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Urban Design For An Urban Century : Placemaking For People

Urban Design

Delirious New Orleans : Manifesto For An Extraordinary American City

Sustainable Olympic Design And Urban Development

The National Mall : Rethinking Washington’s Monumental Core

Urban Transformation : Understanding City Design And Form

  • Urban Transformation : Understanding City Design And Form
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    by Peter Bosselmann
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    Book, Island Press, 2008
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    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)
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     (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

Fresh Pond : The History Of A Cambridge Landscape

Preserving And Enhancing Communities : A Guide For Citizens, Planners, And Policymakers

New Urbanism And Beyond : Designing Cities For The Future

  • New Urbanism And Beyond : Designing Cities For The Future
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    edited by Tigran Haas
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    Book, Rizzoli, 2008
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    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)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  NA9031 .N49 2008  AVAILABLE

Aztec City-state Capitals

Growing Greener Cities : Urban Sustainability In The Twenty-first Century

  • Growing Greener Cities : Urban Sustainability In The  Twenty-first Century
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    edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter
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    Book, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
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    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)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HT241 .G76 2008  DUE 10-27-09

Berlin Modern Architecture : Exhibition Catalogue

Enhancing Urban Safety And Security : Global Report On Human Settlements 2007

Planning For Disaster : How Natural And Man-made Disasters Shape The Built Environment