Time-saver Standards for Urban Design

"Time Saver Standards for Urban Design", in the tradition of the "Time-Saver Standards" series, is the world's foremost professional reference on the physical design of cities and urban places including communities and civic and public places. Scope of the work is international and topics include preservation, renewal, patterns of settlement and sustainability. Key Features include: international coverage including recent European and Asian sustainability initiatives; topics from allied disciplines such as transportation engineering, bioregionalism and environmental engineering; heavily illustrated. The prestigious contributors include Alan Plattus, Dean of the College of Architecture, Yale University.

ISBN 007068507X   Pages 960 ISBN13 9780070685079 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe   Weight (grammes) 2175 Imprint McGraw-Hill Professional   Published in New York Format Hardback   Series title Time-Saver Standards Publication date 01 Apr 2003   Height (mm) 284 Non-book description 1 v. (various pagings) :   Width (mm) 221 Library of Congress 2002038067   Spine width (mm) 47 DEWEY 711.4   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Table of Contents
		About the Editors
		Acknowledgments
		About the Authors
		Introduction
1		Context of Urbanization
1.1		Population and the urban future by Werner Fornos and Desikan Thirunarayanapuram and Harold N. Burdett
1.2		Metropolis: the spatial organization of seven large cities by Alain Bertaud
1.3		How the other half builds by Vikram Bhatt and Witold Rybczynski
1.4		Junctions of town and country by Spiro Kostof
1.5		The regional city by Peter Calthorpe
1.6		A realistic approach to city and suburban planning by Alexander Garvin
2		Classic Texts of Urban Design
2.1		City building according to artistic principles (1898) by Camillo Sitte
2.2		Une Cite Industrielle (1917) by Tony Garnier
2.3		Civic art (1922) by Werner Hagemann and Elbert Peets
2.4		The neighborhood unit (1929) by Clarence Arthur Perry
2.5		The Athens Charter (1943) by Le Corbusier
2.6		A tale of two cities (1949) by Steen Eiler Rasmussen
2.7		The Radburn Idea (1957) by Clarence S. Stein
2.8		The square in space and time (1959) by Paul Zucker
2.9		The city image and its elements (1960) by Kevin Lynch
2.10		The generators of diversity (1961) by Jane Jacobs
2.11		Design structure of Baroque Rome (1976) by Edmund N. Bacon
		More...

Excerpts from review by Philip Langdon Judging by its title, you might think Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design would be a source mainly for street widths, sidewalk dimensions, parking ratios, and other matters than can largely be reduced to mathematical calculations. But this six-pound tome with its 960 oversized pages has far broader ambitions. McGraw-Hill calls this volume, "the definitive reference on urban design," and the description doesn't seem to be hyperbole. Donald Watson, former dean of the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with help from Alan Plattus of Yale School of Architecture and Robert Shibley of SUNY-Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, has assembled a volume containing the most significant urban design writings of the past 106 years. And that's just one of the eight sections in this enormous compilation. In addition to twelve classic texts...readers will find dozens of authoritative recent writings on world urbanization, regionalism, neighborhood planning, bikeways, greenways, universal design, outdoor lighting, way finding, acoustic considerations, and seemingly every other aspect of city-shaping. You can flip from key documents of New Urbanism, including the Charter and the Lexicon, to LeCorbusier's (wrongheaded but fascinating) vision of towers and highways, Clarence Stein's The Radburn Idea, Clare Cooper Marcus's sociological analyses of urban plazas and shared outdoor spaces, and case studies of places such as Seattle's Pike Place Market. History, theory, principles and practice, they're all here...this is the best single volume I've seen, in terms of its ability to explain the entire spectrum of urban design through the words of its most prominent analysts and practitioners. Expand your bookshelf. New Urban News 20040301 Excerpts from review by Bay Brown. It is a how-to, with diagrams on street and courtyard siting, but it is also a history of urban-design theory, including seminal texts ranging from passages of Camillo Sitte's 1889 book The Art of Building Cities to Kevin Lynch's 1960 essay "The City Image and Its Elements." Chapters are dedicated to sustainable design, universal design, transit-centered urban villages, wayfinding, and "traffic calming." Almost every essay is written by a different expert, which affords a diversity of experience and voice, and the tome liberally uses photographs, drawings, diagrams, and charts with informative statistics and demographics. It may offer more than you want to know, but after a selective read, it should be parked on your shelf as an invaluable reference. Architecture Magazine 20040109

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