An Introduction to Urban Design (Icon Editions)

The author uses his experience as an urban designer in New York City to examine the nature of city planning and how it can improve urban life

Arts & Photography

Barnett, Jonathan

Architecture

HarperCollins, Publishers

Five Centuries of Design, Ambition and Miscalculation - cities

The Elusive City: Five Centuries of Design, Ambition and Miscalculation

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Westview Press

This book provides a thorough analysis of cities and the entire metropolitan region, considering how both are intrinsically linked and influence one other, targeted at architects, students, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, and city and regional officials.

The Fractured Metropolis: Improving The New City, Restoring The Old City, Reshaping The Region

Sociology

The Elusive City (Icon Editions)

Targeted at architects, students, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, and city and regional officials, The Fractured Metropolis provides a thorough analysis of not only cities but also the entire metropolitan region, considering how both are intrinsically linked and influence one other.

Redesigning Cities: Principles, Practice, Implementation

Routledge

The world is urbanizing faster than current city design practices can sustain, climate change has introduced a new dynamism into what once appeared to be a stable environment, and – with effective city design more important than ever - there are controversies and uncertainties about the best way to manage unprecedented urban growth and change. City Design describes the history and current practice of the four most widely accepted approaches to city design: the Modernist city of towers and highways that, beginning in the 1920s, has come to dominate urban development worldwide but is criticized as mechanical and soul-less; the Traditional organization of cities as streets and public places, scorned by the modernists, but being revived today for its human scale; Green city design, whose history can be traced back thousands of years in Asia, but is becoming increasingly important everywhere as sustainability and the preservation of the planet are recognized as basic issues, and finally Systems city design, which includes infrastructure and development regulation but also includes computer aided techniques which give designers new tools for managing the complexity of cities. Jonathan Barnett is a well-known, widely-experienced city design practitioner who also teaches and writes about city design. He writes authoritatively but accessibly about complicated issues of theory and practice, and his approach is objective and inclusive. This is a comprehensive text on city design ideal for planners, landscape architects, urban designers and those who want to understand how to improve cities.

City Design: Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives

City Design

From Library Journal 
This book, aimed at the general public and design professionals (primarily architects and planners), encapsulates 500 years of urban planning. It offers a fresh outlook and original observations in a crisp, eminently readable style. Barnett, an experienced urban designer, is skeptical about the possibility of successful urban design, given the matrix of powerful social and economic forces within which the profession must operate. As a keen student of Jane Jacobs's Death and Life of Great American Cities , he is unafraid of the street, and he knows the pitfalls of unbridled idealism as well. This is neither a textbook nor a social and architectural history, but rather, uniquely, a survey of design strategies, pithy and provocative. Peter Kaufman, Suffolk Community Coll. Libs., Selden, N.Y. 
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

London: The Herbert Press, 198

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An Introduction to Urban Design (Icon Editions)

The Elusive City: Five Centuries of Design, Ambition and Miscalculation

The Fractured Metropolis: Improving The New City, Restoring The Old City, Reshaping The Region

The Elusive City (Icon Editions)

The Fractured Metropolis: Improving The New City, Restoring The Old City, Reshaping The Region

Redesigning Cities: Principles, Practice, Implementation

The Fractured Metropolis: Improving The New City, Restoring The Old City, Reshaping The Region

City Design: Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives

City Design

The Elusive City: Five Centuries of Design, Ambition and Miscalculation