Download or read book Design for Living written by R. L. Bawa and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainable Residential Development written by Avi Friedman and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2007-07-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalize on a Comprehensive New Process for Planning and Designing Sustainable Green Communities Written by internationally renowned architect Avi Friedman, Sustainable Residential Development equips you with a much-needed process and examples for planning and designing green communities. This landmark resource explains the principles of green building and how to apply them to residential development, presenting guidelines for creating communities that balance social, economic, and environmental needs. Filled with plans, elevations, and vignettes, the book shows how to incorporate wind direction, sun exposure, tree preservation, topography, and public spaces into site plan. It also shows how to design high-density neighborhoods...apply green design and construction principles by using local materials and techniques, solar power, waste management, and water efficiency...as well as rehabilitate neighborhoods while respecting their heritage. Sustainable Residential Development features: Expert guidelines for planning and designing communities that balance social, economic, and environmental needs A wealth of international and U.S. case studies and examples that illustrate the principles of sustainable community design Over 100 downloadable plans and elevations that offer a head start for planning and designing sustainable communities Inside this Green Planning and Design Guide: • Defining and Applying Principles of Sustainability in Neighborhood Development • Learning Lessons from the Past: The Rise of Suburbia • Site Selection and Analysis • Strategies for High-Density Neighborhoods: The New Urbanism • Planning, Design, and Construction Principles for Sustainability • The Urban Renewal Process and Architectural Heritage • Balancing Environmental, Cultural, and Economic Needs: A Framework for Greener Neighborhoods
Download or read book The Design of Residential Areas written by Thomas Adams and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planning Residential Areas a Paper to Indicate the Method of Approach to Preparation of the Official Plan written by HAMILTON WENTWORTH PLANNING AREA Dept and published by . This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Planning of Residential Areas written by Gordon Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Planning for Residential Areas a Survey of Housing Conditions in Johnson City Tennessee written by Johnson City (Tenn.). Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Planning For Dummies written by Jordan Yin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to create the world's new urban future With the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning—the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially—has become an increasingly vital profession. In Urban Planning For Dummies, readers will get a practical overview of this fascinating field, including studying community demographics, determining the best uses for land, planning economic and transportation development, and implementing plans. Following an introductory course on urban planning, this book is key reading for any urban planning student or anyone involved in urban development. With new studies conclusively demonstrating the dramatic impact of urban design on public psychological and physical health, the impact of the urban planner on a community is immense. And with a wide range of positions for urban planners in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors—including law firms, utility companies, and real estate development firms—having a fundamental understanding of urban planning is key to anyone even considering entry into this field. This book provides a useful introduction and lays the groundwork for serious study. Helps readers understand the essentials of this complex profession Written by a certified practicing urban planner, with extensive practical and community-outreach experience For anyone interested in being in the vanguard of building, designing, and shaping tomorrow's sustainable city, Urban Planning For Dummies offers an informative, entirely accessible introduction on learning how.
Download or read book Urban and Regional Planning written by Peter Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth edition of the classic text for students of urban and regional planning. It gives a historical overview of the developments and changes in the theory and practice of planning, throughout the entiretwentieth century. This extensively revised edition follows the successful format of previous editions. Specific reference is made to the most important British developments in recent times, including the devolution of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the establishment of the Mayor of London and the dominant urban sustainability paradigm. Planning in Western Europe, since 1945, now incorporates new material on EU-wide issues as well as updated country specific sections. Planning in the United States since 1945, now discusses the continuing trends of urban dispersal and social polarisation, as well as initiatives in land use planning and transportation policies. The book looks at the nature of the planning process at the end of the twentieth century and looks forward to the twenty-first century.
Download or read book An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning written by Yasar Ergen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban and regional planning is a spatial design practice that brings limitations to the intervention in natural areas to ensure a balance between population growth, housing, and employment in residential areas. It includes spatial design that enables living creatures to live while planning the interventions to ensure suitability to ecology, geology, climate, and land structure since intervention in nature should be balanced. In this context, the profession generally includes regional, spatial and urban planning, urban transformation that involves the urban decline areas in the city, urban renewal and protection, urban transportation, and urban management. Therefore, it is believed that this book will be useful for those who work in this area on a practical or academic basis and follow the innovations in the profession.
Download or read book Planning of Residential Areas written by Ontario. Department of Planning and Development and published by S.l. : Ontario Department of Planning and Development. This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Design of Residential Areas written by Thomas Adams and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Design of Residential Areas: Basic Considerations, Principles, and Methods The present concerted movement to provide proper dwellings for the citizens of this country finds our minds in very much the same unsettled and shifting state that is evident in our experiments in the regulation of business and industry, in the care of those who cannot earn a living, and, indeed, in democratic government itself. Our belief and our boast have been, "There is opportunity for all, and any man who will work can take care of himself." At the same time we felt that a man's business was indeed "his own business." Whatever he could get legally, he was entitled to keep. So long as there was still room for expansion and for exploitation of natural riches, we could believe both of these things at the same time. Now that the frontier is gone, and opportunities are not unlimited, we see that the unrestricted seizing of opportunity by one man means the lack of even reasonable opportunity for another. We now believe in regulation, just as we recently believed in individualism, and we are likely, just as we did with individualism, to trust it too far and to expect it to accomplish all things. The answer to our problem lies at neither extreme. Rather it consists in preserving the driving forces of self-help, self-expression, even of self-seeking, but restraining some people, encouraging some, and guiding all, so that there shall be enough opportunity for decent living to go around. This simple aspiration is as old as history. It is highly probable that it will never be fully realized, but if we can use the intelligence which we have, we certainly can make a closer approximation to the ideal than we have done in the last few years. This book by Mr. Adams is an application of intelligence to the above ends in one part of the field of residential planning, carrying further and applying more widely his contribution to the subject in a previous report, Neighborhoods of Small Homes. In the present volume, he considers fundamentally two things: first, what are reasonably good living conditions; then, what is their least cost, - in thought, in effort, and in relinquishment of conflicting objectives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Missing Middle Housing written by Daniel G. Parolek and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWII, auto-centric, single-family-development model no longer meets the needs of residents. Urban areas in the US are experiencing dramatically shifting household and cultural demographics and a growing demand for walkable urban living. Missing Middle Housing, a term coined by Daniel Parolek, describes the walkable, desirable, yet attainable housing that many people across the country are struggling to find. Missing Middle Housing types—such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts—can provide options along a spectrum of affordability. In Missing Middle Housing, Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of these housing types to meet today’s diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-color graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing. The book demonstrates why more developers should be building Missing Middle Housing and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable it to be built. Case studies of built projects show what is possible, from the Prairie Queen Neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska to the Sonoma Wildfire Cottages, in California. A chapter from urban scholar Arthur C. Nelson uses data analysis to highlight the urgency to deliver Missing Middle Housing. Parolek proves that density is too blunt of an instrument to effectively regulate for twenty-first-century housing needs. Complete industries and systems will have to be rethought to help deliver the broad range of Missing Middle Housing needed to meet the demand, as this book shows. Whether you are a planner, architect, builder, or city leader, Missing Middle Housing will help you think differently about how to address housing needs for today’s communities.
Download or read book To morrow written by Ebenezer Howard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder of the Garden City Association outlines his radical new approach to urban planning. First published in 1898.
Download or read book Strong Towns written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
Download or read book Master Plan of Residential Land Use of Chicago written by Chicago Plan Commission and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Place of the Ideal Community in Urban Planning written by Thomas Andrew Reiner and published by Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Housing and Redevelopment written by United States. National Capital Park and Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
