Urban Design for an Urban Century: Placemaking for People - Hardcover

Brown, Lance Jay; Dixon, David; Gillham, Oliver

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047008782X ISBN 13: 9780470087824

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2009

Synopsis

"The wisest, clearest introduction I know to the art and science of designing cities."-- Robert Campbell, Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe architecture critic

Featuring projects that have won The American Institute of Architects' (AIA) National Honor Awards for Urban Design in recent years, this is a comprehensive book of tools and information on urban design. Endorsed by the AIA and written by the 2005 and 2006 chairs, respectively, of the AIA's Regional and Urban Design Committee, this unique guide provides urban designers, architects, and students with contemporary urban design paradigms and principles, processes, and design tools for various project types and scales, such as downtowns, neighborhoods, Main Street revitalization, waterfronts, and college campuses.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Emerging principles for urban design, featuring recent winners of the AIA Institute Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design

"At last! Urbanism is in, and urban designers Brown, Dixon, and Gillham offer a focused lens through which to understand it. Combining urban design history and precepts with selected case studies, they generously interlace their text with deeply held convictions about the importance of urban form and place to twenty-first-century quality of life. This remarkable compilation offers fresh examples and new ways of thinking that can enhance the collaborative endeavors of urban designers, public officials, land-use policymakers, and their communities."
—From the Foreword by Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

"The wisest, clearest introduction I know to the art and science of designing cities."
—Robert Campbell, Pulitzer Prize–winning Boston Globe architecture critic

Urban Design for an Urban Century is divided into two parts:

Part I, Paradigms, Principles, and Process, traces the roots of urban form from early cities to suburbanization and now recentralization. The final chapter offers a set of principles to help urban designers meet the challenges of today and tomorrow, including creating sustainable design strategies that accommodate changing demographics and values.

Part II, Putting Urban Design into Practice, shows how the principles set forth in Part I are applied, detailing case studies drawn from projects recognized for excellence by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Institute Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design program. These case studies demonstrate how urban designers shape human environments, stressing the essential role of community engagement in each facet of urban design. The authors use the case studies to demonstrate how urban designers are responding to changes in technology, urban economies, views toward sustainability, and similar dynamics.

Urban designers, planners, and architects will discover new approaches and a new set of principles for handling urban projects that will serve them now and for many years to come.

About the Author

Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, a New York-based architect, urban designer, and educator, is principal of Lance Jay Brown Architecture + Urban Design. The recipient of the 2007 AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, Brown was chair and director of the School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at City College of New York, where he is now the Coordinator of Thesis Studies. He was 2005 chair of the AIA’s Regional and Urban Design Knowledge Community, and is currently program advisor to the Institute for Urban Design. He has worked on urban design projects internationally, and he was a professional advisor for the 9/11 Memorial Competition for Ground Zero.

David Dixon, FAIA, a principal of Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc. in Boston, was the 2006 chair of the AIA’s Regional and Urban Design Knowledge Community. An urban designer who writes and speaks frequently, his recent work extends from revitalizing urban neighborhoods to creating regional smart growth guidelines for places such as Asheville, North Carolina, Baltimore, Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Miami, New Haven, Connecticut, and Norfolk, Virginia. Dixon helped shape the AIA’s response following Hurricane Katrina and he subsequently led recovery planning for approximately one-quarter of New Orleans. In 2008, the city selected Dixon and his firm to create a master plan for New Orleans’s future.

The late Oliver Gillham, AIA, was an architect and city planner with more than thirty years of experience in dealing with the issues of urbanization. A former senior designer and director of urban design for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Boston, he also had worked for the Massachusetts Port Authority and had established the firm Gillham & Gander Associates. He was the coauthor of The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 047008782X
• ISBN 13: 9780470087824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296