The urban masterplanning handbook / Eric Firley and Katharina Grön ; assistant editor Calver Lezama ; cover design by Kate Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Firley, Eric, author.

Grön, Katharina, author.

Contributor:

Lezama, Calver, editor.

Ward, Kate, cover designer.

Series:

THEi Wiley ebooks.

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

City planning.

Urban ecology (Sociology)--England.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

West Sussex, England : John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

A highly illustrated reference tool, this handbook provides comparative visual analysis of major urban extensions and masterplans around the world. It places an important new emphasis on the processes and structures that influence urban form, highlighting the significant impact that public or private landownership, management and funding might have on shaping a particular project. Each of the book's 20 subjects is rigorously analysed through original diagrams, scale drawings and descriptive texts, which are complemented by key statistics and colour photography. The case studies are presente

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; A BRIEF HISTORY OF MASTERPLANNING; THE POST-WAR CHANGE IN PARADIGM; 'MASTERPLANNING': OUR OWN DEFINITION; THE CASE STUDIES: COMMONALITIES AND CONTRASTS; THE DESIGNER AND THE PROCESS: HOW TO KEEP THE OVERVIEW?; SUSTAINABILITY AND MASTERPLANNING; CONCLUSION; CASE STUDIES; Broadgate, London; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Masséna Nord, Paris; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION

Stuyvesant Town, New YorkPROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Battery Park City, New York; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Vauban, Freiburg; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Antigone, Montpellier; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE

URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITYARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Potsdamer Platz, Berlin; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIONS; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Kirchsteigfeld, Potsdam; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Spangen, Rotterdam; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Belgravia, London; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; False Creek North, Vancouver

PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTUREURBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Sarphatipark, Amsterdam; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Marunouchi, Tokyo; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Euralille, Lille; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES

CONCLUSIONHammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Downtown Dubai; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; Beijing Central Business District; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; La Défense Seine Arche, Greater Paris; PROJECT ORGANISATION / TEAM STRUCTURE; URBAN FORM / CONNECTIVITY; ARCHITECTURAL TYPOLOGIES; CONCLUSION; APPENDICES; Timeline; Density Table

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 4, 2014).

ISBN:

9781118942000

1118942000

9781118941188

1118941187

9781118494646

1118494644

OCLC:

880531070