Rather than just providing another checklist of new energy sources or one dimensional land use alternatives, he combines them into comprehensive national growth scenarios for 2050 and documents their potential impacts. In this groundbreaking new work, he shows how such regionally scaled urbanism can be combined with green technology to achieve not only needed reductions in carbon emissions but other critical economies and lifestyle benefits.
. This provocative and engaging work emerges from Calthorpe’s belief that, just as the last fifty years produced massive changes in our culture, economy and environment, the next fifty will generate changes of an even more profound nature. In so doing he powerfully demonstrates that it will take an integrated approach of land use transformation, policy changes, and innovative technology to transition to a low carbon economy.
To accomplish this calthorpe synthesizes thirty years of experience, starting with his ground breaking work in sustainable community design in the 1980s following through to his current leadership in transit-oriented design, regional planning, and land use policy. Cities are green” is becoming a common refrain.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The death and Life of Great American Cities. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, and always keenly detailed, bracingly indignant, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.
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Design with Nature
The death and Life of Great American Cities. An enduring contribution to the technical literature oflandscape planning and to that unfortunately small collection ofwritings which speak with emotional eloquence of the importance ofecological principles in regional planning. Landscape and urbanplanning in the twenty-five years since it first took the academic world bystorm, Design With Nature has done much to redefine the fields oflandscape architecture, urban and regional planning, and ecologicaldesign.
. In presenting us with a vision of organic exuberance and humandelight, which ecology and ecological design promise to open up forus, McHarg revives the hope for a better world. LewisMumford ". Described by one enthusiasticreviewer as a "user's manual for our world, " Design With Natureoffers a practical blueprint for a new, healthier relationshipbetween the built environment and nature.
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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
The spirit of this visionary investigation of Manhattan equals the energy of the city itself. Manhattan, " he writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta Stone. Delirious new york is also packed with intriguing and fun facts and illustrated with witty watercolors and quirky archival drawings, photographs, postcards, and maps.
. The death and Life of Great American Cities. At the end of the nineteenth century, information, population, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle -- "the culture of congestion" -- and its architecture. Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status.
Building, and irrational phenomena Radio City Music Hall. Koolhaas interprets and reinterprets the dynamic relationship between architecture and culture in a number of telling episodes of New York's history, including the imposition of the Manhattan grid, the creation of Coney Island, and the development of the skyscraper.
The Architecture of the City Oppositions Books
Aldo rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The death and Life of Great American Cities. Mit Press.
Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form - Learning from Las Vegas
There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work. Mit Press. Learning from las vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic, " self-aggrandizing monuments.
This revision includes the full texts of part i of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, and Part II, or the Decorated Shed, " a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl.
The Image of the City Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series
Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues, and Processes
The monacelli Press. This book gives a detailed account of urbanization in the United States and reveals the problematic nature and limitations of the planning process, the fallibility of experts, and the difficulties facing policy-makers in their search for solutions. Soft cover. Revised edition. Routledge. Mit Press.
Outlining land use, this fully illustrated book explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which policy issues are identified, defined, urban planning, and environmental protection policies, and approached. Key updates include: a new chapter on planning and sustainability; a new discussion on the role of foundations and giving to communities; a discussion regarding the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans; a discussion on deindustrialization and shrinking cities; a discussion on digital billboards; a discussion on recent comprehensive planning efforts; a discussion on land banking; a discussion unfunded mandates; a discussion on community character; a companion website with multiple choice and fill the blank questions, and ‘test yourself’ glossary terms.
This full colour edition incorporates new planning legislation and regulations at the state and federal layers of government, updated discussion on current economic issues, and examples of local ordinances in a variety of planning areas. The death and Life of Great American Cities.
City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn On Architecture
Soft cover. Revised edition. Routledge. Mit Press. Mit Press. The monacelli Press.
City Design: Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives
City design describes the history and current practice of the four most widely accepted approaches to city design: the modernist city of towers and highways that, and finally Systems city design, scorned by the modernists, beginning in the 1920s, but is becoming increasingly important everywhere as sustainability and the preservation of the planet are recognized as basic issues, has come to dominate urban development worldwide but is criticized as mechanical and soul-less; the Traditional organization of cities as streets and public places, but being revived today for its human scale; Green city design, whose history can be traced back thousands of years in Asia, which includes infrastructure and development regulation but also includes computer aided techniques which give designers new tools for managing the complexity of cities.
Authoritative yet accessible, City Design covers complicated issues of theory and practice, and its approach is objective and inclusive. Routledge. The death and Life of Great American Cities. Revised edition. Mit Press.
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Soft cover. Should be required reading. The christian science monitora best book of the Year according to Planetizen and the American Society of Landscape Architects Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. Timely and important, insightful, a delightful, irreverent work .
The monacelli Press. North Point Press. Routledge. Revised edition. Mit Press.