Book Description
This polemic is essential reading for anyone converned with the state and direction of architecture and urban planning today and will provake wide-ranging discussion.
Author : Léon Krier
Publisher : Papadakis Publisher
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 31,30 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : 1901092038
This polemic is essential reading for anyone converned with the state and direction of architecture and urban planning today and will provake wide-ranging discussion.
Author : Randolph Hollingsworth
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 18,46 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738524665
A history of the city located in the heart of central Kentucky Bluegrass country traces Lexington's long, proud past which reaches far back before the “Horse Capital of the World” reared its first thoroughbred, claiming the first college, newspaper, and millionaire west of the Alleghenies--among many other firsts. Original.
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Alexander Garvin
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610919491
Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They are the heart of the city that drives its future. If we are to have healthy downtowns, we need to understand what downtown is all about; how and why some American downtowns never stopped thriving (such as San Jose and Houston), some have been in decline for half a century (including Detroit and St. Louis), and still others are resurging after temporary decline (many, including Lower Manhattan and Los Angeles). The downtowns that are prospering are those that more easily adapt to changing needs and lifestyles. In The Heart of the City, distinguished urban planner Alexander Garvin shares lessons on how to plan for a mix of housing, businesses, and attractions; enhance the public realm; improve mobility; and successfully manage downtown services. Garvin opens the book with diagnoses of downtowns across the United States, including the people, businesses, institutions, and public agencies implementing changes. In a review of prescriptions and treatments for any downtown, Garvin shares brief accounts—of both successes and failures—of what individuals with very different objectives have done to change their downtowns. The final chapters look at what is possible for downtowns in the future, closing with suggested national, state, and local legislation to create standard downtown business improvement districts to better manage downtowns. This book will help public officials, civic organizations, downtown business property owners, and people who care about cities learn from successful recent actions in downtowns across the country, and expand opportunities facing their downtown. Garvin provides recommendations for continuing actions to help any downtown thrive, ensuring a prosperous and thrilling future for the 21st-century American city.
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Page : 918 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Construction workers
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Page : 606 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2005
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Transportation
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Page : 632 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Cities and towns
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Author : United States. Housing and Home Finance Agency. Office of Metropolitan Development
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 1965
Category : City planning
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Page : 1818 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Hardware
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