Title & Author:

Making better places : urban design now / edited by Richard Hayward, Sue McGlynn.

Publication:

Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Architecture, 1993.

Description:

x, 147 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
"Joint Centre for Urban Design"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chap. 1. Reviewing the rhetoric / Sue McGlynn -- Chap. 2. Developing design skills for development controllers / John Punter -- Chap. 3. Rationales and the practice of everyday urban design / Richard Hayward -- Chap. 4. Talking tissues / Richard Hayward -- Chap. 5. The ontology of the built environment : the production of places and buildings in a culture of historical amnesia / Alan Reeve -- Chap. 6. Consuming the sign value of urban form / Michael Biddulph -- Chap. 7. Aesthetics and urban design / Alan Alcock -- Chap. 8. Urban design of central areas and beyond / Brian Goodey -- Chap. 9. The suburbanisation and re-urbanisation of the residential inner city / Joe Holyoak -- Chap. 10. The art of building cities : urban structuring and restructuring / Georgia Butina Watson -- Chap. 11. Community development and urban design / Ian Bentley.
(Cont.) Chap. 12. Urban expansion : look back and learn / Paul Murrain -- Chap. 13. The built form of the new regional city : a 'radical' view / Roger Simmonds -- Chap. 14. Working in the park : changes in the form of employment locations / Ivor Samuels -- Chap. 15. The plan d'occupation des Sols for Asnieres sur Oise : a morphological design guide / Ivor Samuels -- Chap. 16. Traffic calming : the second wave? / Graham Paul Smith -- Chap. 17. Computer aided design as an urban design briefing tool / Barbara Hammond -- Chap. 18. Upside down and inside out / Richard Hayward.

Summary:

The Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University, are celebrating their 20th anniversary in September 1993 with a conference entitled 'Making Better Places: Urban Design Now' and this book has been prepared to coincide with this event. The book is made up of contributions reflecting the current issues in urban design using real examples from practice as counterpoints. These contributions all reinforce the initiative taken by the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Royal Institute of British Architects to foster and recognize good urban design practice. The emphasis is strongly on practical issues and the book offers valuable guidance to all professionals engaged in the improvement of the urban environment.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0750605367 (paperback)
9780750605366 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning History 20th century.
City planning
Städtebau
Aufsatzsammlung
Urban regions Environment planning
Great Britain

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Hayward, Richard.
McGlynn, Sue.
Oxford Polytechnic. Urban Design.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191256
Call No.: ID NA9095.M35; ID:97-B1821
Status: Available