Urban design / Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krieger, Alex, 1951-

Saunders, William S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Architectural design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Summary: Fifty years ago a landmark conference at Harvard University established urban design as a distinct architectural and planning practice. Today, with the world's urban population surpassing three billion people, urban design has become more crucial than ever. Indeed, the concerns that initially brought leading architects and city planners together-including concerns over sprawl, pollution, and aging infrastructure-have only intensified over the past half century. In Urban Design, Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders have assembled prominent figures in architecture, planning, and landscape design

Contents:

Contents: Introduction: An urban frame of mind / Alex Krieger

Origins of an urban design sensibility: The first urban conference : extracts

The emergence of urban design in the breakup of CIAM / Eric Mumford

The elusiveness of urban design : the perpetual problem of definition and role / Richard Marshall

Perspectives on a half-century of urban design practice: Urban design at fifty : a personal view / Denise Scott Brown

Fragmentation and friction as urban threats : the post-1956 city / Fumihiko Maki

The way we were, the way we are : the theory and practice of designing cities since 1965 / Jonathan Barnett

Territories of urban design practice: Where and how does urban design happen? / Alex Krieger

Defining the urbanistic project : ten contemporary approaches / Joan Busquets

Beyond centers, fabrics, and cultures of congestion : urban design as a metropolitan enterprise / Richard Sommer

Debates about mandates and purpose: The end(s) of urban design / Michael Sorkin

Bad parenting / Emily Talen

Facts on the ground : urbanism from Midroad to Ditch / Michelle Provoost and Wouter Vanstiphout

Expanding roles and disciplinary boundaries: A third way for urban design / Kenneth Greenberg

Urban design after Battery Park City : opportunities for variety and vitality / Timothy Love

The other '56 / Charles Waldheim

Democracy takes command : new community planning and the challenge to urban design / John Kaliski

Challenges for the unprecedented phenomena of our new century: Designing the postmetropolis / Edward W. Soja

Unforeseen urban worlds : post-1956 phenomena / Peter G. Rowe

Urban design looking forward / Marilyn Jordan Taylor

Urban design now : a discussion.

Notes:

"Most of the essays published here previously appeared in Harvard design magazine, Harvard University Graduate School of Design".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6647-4

OCLC:

320841552