Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Urban & Land Use Planning

Space Place Life is the first in a series of books drawing on the expertise of the Academy of Urbanism. This book examines the concepts that are core to the academy; the way that urban space is designed, the quality place created by the buildings that enclose this space and the life that animates it. All great towns and cities across the world depend on these three fundamental aspects of urban life.

The Academy of Urbanism brings together architects, urban designers planners, surveyors, economists academics and developers to better understand what makes successful...

Urban Identity is the second in the successful Learning from Place series that draws upon the wealth of experience in the Academy of Urbanism. This edition deals with the subject of urban identity and character. Why is it that all modern towns and cities look the same, as they become dominated by identikit buildings, multi-national corporations, even arbitrarily imposed urban design rules? How can we preserve and foster the sense of local identity and character that so value without falling into the trap of historical pastiche?

Four leading urban thinkers...

Urban Identity is the second in the successful Learning from Place series that draws upon the wealth of experience in the Academy of Urbanism. This edition deals with the subject of urban identity and character. Why is it that all modern towns and cities look the same, as they become dominated by identikit buildings, multi-national corporations, even arbitrarily imposed urban design rules? How can we preserve and foster the sense of local identity and character that so value without falling into the trap of historical pastiche?

Four leading urban thinkers...

A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.

• The first comprehensive and critical history of architectural theory over the last fifty years
• surveys the intellectual history of architecture since 1968, including criticisms of high modernism, the rise of postmodern...

This book contains a short introduction to the culture of Pakistan, in the first part; moreover there is a complete review of the preservation policies in Pakistan, whereas the second part consists of a comparative analysis of the case studies, of the present trends of the conservation policies. Furthermore there is also a discussion of the laws of conservation of building heritage of Europe with that of Pakistan, a research is conducted to find the weaknesses in the present laws in Pakistan and suggestions are made for the amendment in preservation Polices. The architectural...

Gated communities are physical private areas with prohibited access and directed with special rules where outsiders and insiders exist. Our aim is to investigate the phenomenon which is one of the most important driving forces in housing market from the perspective of developers. The data is obtained from two questionnaires filled out by developers. The first questionnaire aims to understand the developers approaches to gated communities, while the second one addresses the main characteristics and development process of gated communities. On the basis of the characteristics of...

The urban land re-development policy is one of the most important issues in government decision-making. Controversy after announcing any urban land policy has occurred regularly. Most of them involve the diversity of needs and conflict in directions of utilization. The author uses the abbreviation WiMBY (an antonym of NiMBY) as the analysis tool to compare the heterogeneity of interests in publicly owned land utilization. The author reviewed the failures and successes of urban land utilization projects on all continents, especially cases of controversy. Factors involved in ...

At the present time, rural regions in developing countries such as Lebanon rely heavily on agriculture for their continued existence, but this does not generate sufficient employment or income to encourage the indigenous population to remain. Thus, poverty and lack of opportunity are seen as the major reasons for the rural exodus. However,in many such countries, rural regions are rich in natural and cultural resources, offering alternative or additional opportunities for improving the social and economic condition for local people. But in seeking to capitalise on these, it is important to...

The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoods have been largely unsuccessful. Strategies are needed to improve the world's major cities in the twenty-first century. Tom Angotti is fundamentally optimistic about the future of the metropolis, but questions urban planning's inability to integrate urban and rural systems, its contribution to the growth of inequality, and increasing enclave development throughout the world.

Freight movement is a vital and growing part of regional economy and urban transportation system. Though freight transportation has been surely of growing interest to transportation planners, it is costly and difficult to obtain freight data and develop freight models. Based on the literature and our previous research on freight transportation, this book describes a regional freight modeling system with a non-survey approach that offers an affordable and efficient way to estimate detailed freight flows from secondary data sources with reasonable accuracy. The freight data derived in the...

