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Urban Coding and Planning.

Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces. Historically, their use has helped create some of our best-loved urban environments, while recent advances in coding have been a growing focus of attention, particularly i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marshall, Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Planning, history, and the environment series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Urban Coding and Planning; Copyright Page; Contents; The Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Stephen Marshall; 2. A Chronicle of Urban Codes in Pre-Industrial London's Streets and Squares: Nick Green; 3. The Controlling Urban Code of Enlightenment Scotland: Charles McKean; 4. The Ideal and the Real: Urban Codes in the Spanish-American Lettered City: Jean-François Lejeune; 5. Paradigms for Design: the Vastu Vidya Codes of India: Vibhuti Sachdev; 6. Prescribing the Ideal City: Building Codes and Planning Principles in Beijing: Qinghua Guo
  • 7. Machizukuri and Urban Codes in Historical and Contemporary Kyoto: Yoshihiko Baba8. Adelaide's Urban Design: Pendular Swings in Concepts and Codes: Barrie Shelton; 9. Coding in the French Planning System: From Building Line to Morphological Zoning: Karl Kropf; 10. Coding as 'Bottom-Up' Planning: Developing a New African Urbanism: Gerald Steyn; 11. How Codes Shaped Development in the United States, and Why They Should Be Changed: Jonathan Barnett; 12. Conclusions: Stephen Marshall; Bibliography; Index