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Grid/street/place : essential elements of sustainable urban districts / Nathan Cherry, with Kurt Nagle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cherry, Nathan, author.
- Nagle, Kurt, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable urban development--United States.
- Sustainable urban development.
- City planning--United States.
- City planning.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (some color), maps, plans
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Today's urban resident is seeking a more flexible, sustainable environment-representing a unique, diverse, vibrant, and responsible way of living-as an alternative to the typical development patterns of suburban and semi-urban sprawl. Can urban design help create this type of sustainable urbanism? Grid Street Placepresents a unique approach to understanding urban design through scientific, empirical research. The authors examined more than 100 successful projects throughout North America to identify differences and commonalities, and they discovered universal elements that characterize sustainable urban districts. By applying these essential elements, designers and developers can recreate and extend the experience of successful places to their communities. Myriad plans, sections, diagrams, and charts illustrate how each district work-at an extremely detailed level. Concrete examples, as opposed to generalities, make Grid Street Placea must-read for anyone interested in the working strategies of urban design.
- Contents:
- Part, Section One CLASSIC DISTRICTS
- chapter 4 INTRODUCTION
- chapter ESSAY
- chapter 16 Classic Districts Key Map
- chapter 17 District Views
- chapter 18 Classic District Comparison Chart
- chapter 20 Classic Districts Scale Comparison
- chapter Shopping/Working Districts
- chapter Transit Villages
- chapter New Communities
- chapter 36 Summary Findings
- part, Section Two MIXED USE DISTRICTS
- chapter 40 Mixed Use Districts Key Map
- chapter 42 Figure Ground
- chapter 44 Circulation/Block Size
- chapter 46 Land-Use Mix
- chapter 48 Commercial Footprint
- chapter 50 Residential Mix
- chapter 52 Open Space Network
- chapter 54 Charts
- part, Section Three SQUARES, GREENS, AND PARKS
- chapter 64 Public Spaces Scale Comparison
- chapter 65 Squares: Essential Characteristics
- chapter 66 Greens: Essential Characteristics
- chapter 67 Parks: Essential Characteristics
- chapter 68 Squares, Greens, and Parks Key Map
- chapter 69 Spatial Enclosure
- chapter 70 Public Space Scale Comparison
- chapter Squares
- chapter Greens
- chapter Parks
- part, Section Four SHOPPING STREETS
- chapter 130 Shopping Streets: Configurations
- chapter 132 Relationship to Arterial
- chapter 133 Typical Section
- chapter 134 "Zoned" Sidewalk
- chapter 135 Other Options
- chapter 136 Shopping Streets Key Map
- chapter 137 Spatial Enclosure / Street Dimensions
- chapter 138 Shopping Streets Scale Comparison
- chapter 140 Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, California
- chapter 144 Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, California
- chapter 148 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, California
- chapter 152 Venice Boardwalk, Venice, California
- part, Section Five PLACES
- chapter 162 Places: Configurations
- chapter 163 Passages: Configurations
- chapter 164 Places Key Map
- chapter 165 Spatial Enclosure / Places Dimension
- chapter 166 Places Scale Comparison
- chapter 168 Americana at Brand, Glendale, California
- chapter 172 Edgemar, Santa Monica, California
- chapter 176 The Grove, Los Angeles
- chapter L L.A. Live, Los Angeles
- chapter 1 One Colorado, Pasadena, California
- chapter 188 Via Rodeo, Beverly Hills, California
- chapter 194 CONCLUSION
- chapter 198 INDEX
- chapter ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 13, 2017).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 9781351177962
- 1351177966
- Publisher Number:
- 99986150750
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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