Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy
Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy

Author: Lee Anne Fennell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-08-29

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1107164923

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This interdisciplinary volume illuminates housing's impact on both wealth and community, and examines legal and policy responses to current challenges. Also available as Open Access.

Reglazing Modernism
Reglazing Modernism

Author: Uta Pottgiesser

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 3035619344

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The worldwide use of building envelopes in steel and glass is one of the characteristic features of modern architecture. Many of these pre- and post-war buildings are now suffering severe defects in the building fabric, which necessitate measures to preserve the buildings. In this endeavor, aspects of architectural design, building physics, and the preservation of historic buildings play a key role. Using a selection of 20 iconic buildings in Europe and the USA, the book documents the current technological status of the three most common strategies used today: restoration, rehabilitation, and replacement. The buildings include Fallingwater House by Frank Lloyd Wright, Farnsworth House by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Fagus Factory and Bauhaus Building by Walter Gropius.

Paradise Planned
Paradise Planned

Author: Robert A.M. Stern

Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC

Published: 2013-12-03

Total Pages: 1073

ISBN-13: 1580933262

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Paradise Planned is the definitive history of the development of the garden suburb, a phenomenon that originated in England in the late eighteenth century, was quickly adopted in the United State and northern Europe, and gradually proliferated throughout the world. These bucolic settings offered an ideal lifestyle typically outside the city but accessible by streetcar, train, and automobile. Today, the principles of the garden city movement are once again in play, as retrofitting the suburbs has become a central issue in planning. Strategies are emerging that reflect the goals of garden suburbs in creating metropolitan communities that embrace both the intensity of the city and the tranquility of nature. Paradise Planned is the comprehensive, encyclopedic record of this movement, a vital contribution to architectural and planning history and an essential recourse for guiding the repair of the American townscape.

Of Cabbages and Kings County
Of Cabbages and Kings County

Author: Marc Linder

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780877457145

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In particular, they question whether sprawl was a necessary condition of American industrialization; could the agricultural base that preceded and surrounded the city have survived the onrush of residential real estate speculation with a bit of foresight and public policies that the politically outnumbered farmers could not have secured on their own?