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The Urban Design Reader
Michael Larice (Editor), Elizabeth MacDonald (Editor)
(2006 - New Edition)
Paperback - 560 pages
Routledge
ISBN: 0415333873
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Drawing together the very best of classic and contemporary writings, this informative book illuminates the theory and practice of urban design. Forty-five generous selections include contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Hall and Jacobs through to Davis, Hayden and Gillham. This book provides an essential resource for students and practitioners of urban design, drawing together important but widely dispersed writings. Section and selection introductions are provided to assist students in understanding where readings come from and how they fit into the larger picture of the field of urban design.
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Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
B. Hayes
(2005)
Hardcover - 500 pages
W W Norton & Co Ltd
ISBN: 0393059979
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Replete with the author's striking photographs, Infrastructure is a unique and spectacular guide, exploring all the major "ecosystems" of our modern industrial world, revealing what the structures are and why they are there, and uncovering beauty in unexpected places. Covering agriculture, resources, energy, communication, transportation, manufacturing and waste, this is the perfect companion to the industrial landscape. The objects that fill our everyday environment, such as streetlights, railway tracks, antenna towers, motorway overpasses, satellite dishes and thousands of other manufactured items, are so familiar they have become so familiar we hardly notice them. Larger and more exotic facilities have transformed vast tracts of the landscape: coal mines, nuclear power plants, oil refineries and steel mills, to name a few. This book is a compelling and clear guide for those who want to explore and understand this mysterious world created by man.
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Inclusive Urban Design: Streets for Life
Elizabeth Burton, Lynne Mitchell
(2006)
Paperback - 224 pages
Architectural Press
ISBN: 0750664584
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This is the first book to address the design needs of older people and the disabled in the general outdoor built environment. It provides information on design principles essential to urban designers, planners and landscape architects who want to provide for all users of urban space and who wish to achieve true sustainability in their designs. Part one examines the changing experiences of people in the outdoor environment as they age and discusses existing outdoor environments and the aspects and features that help or hinder older people from using and enjoying the outdoor environment. Part two presents the six design principles for streets for life and their many individual components. Using annotated site plans, photographs and line drawings, a range of design features are presented at all scales of the outdoor environment from street layouts and building form to signs and detail. Part three expands on the concept of streets for life as the ultimate goal of inclusive urban design. These are outdoor environments that people are able to confidently understand, navigate and use, regardless of age or circumstance and represent truly sustainable inclusive communities.
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Future Forms and Design for Sustainable Cities
Mike Jenks and Nicola Dempsey (Editors)
(2005)
Paperback - 352 pages
Architectural Press
ISBN: 075066309X
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Concentrating on the planning and design of cities, the three sections take a logical route through the discussion from the broad considerations at regional and city scale, to the larger city at high and lower densities through to design considerations on the smaller block scale. Key design issues such as access to facilities, access for sunlight, life cycle analyses, and the impact of communications on urban design are tackled, and in conclusion, the research is compared to large scale design examples that have been proposed and/or implemented over the past decade to give a vision for the future that might be achievable.
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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
Spiro Kostof, Richard Tobias (Illustrator)
(1999)
Paperback - 352 pages
Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 0500280991
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Cities are among the most enduring and remarkable of human artefacts. This study explains how and why cities took the shape they did. Professor Kostof focuses on a number of themes - organic patterns, the grid, the city as diagram, the grand manner and the skyline - and interprets the hidden order of urban patterns. Photographs, historical views and specially commissioned drawings depict a global mosaic of citybuilding: the shaping of medieval Siena; the creation of New Delhi as the crown of the Raj; the remodelling of Moscow as the self-styled capital of world socialism and the transformation of the skyline as religious and civic symbols yield to the towers of corporate business.
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