عنوان

Urban design for an urban century

(Number (ISBN

9780470087824 (cloth : alk. paper)

Number

40199

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

Urban design for an urban century

Other Title Information

:placemaking for people

First Statement of Responsibility

/ by Lance Jay Brown, David Dixon, Oliver Gillham

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Hoboken, N.J.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

: Wiley,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

, c2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 296 p

Other Physical Details

., [32] p. of plates , ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) , 24 cm.

Text of Note

Language: انگلیسی

Text of Note

Print

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-290) and index.

Text of Note

Part I: Paradigms, Principles and Process -- 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 -- Roots of urban form -- Early cities -- European cities in the Middle Ages -- Renaissance forms reshape cities -- The new world turns toward the grid -- The industrial revolution and reaction -- Imagining the postindustrial city -- Decentralization: The growth of the modern city -- Europe and modernism -- Recentralization: the city as the future -- Setting the stage: fifty years of suburbanization -- Cities on the rebound -- New forces shaping cities -- New currents in urban design -- Principles for an urban century -- Process should support the principles -- Part II: Putting Urban Design into Practice -- Case studies in urban design -- Guiding regional growth and change -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Rediscovering downtown and main street -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Reinventing older neighborhoods -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Inventing new neighborhoods -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Reclaiming the waterfront -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Creating the public realm -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Transforming campus into community -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Conclusion.

Entry Element

City planning, United States

Brown, Lance Jay,1943-

Dixon, David,1947 July 17-

Gillham, Oliver

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