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Book A Primer for Community Design Centers

Download or read book A Primer for Community Design Centers written by Architects Workshop, Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neighborhood Planning Primer

Download or read book Neighborhood Planning Primer written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Architecture of Community

Download or read book The Architecture of Community written by Leon Krier and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2009-05-08 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Krier is one of the best-known—and most provocative—architects and urban theoreticians in the world. Until now, however, his ideas have circulated mostly among a professional audience of architects, city planners, and academics. In The Architecture of Community, Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book Architecture: Choice or Fate. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. With three new chapters, The Architecture of Community provides a contemporary road map for designing or completing today’s fragmented communities. Illustrated throughout with Krier’s original drawings, The Architecture of Community explains his theories on classical and vernacular urbanism and architecture, while providing practical design guidelines for creating livable towns. The book contains descriptions and images of the author’s built and unbuilt projects, including the Krier House and Tower in Seaside, Florida, as well as the town of Poundbury in England. Commissioned by the Prince of Wales in 1988, Krier’s design for Poundbury in Dorset has become a reference model for ecological planning and building that can meet contemporary needs.

Book The Community Planning Handbook

Download or read book The Community Planning Handbook written by Nick Wates and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community planning is a rapidly developing, increasingly important field. The Community Planning Handbook is a comprehensive, practical guide, with tips, checklists and sample documents to help the reader get started quickly.

Book Museums  Their New Audience

Download or read book Museums Their New Audience written by American Association of Museums and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Highway Beautification

Download or read book Highway Beautification written by United States. Commission on Highway Beautification and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book By Design 2

Download or read book By Design 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Meridian  Conn   Apr  17  1972  Syracuse  N Y   Apr  18  1972  Washington  D C   June 5  1972  Iowa City  Iowa  Oct  2  1972

Download or read book Meridian Conn Apr 17 1972 Syracuse N Y Apr 18 1972 Washington D C June 5 1972 Iowa City Iowa Oct 2 1972 written by United States. Commission on Highway Beautification and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making Community Design Work

Download or read book Making Community Design Work written by Umut Toker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the earliest settlements, people have deliberated the issues that affect their future together. Making Community Design Work shows how planners can guide the process toward effective decision making and beneficial community design. This well-crafted book distills decades of community design experience into a sound conceptual framework of value to practicing planners as well as planning students. Umut Toker covers a broad range of planning scales and introduces field-tested tools for participatory decision making at regional, city, community, and site-specific levels. To succeed, any planning project must address both the physical space and its users. From setting goals to evaluating results, Making Community Design Work helps planners navigate the process of creating environments that meet the needs of the people they serve.

Book Alternative Pursuits for America s 3rd Century

Download or read book Alternative Pursuits for America s 3rd Century written by Louisa Messolonghites and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the potential for alternative approaches to drug prevention.

Book Social Responsibility and Landscape Architecture

Download or read book Social Responsibility and Landscape Architecture written by Monica Marie Swihart and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resilience for All

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Brown Wilson
  • Publisher : Island Press
  • Release : 2018-05-24
  • ISBN : 1610918924
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Resilience for All written by Barbara Brown Wilson and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, people of color are disproportionally more likely to live in environments with poor air quality, in close proximity to toxic waste, and in locations more vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events. In many vulnerable neighborhoods, structural racism and classism prevent residents from having a seat at the table when decisions are made about their community. In an effort to overcome power imbalances and ensure local knowledge informs decision-making, a new approach to community engagement is essential. In Resilience for All, Barbara Brown Wilson looks at less conventional, but often more effective methods to make communities more resilient. She takes an in-depth look at what equitable, positive change through community-driven design looks like in four communities—East Biloxi, Mississippi; the Lower East Side of Manhattan; the Denby neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan; and the Cully neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. These vulnerable communities have prevailed in spite of serious urban stressors such as climate change, gentrification, and disinvestment. Wilson looks at how the lessons in the case studies and other examples might more broadly inform future practice. She shows how community-driven design projects in underserved neighborhoods can not only change the built world, but also provide opportunities for residents to build their own capacities.

Book Community Character

Download or read book Community Character written by Lane H. Kendig and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities but accounts for how people who participate in a community live, work, and shop there. The relationships that Lane Kendig defines here reflect the complexity of the interaction of the built environment with its social and economic uses, taking into account the diverse desires of municipalities and citizens. Among the many classifications for a community’s “character” are its relationship to other communities, its size and the resulting social and economic characteristics. According to Kendig, most comprehensive plans and zoning regulations are based entirely on density and land use, neither of which effectively or consistently measures character or quality of development. As Kendig shows, there is a wide range of measures that define character and these vary with the type of character a community desires to create. Taking a much more comprehensive view, this book offers “community character” as a real-world framework for planning for communities of all kinds and sizes. A companion book, A Practical Guide to Planning with Community Character, provides a detailed explanation of applying community character in a comprehensive plan, with chapters on designing urban, sub-urban, and rural character types, using character in comprehensive plans, and strategies for addressing characteristic challenges of planning and zoning in the 21st century.

Book Transcultural Cities

Download or read book Transcultural Cities written by Jeffrey Hou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcultural Cities collects case studies of intercultural exchange and the urban transformations that have accompanied it. Jeffrey Hou and a talented team of multidisciplinary scholars argue for a more critical and open view of cities, urban places, and placemaking as vehicles for cross-cultural understanding.

Book AIA Journal

    Book Details:
  • Author : American Institute of Architects
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 790 pages

Download or read book AIA Journal written by American Institute of Architects and published by . This book was released on 1978-07 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Research Handbook on Community Development

Download or read book Research Handbook on Community Development written by Rhonda Phillips and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely Research Handbook offers new ways in which to navigate the diverse terrain of community development research. Chapters unpack the foundations and history of community development research and also look to its future, exploring innovative frameworks for conceptualizing community development. Comprehensive and unequivocally progressive, this is key reading for social and public policy researchers in need of an understanding of the current trends in community development research, as well as practitioners and policymakers working on urban, rural and regional development.

Book The Sustainable Sites Handbook

Download or read book The Sustainable Sites Handbook written by Meg Calkins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the definitive resource guide for sustainable site design, construction, and management. The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) is transforming land design, development, and management practices across the United States with the first national rating system for sustainable landscapes. The Sustainable Sites Handbook features comprehensive and detailed information on principles, strategies, technologies, tools, and best practices for sustainable site design. Contributors to this book are some of the same experts that carefully shaped the SITES rating tool, ensuring thorough coverage of the broad range of topics related to sustainable site design. The Sustainable Sites Handbook offers in-depth coverage of design, construction, and management for systems of hydrology, vegetation, soils, materials, and human health and well-being. Focusing primarily on environmental site design and ecosystem services, this wide-ranging guide also covers issues of social equity, economic feasibility, and stewardship, which are crucial to the success of any sustainable site. Equally useful as a handbook for obtaining SITES credits or for the independent development of sustainable sites, The Sustainable Sites Handbook is an indispensible resource for practicing professionals in landscape architecture, landscape design, architecture, civil engineering, land planning, horticulture, ecology, environmental engineering, landscape contracting, and parks and recreation management.