Brown / Dixon Urban Design for an Urban Century

Shaping More Livable, Equitable, and Resilient Cities
2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-84683-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, E-Book

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to urban design, from a historical overview and basic principles to practical design concepts and strategies. It discusses the demographic, environmental, economic, and social issues that influence the decision-making and implementation processes of urban design. The Second Edition has been fully revised to include thorough coverage of sustainability issues and to integrate new case studies into the core concepts discussed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Lance Jay

Dixon, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Urban Design: A Social and Civic Art ix
Chapter 1 Roots of Western Urban Form: Centralization1
First Cities 1
Rebirth of European Cities: "Organic" Cities of theLate Middle Ages 3
Reintroduction of Classical Learning: "Geometric"Cities of the Renaissance 5
The Emergence of Merchant Cities: Integrating Renaissance Ideasand the Marketplace 9
The Grid Reaches the New World 10
The Industrial Revolution 15
Chapter 2 Decentralization: The Rise and Decline ofIndustrial Cities 31
Proto-Urban Design: Rejecting a Classical Past to Shape anIndustrial Future 31
Chapter 3 Recentralization: The Forces ShapingTwenty-First-Century Urbanism 69
New York Stock Exchange Financial District Streetscapes andSecurity (New York, New York) 71
District of Columbia Streetcar Land Use Study (Washington, D.C.)75
Chicago Decarbonization Plan (Chicago) 79
Fayetteville 2030: Transit City Scenario (Fayetteville,Arkansas) 81
South Coast Rail Economic and Land Use Plan (Massachusetts)88
Citygarden (St. Louis, Missouri) 90
UrbanRiver Visions (Massachusetts) 93
Campus Martius Park (Detroit, Michigan) 95
The Future of Pittsburgh Hillsides (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)98
Emscher Landscape Park (Ruhr Valley, Germany) 108
SW Ecodistrict (Washington, D.C.) 111
Lloyd Crossing Sustainable Urban Design Plan (Portland, Oregon)113
East Baltimore Comprehensive Physical Redevelopment Plan(Baltimore, Maryland) 120
Torre David Informal Settlement (Caracas, Venezuela) 124
Chapter 4 Recentralization: Twenty-First-Century UrbanismTakes Shape 131
Eastward Ho! (Southeast Florida) 134
Charlottesville Commercial Corridor Study (Charlottesville,Virginia) 136
Crystal City Vision Plan 2050 (Arlington, Virginia) 142
Sandy Springs City Center Master Plan (Sandy Springs, Georgia)145
Portland Streetcar (Portland, Oregon) 159
Belmar (Lakewood, Colorado) 169
Bryant Park (New York, New York) 176
Parc André Citröen (Paris, France) 178
Barclays Center (Brooklyn, New York) 181
Discovery Green (Houston, Texas) 185
Cheonggyecheon Stream Daylighting (Seoul, South Korea) 197
LA Live (Los Angeles, California) 200
Marina Barrage (Singapore) 202
Masdar City (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) 204
HafenCity (Hamburg, Germany) 208
Fairmount Line Smart-Growth Corridor (Boston, Massachusetts)214
Ellen Wilson Neighborhood Redevelopment (Washington, D.C.)216
North Wharf Promenade/Jellicoe Street/Silo Park (Auckland, NewZealand) 219
Millennium Park (Chicago, Illinois) 223
The High Line (New York, New York) 225
Parco San Giuliano (Venice, Italy) 227
Swiss Government Plaza (Bern, Switzerland) 230
Tanner Springs Park (Portland, Oregon) 232
Railroad Park (Birmingham, Alabama) 234
Superkilen Park, Nørrebro (Copenhagen, Denmark) 237
Santa Monica Boulevard Master Plan (West Hollywood, California)240
Broadway Boulevard (New York, New York) 243
POPOS: Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (San Francisco,California) 248
Chapter 5 Theories of Urbanism 255
Seaside Town Square and Beachfront Master Plan (Seaside,Florida) 259
Madrid Río (Madrid, Spain) 262
Chapter 6 Urban Design for an Urban Century: Principles,Strategies, and Process 271
Bridge Street Corridor Plan (Dublin, Ohio) 273
National 9/11 Memorial (New York, New York) 289
Afterword 299
Index 301

Über Autor(innen)

Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, DPACSA, is the principal of LanceJay Brown Architecture + Urban Design in NYC, Fellow of theInstitute for Urban Design, and ACSA Distinguished Professor at theSpitzer School of Architecture, CCNY. He was elected 2014 Presidentof the AIA New York Chapter, is co-founder of its Design for Riskand Reconstruction Committee, and a founding Board Member of theConsortium for Sustainable Urbanization. He contributed to andco-edited Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and theOccupation of Public Space (2012) and co-authored The LegacyProject: New Housing New York/Via Verde (2013). In 2007 he wasawarded the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence inArchitectural Education. He has served as director of the School ofArchitecture at CCNY, director of the City College ArchitecturalCenter, and assistant director for programs at the NationalEndowment for the Arts.
David Dixon, FAIA, is an urban designer who lives andworks in Boston. In 2003, as President of the Boston Society ofArchitects, he organized Myth and Reality, the First NationalConference on Density to challenge widely-held negativeassociations about the concept of urban density. In 2008 hereceived the American Institute of Architects' ThomasJefferson Medal for "a lifetime of... significant achievementin creating...livable neighborhoods, vibrant civic spaces, andvital downtowns". For more than 20 years he led GoodyClancy's planning and urban design practice, which earned theAmerican Planning Association's 2013 Firm Award forExcellence in Planning. In 2014, David joined Stantec to initiate abroadly interdisciplinary practice to support communities inmeeting the unprecedented opportunities and challenges of thisrapidly evolving urban era.
The late Oliver Gillham, AIA, was an architect and cityplanner, as well as the founder of Gillham & Gander Associates.He was also the coauthor of The Limitless City: A Primer on theUrban Sprawl Debate.