city planning

"A PROVEN APPROACH FOR ADDRESSING EXPLOSIVE METROPOLITAN GROWTH IN AN INTEGRATED AND HOLISTIC MANNER For the first time, half the global population is living in urban areas--and that number is growing exponentially. Written by noted urban planner Pedro Ortiz, who served as director of the groundbreaking Madrid Metropolitan-Regional Plan, The Art of Shaping theMetropolis presents an innovative, agile solution for managing urban growth that enhances economic activity, environmental stability, and quality of life.Based on the findings from Madrid and other cities, this timely guide offers a methodical system for addressing the crucial issues facing governments, professionals, the private and public sectors, developers, stakeholders, and inhabitants of twenty-first-centurymetropolises. The book details new rubrics to identify the process of growth and its evolution, new tools to monitor and gauge them, and new methods to synthesize them into a professional praxis that will be sustainable for the long term. Ortiz demonstrates how metropolises can be organized for a future that preserves the historic nucleus of the city and the environment, while providing for thenecessary sustainable expansion of transportation, housing, and social and productive facilities.COVERAGE INCLUDES: * The dialogues of the metropolis * The challenge * The inheritance * Balanced urban development--fabric and form * The chess on a tripod (CiTi) method to build the model * Madrid as testing ground * Practical considerations in implementing a metropolitan plan * Translating the model elsewhere"--.

"Now in full color! The third edition of THE standard reference work on urban planning and design features new projects and the latest developments in the industry.In the Third Edition of The American City: What Works, What Doesn't, practicing city planner and noted urban scholar Alexander Garvin surveys what has been done to improve America's cities over the past 100 years--analyzing more than 300 programs and projects. This fully updated edition presents newly named and reorganized chapters, the latest statistical information on existing projects, new and updated illustrations, and new projects that have been completed in the decade since the previous edition was published.Taking a rare multidisciplinary approach, Garvin shows how the combination of individual and private-sector efforts, community-level action, and broad-based government policy can and has achieved urban regeneration. He explains that by studying and learning from the past, we can solve modern crises such as the scarcity of public open space, the lack of safe, affordable housing, the degradation of the environment, the erosion of the tax base, and countless other problems plague our cities and suburbs. The book presents six ingredients of project success--market, location, design, financing, entrepreneurship, and time.New to this Edition: Now in full color New sections--Downtown Strategies; Housing Strategies; Suburban Strategies; Regulatory Strategies--and section introductions New developments such as the subprime mortgage crisis New projects, including redevelopment of the World Trade Center site; Atlantic Station in Atlanta; Millennium Park in Chicago; Highline in NYC Reworked, renamed, and reorganized chapters Updated statistics 85 new illustrations and nearly 100 updated illustrations "--.

Chronicles the history of the World Trade Center from its first blue-prints through the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, exploring how the towers were created, what they symbolized, and how the world was impacted by their destruction.

Explores technologies and strategies for sustainable living in the early twenty-first century, with a focus on cities, discussing why they are unsustainable, buildings, eco-communities, transportation, and how to change existing cities to be more environmentally friendly.

Text and black-and-white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them.

Examines energy use in homes and cities and the effects of building design and city planning on energy conservation.

Examines the movement of New Urbanism and argues that its architectural and urban planning precepts can rescue society from the problems of sprawl, disintegration and isolation. Examines the modern inventions of automobiles, air conditioners, televisions and computers and discusses their influence on human habitation.