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Future Forms and Design for Sustainable Cities
Architectural Press, 2005
Concentrating on the planning and design of cities, the three sections take a logical route through the discussion from the broad considerations at regional and city scale, to the larger city at high and lower densities through to design considerations on the smaller block scale. Key design issues such as access to facilities, access for sunlight, life cycle analyses, and the impact of ...
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The Landscape Urbanism Reader
Charles Waldheim
Princeton Architectural Press, 2006
The Landscape Urbanism Reader
+ The Landscape Urbanism Reader
This was a gift for my architect brother. He was thrilled with it. It was received as promised, with quick shipping and arrived in pristine shape. It was indeed a merry Christmas.
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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
Spiro Kostof
Bulfinch, 1993
A Bible for an Urban Designer
+ A well-written foray into urban formation
+ excelent
+ A classic
+ a guidebook of magnificent ideas on city
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Public Places - Urban Spaces
Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, ...
Architectural Press, 2003
Public Places Urban Spaces
+ great introduction to urban design
+ For teachers and designers
This book is very useful to understand the theory,design approach and planning schemes and concept development for public spaces. In addition the presentation and data are easily to understand the message of the author. The case study also provide good attempt to look at several good examples. ...
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Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems: Principles and Practices
Peter Newman, Isabella Jennings
Island Press, 2008
Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives. The sources of the water they drink, the food they eat, and the energy they consume are all but invisible, often coming from other continents, and their waste ends up in places beyond their city boundaries. Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems shows how cities and their residents can begin to ...
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Design for Ecological Democracy
Randolph T. Hester
The MIT Press, 2006
Winner, 2007 Davidoff Award presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), Winner, Scholarly Illustrated Category, 2007 AAUP Book Jacket and Journal Show. and Winner of the Architecture & Urban Planning category in the 2006 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Over the last fifty years, ...
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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
William H. Whyte
Project for Public Spaces Inc, 2001
How urban areas work
+ This book is great
+ A classic case study for urban design professionals
Years ago I watched an episode of NOVA on PBS on William H. Whyte that explained the background and purpose and accomplishments of his project to study what makes urban spaces in cities work. I sat there riveted, as he methodically and carefully unveiled a vast range of urban phenomena of which I ...
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The Urban Design Handbook: Techniques and Working Methods
Urban Design Associates
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
How to build a great city
+ nice
+ Excellent peek inside one of the legendary firms
+ First Of Its Genre, A Valuable Resource
+ Solid Technical Resource
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Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modeling in Architecture, Urban Design and City Theory
David Grahame Shane
Academy Press, 2005
Stunning Book!
If you want the book on urban design, one piece of work that covers it all and gives you depth, insight and outlook on this field like no other - then this is for you! A book that will become a classic in this field. Absoluetly with no competition!
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Great Streets
Allan B. Jacobs
The MIT Press, 1995
If you're an Urban Planner or a World Traveler...
+ great book
+ Walking in Thought
+ Attention urban planners, designers and urbanists!
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Green Urbanism: Learning From European Cities
Timothy Beatley
Island Press, 1999
What exists is possible!
+ Ample introduction on how to make cities "Green"
As a college student with a focus on planning and green design I found Timothy Beatley's book inspiring. So inspiring in fact that I am travelling to Europe this fall in search of solutions to urban issues of sustainability which can be used in the states. I agree with the reviewer who said that ...
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
Christopher Alexander
Oxford University Press, USA, 1977
Not just for architects - good for software engineers too
+ Healing Our Industrial Age
+ Wonderful!
+ A Pattern Language
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Integral Urbanism
Nan Ellin
Routledge, 2006
Integral Urbanism is an ambitious and forward-looking theory of urbanism that offers a new model of urban life. Nan Ellin's model stands as an antidote to the pervasive problems engendered by modern and postmodern urban planning and architecture: sprawl, anomie, a pervasive culture—and architecture—of fear in cities, and a disregard for environmental issues. Instead of the reactive and ...
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Sustainable Urban Design: An Environmental Approach
Randall Thomas
Taylor & Francis, 2003
Sustainable urban design
+ Great overview of sustainable design
+ a very good items
This is a very well researched book - very informative and is now on my recommended reading list for my studio design course. Thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in this field. My only quibble is that some of the illustrations are a little too small to read easily.
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Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature
Douglas Farr
Wiley, 2007
more a general guidebook for professionals than a text
+ Truly useful tool for my trade
+ The Missing Link
+ Great new book combining "Green" Development with new urbanism
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