TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Lance Jay
AU  - Dixon,David
AU  - Gillham,Oliver
TI  - Urban design for an urban century: placemaking for people 
SN  - 9780470087824 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - NA 9105 B76.2009
PY  - 2009///,
CY  - Hoboken, N.J.
PB  - John Wiley
KW  - City planning
KW  - United States
KW  - Urbanismo
KW  - Estados Unidos
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 285-290) e índice; Part I: Paradigms, Principles and Process -- Urban design a social and public art -- Fitting people and place -- The evolution of a "social and public art" -- Integrating diverse perspectives and skills -- Giving form to a rapidly changing society -- Shaping the response to a changing world -- Roots of urban form -- Early cities -- European cities in the Middle Ages -- Renaissance forms reshape cities -- The new world turns toward the grid -- The industrial revolution and reaction -- Imagining the postindustrial city -- Decentralization: The growth of the modern city -- Europe and modernism -- Recentralization: the city as the future -- Setting the stage: fifty years of suburbanization -- Cities on the rebound -- New forces shaping cities -- New currents in urban design -- Principles for an urban century -- Process should support the principles -- Part II: Putting Urban Design into Practice -- Case studies in urban design -- Guiding regional growth and change -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Rediscovering downtown and main street -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Reinventing older neighborhoods -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Inventing new neighborhoods -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Reclaiming the waterfront -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Creating the public realm -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Transforming campus into community -- Roots -- Approaches today -- Case studies -- How the projects illustrate the principles -- Conclusion
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0817/2008018992.html
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