Urban Planning Today: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader

Urban Planning Today: 

A Harvard Design Magazine Reader

2006 | PDF | 160 pages | 11 mb

American cities' penchants for single-use zoning and free-market development in pursuit of economic growth have produced problems that have long been recognized: grueling commutes and dependency on automobiles, social isolation, expensive public infrastructure, needless destruction of countryside. Eminent domain disputes rage on, despite recent Supreme Court decisions. Outdated public housing and failed single-function projects litter the landscape. Addressing these urgent problems and debating the public's role in urban planning, the contributors to Urban Planning Today report on real projects in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, Omaha, Portland, and Vancouver. They bring varying, and sometimes divergent, perspectives from backgrounds in urban design and development, city and regional planning, criticism, and law to bear on the mixed bag of results observed in these cities.

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Today's Country Houses

Today's Country Houses

312 pages / 2004 /  English

The best projects in the design of country houses around the world are profiled in this architectural and design book. 

Each project has been selected on the basis of its innovation in the field, making this a highly useful sourcebook for architects, designers, and students of architecture who are looking for creative directions in the design of contemporary country homes. 

All steps of the design process, from conception to construction, are exhaustively documented and include technical information and commentary contributed by the architects themselves

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Architecture and Polyphony

Architecture and Polyphony : 

Building in the Islamic World Today

  English | 184 Pages | 103MB | True PDF

At no time in recent history have architecture, urban planning, rehabilitation and reconstruction been as important to the Islamic world as they are today. With great opportunities to engender positive change and build better places for everyone, architects are responding to local challenges with understanding and innovation, with global outlook and vernacular and innovative forms. These multifaceted achievements include restoration, landscape design, infrastructure and urban planning, and new buildings.

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Today's Country Houses

Today's Country Houses

by Jacobo Krauel

Hardcover: 312 pages

Publisher: Links International (November 2004)

Language: English

The best projects in the design of country houses around the world are profiled in this architectural and design book. Each project has been selected on the basis of its innovation in the field, making this a highly useful sourcebook for architects, designers, and students of architecture who are looking for creative directions in the design of contemporary country homes. All steps of the design process, from conception to construction, are exhaustively documented and include technical information and commentary contributed by the architects themselves

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Today's City Houses

Today's City Houses

Pilar Chueca
Links Internacional | 2005

City Buildings. In this book difficulty of association of new dwellings buildings and existent building is analysed in areas which are especially narrow and difficult from their situation, and methods to compel them to unite in single city fabric of street. All interesting aspects of composition of project are presented. Many pictures.

216 pages.

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