Main entry:

Brown, Lance Jay, 1943-

Title & Author:

Urban design for an urban century : placemaking for people / by Lance Jay Brown, David Dixon, Oliver Gillham.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2009.

Description:

viii, 296 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-290) and index.
Part I: Paradigms, Principles and Process -- Urban design a social and public art -- Fitting people and place -- The evolution of a "social and public art" -- Integrating diverse perspectives and skills -- Giving form to a rapidly changing society -- Shaping the response to a changing world -- Roots of urban form -- Early cities -- European cities in the Middle Ages -- Renaissance forms reshape cities -- The new world turns toward the grid -- The industrial revolution and reaction -- Imagining the postindustrial city -- Decentralization: The growth of the modern city -- Europe and modernism -- Recentralization: the city as the future -- Setting the stage: fifty years of suburbanization -- Cities on the rebound -- New forces shaping cities -- New currents in urban design -- Principles for an urban century -- Process should support the principles -- Part II: Putting Urban Design into Practice -- Case studies in urban design -- Guiding regional growth and change -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Rediscovering downtown and main street -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Reinventing older neighborhoods -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Inventing new neighborhoods -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Reclaiming the waterfront -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Creating the public realm -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Transforming campus into community -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Conclusion.

Summary:

Featuring projects that have won awards in recent years, this is a comprehensive book of tools and information on urban design. This guide provides urban designers, architects, and students with contemporary urban design paradigms and principles, processes, and design tools for various project types and scales.

Resources:
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Additional Information at Google Books

ISBN:

9780470087824 (cloth ; alk. paper)
047008782X (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning United States.
City planning.
Städtebau
Stadtplanung
Stadsplanering Förenta staterna.
United States.
USA

Added entries:

Dixon, David, 1947 July 17-
Gillham, Oliver.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268277
Call No.: BIB 200138
Status: Available