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KuTenk 2000 - STRA252105-Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design

by Donald Watson, Alan Plattus and Robert G. Shibley (eds)

2003 (960 pages)

ISBN:9780070685079

Featuring articles by authoritative urban design scholars and practitioners, this comprehensive, meticulously researched text provides a single-source for the urban design and physical planning of cities, including social, environmental and economic data.

Table of Contents

TIME-SAVER STANDARDS FOR URBAN DESIGN
INTRODUCTION
Part 1 - CONTEXT OF URBANIZATION
Chapter 1.1	-	Population and the Urban Future
Chapter 1.2	-	Metropolis: The Spatial Organization of Seven Large Cities
Chapter 1.3	-	How the Other Half Builds
Chapter 1.4	-	Junctions of Town and Country
Chapter 1.5	-	The Regional City
Chapter 1.6	-	A Realistic Approach to City and Suburban Planning
Part 2 - CLASSIC TEXTS OF URBAN DESIGN
Chapter 2.1	-	City Building According to Artistic Principles
Chapter 2.2	-	Une Cité Industrielle
Chapter 2.3	-	Civic Art
Chapter 2.4	-	The Neighborhood Unit
Chapter 2.5	-	The Athens Charter
Chapter 2.6	-	A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter 2.7	-	The Radburn Idea
Chapter 2.8	-	The Square in Space and Time
Chapter 2.9	-	The City Image and its Elements
Chapter 2.10	-	The Generators of Diversity
Chapter 2.11	-	Design Structure of Baroque Rome
Chapter 2.12	-	Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Part 3 - URBAN DESIGN HISTORY AND THEORY
Chapter 3.1	-	Introduction to Townscape
Chapter 3.2	-	The Grid as Generator
Chapter 3.3	-	C.A. Doxiadis and the Science of Human Settlements
Chapter 3.4	-	Urban Infrastructure
Chapter 3.5	-	Shadrach Woods and the Architecture of Everyday Urbanism
Chapter 3.6	-	A Significance for A&P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas
Chapter 3.7	-	Problems of Classification
Chapter 3.8	-	Crisis of the Object: Predicament of Texture
Chapter 3.9	-	Elements of the Concept of Urben Space
Chapter 3.10	-	Charter of the New Urbanism
Part 4 - PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF URBAN DESIGN
Chapter 4.1	-	How Plans Work
Chapter 4.2	-	Representation and Urban Design
Chapter 4.3	-	Making a Visual Survey
Chapter 4.4	-	Sketchbook: Piazza di Spagna, Rome
Chapter 4.5	-	Planning for Urban Conservation
Chapter 4.6	-	The Solar Envelope
Chapter 4.7	-	Urban Design and Climate
Chapter 4.8	-	Bioclimatic Design at the Site Planning Scale
Chapter 4.9	-	Sustainable Design
Chapter 4.10	-	Community Design Charrettes
Chapter 4.11	-	Community Design Centers: An Alternative Practice

Part 5 - REGIONAL AND URBAN-WIDE SCALE
Chapter 5.1	-	Design characteristics of Maryland’s traditional settlements
Chapter 5.2	-	Visualizing a Region’s Future
Chapter 5.3	-	Urban Farming
Chapter 5.4	-	Urban Bikeways
Chapter 5.5	-	Greenways
Chapter 5.6	-	Heritage Areas as an Approach to Regional Planning
Chapter 5.7	-	Main Street—Two Decades of Lessons Learned
Chapter 5.8	-	Transit-Centered Urban Villages
Chapter 5.9	-	The Concept of Urban Catalysts
Chapter 5.10	-	The Anglo-American Suburb
Chapter 5.11	-	Lexicon of the New Urbanism
Part 6 - ELEMENTS OF THE CITY
Chapter 6.1	-	Urban Atriums
Chapter 6.2	-	Courtyards: Guidelines for Planning and Design
Chapter 6.3	-	Making Great Streets
Chapter 6.4	-	The Multiway Boulevard
Chapter 6.5	-	Planning and Design for Pedestrians
Chapter 6.6	-	Pedestrain Zones: A Design Guide
Chapter 6.7	-	Pedestrian Precincts: Twelve European Cities
Chapter 6.8	-	Urban Plazas: Design Review Checklist
Chapter 6.9	-	Shared Outdoor Space
Chapter 6.10	-	Universal Design in Outdoor Play Areas
Part 7 - URBAN DESIGN DETAILS
Chapter 7.1	-	Universal Design for Urban Transportation
Chapter 7.2	-	Traffic Calming
Chapter 7.3	-	Parking and Circulation Dimensions
Chapter 7.4	-	Urban Green Infrastructure
Chapter 7.5	-	Urban Waterways
Chapter 7.6	-	Graphic Communication, Way Finding and Interpretive Planning
Chapter 7.7	-	Better Air Quality at Street Level: Strategies for Urban Design
Chapter 7.8	-	Acoustic Considerations for Urban Design
Chapter 7.9	-	Urban Telecommunications Infrastructure
Chapter 7.10	-	Urban Outdoor Lighting
Part 8 - CASE STUDIES IN URBAN DESIGN
Chapter 8.1	-	Case Studies in Urban Design
Chapter 8.2	-	The 1972 Portland Downtown Plan
Chapter 8.3	-	Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
Chapter 74	-	Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington
Chapter 8.5	-	Making and Sustaining Excellent Urban Places