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Urban Design for an Urban Century : Shaping More Livable, Equitable, and Resilient Cities by David Dixon, Lance Jay Brown and Oliver Gillham (2009, Hardcover)
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PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10047008782X
ISBN-139780470087824
eBay Product ID (ePID)19038296401
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
Publication NameUrban Design for an Urban Century : Shaping more Livable, Equitable, and Resilient Cities
LanguageEnglish
SubjectUrban & Land Use Planning, Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Public Policy / Regional Planning
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorDavid Dixon, Lance Jay Brown, Oliver Gillham
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Architecture
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight0 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width8.1 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-018992
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"This is an ambitious book that combines a history of urban form and the evolution of modern urban design. This book is packed with information and insight. It is an important addition to the key texts on urban design and urbanism." ( Oculus Magazine , Fall 2009) "Urban Design sets itself the task of clarifying the role of urban design in shaping urban places. The authors begin the book by acknowledging the ambiguity of the urban designer's job, determining that a shared emphasis on "finding the right fit between people and place" predominates. Preceding the case studies and principles are an excellent, concise history of urban morphology and the decentralization of cities and a call for recentralization." ( The Architect's Newspaper , Sept 23, 2009) " Urban Design for an Urban Century offers a very thoughtful and worthwhile and simplified overview of the history of the key paradigms, principles, and process of urban design. It breezes by a reader in the first 100 pages. To the credit of the erudite authors, their sketch of urban design brings levels of political, sociological, and architectural analysis together in a readable synthesis." (Norman Weinstein, ArchNewsNow.com , September 2009) "...its content does engage the history and chabges in attitude towards cities that will take forward in this century." ( Perspective , July 2009) "The first part is superb. Bits and pieces of it will be old news to many new urbanists, but on the whole, the initial five chapters are tremendously illuminating. It is rigorously organized." ( New Urban News , March 2009), "...its content does engage the history and chabges in attitude towards cities that will take forward in this century." (Perspective, July 2009)
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal711/.4
Table Of ContentPreface.PART I: PARADIGMS, PRINCIPLES AND PROCESS.Chapter 1: Urban Design--A Social and Public Art.Fitting People and Place.The Evolution of a "Social and Public Art".Integrating Diverse Perspectives and Skills.Giving Form to a Rapidly Changing Society.Shaping the Response to a Changing World.Chapter 2: Roots of Urban Form.1. Early Cities.2. European Cities in the Middle Ages.3. Renaissance Forms Reshape Cities.4. The New World Turns Toward the Grid.5. The Industrial Revolution and Reaction.6. Imagining the Postindustrial City.Chapter 3: Decentralization: The Growth of the Modern City.Europe and Modernism.CIAM and the Birth of "Urban Design".Opportunities and Challenges.Chapter 4: Recentralization: The City as the Future.Rise of the Suburbs.Changes that Favor Cities.Issues of the Common Realm.Cities on the Rebound.New Trends in Urban Design.Conclusion.Chapter 5: Principles for an Urban Century.Process Should Support the Principles.Part II: Putting Urban Design into Practice.Case Studies in Urban Design.Background: AIA's Regional and Urban Design Committee (RUDC).The Regional and Urban Design Honor Awards program.Chapter 6: Guiding Regional Growth and Change.Roots.Approaches Today.Case Studies.How the Projects Illustrate the Principles.Chapter 7: Rediscovering Downtown and Main Street.Roots.Approaches Today.Case Studies.How The Projects Illustrate the Principles.Chapter 8: Reinventing Older Neighborhoods.Roots.Approaches Today.Case Studies.How The Projects Relate to the Principles.Chapter 9: Inventing New Neighborhoods.Roots.Approaches Today.Case Studies.How The Projects Relate to the Principles.Chapter 10: Reclaiming the Waterfront.Roots.Approaches Today.Case Studies.How the Projects Illustrate the Principles.Chapter 11: Creating the Public Realm.Roots.Approaches today.Case studies.How the Projects Illustrate the Principles.Chapter 12: Transforming Campus into Community.Roots.Approaches today.Case studies.How these Projects Illustrate the Principles.Conclusion.
Synopsis· A comprehensive book of tools and information on urban design. · Practitioners will learn contemporary urban design paradigms and principles, processes, and design tools., Emerging principles for urban design, featuring recent winners of the AIA Institute Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design "At last! Urbanism is in, and urban designers Brown, Dixon, and Gillham offer a focused lens through which to understand it. Combining urban design history and precepts with selected case studies, they generously interlace their text with deeply held convictions about the importance of urban form and place to twenty-first-century quality of life. This remarkable compilation offers fresh examples and new ways of thinking that can enhance the collaborative endeavors of urban designers, public officials, land-use policymakers, and their communities." -From the Foreword by Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP "The wisest, clearest introduction I know to the art and science of designing cities." -Robert Campbell, Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe architecture critic Urban Design for an Urban Century is divided into two parts: Part I, Paradigms, Principles, and Process, traces the roots of urban form from early cities to suburbanization and now recentralization. The final chapter offers a set of principles to help urban designers meet the challenges of today and tomorrow, including creating sustainable design strategies that accommodate changing demographics and values. Part II, Putting Urban Design into Practice, shows how the principles set forth in Part I are applied, detailing case studies drawn from projects recognized for excellence by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Institute Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design program. These case studies demonstrate how urban designers shape human environments, stressing the essential role of community engagement in each facet of urban design. The authors use the case studies to demonstrate how urban designers are responding to changes in technology, urban economies, views toward sustainability, and similar dynamics. Urban designers, planners, and architects will discover new approaches and a new set of principles for handling urban projects that will serve them now and for many years to come., "The wisest, clearest introduction I know to the art and science of designing cities."-- Robert Campbell, Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe architecture critic Featuring projects that have won The American Institute of Architects' (AIA) National Honor Awards for Urban Design in recent years, this is a comprehensive book of tools and information on urban design. Endorsed by the AIA and written by the 2005 and 2006 chairs, respectively, of the AIA's Regional and Urban Design Committee, this unique guide provides urban designers, architects, and students with contemporary urban design paradigms and principles, processes, and design tools for various project types and scales, such as downtowns, neighborhoods, Main Street revitalization, waterfronts, and college campuses.
LC Classification NumberNA9105.B76 2009
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