Variations of Suburbanism - 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 Variations of Suburbanism write by Barbara Schönig. This book was released on 2015-09. Variations of Suburbanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considered to be sub-ordinated and sub-prime to the city, sub-urban areas receive little attention by researchers and designers. However, it ́s the rapidly growing areas outside the central cities that pose the biggest questions of the urban millennium: How can the scattered patchwork of urban areas and social spaces linked by networks of highways and public transportation function as a sustainable and livable urban environment? Answering this question requires understanding suburban spaces as heterogeneous urban areas with distinct local characteristics, qualities, and problems. Following this path, Variations of Suburbanism explores formation, characteristics, and trends of suburban areas all over the world. It provides insights on common features and differences of suburban governance, design, and infrastructure and discusses strategies to understand and design suburban areas in an increasingly sub-urbanizing world.
New SubUrbanisms
New SubUrbanisms - 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 New SubUrbanisms write by Judith K De Jong. This book was released on 2013-09-11. New SubUrbanisms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historically, we see the city as the cramped, crumbling core of development and culture, and the suburb as the vast outlying wasteland – convenient, but vacant. Contemporary urban design proves this wrong. In New SubUrbanisms, Judith De Jong explains the on-going "flattening" of the American Metropolis, as suburbs are becoming more like their central cities – and cities more like their suburbs through significant changes in spatial and formal practice as well as demographic and cultural changes. These revisionist practices are exemplified in the emergence of hybrid sub/urban conditions such as parking practices, the residential densification of suburbia, hyper-programmed public spaces and inner city big-box retail, among others. Each of these hybridized conditions reflects to varying degrees the reciprocating influences of the urban and the suburban. Each also offers opportunities for innovation in new formal and spatial practices that re-configure conventional understandings of urban and suburban, and in new ways of forming the evolving American metropolis. Based on this new understanding, De Jong argues for the development of new ways of building the city. Aimed at students and practitioners of urban design and planning New SubUrbanisms attempts to re-frame the contemporary metropolis in a way that will generate more instrumental engagement – and ultimately, better design.
Suburban Land Question
Suburban Land Question - 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 Suburban Land Question write by Richard Harris. This book was released on 2018-01-01. Suburban Land Question available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The purpose of The Suburban Land Question is to identify the common elements of land development in suburban regions around the world.
Changing Suburbs
Changing Suburbs - 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 Changing Suburbs write by Richard Harris. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Changing Suburbs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The editors and contributors to this volume demonstrate how suburbs and the meaning of suburbanism change both with time and geographical location. Here the disciplines of history, geography and sociology, together with subdisciplines as diverse as gender studies, art history and urban morphology, are brought together to reveal the nature of suburbia from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Eco-Architecture VI
Eco-Architecture VI - 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 Eco-Architecture VI write by V. Echarri. This book was released on 2016-08-31. Eco-Architecture VI available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comprising of the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature, the papers deal with topics such as building technologies, design by passive systems, design with nature, cultural sensitivity, life cycle assessment, resources and rehabilitation as well as many others. This book follows five successful meetings which started in the New Forest, UK in 2006, then followed in the Algarve (2008), A Coruna (2010), Kos (2012) and Siena, Italy (2014). Eco-Architecture signifies a new approach to the design process intended to harmonise its products with nature. This involves concepts such as minimum use of energy at each stage of the building process, taking into account the amount required during the extraction and transportation of materials, their fabrication, assembly, building formation, maintenance and eventual future recycling. The adaptation of the architectural design to the natural environment, is another important issue. The book will be of interest to architects, engineers, planners, physical scientists, sociologists and economists and contained within these proceedings are case studies from many different places around the world. Topics covered consist of: Design with nature; Energy efficiency; Tall buildings and environment; Ecological impacts of materials; Biomaterials; Bioclimatic design; Water quality; Green facades; Ecological; Education and training; Adapted reuse; Transformative design; Sustainability indices in architecture; Bioclimatic design and passive systems; Recycle, reuse, reduce and recovery; Mixing it up and building flexibility; Architectural visualisation and New techniques: building information modelling.
