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Book Select List of Works Relating to City Planning and Allied Topics

Download or read book Select List of Works Relating to City Planning and Allied Topics written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Select List of Works Relating to City Planning and Allied Topics

Download or read book Select List of Works Relating to City Planning and Allied Topics written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the New York Public Library  Astor  Lenox and Tilden Foundations

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Download or read book The Death and Life of Great American Cities written by Jane Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Select List of Recent Publications

Download or read book Select List of Recent Publications written by East-West Center. Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Biophilic City Planning   Design

Download or read book Handbook of Biophilic City Planning Design written by Timothy Beatley and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication offers practical advice and inspiration for ensuring that nature in the city is more than infrastructure--that it also promotes well-being and creates an emotional connection to the earth among urban residents. Divided into six parts, the Handbook begins by introducing key ideas, literature, and theory about biophilic urbanism. Chapters highlight urban biophilic innovations in more than a dozen global cities. The final part concludes with lessons on how to advance an agenda for urban biophilia and an extensive list of resources."--Publisher.

Book Library Journal

Download or read book Library Journal written by Melvil Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Book Waldie s Select Circulating Library

Download or read book Waldie s Select Circulating Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biophilic Cities

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  • Author : Timothy Beatley
  • Publisher : Island Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1597267155
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Biophilic Cities written by Timothy Beatley and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Beatley has long been a leader in advocating for the "greening" of cities. But too often, he notes, urban greening efforts focus on everything except nature, emphasizing such elements as public transit, renewable energy production, and energy efficient building systems. While these are important aspects of reimagining urban living, they are not enough, says Beatley. We must remember that human beings have an innate need to connect with the natural world (the biophilia hypothesis). And any vision of a sustainable urban future must place its focus squarely on nature, on the presence, conservation, and celebration of the actual green features and natural life forms. A biophilic city is more than simply a biodiverse city, says Beatley. It is a place that learns from nature and emulates natural systems, incorporates natural forms and images into its buildings and cityscapes, and designs and plans in conjunction with nature. A biophilic city cherishes the natural features that already exist but also works to restore and repair what has been lost or degraded. In Biophilic Cities Beatley not only outlines the essential elements of a biophilic city, but provides examples and stories about cities that have successfully integrated biophilic elements--from the building to the regional level--around the world. From urban ecological networks and connected systems of urban greenspace, to green rooftops and green walls and sidewalk gardens, Beatley reviews the emerging practice of biophilic urban design and planning, and tells many compelling stories of individuals and groups working hard to transform cities from grey and lifeless to green and biodiverse.

Book The Urban Design Reader

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  • Author : Michael Larice
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-05-07
  • ISBN : 1136205667
  • Pages : 681 pages

Download or read book The Urban Design Reader written by Michael Larice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent writings by Waldheim, Koolhaas, and Sorkin. Following the widespread success of the first edition of The Urban Design Reader, this updated edition continues to provide the most important historical material of the urban design field, but also introduces new topics and selections that address the myriad challenges facing designers today. The six part structure of the second edition guides the reader through the history, theory and practice of urban design. The reader is initially introduced to those classic writings that provide the historical precedents for city-making into the twentieth century. Part Two introduces the voices and ideas that were instrumental in establishing the foundations of the urban design field from the late 1950s up to the mid-1990s. These authors present a critical reading of the design professions and offer an alternative urban design agenda focused on vital and lively places. The authors in Part Three provide a range of urban design rationales and strategies for reinforcing local physical identity and the creation of memorable places. These selections are largely describing the outcomes of mid-century urban design and voicing concerns over the placeless quality of contemporary urbanism. The fourth part of the Reader explores key issues in urban design and development. Ideas about sprawl, density, community health, public space and everyday life are the primary focus here. Several new selections in this part of the book also highlight important international development trends in the Middle East and China. Part Five presents environmental challenges faced by the built environment professions today, including recent material on landscape urbanism, sustainability, and urban resiliency. The final part examines professional practice and current debates in the field: where urban designers work, what they do, their roles, their fields of knowledge and their educational development. The section concludes with several position pieces and debates on the future of urban design practice. This book provides an essential resource for students and practitioners of urban design, drawing together important but widely dispersed writings. Part and section introductions are provided to assist readers in understanding the context of the material, summary messages, impacts of the writing, and how they fit into the larger picture of the urban design field.

Book Waldie s Select Circulating Library

Download or read book Waldie s Select Circulating Library written by Adam Waldie and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The City Reader

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  • Author : Richard T. LeGates
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-07-16
  • ISBN : 1317606272
  • Pages : 800 pages

Download or read book The City Reader written by Richard T. LeGates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. The City Reader is the anchor volume in the Routledge Urban Reader Series and is now integrated with all ten other titles in the series. This edition has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as compact cities, urban history, place making, sustainable urban development, globalization, cities and climate change, the world city network, the impact of technology on cities, resilient cities, cities in Africa and the Middle East, and urban theory. The new edition places greater emphasis on cities in the developing world, globalization and the global city system of the future. The plate sections have been revised and updated. Sixty generous selections are included: forty-four from the fifth edition, and sixteen new selections, including three newly written exclusively for The City Reader. The sixth edition keeps classic writings by authors such as Ebenezer Howard, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and Louis Wirth, as well as the best contemporary writings of, among others, Peter Hall, Manuel Castells, David Harvey, Saskia Sassen, and Kenneth Jackson. In addition to newly commissioned selections by Yasser Elshestawy, Peter Taylor, and Lawrence Vale, new selections in the sixth edition include writings by Aristotle, Peter Calthorpe, Alberto Camarillo, Filip DeBoech, Edward Glaeser, David Owen, Henri Pirenne, The Project for Public Spaces, Jonas Rabinovich and Joseph Lietman, Doug Saunders, and Bish Sanyal. The anthology features general and section introductions as well as individual introductions to the selected articles introducing the authors, providing context, relating the selection to other selection, and providing a bibliography for further study. The sixth edition includes fifty plates in four plate sections, substantially revised from the fifth edition.

Book The Urban Sociology Reader

Download or read book The Urban Sociology Reader written by Jan Lin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader draws together seminal selections spanning the subfield from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Contributions from Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, Zukin, Sassen, Smith and Castells are amongst the 40 selections.

Book New York Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997-05-19
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-05-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book Collier s

Download or read book Collier s written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cybercities Reader

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  • Author : Stephen Graham
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780415279567
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book The Cybercities Reader written by Stephen Graham and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a vast range of debates and examples of city changes based on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), this book illustrates how new media in cities shapes societies, economies and cultures.