Urban Design: The American ExperienceJohn Wiley & Sons, 1994 M02 25 - 528 páginas Urban Design the American Experience Jon Lang Urban Design: The American Experience places social and environmental concerns within the context of American history. It returns the focus of urban design to the creation of a better world. It evaluates the efforts of designers who apply knowledge about the environment and people to the creation of livable, enjoyable, and even inspiring built worlds. Urban Design: The American Experience emphasizes that urban design must take a user-oriented approach to achieve a higher quality of life in human settlements. All the keys to this approach are spelled out in chapters that address:
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I | 1 |
II | 7 |
III | 19 |
V | 21 |
VI | 25 |
VIII | 40 |
X | 74 |
XII | 107 |
XXXIV | 258 |
XXXVI | 286 |
XXXVII | 305 |
XXXIX | 307 |
XL | 309 |
XLI | 322 |
XLII | 343 |
XLIII | 345 |
XIII | 111 |
XIV | 130 |
XV | 141 |
XVII | 153 |
XIX | 155 |
XX | 157 |
XXII | 174 |
XXIV | 187 |
XXV | 189 |
XXVII | 202 |
XXVIII | 217 |
XXIX | 221 |
XXX | 223 |
XXXII | 240 |
XLV | 361 |
XLVI | 363 |
XLVIII | 373 |
XLIX | 375 |
LI | 389 |
LII | 407 |
LIV | 419 |
LVI | 421 |
LVIII | 434 |
LXII | 457 |
LXIII | 459 |
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achieve activities afford and/or approach to design architects architecture areas attitudes basic Battery Park City behavior settings biogenic environment buildings built environment Center Chapter Christopher Alexander City Planning cognitive concern Corbusier create culture decisions Dennis Wilson design guidelines design process elements Empiricist environmental evaluation existing experience Figure Frank Lloyd Wright function future geometry goal groups housing human needs human settlements implemented individual infrastructure intellectual involved issues landscape landscape architecture layout Le Corbusier major ment Modernists nature neighborhood Nostrand Reinhold open spaces opportunities overall Park patterns pedestrian people's physical places Plaza political potential Press problems professional proposals Pruitt Igoe public interest public realm Radburn Rationalist result role San Francisco schemes sector social society specific streets suburban symbolic theory tion towns types understanding Unité d'habitation United urban design urban form users York
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