My kind of city : collected essays of Hank Dittmar /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hank, Dittmar (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C : Island Press, 2019.
Temas:
City planning.
Architectural design.
Design architectural.
Architectural design
City planning
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • About Island Press
  • Subscribe
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Note from the Publisher
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Part I. My Kind of Town
  • New Orleans is My Kind of Town
  • Auckland: At Water's Edge
  • I Could Learn to Love LA All Over Again
  • My Favorite Street: Seven Dial, Covent Garden, London, England
  • Part 2. The Cavaliers vs. the Roundheads
  • Style Wars Are Irrelevant when Architecture is Reduced to Floor-Plate Cladding
  • Southbank Scheme Isn't Wrong, It's Just Bland
  • When Will Stirling Laureates Be Allowed to Quote from Wren?
  • People in Glass Houses
  • Continuity or Contrast: Take Your Pick
  • Three Classicists: Classicism in an Era of Pluralism
  • Part 3. Continuity and Context
  • Continuity and Context in Urbanism and Architecture: The Honesty of a Living Tradition
  • Linking Lincoln: Legacy, Ecology and Commerce
  • Part 4. Bouquets and Brickbats
  • London's Skyscraper Designers Should Aim High Like Chicago
  • An Urbanist's View of the Stirling Shortlist
  • Don't Students Need Proper Housing?
  • The Urbanist's Stirling Prize
  • Location Dictates the Success of Monument Design
  • It's Time for a New Serpentine Design Brief
  • Part 5. Sustainability and Tradition
  • Sustainability and Tradition
  • Part 6. On Christopher Alexander's Athena Award
  • Part 7. Urbanism in Late-Stage Capitalism
  • Post-Truth Architecture in the Age of Trump
  • Finally, Some Smart Thinking About Garden Cities
  • Garden Towns Need Some Garden City Thinking to Succeed
  • Here's the Detail That's Missing from All the Mainfestos
  • Letter to Edward Glaeser in Response to ""Two Green Visions: the Prince and the Mayor, "" in Triump of the City
  • Can Smart Urban Design Tackle the Rise of Nationalism?
  • 2011 Founders Forum on the New Urbanism at Seaside, Florida
  • Architects are Critical to Adapting our Cities to Climate Change
  • You've Got to Hand it to Post-Moderism
  • Part 8. Lean Urbanism: Making Small Possible
  • A Lean Urbanism for England: Making Small Possible and Localism Real
  • Pink Zones to Lighten Planning Red Tape
  • Big Ideas Don't Often Produce Great Architecture
  • Riding the Railroad to Revival
  • Urban Recycling and Doubling-Up: How Cities Really Respond to Growth
  • How to Diversify Housing Delivery with Some Help from Architects
  • Seeing Empty Homes as an Asset, Not a Liability
  • Part 9. About London
  • London's Tall Building Bloopers
  • A Towering Mess that Government has the Power
  • But not the Will
  • to Address
  • Just Because the Powell & Moya Site is Available Doesn't Mean It's the Right Place for a Concert Hall
  • Old Street Will Need More than Money
  • We Need Real Homes, not Ivory Towers
  • Bigging up Battersea: a Progress Report
  • Are We Serious About Estate Regeneration?
  • London's Housing Problems are Beyond the Power of Market Forces to Solve
  • Part 10. From Place to Place

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