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Book Valuing the New Urbanism

Download or read book Valuing the New Urbanism written by Mark J. Eppli and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Valuing New Urbanism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles C. Tu
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Valuing New Urbanism written by Charles C. Tu and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Environmental Valuation

Download or read book Environmental Valuation written by Bill Mundy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental quality is one of the most important issues faced by contemporary urban and regional policy. Amenities such as access to the natural environment, attractive neighbourhood characteristics and high quality public goods and services, play a direct role in determining where people choose to live and how much they are willing to do so. Likewise, negative environmental conditions, such as contamination, influence the real estate markets and the 'value' of a region. Increasingly, regions become winners or losers based on the quality of life they offer their inhabitants. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book addresses the issues of environmental valuation, answering questions such as: What kinds of features matter? How large of an affect do they have? How do they affect the spatial distribution of the population? And how should the value that people place on their environment affect urban and regional policy?

Book Planning the Good Community

Download or read book Planning the Good Community written by Jill Grant and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals, the author asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to creating good communities. With examples drawn principally from North America, Europe and Japan, Planning the Good Community explores new urban approaches in a wide range of settings. It compares the movement for urban renaissance in Europe with the New Urbanism of the United States and Canada, and asks whether the concerns that drive today's planning theory - issues like power, democracy, spatial patterns and globalisation- receive adequate attention in new urban approaches. The issue of aesthetics is also raised, as the author questions whether communities must be more than just attractive in order to be good. With the benefit of twenty years' hindsight and a world-wide perspective, this book offers the reader unparalleled insight as well as a rigorous and considered critical analysis.

Book Building the New Urbanism

Download or read book Building the New Urbanism written by Aaron Passell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume encapsulates and engages the dominant history of American suburbia, brings the work of prominent theorists of culture and science into the investigation of urban and suburban development, and broadens the focus of urban studies to the metropolitan region. It will be of particular interest to scholars of urban and suburban development, material culture, and professions, but is accessible enough for use in sociology, geography, planning, and urban and suburban studies courses.

Book The New Urbanism

Download or read book The New Urbanism written by William B. Fulton and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Planning the Good Community

Download or read book Planning the Good Community written by Jill Grant and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals, the author asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to creating good communities. With examples drawn principally from North America, Europe and Japan, Planning the Good Community explores new urban approaches in a wide range of settings. It compares the movement for urban renaissance in Europe with the New Urbanism of the United States and Canada, and asks whether the concerns that drive today's planning theory - issues like power, democracy, spatial patterns and globalisation- receive adequate attention in new urban approaches. The issue of aesthetics is also raised, as the author questions whether communities must be more than just attractive in order to be good. With the benefit of twenty years' hindsight and a world-wide perspective, this book offers the reader unparalleled insight as well as a rigorous and considered critical analysis.

Book New Urbanism and Traditional Neighborhood Development

Download or read book New Urbanism and Traditional Neighborhood Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Urbanism calls for a different approach to just about every aspect of land planning and real estate-- blocks and street networks, building design, financing, transportation, retail, employment centers, civic institutions, zoning and codes, inner city revitalization, and even the marketing of homes.

Book The Value of Urban Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Great Britain. Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
  • Publisher : Thomas Telford
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780727729811
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book The Value of Urban Design written by Great Britain. Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 2001 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good urban design offers strong competitive advantages and does not necessarily cost more to deliver. This ground-breaking report examines the way in which superior urban design adds value by increasing the economic viability of development and by delivering social and environmental benefits.

Book Buying New Urbanism

Download or read book Buying New Urbanism written by David Waugh and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shaping Places

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  • Author : David Adams
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0415497965
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Shaping Places written by David Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaping Places explains how towns and cities can turn real estate development to their advantage to create the kind of places where people want to live, work, relax and invest. It contends that the production of quality places which enhance economic prosperity, social cohesion and environmental sustainability require a transformation of market outcomes. The core of the book explores why this is essential, and how it can be delivered, by linking a clear vision for the future with the necessary means to achieve it. Crucially, the book argues that public authorities should seek to shape, regulate and stimulate real estate development so that developers, landowners and funders see real benefit in creating better places. Key to this is seeing planners as market actors, whose potential to shape the built environment depends on their capacity to understand and transform the embedded attitudes and practices of other market actors. This requires planners to be skilled in understanding the political economy of real estate development and successful in changing its outcomes through smart intervention. Drawing on a strong theoretical framework, the book reveals how the future of places will come to be shaped through constant interaction between State and market power. Filled with international examples, essential case studies, color diagrams and photographs, this is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students taking planning, property, real estate or urban design courses as well as for social science students more widely who wish to know how the shaping of place really occurs.

