Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design [Hardcover]

Donald Watson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 007068507X | ISBN-13: 978-0070685079 | Publication Date: February 21, 2003 | Edition: 1

"Time Saver Standards for Urban Design", in the tradition of the "Time-Saver Standards" series, is the world's foremost professional reference on the physical design of cities and urban places including communities and civic and public places. Scope of the work is international and topics include preservation, renewal, patterns of settlement and sustainability. Key Features include: international coverage including recent European and Asian sustainability initiatives; topics from allied disciplines such as transportation engineering, bioregionalism and environmental engineering; heavily illustrated. The prestigious contributors include Alan Plattus, Dean of the College of Architecture, Yale University.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Excerpts from review by Bay Brown.

It is a how-to, with diagrams on street and courtyard siting, but it is also a history of urban-design theory, including seminal texts ranging from passages of Camillo Sitte's 1889 book The Art of Building Cities to Kevin Lynch's 1960 essay "The City Image and Its Elements."

Chapters are dedicated to sustainable design, universal design, transit-centered urban villages, wayfinding, and "traffic calming." Almost every essay is written by a different expert, which affords a diversity of experience and voice, and the tome liberally uses photographs, drawings, diagrams, and charts with informative statistics and demographics. It may offer more than you want to know, but after a selective read, it should be parked on your shelf as an invaluable reference. (Architecture Magazine )

From the Back Cover

MAGNIFICENTLY ILLUSTRATED AND INTERNATIONAL IN SCOPE, HERE IS THE DEFINITIVE REFERENCE ON URBAN DESIGN

This important addition to the McGraw-Hill Time Saver Standards series is an entirely new, comprehensive, meticulously researched compendium of every aspect of the physical design of cities and other urban places including communities and civic and public places.

Featuring articles by authoritative urban design scholars and practitioners, Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design provides a visual and detailed archival record of:

* Context of global cities
* Classic texts of urban design
* Urban design history and design theory
* Preservation, renewal, and extension of existing cities
* Methods of urban design from regional to pedestrian scale
* Sustainable communities
* Details and case studies of urban design practice

Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design covers the full-spectrum of allied disciplines such as transportation planning, bioregionalism, storm water management, parking, universal design, urban acoustics, and graphics. It provides a single-source for the key reference articles on urban design and physical planning of cities, including social, environmental and economic data.

This inaugural volume on the topic of urban design in the Time-Saver Standard series is written for easy reference by urban planners and designers, architects, landscape professionals, environmental engineers, civil and transportation engineers, as well as municipal government and planning officials. This “soon to be a classic” provides a one-volume reference that is indispensable for urban design policy and practice. It is equally valuable for the urban studies educators and students of architecture, urban design and planning.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 960 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (February 21, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007068507X
• ISBN-13: 978-0070685079
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.8 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,324 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential book, December 19, 2010

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Helmut G. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (Hardcover)

This is an essential reference for anyone involved with urban design, city planning and architecture. Illustrations and text material here not published elsewhere. I use it for teaching and for practice. Well balanced between history, theory and technical articles. More in depth discussion here than found in other texts.

2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not exellent, December 12, 2007

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Oleg Zavarzin "book maven" (Kiev, Ukraine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (Hardcover)

Its good book but not exellent. Are not deply introduced methods of urban design. No standards information about roads and bridges design in urban environment. Need to develop this good idea of book.