epub |eng | | Author:Peter L. Laurence [Laurence, Peter L.]

“Pavement Pounders and Olympians” In April 1956, a few months after Jacobs came to understand East Harlem’s plight, she presented an enthusiastically received paper at the first Urban Design Conference ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Davidson

40’ Container design Chapter Five Advanced Framing Advanced Framing or Optimum Value Engineering (OVE) uses a number of techniques to reduce the consumption of lumber and waste produced in building ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-12 | Author:Carlo Ratti & Matthew Claudel

Plan of Brasília by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa Building a city entirely from scratch allows the planner to selectively use only the most advanced technology of the time. Recalling ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Michael Batty [Batty, Michael]

Figure 8.1 Constructing a space-filling curve: The Koch snowflake curve. (a) Successive displacement of the central section of a line at ever-finer scales. (b) Application of the displacement rule to ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-12 | Author:Jaime Lerner

Mamam by Louise Bourgeois. In front of the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. Photo by Vicente Villamón, Flickr. Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0. SELF-ESTEEM IS GOOD ACUPUNCTURE How much do you like your ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Kotkin, Joel

WHY WE NEED BOTH GEOGRAPHIES Ultimately, urban policy should be about choices, and developers should respond to market signals and preferences rather than government edicts that suggest how people should ...

epub |eng | | Author:Paul Hardin Kapp

CHAPTER EIGHT Rethinking Storm Water A MODEL FOR SYNERGICITY JAMES H. WASLEY In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Willson, Richard W.

Rate-Setting Policy and Protocols The key goals of parking rate setting include the following: •Contribute to parking systems that are operated efficiently and cost-effectively •Maintain sound fiscal management •Provide parking ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-11 | Author:Wilson, Thomas D. [Wilson, Thomas D.]

The Trustees resisted constant appeals to remove the prohibition on slavery by instructing William Stephens in no uncertain terms that it would never be allowed. With a hope of putting ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gabe Klein

Components of the Vision Zero safety initiative in Chicago, including (a) mannequins, (b) stickers, and (c) ads (a, c: Michelle Stenzel, Bike Walk Lincoln Park; b: Metropolitan Planning Council) What ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Geoff Manaugh

Panic Room A little more than an hour’s drive south of Manhattan, amid a rolling landscape of state parks and golf courses in the woods of coastal New Jersey, Vietnam ...

epub |ara, eng | 2015-09-02 | Author:Gerard Koeppel

Our perpetual dead flat, and streets cutting each other at right angles, are certainly the last things in the world consistent with beauty. —Walt Whitman, Sunday Dispatch, 1849 The time ...

epub |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:John C. Mutter [Mutter, John C.]

Chapter 6 Struck Dumb in New Orleans The disasters in Myanmar and Haiti are similar to those in New York and New Orleans in that each was worse than it ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-21 | Author:John C. Mutter

Chapter 6 Struck Dumb in New Orleans The disasters in Myanmar and Haiti are similar to those in New York and New Orleans in that each was worse than it ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Berens, Carol

The issue of environmental remediation and reuse of industrial properties, like that of financing in the next chapter, is complex and is best addressed on a project-by-project basis. Broad-based generalities ...