| Description |
viii, 296 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-290) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
City planning -- United States
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| Added Author |
Dixon, David, 1947 July 17-
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Gillham, Oliver
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| ISBN |
9780470087824 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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047008782X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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