Transect Urbanism

Author : Douglas Farr
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118174518
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Urbanism written by Douglas Farr and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and buildings. Providing a historic perspective on the standards and regulations that got us to where we are today in terms of urban lifestyle and attempts at reform, Douglas Farr makes a powerful case for sustainable urbanism, showing where we went wrong, and where we need to go. He then explains how to implement sustainable urbanism through leadership and communication in cities, communities, and neighborhoods. Essays written by Farr and others delve into such issues as: Increasing sustainability through density. Integrating transportation and land use. Creating sustainable neighborhoods, including housing, car-free areas, locally-owned stores, walkable neighborhoods, and universal accessibility. The health and environmental benefits of linking humans to nature, including walk-to open spaces, neighborhood stormwater systems and waste treatment, and food production. High performance buildings and district energy systems. Enriching the argument are in-depth case studies in sustainable urbanism, from BedZED in London, England and Newington in Sydney, Australia, to New Railroad Square in Santa Rosa, California and Dongtan, Shanghai, China. An epilogue looks to the future of sustainable urbanism over the next 200 years. At once solidly researched and passionately argued, Sustainable Urbanism is the ideal guidebook for urban designers, planners, and architects who are eager to make a positive impact on our--and our descendants'--buildings, cities, and lives.

Author : Andres Duany
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071433449
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smart Growth Manual written by Andres Duany and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone is calling for smart growth...but what exactly is it? In The Smart Growth Manual, two leading city planners provide a thorough answer. From the expanse of the metropolis to the detail of the window box, they address the pressing challenges of urban development with easy-to-follow advice and broad array of best practices. With their landmark book Suburban Nation, Andres Duany and Jeff Speck "set forth more clearly than anyone has done in our time the elements of good town planning" (The New Yorker). With this long-awaited companion volume, the authors have organized the latest contributions of new urbanism, green design, and healthy communities into a comprehensive handbook, fully illustrated with the built work of the nation's leading practitioners. "The Smart Growth Manual is an indispensable guide to city planning. This kind of progressive development is the only way to fully restore our economic strength and create new jobs, new industries, and a renewed ability to compete in the first rank of world economies." -- Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco "Authors Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, and Mike Lydon have created The Smart Growth Manual, a resource which not only explains the overarching ideals of smart growth, but a manual that takes the time to show smart growth principles at each geographic scale (region, neighborhood, street, building). I highly recommend [it] as a part of any community participant’s or urban planner’s desktop references." -- LocalPlan.org Planetizen Top 10 Books – 2010 On the ninth annual list of the ten best books in urban planning, design and development: "The goal of The Smart Growth Manual is clear from page 1: to create a guidebook for smart growth following the pattern of the Charter for New Urbanism. Duany, Speck and Lydon have achieved that in spades (the Charter is included in the appendix, in case we missed the connection). It even clears up some of the architectural arguments that attach themselves to New Urbanists, such as this segment of Section 14.1, Regional Design; 'While new buildings should not be compelled to mimic their historic predecessors, designers should pay attention to local practices regarding materials and colors, roof pitches, eave lengths, window-to-wall ratios, and the socially significant relationship of buildings to their site and the street; these have usually evolved in intelligent response to local conditions.' In addition to making the old 'traditional vs. modern' argument irrelevant, Duany, Speck and Lydon have truly managed to boil down the best parts of current practices into a highly readable, portable book."

Author : AndrŽs Duany
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0865717400
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents written by AndrŽs Duany and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape Urbanism vs. the New Urbanism—negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world.

Author : David M. Sucher
Publisher : City Comforts Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0964268027
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Comforts written by David M. Sucher and published by City Comforts Inc.. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Weller
Publisher : ORO Applied Research + Design
ISBN 13 : 9781941806296
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transects written by Richard Weller and published by ORO Applied Research + Design. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates 100 years of history, people and design in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the School of Design of the University of Pennsylvania.

