-

- Search
- Search Library Catalog
- Search entire library,
including catalog:
- Search Library Catalog
- Find
- Get Help
- Services
- Information
- My Account
-
Meta
New Titles
Urban Design
Delirious New Orleans : Manifesto For An Extraordinary American City
The National Mall : Rethinking Washington’s Monumental Core

Attribution
edited by Nathan Glazer and Cynthia R. Field ; foreword by James F. CooperPublication Details
BookJohns Hopkins University Press2008Links
Description
The National Mall in Washington, D.C., has held an important place in the American psyche since the early nineteenth century. The National Mall presents an overarching account of how a democratic society plans, creates, and expands a national ceremonial space, opening the way for a broadly based inquiry into the Mall as it was, is, and will become. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA9127.W2 N38 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Urban Transformation : Understanding City Design And Form

Attribution
by Peter BosselmannPublication Details
BookIsland Press2008Description
How do cities transform over time? cities anew.Bosselmann organizes the book around seven ?activities?: comparing, observing, transforming, measuring, defining, modeling, and interpreting. Using Copenhagen, Denmark, as an example, he teaches us to observe without prejudice or bias.He demonstrates how cities transform by introducing the idea of ?urban morphology? by evaluating aerial images of the San Francisco Bay Area taken in 1962 and those taken forty-three years later.Bosselmann has a unique understanding of cities and how they ?work.? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HT110 .B67 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
The Endless City : The Urban Age Project By The London School Of Economics And Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Sociey

Attribution
edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan SudjicPublication Details
BookPhaidon2007Description
THE ENDLESS CITY is an unparalleled study of the growth of six of the world’s international cities (New York, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg, and Berlin), exploring key structural, social, and economic factors. THE ENDLESS CITY is authoritatively edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic in collaboration with the London School of Economics and the Urban Age Project, an expanding international organization seeking a new urban agenda for global cities. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HT371 .E53 2007 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Fresh Pond : The History Of A Cambridge Landscape

Attribution
Jill SinclairPublication Details
BookMIT Press2009Description
Fresh Pond Reservation, at the northwest edge of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been described as a “landscape loved to death.” In Fresh Pond, Jill Sinclair tells the story of the pond and its surrounding land through photographs, drawings, maps, plans, and an engaging narrative of the pond’s geological, historical, and political ecology. The pond itself?a natural lake carved out by the retreating Ice Age about 15,000 years ago?was a center of the nineteenth-century ice industry (disparaged by Thoreau, writing about another pond), and still supplies the city of Cambridge with fresh drinking water. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) F74.C1 S54 2009 AVAILABLE
Preserving And Enhancing Communities : A Guide For Citizens, Planners, And Policymakers

Attribution
edited by Elisabeth M. Hamin, Priscilla Geigis, and Linda SilkaPublication Details
BookUniversity of Massachusetts Press2007Links
Description
This book starts from the premise that each community chooses its future every day, through the incremental decisions made by planning and zoning boards and other citizen volunteers, as well as professional staff. Preserving and Enhancing Communities will be particularly useful to members of planning and other regulatory boards, as well as students of community planning. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) TD160 .P74 2007 AVAILABLE
New Urbanism And Beyond : Designing Cities For The Future

Attribution
edited by Tigran HaasPublication Details
BookRizzoli2008Description
Best defined as the art of shaping the built environment, urban design seeks to understand and analyze the variety of forces?social, economic, cultural, legal, ecological, and aesthetic?that affect how we live. With contributions from Christopher Alexander, Leon Krier, Peter Hall, Andrs Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck, William McDonough, Peter Calthorpe, Jan Gehl, Lars Lerup, Edward Soja, and Saskia Sassen, among others, New Urbanism and Beyond is both a comprehensive primer on urban design and a provocation for practitioners, historians, and citizens everywhere. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA9031 .N49 2008 AVAILABLE
Aztec City-state Capitals

Attribution
Michael E. Smith ; foreword by Marilyn A. Masson and John W. JanusekPublication Details
BookUniversity Press of Florida2008Description
Outside of the imperial capital of Tenochtitlan, various urban centers ruled the numerous city-states that covered the central Mexican landscape. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F1219.76.U74 S56 2008 AVAILABLE
Growing Greener Cities : Urban Sustainability In The Twenty-first Century

Attribution
edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. WachterPublication Details
BookUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2008Description
Confronted by a U.S. population that is more than 70 percent urban, growing concern about global warming, rising energy prices, and unabated globalization, today’s decision makers must find ways to bring urban life into balance with the Earth in order to sustain the natural, economic, and political environment of the modern city. Thoroughly illustrated with color graphs, maps, and photographs, Growing Greener Cities provides a panoramic view of urban sustainability and environmental issues for green-minded city planners, policy makers, and citizens. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HT241 .G76 2008 DUE 10-27-09
Enhancing Urban Safety And Security : Global Report On Human Settlements 2007

Attribution
United Nations Human Settlements ProgrammePublication Details
BookEarthscan2007Links
Description
The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world’s cities. The report focuses on appropriate urban planning and management methods designed to: (i) reduce the incidence and impacts of crime and violence; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) HT151 .E64 2007 AVAILABLE
Planning For Disaster : How Natural And Man-made Disasters Shape The Built Environment

Attribution
by William G. Ramroth, JrPublication Details
BookKaplan Pub2007Links
Description
Disasters, throughout the ages, have shaped the built environment. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) NA9053.E58 R35 2007 AVAILABLE
Bookmark this at
Email this page
Stay up to date
This Search. Subscribe via Bloglines, Google, RSS:FWD Email.
All Posts. Subscribe via Bloglines, Google, RSS:FWD Email.
All Comments. Subscribe via Bloglines, Google, RSS:FWD Email.
Automatically translate this to
Powered by bSuite.






