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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

Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space & Cultural Diversity Setha M. Low, Dana Taplin, Suzanne Scheld 0 Resenhas University of Texas Press, 01/11/2005 - 226 páginas Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening their communities and the democratic fabric of society. But just the opposite happens when, by design or in ignorance, parks are made inhospitable to certain groups of people.This pathfinding book argues that cultural diversity should be a key goal in designing and maintaining urban parks. Using case studies of New York City's Prospect Park, Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, and Jacob Riis Park in the Gateway National Recreation Area, as well as New York's Ellis Island Bridge Proposal and Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park, the authors identify specific ways to promote, maintain, and manage cultural diversity in urban parks. They also uncover the factors that can limit park use, including historical interpretive materials that ignore the contributions of different ethnic groups, high entrance or access fees, park usage rules that restrict ethnic activities, and park "restorations" that focus only on historical or aesthetic values. With the wealth of data in this book, urban planners, park professionals, and all concerned citizens will have the tools to create and maintain public parks that serve the needs and interests of all the public.

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

CityCar The CityCar electric automobile, developed and prototyped by Smart Cities, is designed to meet the demand for enclosed personal mobility - with weather protection, climate control and comfort, secure storage, and crash protection - in the cleanest and most economical way possible. It weighs less than a thousand pounds, parks in much less space than a Smart Car, and is expected to get the equivalent of 150 to 200 miles per gallon of gasoline. Since it is battery-electric, it produces no tailpipe emissions. The architecture of the CityCar is radical. It does not have a central engine and traditional power train, but is powered by four in-wheel electric motors. Each wheel unit contains drive motor (which also enables regenerative braking), steering, and suspension, and is independently digitally controlled. This enables maneuvers like spinning on its own axis (an O-turn instead of a U-turn), moving sideways into parallel parking spaces, and lane changes while facing straight ahead. Shifting drive to the corners in this way enables the CityCar to fold to minimize parking footprint, and to provide front ingress and egress (since there is no engine in the way). This dramatically changes its relationship to streets and cities. It can park nose-in to the curb in far less than the width of a traditional parking bay, and it can park at very high densities. It is possible to park three or four CityCars in the length of a traditional parking bay. The front compartment of a CityCar accommodates passengers and the rear compartment provides generous storage for baggage, groceries, and so on. When a CityCar folds, the baggage compartment remains level and low for easy access. CityCars accommodate two passengers, which suits them to meeting the requirements of the vast majority of urban trips without excess capacity. They are designed for intra-urban trips, which are fairly short between recharge opportunities. This fits them gracefully to the capabilitie

Creative Knowledge Cities Myths, Visions and Realities Marina van Geenhuizen , Peter Nijkamp Edited by Marina van Geenhuizen, Professor of Innovation and Innovation Policy in the Urban Economy, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands and Peter Nijkamp, Professor of Regional, Urban and Environmental Economics, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2012 488 pp Hardback 978 0 85793 284 6 Hardback $205.00 on-line price $184.50 Qty Series: New Horizons in Regional Science series This book is also available as an ebook  978 0 85793 285 3 from - www.EBSCOhost.com www.myilibrary www.ebooks.com www.ebookscorporation.com www.dawsonera.com www.ebrary.com/corp/ www.books.google.com/ebooks Description This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. Contents Contributors: V. Araujo, A. Caragliu, Y. Chen, M. de Jong, H. de Jonge, J. de Vries, C. Del Bo, A. den Heijer, J. Edelenbos, K. Erdos, A.M. Fernández-Maldonado, M. Fromhold-Eisebith, R. Garcia, D.-S. Lee, S. Lüthi, P. Nijkamp, B. Ó hUallacháin, R. Rocco, A. Romein, V. Scholten, D.P. Soetanto, M. Taheri, A. Thierstein, J.J. Trip, M. Trippl, M. van der Land, M. van Geenhuizen, A. Varga Further information This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. The authors provide a critical reflection on the reality of city concepts including university-city alignment for campus planning, labour market conditions, social capital and proximity, triple helix based transformation, and learning by city governments. Original examples from both the EU and US are complemented by detailed ca

Creative Knowledge Cities Myths, Visions and Realities Marina van Geenhuizen , Peter Nijkamp Edited by Marina van Geenhuizen, Professor of Innovation and Innovation Policy in the Urban Economy, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands and Peter Nijkamp, Professor of Regional, Urban and Environmental Economics, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands May 2012 488 pp Hardback 978 0 85793 284 6 Hardback $205.00 on-line price $184.50 Qty Series: New Horizons in Regional Science series This book is also available as an ebook  978 0 85793 285 3 from - www.EBSCOhost.com www.myilibrary www.ebooks.com www.ebookscorporation.com www.dawsonera.com www.ebrary.com/corp/ www.books.google.com/ebooks Description This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. Contents Contributors: V. Araujo, A. Caragliu, Y. Chen, M. de Jong, H. de Jonge, J. de Vries, C. Del Bo, A. den Heijer, J. Edelenbos, K. Erdos, A.M. Fernández-Maldonado, M. Fromhold-Eisebith, R. Garcia, D.-S. Lee, S. Lüthi, P. Nijkamp, B. Ó hUallacháin, R. Rocco, A. Romein, V. Scholten, D.P. Soetanto, M. Taheri, A. Thierstein, J.J. Trip, M. Trippl, M. van der Land, M. van Geenhuizen, A. Varga Further information This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. The authors provide a critical reflection on the reality of city concepts including university-city alignment for campus planning, labour market conditions, social capital and proximity, triple helix based transformation, and learning by city governments. Original examples from both the EU and US are complemented by detail

Portland, Oregon, is going through an apartment construction boom. Forty projects are underway, and 25 of them have no parking, according to Oregon Public Radio. No minimum parking requirements allows developers to increase density on sites and create more affordable units. "Parking a site is the difference between a $750 apartment and a $1,200 apartment. Or, the difference between apartments and condos," says Dave Mullens of the Urban Development Group. Most of the sites are in walkable neighborhoods well served by public transit. Yet in some parts of the city, parking-free projects are generating controversy, because residents fear more competition for on-street parking spaces. Streetsblog also reported this story.

"Density," is a poem inspired by Urban Planning Classes at UCLA during my undergraduate years. I enjoyed classes I took with Mike Davis and Professor Brian Taylor in the mid-90s. The vocabulary of Urban Studies and architecture excited me. My studies began to overlap with my poetry. After graduating I continued to explore Los Angeles nonstop. I drove around specific neighborhoods like the Rampart, West Adams and Koreatown. Frequently I rode public transportation with my close comrade Phillip Martin, aka PhiLLHarmonic. We made it a daily ritual to find poetry in the streets. Phill rhymes on the last verse of "Density" and gives a shout out to the man who produced the track, DJ Dave aka David Wittman. DJ Dave is like Pete Rock, an amazing producer that rhymes with great skill, but he doesn't rhyme as much as he produces. The three of us attended UCLA together and spent a lot of time listening to music, travelling around the city to see live music and eventually performing our own music. Dave recently has made several video-songs, most notably, "Whole Foods Parking Lot." The three of us all lived together at different points and still collaborate two decades after we met. Here's to artistic friendships and longevity. Bringing you back in the dense mosaic.