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EPISODE 1: Turning Torso
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EPISDE 2: Venice Flood Gates
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EPISODE 3: Container Ships
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EPISODE 4: Oakland Bay Bridge
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EPISODE 5: Iceland Tunnels
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EPISODE 6: Offshore Oil Platforms
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EPISODE 7: Copper River Bridge
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EPISODE 8: Millau Viaduct
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EPISODE 9: Excavator
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In the city that never sleeps, one architect’s dream for a greener future has been realised. The One Bryant Park building in New York City is not only going to be the second tallest building in the city, but is set to be one of the most energy efficient skyscrapers in the world. Richard Cook and his team take on an exhilarating challenge to transform the modern approach to green technology. His vision to break new ground in the arena of environmentally conscious skyscrapers is a significant step forward in a city known for massive energy consumption. Follow the trials and triumphs of erecting a skyscraper whose blueprints might just map out a new design for our planet’s future.
What do you get if you take sixty thousand tons of steel, 260,000 cubic meters of concrete, 2000 dedicated Chinese workers and the best design brains in the business? The Shanghai World Financial Centre. At 101 floors high it will not only be the tallest building on the Chinese mainland but one that can withstand the toughest challenges Planet Earth can throw at a skyscraper… and even deadlier human threats.
The California Academy of Sciences is a design marvel. Not only is it the world’s largest green public building, it is also designed to work with one of nature’s greatest forces: earthquakes
Contents:
SECTION I. LIFTS, ELEVATORS, ESCALATORSAND MOVINGWALKWAYS/TRAVELATORS
Chapter 1. Definitions of systems and notations for lifts/elevators/escalators and moving walkways
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Definitions for lifts
1.3 Major international symbols related to lifts/elevators and escalators
1.4 Symbols (based on classical methods of analysis/design)
1.5 Symbols (based on modern methods of analysis)
1.6 Symbols (used in Part 1.1 of Eurocode 3)
1.6.1 Latin upper case letters
1.6.2 Greek upper case letters
1.6.3 Latin lower case letters
1.6.4 Greek lower case letters
1.7 References, codified methods and standards
Chapter 2. Specifications for the design of lifts or elevators
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Initial design estimate
2.3 Electric lifts
2.3.1 Introduction
2.3.2 Lift wells, car frames and counterweights
2.3.2.1 Specifications
2.3.2.2 Guides, buffers and final limit switches
2.3.2.3 Forces during safety gear operation
2.3.3 Headroom, pit and landing depth
2.3.4 Machine and pulley rooms
2.3.5 Landing doors
2.3.5.1 Introduction
2.3.5.2 Structural and mechanical strength
2.3.6 Compensating ropes
2.3.6.1 Suspension, compensation, safety gear and overspeed governor
2.3.6.2 Overspeed governor ropes
2.3.6.3 Suspension ropes and their connections – American practice
2.4 Hydraulic lifts
2.4.1 Introduction
2.4.2 Mechanical equipment
2.4.2.1 Roped hydraulic elevators
2.4.2.2 Car buffers or bumpers
2.4.2.3 Valves
2.4.2.4 Cylinders
2.4.2.5 Plungers
2.4.2.5.1 Calculations of stresses and deflections in car frame and platform members
2.4.2.6 Driving machines
2.5 Design data and formulas
2.5.1 Introduction to basic formulas
2.5.2 Hydraulic machines and piping
2.5.3 Gravity stopping distances
2.5.4 Factors of safety for suspension wire ropes for power elevators
2.5.4.1 Impact on buffer supports
2.6 Elevators in emergency
2.6.1 An Overview of elevator use for emergency evacuation
2.6.2 Protected elevators for egress and access during fires in tall buildings
2.6.2.1 EEES Protection
2.6.3 Conclusions
Chapter 3. Design specifications for escalators, moving walkways or travelators
3.1 Introduction to escalators
3.2 List of symbols based on The European Standard EN115
3.3 Definitions and general specifications
3.4 Rated loads on escalators
3.5 Structural analysis of escalators – parameters and loadings
3.6 The finite element analysis of escalators steps
3.7 Travelators or moving walkways
3.7.1 Introduction
3.7.2 Machinery
3.7.3 Speed, acceleration, and maximum rate of change of acceleration
3.7.4 Treadways
3.7.5 Emergency stopping, dE
3.7.6 Balustrade
3.8 Routine inspection and tests of escalators and moving walks
3.8.1 Inspection and test periods
3.8.2 Inspection and test requirements
3.8.3 Periodic inspection and tests of escalators and moving walks/travelators/autowalks
3.8.4 Acceptance inspection of escalators and moving walks
3.8.5 Inspection and test requirements for altered installations
SECTION II. LIFTS/ELEVATORS – PLANNING,ANALYSISAND DESIGN OF COMPONENTS
Chapter 4. Belt and rope drives
4.1 Belt drive – general introduction
