environmental and social goals. The Bigger Picture provides a showcase of 30 recent projects, following the work process from initial research and assessment, through concept stages, community consultation, planning and construction to completion. The projects range from mega-projects such as designing an entire city with the Arab World's first Guggenheim Museum and London's 2012 Olympic Park to smaller plans such as intimate gardens for children across the US and the restoration of a vast swathe of former salt ponds in San Francisco Bay. Alongside project profiles, the book includes short essays putting the firm's work into context from a collection of prestigious experts in the field. Contributors including Frank Gehry, president of US architecure firm Frank O Gehry & Associates and Howard Bernstein, chief executive of Manchester City Council. Underpinning EDAW's work is a commitment to innovation, design quality, social inclusion and sensitivity to the environment and The Bigger Picture is the first book on this fascinating company and its working practices. The book is generously illustrated with photographs, sketches, maps and plans and is designed by Pentagram. AUTHOR: Fay Sweet works for EDAW as an in-house writer and editor. She writes about architecture and design and has written for several newspapers, and for more than 30 design-related books including bestsellers such as Space, ScandiModern and Vintage Furniture. Fay has worked for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and appeared as an architecture and design commentator on many TV programmes. ILLUSTRATIONS 389 colour & b/w illustrations

Book The Architects  Journal

Download or read book The Architects Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book RIBA Journal

Download or read book RIBA Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliografi Alam Sekitar

Download or read book Bibliografi Alam Sekitar written by Universiti Sains Malaysia. Perpustakaan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Design Guidance

Download or read book Urban Design Guidance written by Robert Cowan and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Designing Community

Download or read book Designing Community written by David R. Walters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Urban development sites can become battlegrounds as a result of the conflicting interests of developers and communities. In the USA, design charrettes are often used as a means of bringing people together, using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development masterplan. However, despite the increasing frequency of their use, charrettes are widely misunderstood and can be misapplied. This book provides detailed guidance on the proper and most effective ways to use this helpful tool."-BOOK JACKET.

Book Four Walls and a Roof

    Book Details:
  • Author : Reinier de Graaf
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-09-25
  • ISBN : 0674982762
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Four Walls and a Roof written by Reinier de Graaf and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects, we like to believe, shape the world as they please. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences to present a candid account of what it is really like to work as an architect. To achieve anything, he notes, architects must serve the powers they strive to critique, finding themselves in a perpetual conflict of interest.