Cities Ten Lines

Cities Ten Lines

Author: Joan Busquets

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 9788884472946

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"Cities: 10 Lines - A New Lens for the Urbanistic Projects documents three years of faculty research seminars at the Harvard Graduate School of Design that focused on the development of a pedagogic taxonomy to frame the methods and tools with which designers currently shape cities and open territories." "The work documented in the catalogue presents the shifts designers have made in their projection of the city. Over the past three decades, new techniques in working the built environment have been deployed in multiple settings, interacting with a wide array of cultures, scales and intensities. Furthermore, the notion that urban grounds can be successfully refurbished is gaining clout rapidly, while the innovative nature of these interventions is creating spaces of an unprecedented urban quality."--BOOK JACKET.


Urban Design

Urban Design

Author: Alex Krieger

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1452914125

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Collects essays written on the establishment and cultivation of urban design as a distinct architectural and planning practice.


Megaprojects for Megacities

Megaprojects for Megacities

Author: John Landis

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2022-12-08

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 1803920637

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Megaprojects for Megacities is a collection of 14 international case studies of transportation, urban development, and environmental megaprojects completed during the last ten years in North America, Asia and Europe. It goes beyond the previous megaproject literature to look at how and why each project was conceived, planned, engineered, financed, and delivered, and at how particular planning and delivery practices shaped outcomes.


The Image of the City

The Image of the City

Author: Kevin Lynch

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1964-06-15

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780262620017

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The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.


Underground Cities

Underground Cities

Author: Mark Ovenden

Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1781318948

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With over 60 per cent of the world’s population living in cities, the networks beneath our feet – which keep the cities above moving – are more important than ever before. Yet we never truly see how these amazing feats of engineering work. Just how deep do the tunnels go? Where do the sewers, bunkers and postal trains run? And, how many tunnels are there under our streets? Each featured city presents a ‘skyline of the underground’ through specially commissioned cut-away illustrations and unique cartography. Drawing on geography, cartography and historical oddities, Mark Ovenden explores what our cities look like from the bottom up.


City Document

City Document

Author: Providence (R.I.)

Publisher:

Published: 1861

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13:

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Includes the City Manual along with the annual reports of the City's various departments and offices.