The Man-Made City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man-Made City write by Gerald D. Suttles. This book was released on 1990-03-21. The Man-Made City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake-side park, and innovative architecture and public sculpture, Chicago is one of the most planned cities of the modern era. Yet over the past few decades Chicago has come to epitomize some of the worst evils of urban decay: widespread graft and corruption, political stalemates, troubled race relations, and economic decline. Broad-shouldered boosterism can no longer disguise the city's failure to keep pace with others, its failure to attract new "sunrise" industries and world-class events. For Chicago, as for other rust-belt cities, new ways of planning and managing the urban environment are now much more than civic beautification; they are the means to survival. Gerald D. Suttles here offers an irreverent, highly critical guide to both the realities and myths of land-use planning and development in Chicago from 1976 through 1987.
The Image of the City
The Image of the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Image of the City write by Kevin Lynch. This book was released on 1964-06-15. The Image of the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Greening the City
Greening the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greening the City write by Dorothee Brantz. This book was released on 2011-07-01. Greening the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The modern city is not only pavement and concrete. Parks, gardens, trees, and other plants are an integral part of the urban environment. Often the focal points of social movements and political interests, green spaces represent far more than simply an effort to balance the man-made with the natural. A city’s history with—and approach to—its parks and gardens reveals much about its workings and the forces acting upon it. Our green spaces offer a unique and valuable window on the history of city life. The essays in Greening the City span over a century of urban history, moving from fin-de-siècle Sofia to green efforts in urban Seattle. The authors present a wide array of cases that speak to global concerns through the local and specific, with topics that include green-space planning in Barcelona and Mexico City, the distinction between public and private nature in Los Angeles, the ecological diversity of West Berlin, and the historical and cultural significance of hybrid spaces designed for sports. The essays collected here will make us think differently about how we study cities, as well as how we live in them. Contributors: Dorothee Brantz, Technische Universität Berlin * Peter Clark, University of Helsinki * Lawrence Culver, Utah State University * Konstanze Sylva Domhardt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich * Sonja Dümpelmann, University of Maryland * Zachary J. S. Falck, Independent Scholar* Stefanie Hennecke, Technical University Munich * Sonia Hirt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * Salla Jokela, University of Helsinki * Jens Lachmund, Maastricht University * Gary McDonogh, Bryn Mawr College * Jarmo Saarikivi, University of Helsinki * Jeffrey Craig Sanders, Washington State University
Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World
Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World write by Norman Crowe. This book was released on 1995. Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arguing that humanity has lost its symbiotic relationship with nature regarding housing, a cultural evaluation of architecture considers the evolution of structure development and the possibility of combining the expertise of environmentalists and builders to promote indigenous architecture. UP.
Man-made Dream City in Barren Desert - Dubai
Man-made Dream City in Barren Desert - Dubai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Man-made Dream City in Barren Desert - Dubai write by Shrikant Deodhar. This book was released on 2023-04-29. Man-made Dream City in Barren Desert - Dubai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A tourist guidebook. Generally, tourists visit Dubai with travel groups or Agents. When we get information about such tourist places by a running commentary, our visit to these tourist destinations becomes like "touch and go". All the tourist sites of Dubai are man-made marvels and some of the places are world-record holders. We need to try to enjoying the true beauty of these places and understand their background. The book covers a lot of information and interesting details about these tourist attractions. Dubai...a man-made wonder, a shining star of Global tourism, changes its face every year. It is a challenge to make a tourist guide of such a dynamic dream city that never stops reinventing itself. This guidebook is your friend during your entire Dubai trip. This invisible personal guide will explain every tourist place in detail with a personal touch. All necessary information will be at your fingertips.
