Time-saver standards for urban design /

Time-saver standards for urban design / Urban design editors, Donald Watson, Alan Plattus, Robert G. Shibley. - New York : Tata McGraw-Hill Education Private Limited, c2003. - 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Context of urbanization: Population and the urban future / Werner Fronos, Desikan Thirunarayanpuram, Harold N. Brudett --
Metropolis: the spatial organization of seven large cities / Alain Bertaud --
How the other half builds / Vikram Bhatt and Witold Rybczynski --
Jusctions of town and country / Spiro Kostof --
The regional city / Peter Calthorpe --
A realistic approach to city and suburban planning / Alexander Garvin. --
2. Classic texts of urban design: City building according to artistic principles (1898) / Camillo Sitte --
Une cité industrielle (1917) / Tony Garnier --
Civic art (1922) / Werner Hagemann and Elbert Peets --
The neighborhood unit (1929) / Clarence Arthur Perry --
The Athens charter (1943) / Le Corbusier --
A tale of two cities (1949) / Steen Eiler Rasmussen --
The Radburn idea (1957) / Clarence S. Stein --
The square in space and time (1959) / Paul Zucker --
The city image and its elements (1960) / Kevin Lynch --
The generatore of diversity (1961) / Jane Jacobs --
Design structure of Baroque Rome (1976) / Edmund N. Bacon --
Social life of small urban spaces (1980) / William H. Whyte. --
3. Urban design history and theory: Introduction to townscape / Gordon Cullen --
The grid as generator / Leslie Martin --
C.A. Doxiadis and the science of human settlements / Jurg Lang --
Urban infrastructures / Alison and Peter Smithson --
Shadrach Woods and the architecture of everyday urbanism / Gabriel Feld --
A significance for A & P parking lots, or learning from Las Vegas / Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour --
Problems of classification / Aldo Rossi --
Crisis of the object: predicament of texture / Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter --
Elements of the concept of urban space / Rob Krier --
Charter of the new urbanism / Congress of the New Urbanism. --
4. Principles and practices of urban design: How plans work / Lewis D. Hopkins --
Representation and urban design / Matthew J. Bell and Cheryl A. O'Neill --
Making a visual survey / Paul D. Spreiregen --
Sketchbook: Piazza di Spagni, Rome / Robert Regis Dvořák --
Planning for urban conservation / Nahoum Cohen --
The solar envelope / Ralph Knowles --
Urban design and climate / Baruch Givoni --
Bioclamatic design at the site planning scale / Donald Watson and Kenneth Labs --
Sustainable design / Donald Watson, ed. --
Community design charrettes / Donald Watson with Chad Floyd --
Community design centers: an alternative practice / Sheri Blake. 5. Regional and urban-wide scale: Design characteristics of Maryland's traditional settlements / John W. Hill --
Visualizing a region's future / Robert D. Yaro and Raymond W. Gastil --
Urban farming / Michael Hough --
Urban bikeways / James R. Klein and Elizabeth B. Larder --
Greenways / Loring LaB. Schwarz, ed. --
Heritage areas as an approach to regional planning / Mary C. Means --
Main Street --
two decades of lessons learned / Mary C. Means --
Transit-centered urban villages / Robert Cervero and Michael Bernick --
The concept of urban catalysts / Donn Logan and Wayne Attoe --
The Anglo-American suburb / Robert A.M. Stern --
Lexicon of the new urbanism / Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. --
6. Elements of the city: Urban atriums / Michael J. Bednar --
Courtyards: guidelines for planning and space / John S. Reynolds --
Making great streets / Allan B. Jacobs --
The multiway boulevard / Elizabeth Macdonald --
Planning and design for pedestrians / John J. Fruin --
Pedestrian zones: a design guide / Robert Branbilla and Gianni Longo --
Pedestrian precincts: twelve European cities / R. Branbilla and G. Longo --
Urban plazas: design review checklist / Claire Cooper Marcus --
Shared outdoor spaces / C.C. Marcus --
Universal design in outdoor play areas / Susan Goltsman. --
7. Urban design details: Universal design for urban transportation / Edward Steinfeld --
Traffic calming / Walter M. Kulash and Ian M. Lockwood --
Parking and circulation dimensions / Mark C. Childs --
Urban green infrastructures / Lynda H. Schneekloth, ed. --
Urban waterways / L.H. Schneekloth, ed. --
Graphic communication, way finding and interpretive planning / Donald Watson, ed. --
Better air quality at street level / Anne Whiston Sprin --
Acoustic considerations for urban design / James P. Cowan --
Urban telecommunications infrastructure / Walter A. Cooper --
Urban outdoor lighting / Nancy Clanton, ed. --
8. Case studies in urban design: Case studies in urban design / Robert G. Shibley --
The 1972 Portland Downtown plan / Robert G. Shibley and David Herzberg --
Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA / R.G. Shibley and D. Herzberg --
Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA / R.G. Shibley and D. Herzberg --
Making and sustaining excellent urban places / R.G. Shibley, Emily Axelrod, Jay Farbstein, Polly Welch and Richard Wener.

The foremost professional reference on the physical design of cities and urban places.

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