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Planning The City.
Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city's uniqueness and make it instantly recognisable. A key task for planners and residents, working together, is to preserve t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Planning and Place in the City; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction: planning the city
- mapping place identity; Part I Definition of the field of investigation; Section I Place and place identity as key concepts; 1 The concept of Place; 2 Place identity; Section II New places in the contemporary city; 3 New spaces for living; 4 Urban containers; 5 Networks and infrastructures; 6 New places of perceptions; 7 Monitored places; Part II Making places for people; Section I Place analysis and planning methods.
- 8 Placemaking: origins and changes9 The virtual approach; 10 The lateral approach; 11 The people-oriented approach; 12 The multi-scale approach; 13 The configurational approach; 14 The complex-sensitive approach; Section II The PlaceMaker method; 15 The method; 16 The software; 17 The sustainable place identity index; Part III Case studies; Section I Preserving place identity; 18 Rome: the Trevi-Pantheon route; 19 Los Angeles: South Broadway; Section II Reconstructing place identity; 20 Kobe: Kitano-cho; 21 San Francisco: Market Street; Section III Enhancing place identity.
- 22 London: Oxford Street23 Barcelona: Las Ramblas; 24 Helsinki: the Esplanadi area; Conclusion: towards a sustainable place identity; Notes; References; Index.