Speculative Housing, Environmental Reality
Author : Joseph David
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Apartment houses, Cooperative
ISBN :
Author : Joseph David
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Apartment houses, Cooperative
ISBN :
Author : Jennifer Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2007-08-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136349634
This is the first text to focus on virtual reality applications for design of the built environment. This guide explores the use of virtual reality at the practical level. It provides an overview of industrial applications of virtual reality and explores relevant scientific research. Virtual Reality in the Built Environment is a guide to the practical uses of virtual design, construction, and management. Providing an overview of industrial applications for virtual reality and exploring relevant research, this book is an accessible and innovative resource for architects, designers and built environment professionals--bridging the gap between technological vision and current practice. Author Jennifer Whyte shows how interactive, spatial, real-time technologies can radically improve modelling and communication of ideas, enable partcipation in the design process, and facilitated planning and management at the urban scale. The experience of lead users of virtual reality is used as the basis for understanding its promise and problems. Explanations of the underlying principles of this exciting interactive medium, a discussion of the cognitive, technical and organizational issues it raises, and international case studies illustrating practical applications are all included in this guide. The author also provides a companion web site which provides online learning materials, including test-yourself questions, virtual reality models, and links to relevant sites, making it a valuable design resource and a stimulus for innovation.
Author : Peter Marcuse
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1804294942
In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.
Author : Cecilia L. Chu
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1487535767
The Speculative City explores property speculation as a key aspect of financialization and its role in reshaping the contemporary built environment. The book offers a series of case studies that encompass a range of cities whose urban fabrics have undergone significant transformation in recent years. While the forms of these developments shared many similarities, their trajectories and social outcomes were contingent upon existing planning and policy frameworks and the historical roles assumed by the state and the private sector in housing and welfare provision. By paying close attention to the forces and actors involved in property development, this book underscores that the built environment has played an integral part in the shaping of new values and collective aspirations while facilitating the spread of financial logics in urban governance. It also shows that these dynamics represent a larger shift of politics and culture in the ongoing production of urban space and prompts reflections on future trajectories of finance-led property speculation.
Author : Ross Barrett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520343913
Introduction -- Land, looking, and futurity in the Hudson Valley -- Digging for gold : allegories of speculation on the Illinois frontier -- Picturing land and labor in the Old Northwest and New England -- Perilous prospects : speculation and landscape painting in Florida -- Painting and property on Prout's Neck -- Conclusion.
Author : Matthew Carmona
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1135802424
This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England increases, a widespread desire to improve the design of the resulting residential environments becomes evermore apparent with increasing condemnation of the standard products of the volume housebuilders. In recent years central government has come to accept the need to deliver higher quality living environments, and the important role of the planning system in helping to raise design standards. Housing Design Quality focuses on this role and in particular on how the various policy instruments available to public authorities can be used in a positive manner to deliver higher quality residential developments.
Author : Joseph L. Scarpaci
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807853696
Newly revised and redesigned, this book assesses nearly 500 years of urban development and planning in Havana, paying particular attention to the city's rich blend of Spanish-Cuban-Latin American-North American architecture and design.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
Publisher :
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Abortion
ISBN :
Author : Zijian Li
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781594549458
Geography, environment, sustainability, culture and education standing alone or in any combination, provide the ingredients for a variety of stews. They are all difficult to define and they generate endless debates for theoreticians and practitioners about their meaning and significance. The editors have divided the chapters that follow into two parts in an effort to unit these diverse disciplines. Part 1 is concerned with cultural foundations and curriculum issues related to geographical and environmental education for sustainability. Part 2 comprises a series of chapters presenting education for sustainability in the contexts of national cultures.
Author : Bettina Bauerfiend
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3643901313
"This publication offers an oversight of a wide variety of topics that are relevant when discussing urban design in Berlin and Shanghai; topics reflection what has taken place and what has been produced within the last five years of the Dual Urban Design Master Program between the two metropolis of Shanghai and Berlin"--Back cover.