Urban Composition
Urban Composition

Author: Mark C. Childs

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2013-07-02

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 161689203X

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Cities and towns are among humanity's greatest achievements, yet no single individual or organization creates them. The buildings, streets, and gardens of even a small town embody substantial investments of money, natural resources, and political capital. Much more than the sum of its parts, a settlement's vitality comes from its collective composition. Sometimes the cities and towns that emerge are glorious places, but too frequently they have only fragments of greatness or are soulless and environmentally unhealthy. Our new Architecture Brief Urban Composition shows architects, planners, artists, and engineers of individual projects how they can best fulfill their public trust to help make meaningful urban places. Each chapter contains a set of design queries followed by a discussion, illustrations, and references for further research. This accessible primer on urban design provides guidelines for designing buildings or plans for large cities or small towns. Urban Composition showcases projects across the United States and internationally, in metropolitan areas such as Chicago, Seattle, and London, and small communities such as Marfa, Texas.

Urban Design
Urban Design

Author: Ron Kasprisin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1351618490

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Urban design is a process of establishing a structural order within human settlements; responding to dynamic emergent meanings and functions in a constant state of flux. The planning/design process is complex due to the myriad of ongoing (urban) organizational and structural relationships and contexts. This book reconnects the process with outcomes on the ground, and puts thinking about design back at the heart of what planners do. Mixing accessible theory, practical examples and carefully designed exercises in composition from simple to complex settings, Urban Design is an essential textbook for classrooms and design studios across the full spectrum of planning and urban studies fields. Filled with color illustrations and graphics of excellent projects, it gives students tools to enable them to sketch, draw, design and, above all, think. This new edition remains focused on instructing the student, professional and layperson in the elements and principles of design composition, so that they can diverge from conventional and packaged solutions in pursuit of a meaningful and creative urbanism. This edition builds upon established design principles and encourages the student in creative ways to depart from them as appropriate in dealing with the complexity of culture, space and time dynamics of cities. The book identifies the elements and principles of compositions and explores compositional order and structure as they relate to the meaning and functionality of cities. It discusses new directions and methods, and outlines the importance of both buildings and the open spaces between them.

Urban Design
Urban Design

Author: Ron Kasprisin

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2011-06-09

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1136845615

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Ron Kasprisin's skills as both an artist and Professor of Urban Design and Planning are combined to guide students in how to use illustrations and graphics to elevate their projects beyond the everyday. Sketches and plans from basic design elements, to complex projects, show the methods and skills students can use in forging their own design paths. A must for all those on planning and urban design courses, both in the design studio and out.

Urban Ills
Urban Ills

Author: Carol Camp Yeakey

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 073917701X

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Urban Ills: Confronting Twenty First Century Dilemmas of Urban Living in GlobalContexts brings together original research by a wide array of interdisciplinary scholars to examine contemporary dilemmas impacting urban life in global contexts, following the latest global economic downturn. Focusing extensively on vulnerable populations, economic, social, health and community dynamics are explored as they relate to human adaptation to complex environments.

Urban Design
Urban Design

Author: Ronald J. Kasprisin

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781138085657

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This new edition remains focused on instructing the student, professional and layperson in the elements and principles of design composition so that they can diverge from conventional and packaged solutions in pursuit of a meaningful and creative urbanism.

The Landscape Painter's Workbook
The Landscape Painter's Workbook

Author: Mitchell Albala

Publisher: For Artists

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0760371350

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"The Landscape Painter's Workbook takes a modern approach to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting, from accomplished artist, veteran art instructor, and established author Mitchell Albala"--

Sonic Studies in Educational Foundations
Sonic Studies in Educational Foundations

Author: Walter S. Gershon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-12-09

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1000731103

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Originally published as a special issue of Educational Studies, this volume demonstrates the ways in which sound considerations can significantly contribute to educational foundations. Regardless of their origin or interpretation, sounds are theoretically and practically foundational to educational experiences. As the means through which knowledges are passed from one person to another, sounds outline the fluid, porous boundaries of educational ecologies. This book draws out and expands upon the already-present sonic metaphors that exist at the center of philosophical and historical foundations of educational studies. Contributions demonstrate the ethical dimensions of this line of inquiry, emphasizing the need for education to offer both a right to speak and to be heard in order to take on a truly democratic character. By highlighting emerging attention to sound scholarship in education, contributors attend to and otherwise explore sound possibilities for educational theory, policy, and practice. This book will be of great interest to graduate and post graduate students; libraries, researchers and academics in the field of educational foundations, philosophy of education, education politics and sociology of education.

Geographies of Urban Sound
Geographies of Urban Sound

Author: Dr Torsten Wissmann

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2014-05-28

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1409462196

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Taking into account both the urban soundscape and the impacts of sound on the urban dweller, this book examines sound not as a by-product of urban life, but as a fundamental part of the urban experience that is crucial to understanding the city’s sense of place. Illustrated by case studies from Europe and North America, these range from on-site measurements to the construction of audio tours for local tourism, from media analysis of popular culture audio drama to sound-identity and city branding, and from the classification of noise in city planning to a consideration of the complex relationship between sacred sound and the creation of a sense of place.

Management of Urban Biodegradable Wastes
Management of Urban Biodegradable Wastes

Author: Jens Aage Hansen

Publisher: Earthscan

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781873936580

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Biological treatment of urban biodegradable wastes is on the increase in Europe. Future growth looks certain, with pressures to provide an alternative to landfill in managing our cities’ wastes. This book deals with urban biodegradables from households, trade, light industry, gardens and parks. It examines legislation and regulation, methods of composting and collection, management systems, occupational health, anaerobic and other processes, biodegradability, product quality, marketing, and end-user demands. Sections on: * existing and emerging legislation and regulation * local composting and collection * systems, cases and collection * occupational health * anaerobic processing * biodegradability * aerobic and other processing * product quality, marketing and end-user demands * urban biodegradable wastes status and opinion The book reflects up-to-date theory and practice and will be particularly valuable reading for university graduate schools, consulting engineering companies and managers in biological waste treatment.