Selected Urban Design Projects Since World War II
Author : Walter J. Slipe
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 1958
Category : City planning
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Author : Walter J. Slipe
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 1958
Category : City planning
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Author : Walter J. Slipe
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Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 1958
Category : City planning
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,74 MB
Release : 1958
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Page : 678 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 1979
Category : City planning
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Author : University of California (1868-1952)
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Page : 1708 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Universities and colleges
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Author : University of California, Berkeley
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Page : 228 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 1959
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Author : Makoto Yokohari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 4431564454
This book provides a unique contribution to the science of sustainable societies by challenging the traditional concept of rural-urban dichotomy. It combines environmental engineering and landscape sciences perspectives on urban region issues, making the book a unique work in urban study literatures. Today’s extended urban regions often maintain rural features within their boundaries and also have strong social, economic, and environmental linkages with the surrounding rural areas. These intra- and inter- linkages between urban and rural systems produce complex interdependences with global and local sustainability issues, including those of climate change, resource exploitation, ecosystem degradation and human wellbeing. Planning and other prospective actions for the sustainability of urban regions, therefore, cannot solely depend on “urban” approaches; rather, they need to integrate broader landscape perspectives that take extended social and ecological systems into consideration. This volume shows how to untangle, diagnose, and transform urban regions through distinctive thematic contributions across a variety of academic disciplines ranging from environmental engineering and geography to landscape ecology and urban planning. Case studies, selected from across the world and investigating urban regions in East Asia, Europe, North America and South-East Asia, collectively illustrate shared and differentiated drivers of sustainability challenges and provide informative inputs to global and local sustainability initiatives.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
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Page : 782 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Exchange of publications
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Author : Margaret Crawford
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262510837
with essays by Peter S. Reed, Robert Friedel, Margaret Crawford, Greg Hise, Joel Davidson, and Michael Sorkin Among the legacies of World War II was a massive building program on a scale that America had not seen before and has not seen since. The war effort created thousands of factories, homes, even entire cities throughout the country. Many of these structures still stand, the physical evidence of an unprecedented ability to harness the power and resources of a people. The complex legacy of this most notable period in our nation's history is discussed from a different perspective by each contributor. Peter S. Reed, Associate Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, details the rise of modern architecture during the war -- housing designs that used the latest ideas in prefabricated construction methods, lightweight materials, innovative technologies, and a corporate and institutional aesthetic that helped popularize modernism as the appropriate image of American industrial might and corporate success. Robert Friedel, Professor of History at the University of Maryland, documents the development of new materials, especially plastics, and discusses techniques for employing traditional materials in novel ways. Margaret Crawford, Chair of the History and Theory of Architecture Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, explores the struggle of women and blacks for public housing. Greg Hise, Assistant Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Southern California, considers how the construction of large-scale residential communities near defense plants prefigured postwar suburbia. Joel Davidson, historian of the "World War II and the American Dream" exhibition, analyzes the impact of the war's building program on the postwar military-industrial complex. Finally, Michael Sorkin, architect and writer, explores the migration of certain values and aesthetics from the necessities of war to the choices of peace. Among these are images of speed, camouflage, ruin, totalization, and flight. Copublished with The National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.