"The wisest, clearest introduction I know to the art and science of designingcities." - Robert Campbell, Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe architecture critic Featuring projects that have won The American Institute of Architects' (AIA) National Honor Awards for Urban Design in recent years, this is a comprehensive book of tools and information on urban design. Endorsed by the AIA andwritten by the 2005 and 2006 chairs, respectively, of the AIA's Regional and Urban Design Committee, this unique guide provides urban designers, architects, and students with contemporary urban design paradigms and principles, processes, and design tools for various project types and scales, such as downtowns,neighborhoods, Main Street revitalization, waterfronts, and college campuses. INDICE: Preface. PART I: PARADIGMS, PRINCIPLES AND PROCESS. Chapter 1: Urban Design--A Social and Public Art. Fitting People and Place. The Evolution ofa "Social and Public Art". Integrating Diverse Perspectives and Skills. Giving Form to a Rapidly Changing Society. Shaping the Response to a Changing World. Chapter 2: Roots of Urban Form. 1. Early Cities. 2. European Cities in the Middle Ages. 3. Renaissance Forms Reshape Cities. 4. The New World Turns Towardthe Grid. 5. The Industrial Revolution and Reaction. 6. Imagining the Postindustrial City. Chapter 3: Decentralization: The Growth of the Modern City. Europe and Modernism. CIAM and the Birth of "Urban Design". Opportunities and Challenges. Chapter 4: Recentralization: The City as the Future. Rise of the Suburbs. Changes that Favor Cities. Issues of the Common Realm. Cities on the Rebound. New Trends in Urban Design. Conclusion. Chapter 5: Principles for an UrbanCentury. Process Should Support the Principles. PART II: PUTTING URBAN DESIGNINTO PRACTICE. Case Studies in Urban Design. Background: AIA's Regional and Urban Design Committee (RUDC). The Regional and Urban Design Honor Awards program. Chapter 6: Guiding Regional Growth and Change. Roots. Approaches Today. Case Studies. How the Projects Illustrate the Principles. Chapter 7: Rediscovering Downtown and Main Street. Roots. Approaches Today. Case Studies. How The Projects Illustrate the Principles. Chapter 8: Reinventing Older Neighborhoods. Roots. Approaches Today. Case Studies. How The Projects Relate to the Principles. Chapter 9: Inventing New Neighborhoods. Roots. Approaches Today. Case Studies. How The Projects Relate to the Principles. Chapter 10: Reclaiming the Waterfront. Roots. Approaches Today. Case Studies. How the Projects Illustrate the Principles. Chapter 11: Creating the Public Realm. Roots. Approaches today. Case studies. How the Projects Illustrate the Principles. Chapter 12: Transforming Campus into Community. Roots. Approaches today. Case studies. How these Projects Illustrate the Principles. Conclusion.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-08782-4
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 13/02/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés