Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents

Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents
Author: AndrŽs Duany
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2013-06-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0865717400

Landscape Urbanism vs. the New Urbanism—negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world.

The Smart Growth Manual

The Smart Growth Manual
Author: Andres Duany
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004-01-22
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0071433449

Everyone is calling for smart growth...but what exactly is it? In The Smart Growth Manual, two leading city planners provide a thorough answer. From the expanse of the metropolis to the detail of the window box, they address the pressing challenges of urban development with easy-to-follow advice and broad array of best practices. With their landmark book Suburban Nation, Andres Duany and Jeff Speck "set forth more clearly than anyone has done in our time the elements of good town planning" (The New Yorker). With this long-awaited companion volume, the authors have organized the latest contributions of new urbanism, green design, and healthy communities into a comprehensive handbook, fully illustrated with the built work of the nation's leading practitioners. "The Smart Growth Manual is an indispensable guide to city planning. This kind of progressive development is the only way to fully restore our economic strength and create new jobs, new industries, and a renewed ability to compete in the first rank of world economies." -- Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco "Authors Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, and Mike Lydon have created The Smart Growth Manual, a resource which not only explains the overarching ideals of smart growth, but a manual that takes the time to show smart growth principles at each geographic scale (region, neighborhood, street, building). I highly recommend [it] as a part of any community participant’s or urban planner’s desktop references." -- LocalPlan.org Planetizen Top 10 Books – 2010 On the ninth annual list of the ten best books in urban planning, design and development: "The goal of The Smart Growth Manual is clear from page 1: to create a guidebook for smart growth following the pattern of the Charter for New Urbanism. Duany, Speck and Lydon have achieved that in spades (the Charter is included in the appendix, in case we missed the connection). It even clears up some of the architectural arguments that attach themselves to New Urbanists, such as this segment of Section 14.1, Regional Design; 'While new buildings should not be compelled to mimic their historic predecessors, designers should pay attention to local practices regarding materials and colors, roof pitches, eave lengths, window-to-wall ratios, and the socially significant relationship of buildings to their site and the street; these have usually evolved in intelligent response to local conditions.' In addition to making the old 'traditional vs. modern' argument irrelevant, Duany, Speck and Lydon have truly managed to boil down the best parts of current practices into a highly readable, portable book."

City Comforts

City Comforts
Author: David M. Sucher
Publisher: City Comforts Inc.
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2010-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0964268027

Sustainable Urbanism

Sustainable Urbanism
Author: Douglas Farr
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2012-01-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1118174518

Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and buildings. Providing a historic perspective on the standards and regulations that got us to where we are today in terms of urban lifestyle and attempts at reform, Douglas Farr makes a powerful case for sustainable urbanism, showing where we went wrong, and where we need to go. He then explains how to implement sustainable urbanism through leadership and communication in cities, communities, and neighborhoods. Essays written by Farr and others delve into such issues as: Increasing sustainability through density. Integrating transportation and land use. Creating sustainable neighborhoods, including housing, car-free areas, locally-owned stores, walkable neighborhoods, and universal accessibility. The health and environmental benefits of linking humans to nature, including walk-to open spaces, neighborhood stormwater systems and waste treatment, and food production. High performance buildings and district energy systems. Enriching the argument are in-depth case studies in sustainable urbanism, from BedZED in London, England and Newington in Sydney, Australia, to New Railroad Square in Santa Rosa, California and Dongtan, Shanghai, China. An epilogue looks to the future of sustainable urbanism over the next 200 years. At once solidly researched and passionately argued, Sustainable Urbanism is the ideal guidebook for urban designers, planners, and architects who are eager to make a positive impact on our--and our descendants'--buildings, cities, and lives.

Transects

Transects
Author: Richard Weller
Publisher: ORO Applied Research + Design
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Landscape architecture
ISBN: 9781941806296

Celebrates 100 years of history, people and design in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the School of Design of the University of Pennsylvania.

Towns and Town-Making Principles

Towns and Town-Making Principles
Author: Andres Duany
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1991
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Published with the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Serene Urbanism

Serene Urbanism
Author: Phillip James Tabb
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 131705704X

Serenity is becoming alarmingly absent from our daily existence, especially within the urban context. Time is dense and space is tumultuous. The idea of the serene has gained currency in postmodern discussions, and when combined with urbanism conjures questions, even contradictions, as the two ideas seem improbable yet their correspondence seems so inherently desirable. Integrated, these two constructs present design challenges as they manifest in differing ways across the rural–urban transect. In response, Part I of this book establishes the theoretical framework through different contemporary perspectives, and concludes with a clear explanation of a theory of serene urbanism. The positive characteristics of urbanism and beneficial qualities of the serene are explored and related to sustainability, biophilia, placemaking and environmental design. Both principles and examples are presented as compelling portraits for the proposal of these new urban landscapes. Part II of the work is an in-depth exploration and analysis of serene urban ideas related to the intentional community being created outside of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. "Serenbe" is the name given to this place to commemorate the value and nuance between the serene and urban.

Light Imprint Handbook

Light Imprint Handbook
Author: Thomas E. Low
Publisher: Civic by Design
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781931871099

Light Imprint (LI) is a planning and development strategy that emphasizes sustainability, pedestrian-oriented design and increased environmental and infrastructural efficiency while reducing a community's anticipated construction expenses. The Light Imprint Initiative establishes transect-based environmental performance metrics, something LEED-ND lacks. This handbook provides an overview of the Initiative and features data-based Light Imprint case studies. It is organized around the transect and includes detailed information on how to easily use over sixty Light Imprint tools and resources calibrated on the transect. The data is organized in a useful Light Imprint Transect-based Matrix. Users of this handbook will gain an understanding of the Light Imprint Overlay strategy and the tactics to apply the LI approach on their next development project. -- T.p.