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Book San Francisco Downtown Zoning Study

Download or read book San Francisco Downtown Zoning Study written by San Francisco (Calif.). Department of City Planning and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Innovative Zoning

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rahenkamp, Sachs, Wells, and Associates
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Innovative Zoning written by Rahenkamp, Sachs, Wells, and Associates and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Building Rehabilitation Study

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greater San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Building Rehabilitation Committee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book Building Rehabilitation Study written by Greater San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Building Rehabilitation Committee and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arbitrary Lines

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. Nolan Gray
  • Publisher : Island Press
  • Release : 2022-06-21
  • ISBN : 1642832553
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Arbitrary Lines written by M. Nolan Gray and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persistent racial and economic segregation, and car-dependent development? It’s time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations and stories, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary—if not sufficient—condition for building more affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities. The arbitrary lines of zoning maps across the country have come to dictate where Americans may live and work, forcing cities into a pattern of growth that is segregated and sprawling. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way. Reform is in the air, with cities and states across the country critically reevaluating zoning. In cities as diverse as Minneapolis, Fayetteville, and Hartford, the key pillars of zoning are under fire, with apartment bans being scrapped, minimum lot sizes dropping, and off-street parking requirements disappearing altogether. Some American cities—including Houston, America’s fourth-largest city—already make land-use planning work without zoning. In Arbitrary Lines, Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common confusions and myths about how American cities regulate growth and examining the major contemporary critiques of zoning. Gray sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city. Despite mounting interest, no single book has pulled these threads together for a popular audience. In Arbitrary Lines, Gray fills this gap by showing how zoning has failed to address even our most basic concerns about urban growth over the past century, and how we can think about a new way of planning a more affordable, prosperous, equitable, and sustainable American city.

Book Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library  University of California  Berkeley

Download or read book Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library University of California Berkeley written by University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Study of Urban Mass Transportation Needs and Financing

Download or read book A Study of Urban Mass Transportation Needs and Financing written by United States. Department of Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions

Download or read book Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions written by Karen Chapple and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthought. California is at the cutting edge of this movement, not only because its regulations actively reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also because its pioneering environmental regulation, market innovation, and Left Coast politics show how to blend the "three Es" of sustainability--environment, economy, and equity. Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions is the first book to explain what this grand experiment tells us about the most just path moving forward for cities and regions across the globe. The book offers chapters about neighbourhoods, the economy, and poverty, using stories from practice to help solve puzzles posed by academic research. Based on the most recent demographic and economic trends, it overturns conventional ideas about how to build more livable places and vibrant economies that offer opportunity to all. This thought-provoking book provides a framework to deal with the new inequities created by the movement for more livable - and expensive - cities, so that our best plans for sustainability are promoting more equitable development as well. This book will appeal to students of urban studies, urban planning and sustainability as well as policymakers, planning practitioners, and sustainability advocates around the world.

Book Land Use Impacts of Rapid Transit

Download or read book Land Use Impacts of Rapid Transit written by Robert L Knight and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Designing San Francisco

Download or read book Designing San Francisco written by Alison Isenberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners—those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design—to the unsung artists, activists, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco between the 1940s and the 1970s. Previous accounts of midcentury urban renewal have focused on the opposing terms set down by Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs—put simply, development versus preservation—and have followed New York City models. Now Isenberg turns our attention west to colorful, pioneering, and contentious San Francisco, where unexpectedly fierce battles were waged over iconic private and public projects like Ghirardelli Square, Golden Gateway, and the Transamerica Pyramid. When large-scale redevelopment came to low-rise San Francisco in the 1950s, the resulting rivalries and conflicts sparked the proliferation of numerous allied arts fields and their professionals, including architectural model makers, real estate publicists, graphic designers, photographers, property managers, builders, sculptors, public-interest lawyers, alternative press writers, and preservationists. Isenberg explores how these centrally engaged arts professionals brought new ideas to city, regional, and national planning and shaped novel projects across urban, suburban, and rural borders. San Francisco’s rebuilding galvanized far-reaching critiques of the inequitable competition for scarce urban land, and propelled debates over responsible public land stewardship. Isenberg challenges many truisms of this renewal era—especially the presumed male domination of postwar urban design, showing how women collaborated in city building long before feminism’s impact in the 1970s. An evocative portrait of one of the world’s great cities, Designing San Francisco provides a new paradigm for understanding past and present struggles to define the urban future.

Book Applications of Environment Behavior Research

Download or read book Applications of Environment Behavior Research written by Paul D. Cherulnik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes thirteen cases in which architects, city planners and designers used psychological theory and research to make their work more responsive to the needs of people.

Book Residential Location and Urban Housing Markets

Download or read book Residential Location and Urban Housing Markets written by Gregory K. Ingram and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Published for the National Bureau of Economic Research [by] Ballinger Publishing Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of papers on the economics of household location and urban area housing markets in the USA - presents economic models designed for supply and demand measurements, to gauge prices and to analyse housing policies for both long term and short term trends, and considers the relationship between racial discrimination in housing and employment opportunity, while discussing the legal aspects of ensuring dwellings are habitable, etc. Graphs, references and statistical tables.

Book BART and the San Francisco Construction Boom  an Analysis of the Anticipatory Effects of Rapid Transit on the Office Market

Download or read book BART and the San Francisco Construction Boom an Analysis of the Anticipatory Effects of Rapid Transit on the Office Market written by Deborah Francesca Wiech and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings  Fourth Annual Pedestrian Conference

Download or read book Proceedings Fourth Annual Pedestrian Conference written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedestrian safety and design issues were the subjects jointly discussed at the Fourth Annual Pedestrian Conference held in Boulder, Colorado, September 20-23, 1983. The conference was divided into two 2-day meetings. The conference had two basic objectives: to disseminate tested engineering, education, and enforcement techniques to reduce the incidence of pedestrian accidents, and to present a variety of approaches utilized in the United States, Canada and Europe to create visually attractive, functional, and highly used urban pedestrian spaces. These proceedings present the findings, workshop presentations, case studies, design techniques and overall summaries of the meetings.

Book Downtown

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert M. Fogelson
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300098278
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book Downtown written by Robert M. Fogelson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. Urban historian Robert Fogelson gives a riveting account of how downtown--and the way Americans thought about it--changed between 1880 and 1950. Recreating battles over subways and skyscrapers, the introduction of elevated highways and parking bans, and other controversies, this book provides a new and often starling perspective on downtown's rise and fall.

Book Handbook of Urban Studies

Download or read book Handbook of Urban Studies written by Ronan Paddison and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Urban Studies provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policymakers. It provides a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies. Leading authors identify key issues and questions and future trends for further research and present their findings so that, where appropriate, they are relevant to the needs of policymakers. Using the city as a unifying structure, the Handbook provides an holistic appreciation of urban structure and change, and of the theories by which we understand the structure, development and changing character