Format:
1 online resource (681 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9781136205668
Series Statement:
Routledge Urban Reader Series
Content:
The second edition of the Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly fifty generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch and Jacobs to more recent writings by Hiller, Koolhaas and Sorkin. Following the widespread success of the first edition of the Urban Design Reader, this updated edition continues to provide the most important historical material of the urban design field, but also introduces new topics and selections that address the myriad challenges facing designers today
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of plates -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- PART ONE: HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS IN URBAN DESIGN -- Introduction to Part One -- "Upsurge of the Renaissance" -- "The Islamic City: Historic Myths, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance" -- "The Family of Eyes" and "The Mire of the Macadam" -- "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" -- "The Meager and Unimaginative Character of Modern City Plans" and "Artistic Limitations of Modern City Planning" -- "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" -- "Ideology and Aesthetics" -- "The Neighborhood Unit" -- "The Pack-Donkey's Way and Man's Way" and "A Contemporary City" -- PART TWO: FOUNDATIONS OF THE FIELD -- Introduction to Part Two -- "Josep Lluís Sert's Urban Design Legacy" -- "Introduction to The Concise Townscape" -- "The Image of the Environment" and "The City Image and Its Elements" -- "Author's Introduction" and "The Uses of Sidewalks: Contact" -- "A City is Not a Tree" -- "The Significance of A& -- P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas" -- "Collage City" -- "Introduction," "The Life of Plazas," "Sitting Space," and, "Sun, Wind, Trees, and Water" -- "Conclusion: Great Streets and City Planning" -- "Toward an Urban Design Manifesto" -- "Dimensions of Performance" -- "A Catholic Approach to Organizing What Urban Designers Should Know" -- PART THREE: GROWTH OF A PLACE AGENDA -- Introduction to Part Three -- "Prospects for Places" -- "The Phenomenon of Place" -- "The Problem of Place in America" -- "Critical Regionalism: An Architecture of Place" -- "A Crisis in the Urban Landscape," "The Origins and Theory of Type," and "Legitimacy and Control" -- "Charter of the New Urbanism" -- "Themes of Postmodern Urbanism"
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"Introduction," "Preface: The Current State of Everyday Urbanism," and "Blurring the Boundaries: Public Space and Private Life" -- "The Generic City" and "Whatever Happened to Urbanism?" -- PART FOUR: DESIGN ISSUES IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT -- Introduction to Part Four -- "What is Sprawl?" -- "Density in Communities, or the Most Important Factor in Building Urbanity" -- "Introduction," "Physical Activity and Public Health," and "Urban Design Characteristics" -- "Introduction," "The Changing Nature of Public Space in City Centres," and "Whose Public Space?" -- "Profit and Place" -- "Urban Dualities in the Arab World: From a Narrative of Loss to Neo-Liberal Urbanism" -- "The Urbanism of Ambition" and "China Reinvents the City" -- PART FIVE: ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES -- Introduction to Part Five -- "An Ecological Method for Landscape Architecture" -- "Principles for Regional Design" -- "Landscape as Urbanism" -- "Discourses for Landscape and Urbanization," "The Production of Waste Landscape," and "Drosscape Explained" -- "Planning for Sustainability in European Cities: A Review of Practice in Leading Cities" -- "Urban Resilience: Cities of Fear and Hope" -- PART SIX: URBAN DESIGN PRACTICE NOW AND TOMORROW -- Introduction to Part Six -- "Where and How Does Urban Design Happen?" -- "Designing the Urban Design Studio" -- "Design Guidelines in American Cities: Conclusions" -- "The End(s) of Urban Design" -- "A Third Way for Urban Design" -- Epilogue -- Illustration credits -- Editorial credits -- Copyright information -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Larice, Michael The Urban Design Reader Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415668071
Language:
English
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