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Urban Design Books
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| Lofts: New Designs for Urban Living |
| Lofts, by definition, are former commercial spaces that have been converted for residential use and living/working environments. But lofts, by design, are vast silent expanses, soaring arches, stalwart steel girders, massive beams, and all the powerful drama of a curtain-time stage set. The importance of urban loft design for the architectural and design world is highlighted in this collection of the finest, most dramatic of these transformed spaces. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1564967778/ - 13k
- 30 Apr 2004 - Details
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| The Urban Design Handbook: Techniques and Working Methods |
| A comprehensive, beautifully designed guide to the complex process of urban design.
From an important urban design and architecture firm comes this manual for urban designers, based on the firms in-house practice and procedures. Covering the process from basic principles to developed design, this invaluable book can serve as an introductory course in urbanism as well as an operations handbook for architects, planners, developers, and public officials. 200 color illustrations. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393731065/ - 14k
- 30 Apr 2004 - Details
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| Urban Landscape Architecture |
| Urban Landscape Architecture showcases the most interesting and innovative urban landscape design and reviews the work of great architects and designers in this area. Each project features sketches, drawings, and photographs and highlights the design details of note for the reader. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592532721/ - 10k
- 08 Jan 2008 - Details
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| Shopping Center Development Handbook |
| Illustrated in full color, 15 case studies describe the development process for a mix of town centers, urban entertainment centers, power centers, street front retail centers, and enclosed malls. Small strip centers to super regional facilities are covered as well as urban and suburban locations.
Practical, how-to information on financing, planning and design, leasing, marketing and management, renovation, expansion, and repositioning cover the basics of development for all types of shopping centers. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0874208521/ - 13k
- 30 Apr 2004 - Details
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| Principles of Urban Structure |
| Online book by Nikos A. Salingaros, a collaborator of Christopher Alexander, offers a new understanding of urban structure based on recent scientific developments in complexity theory and fractals.
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sphere.math.utsa.edu/sphere/salingar/urbanstructure.html - 3k
- 18 Feb 2005 - Details
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| Cityscape |
| Cityscape is a colossal wooden sculpture in Brussels' Quartier Louise. With it, the artist and designer Arne Quinze has shown how creative visions at the intersection of architecture, art, design and urban planning can make a social and structural impact on their surroundings. The book Cityscape presents the ambitious artwork in all of its facets. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3899552032/ - 7k
- 04 Feb 2008 - Details
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| Community By Design: New Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communities |
| Community is not an accumulation of buildings with interstate access, neighborhood not a housing project convenient to shopping. Everyone knows what suburban sprawl looks like and the problems is creates. This book knows answers.The First Step to Communities that WorkCreate maximum livability, cohesiveness, and style in developments outside cities. In these pages, youll find recommendations for creating true neighborhoods within the context of the existing suburban landscape--in a case-study format. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/007134523X/ - 22k
- 30 Apr 2004 - Details
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| Land Development Calculations |
| Evaluate site development possibilities and land area requirements with spreadsheet simplicity.
The best tool ever for land development analysis, planning, and decision-making, Walter Martin Hosacks LAND DEVELOPMENT CALCULATIONS adds speed and clarity to your every recommendation and choice. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/007136255X/ - 16k
- 30 Apr 2004 - Details
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| Asphalt Nation |
| Asphalt Nation is a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged Americas cities and landscape, and how we can fight back. |
www.janeholtzkay.com/AsphaltNation/ - 1k
- 18 Feb 2005 - Details
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| Art & Architecture of Cambodia |
| An essential, authoritative, and up-to-date introduction to the art of Cambodia, and a vivid glimpse into a world that continues to challenge travelers. Many remarkable photographs are published here for the first time, of both famous sites and those that have, until now, been almost impossible to see, for both geographical and political reasons. 180 illustrations, 85 in color. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/050020375X/ - 13k
- 24 Apr 2004 - Details
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