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The new urbanism: toward an architecture of community Peter Katz 7 Resenhas McGraw-Hill Professional, 1994 - 245 páginas The move to liveable communities--ideal ``small towns'' and neighborhoods where people work, live, play, and walk from place to place--is on. Profit from what a visionary group of architects leading this movement has learned about designing new ``small towns'' in Peter Katz's The New Urbanism. You'll discover the amazing potential for this kind of work as well as case studies, site plans, project analyses, and 180 beautiful photographs. This unique reference also tackles--and answers--the critical issues of crime, health, traffic, environmental degradation, and economic vitality and opens a startling window on the look and feel of future communities. Every designer can profit from this guide to building the utopias of tomorrow--today! « Menos    Ver uma prévia deste livro » O que estão dizendo - Escrever uma resenha Avaliações de usuários 5 estrelas 6 4 estrelas 2 3 estrelas 0 2 estrelas 1 1 estrela 1 Review: The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community Comentário do usuário  - Chris Watkins - Goodreads Loved the clear examples, the photographs and plans, and the introductions to key thinkers like Peter Calthorpe. Ler resenha completa Review: The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community Comentário do usuário  - Grace - Goodreads I want to live in a TOD! Ler resenha completa Todas as 7 resenhas » Livros relacionados ‹ Suburban nation Andrès Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck Home from nowhere James Howard Kunstler The next American metropolis Peter Calthorpe The Regional City Peter Calthorpe, William B. Fulton New urbanism Peter Calthorpe, Robert Fishman, Lars Lerup A Better Place to Live Philip Langdon The geography of nowhere James Howard Kunstler The death and life of great American cities Jane Jacobs › Páginas selecionadas Página 1 Página 60 Página 30 Página 126 Pági

Art VULUPS (Art as a Vehicle to Understand Land Use Planning and Sustainability) is a collaborative project in which knowledge, creativity and artistic expression are harnessed to promote sustainable land use development choices through curiosity and civic dialog engagement.   Urban planners, artists, educators and civic, educational and cultural institutions have come together to participate in this unprecedented philanthropic call to make a difference by giving back to the community.  Art VULUPS is made possible by the Inland Empire Section of the American Planning Association (IES/APA) and the generous in kind support of various community-based organizations and non-profit associations.

American Cities are Revitalizing Their Downtowns and Recreating Their Profiles Mar 28, 2012 12:26 PM, By Susan Piperato, Managing Editor The push toward downtown revitalization that began in the 1990s has survived the Great Recession. ARTICLE TOOLS Email Save Print Reprint LATEST NEWS Lenders Eager to Take Back Trophy Assets CMBS Delinquencies Spike, But Outlook for the Year Remains Stable A Coming Deluge of Apartment Construction Cornerstone Raises $315M for Debt Investment Club, Closes Mortgage Fund The Early Phase of Real Estate Recovery MORE LATEST NEWS advertisement But in this gradually improving economy, attracting development isn't easy. It means carrying "a Swiss Army knife" of creative tools, says West Palm Beach Downtown Development Authority Director Raphael Clemente. For 10 years, West Palm Beach's downtown has lost retail to an urbanist infill project on the CBD's outskirts. Clemente's shoestring-budgeted campaign to recruit retailer Trader Joe's, including a YouTube video in which residents give humorous answers to the question, "What would you trade for Trader Joe's?" has already succeeded in differentiating the city from "the other 50 cities in Florida that are trying to get a Trader Joe's" and starting a dialogue. "We know we're fighting for tenants and investor dollars and consumer dollars with other areas, malls and midsize cities in our region," Clemente says. "So when we go out there to recruit, we do the best job we can with limited resources to set ourselves apart." Philadelphia's population has grown for the first time in 50 years. Clemente's experience is typical of American cities, regardless of size or location. Yes, the movement to reinvigorate Main Street is back, but it's very different than it was 20 years ago. For today's urban downtowns, development means redevelopment, and attracting redevelopment dollars means reinventing a city's identity. A city's individuation is crucial

lexander C. T. Geppert.  Fleeting Cities: Imperial Expositions in Fin-de-Siecle Europe.  New York  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.  424 pp. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-230-22164-2. Reviewed by Jill Steward (School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University) Published on H-Urban (March, 2012) Commissioned by Alexander Vari Laboratories for Scrutinizing Modernity: Imperial Exhibitions The great world and imperial exhibitions of the second half of the nineteenth century, sometimes described as one of the era's most distinctive products, were made possible by innovative technologies in transport, building, and communication and given the oxygen of publicity by the world's media industries. An urban phenomenon, they were visible signs of the transnational mobility of people, goods, and information made possible by technical innovation, industrial development, and commercial enterprise. Supported by the press, they contributed to the dissemination of knowledge and information across national boundaries and encouraged economic and cultural transfers. They made an enormous contribution to the growth of urban tourism and the spread of new and distinctively modern forms of visual culture and mass entertainment. It is not surprising therefore, that exhibitions could be seen not only as indications of modernity, but also its catalysts and agents. As we contemplate the intense media excitement aroused by the mega-events of our own time, notably the Olympic Games (which were merely sideshows at the 1900 Exhibition Universelle in Paris and the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition), we can understand the impact made by their nineteenth-century predecessors on the public imagination by the "fleeting cities" of the title of Alexander Geppert's study of imperial exhibitions, an allusion to Baudelaire's characterization of modernity as a set of representational practices embracing "the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent," which involved the temporary occupation of acres of

The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to improve civic engagement. CUP collaborates with designers, educators, advocates, students, and communities to make educational tools that demystify complex policy and planning issues.