Cities ought to be magnificent, beautiful places to live. They should be places where people can be fulfilled, where they can be what they can be, where there is freedom, love, ideas, excitement, quiet and joy. Cities ought to be the ultimate manifestation of society's collective achievements. Allan B. Jacobs is one of the world's best known planners and urban design practitioners, with a long and distinguished international career. Drawing on his professional experience of almost sixty years, Jacobs guides the reader through the lessons he has learnt as a planner and lover of cities. Cities...

For the last 50 years, we have been building communities for the wrong reason. "How to Build a VillageTown" proposes to turn real estate development upside down, so that people may regain control of their lives, their communities and their future. Instead of building communities to sell cars, "How to Build a VillageTown" proposes people build communities that provide for their needs and aspirations... places to live that are places they love. The idea is not new. Over 2,000 years ago, Aristotle wrote that when several villages come together so they may become economically self-supporting, the...

Hegemann and Peets' classic work on urban planning is an encyclopedic compilation of over twelve hundred illustrations, photographs, and diagrams. Their work was first published in 1922 and presented for the first time a comprehensive survey of what we would consider modern urban planning or urban design principles. Their work, often referred to simply as 'Civic Art, ' remained out of print for a number of years. This compact edition, part of the 'Fundamentals in Urban Planning' series, presents the full text and graphics of the original edition in an affordable and portable version....

The factors or criteria associated with the sustainable and economically potential planning for housing are often ignored in the contemporary planning practices like zoning. House rent is depended on several criteria or facilities surrounded or related with it. It has been tried to explore those criteria and to develop a linear regression model that can explain the house rent for Khulna city. Vector base GIS software ArcGIS as well as statistical software SPSS has been used to build this spatial decision support model. The major finding of the study is a linear regression equation: Y =...

The share of world urban population living in developing countries expected to increase rapidly in the coming decades. Prevailing high rate of urbanization, which is mostly manifested in growth of population and its expected continuation are to aggravate the problem of urban land use. This book is aimed to assess the challenges that the municipality faced in urban land management in Bahir Dar town. Basically the study attempted to assess the situation in supply and demand for residential land, causes and effects of squatter settlements and institutional problems that affect urban land...

Urban Intersections: Sao Paolo documents the collaboration of Edward P. Bass Fellow Katherine Farley, senior managing director of the international real estate developer Tishman-Speyer and Yale adjunct professor Deborah Berke, assisted by Noah Biklen, at the Yale School of Architecture. The book features ways to examine the process of urban design and development in Sao Paolo, Brazil, a rapidly growing global mega-city, with all its attendant vitality and contradictions. The work engages both the development issues of schedule, phasing, risk, sustainability, value, and density along with the...

This study summarizes the existing management system of Beel Kendua practiced by different agencies. Here special attention has been given to the management activities initiated by the NGOs. An inventory of various problems related to management aspects has attached in this study. A detailed survey has been carried out to know the natural resource base of Beel Kendua through FGDs of the wetland community. Some case studies are also undertaken to portray the existing livelihood pattern of the rural community living surrounding to Beel Kendua. Some future measures are also provided with...

GIS has become a vital tool in spatial urban planning and management. This research explores potential applications of GIS to assist landscape planning and multi-criteria decision analysis. The GIS-Based decision making process helps to reconcile conflicts between environmental and socio-economic issues in a model that integrates and interpretes inter-relationships of spatial value systems. Key features of the text are: Review of theories, case studies and models of open space planning Explore GIS strengths, explicit principles and case studies of GIS applications in Landscape and Open Space...

This book discusses vulnerability to natural hazards, method of evaluating vulnerability to natural hazards, and finally evaluation of risk factors that influence the probability that a house will burn from wildfire. A logistic regression is used to analyze data processed from pre-fire and post-fire IKONOS images and other geo-referenced data. The dependent variable is the probability that a given house will burn. A total of 12 independent variables are evaluated: vegetation density; area of defensible space; adjacency of a parcel to public lands; proximity of a house to fire station; road...