Book What People Want

Download or read book What People Want written by Michael Shamiyeh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects today are increasingly subject to the dictates of the free market, globalism, and the gradual privatization of state institutions. Indeed, pressure to alter their projects to conform to market forces and popular taste has never been greater. Must successful design correspond to the wishes of the masses? On what exactly are the trends and expectations of the general public based? Is design always a response against popular trends or can adapting to popular tendencies also generate the potential to create a better living environment?What People Want is an examination of the concept of populism by internationally known contributors such as Diller - Scofidio, Kas Oosterhuis, Bill Moggridge (IDEO), and bestselling author Thomas Frank.

Book The Impact of New Urbanism on Single Family Housing Values

Download or read book The Impact of New Urbanism on Single Family Housing Values written by Jinyhup Kim and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Urbanism has been a prevalent issue in architecture and planning fields over the last few decades as an alternative to reforming the sprawl pattern of suburban growth. New Urbanist design principles have been adopted for many housing and neighborhood planning efforts in the United States. Do the attributes of New Urbanism serve as an impetus for improving economic value through increasing property value? This study compares Issaquah Highlands' home prices with those of traditional suburban single family homes in the City of Issaquah. The null hypothesis is that consumers are willing to pay similar prices for houses in Issaquah Highlands and for houses in the surrounding conventional subdivisions. The principal database used consists of US Census Washington State Geospatial Data Archive (WAGDA), and the King County Tax Assessments. The final data set consists of 1,075 single family housings over the three-year period from 2012 to 2014 based on sale records throughout the City of Issaquah. This study uses the hedonic pricing technique to assess the impact of New Urbanism on the value of single family residences through linear and semi-log functional form. Descriptive statistics show that more expensive properties are located in Issaquah Highlands ($638,358), followed by All Sales ($622,066), and Out of Issaquah Highlands ($608,673). 45.1 percent of sampled properties are in Issaquah highlands, and 54.9 percent are outside of Issaquah Highlands. The findings suggest that a binary variable representing New Urbanism indicates that people are willing to pay a $40,985-$56,762 premium (approximately 6.2-6.5 percent) for houses in Issaquah Highlands. The present study is valuable to urban planners, developers, and policy makers by providing several implications for future research and policy development in the urban planning field.

Book Recent Developments in Chinese Urban Planning

Download or read book Recent Developments in Chinese Urban Planning written by Qisheng Pan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent development of Chinese cities. It discusses a broad range of subjects of urban planning, including environmental planning, transportation planning, historical preservation, economic development, geographic information systems (GIS) and other technological applications. China, the most populous country in the world, has experienced unprecedented urbanization in a relatively short period. During the past decades, urbanization in China has centered on land development through industrialization and investment, but it has largely ignored the prosperity and well-being of the people. Livable cities are not just those with magnificent buildings and infrastructure; they are great places where people want to live. China’s recently inaugurated leaders have proposed a new model to actively and prudently enhance the quality of urbanization through compact, intelligent, and low-carbon development. It symbolizes the departure from land-centered urban development to a form of people-oriented urbanization, as China’s Premier, Li Keqiang, has advocated. This new model offers a platform for planning researchers and practitioners to tackle urbanization challenges, such as social equity, environment, energy, ecological and historic preservation, affordable housing, and externalities of mega cities. Furthermore, people-oriented urbanization calls for public participation and stakeholder engagement in the planning process. This book brings together planners, designers, scholars, scientists, and government officials from China and all over the world to exchange ideas on urban regeneration.

Book New Urbanism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ilse Helbrecht
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-05-13
  • ISBN : 1317087852
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book New Urbanism written by Ilse Helbrecht and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the 21st century marks the unfolding of a new urbanism, of a new urban fabric in the making. Bringing together a range of leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this edited collection examines innovative urban redevelopment projects around Europe and North America which are at the forefront of this new urbanism and which are here termed 'New Downtowns'. It introduces this term and concept and addresses major questions such as: What does a sustained urbanity for the 21st century look like? Which strategies do politicians and planners deploy to create new synergies between planning for the public good and private interest? Can market forces be co-opted for collective interests? Does the imagination of a European city continue to inspire new urbanism within and beyond Europe? And can a future urbanity for the 21st century be planned at all? In particular, it focuses on Hamburg's HafenCity", which, at around 155 hectares, is one of the most prominent city centre development projects in Europe and will increase the size of Hamburg's city centre by 40 percent. The project HafenCity serves as a starting point for a conceptually wide ranging debate on the character, shape, function and meaning of New Downtowns.