Author : Andrés Duany
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951541019
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transect Urbanism written by Andrés Duany and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology is the definitive reference on the Rural-to-Urban Transect, a compilation of the most important essays, diagrams, and images on the subject. It provides historical, practical, and theoretical insights into one of the most effective urban planning methodologies developed in the 20th Century. The Transect is a unifying theory, serving as a framework for the various fields of urban design. The editors selected the most important previously published essays and commissioned preeminent academics and professionals to write on the use of the Transect in their areas of expertise, including retail, zoning, thoroughfare design, environmental sustainability, and philosophy. As diagrams and drawings are essential to the understanding and use of the Transect, this book also contains the most complete collection of Transect images ever published. Transect Urbanism will serve as a primary reference source for academics, students, and practitioners interested in creating great places. Andrés Duany is the author of numerous essays and articles and co-author of several books, including Suburban Nation: the Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, The Smart Growth Manual, Garden Cities: Agricultural Urbanism, and The New Civic Art. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Richard H. Driehaus Prize, the Jefferson Medal, The Vincent Scully Prize and several honorary doctorates. He is a co-founder of DPZ CoDesign, which has been a leader in planning, urban design, and architecture for more than 30 years, as well as a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism. The nonprofit Center for Applied Transect Studies supports interdisciplinary research, publication, tools, and training for the design, coding, building and documentation of resilient Transect-based communities. It has supported the publication of numerous essays, papers, and books, including The Architecture of Community, The Smart Growth Manual, the Sprawl Repair Manual, The Language of Towns and Cities, Visions of Seaside, and The New Pioneers.

Author : Andres Duany
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906384050
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garden Cities written by Andres Duany and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phillip James Tabb
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131705704X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serene Urbanism written by Phillip James Tabb and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serenity is becoming alarmingly absent from our daily existence, especially within the urban context. Time is dense and space is tumultuous. The idea of the serene has gained currency in postmodern discussions, and when combined with urbanism conjures questions, even contradictions, as the two ideas seem improbable yet their correspondence seems so inherently desirable. Integrated, these two constructs present design challenges as they manifest in differing ways across the rural–urban transect. In response, Part I of this book establishes the theoretical framework through different contemporary perspectives, and concludes with a clear explanation of a theory of serene urbanism. The positive characteristics of urbanism and beneficial qualities of the serene are explored and related to sustainability, biophilia, placemaking and environmental design. Both principles and examples are presented as compelling portraits for the proposal of these new urban landscapes. Part II of the work is an in-depth exploration and analysis of serene urban ideas related to the intentional community being created outside of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. "Serenbe" is the name given to this place to commemorate the value and nuance between the serene and urban.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SmartCode & Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SmartCode is the innovative model design and development code released by Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company (DPZ) in 2003, after two decades of research and internationally acclaimed built results. The SmartCode is the only unified transect-based design and development code available for all scales of planning, from the region to the community to the block and building. It keeps towns compact and rural lands open, while reforming the destructive sprawl-producing patterns of separated-use zoning.

Author : Thomas E. Low
Publisher : Civic by Design
ISBN 13 : 9781931871099
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light Imprint Handbook written by Thomas E. Low and published by Civic by Design. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light Imprint (LI) is a planning and development strategy that emphasizes sustainability, pedestrian-oriented design and increased environmental and infrastructural efficiency while reducing a community's anticipated construction expenses. The Light Imprint Initiative establishes transect-based environmental performance metrics, something LEED-ND lacks. This handbook provides an overview of the Initiative and features data-based Light Imprint case studies. It is organized around the transect and includes detailed information on how to easily use over sixty Light Imprint tools and resources calibrated on the transect. The data is organized in a useful Light Imprint Transect-based Matrix. Users of this handbook will gain an understanding of the Light Imprint Overlay strategy and the tactics to apply the LI approach on their next development project. -- T.p.