4.2 Velocity ratio
4.2.1 Slip of belt calculating velocity ratio
4.3 Compound belt drive
4.4 Length of belt: open drive
4.5 Length of belt: crossed drive
4.6 Transmission of power
4.7 Centrifugal tension
4.8 Rope drive
Chapter 5. Design analysis of lift elements and components
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Elevator rope data
5.3 Factor of safety for elevator ropes
5.4 Rope termination
5.5 Specific pressure in ropes
5.6 Rope elongation
5.7 Types of drives and traction
5.7.1 Introduction
5.7.2 Traction of forces on sheave
5.8 Lifting and elevator machines
5.8.1 Definitions
5.8.2 Elevator machines
5.8.2.1 General elevator machines
5.8.2.1.1 General
5.8.2.1.2 The capacity and choice of worm diameter
5.8.2.1.3 Thermal performance
5.8.3 Brake and braking systems
5.8.3.1 Introduction
5.8.3.2 Braking torque
5.9 Counterweight, car guide and car frame
5.9.1 Introduction to counterweight
5.9.2 Guide-rails
5.9.2.1 Introduction
5.9.2.2 Analysis of guide rails
5.9.2.3 Forces acting on guide rails under normal operation
5.9.3 Types of guide shoes
5.9.4 Codified methods on stresses in guide rails
5.9.5 American standard safety code A17.1
5.10 Design analysis for buffers
5.10.1 Introduction
5.10.2 Energy accumulation buffers
5.10.3 Energy dissipation buffers
5.10.4 Polyurethane buffers of energy accumulation under reaction force
5.11 Design Analysis of car frames
5.11.1 Introduction
5.11.2 Design analysis of the car frame
5.11.2.1 Cross-heads
5.11.2.2 Distortion of frame parts under loads
5.12 Doors and door dynamics
5.12.1 Introduction
5.13 Door dynamics
5.13.1 Kinetic energy of the doors
5.13.2 Door closure force
5.13.3 Doors closed under continuous control
5.13.4 Door weight
5.13.5 Door closing time
Chapter 6. Lift/elevator travel analysis
6.1 Introduction
Chapter 7. Maximum and minimum stopping distances of car and counterweight (Based on US-A17.1)
7.1 Introduction
Chapter 8. Elements of super structures – finite element analysis
8.1 Belt calculations
8.1.1 Belt capacity
8.2 Finite element analysis
8.2.1 Finite element analysis of gears and platforms for the travelators
8.2.1.1 Contact of involute teeth
8.2.1.2 Step covers and platform
8.3 References
SECTION III. TRAVELATORSAND MOVINGWALKWAYS –ANALYSIS FOR STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
Chapter 9. General data on travelators/walkways/autowalks: fire analysis of their components
9.1 General introduction
9.2 Rubber belt passenger conveyor type 55 – Schindler 9500
9.3 Fujitec GS 8000 series autowalk
9.4 Fire and escalators/travelators
9.4.1 Introduction
9.4.2 Loading and restraints
9.4.3 Temperature–time relation
9.4.4 Material properties
9.4.4.1 Steel in Escalators/Travelators
9.4.4.2 Calculations of fire resistance of steel members in travelators
9.4.4.3 Additional methods of protection for hollow columns
9.4.4.4 Summary of empirical equations for steel columns fully protected against fire (USA)
9.4.4.5 Examples in steel structures
References/bibliography
Chapter 10. Elements for supporting structures
10.1 Trusses supporting travelators
10.1.1. Influence lines method
10.1.2. Forces in redundant bars by influence diagrams
10.1.3. Maximum bending moments and shear forces
10.1.4. Flexibility method of analysis
Appendix I Supporting analysis and computer programs using finite element
IA Material and structural matrices for finite element analysis
IB Element types, shape function, derivatives, stiffness matrices
IC Dynamic finite-element analysis
ID Criteria for convergence and acceleration
Appendix II Computer programs
Appendix III Dynamic finite element analysis formulations super element and substructuring
Authors: M.Y.H. Bangash & T. Bangash
Publisher: Taylor & Francis/Balkema, 2007
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Edited: CarolJ . Burnsand Andrea Kahn
Publisher: Routledge,2005
Size: 5.16MB
Format: SFXed pdf
Contents:
1 Around the Corner: A Photo Essay
Lucy R. Lippard
2 Claiming the Site: Evolving Social–Legal Conceptions of Ownership and Property
Harvey M. Jacobs
3 From Place to Site: Negotiating Narrative Complexity
Robert A. Beauregard
4 Groundwork
Robin Dripps
5 Site Citations: The Grounds of Modern Landscape Architecture
Elizabeth Meyer
6 Shifting Sites
Kristina Hill
7 Contested Contexts
Sandy Isenstadt
8 The Suppressed Site: Revealing the Influence of Site on Two Purist Works
Wendy Redfield
9 Neighborhoods Apart: Site/Non-Sight and Suburban Apartments
Paul Mitchell Hess
10 Study Areas, Sites, and the Geographic Approach to Public Action
Peter Marcuse
11 Defining Urban Sites
Andrea Kahn
12 High-Performance Sites
Carol J. Burns
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Authors: Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008
Size: 10.95MB
Format: SFXed pdf
Contents:
1 Regions and land mosaics
A framework
Terms and concepts to reveal urban regions
Regions
Land-mosaic perspective and landscape ecology
Spatial scales and their attributes
2 Planning land
Planning and land management
Conservation planning
Planned cities
Urban-region planning
3 Economic dimensions and socio-cultural patterns
Growth, regulatory, and ecological economics
Economics in time, space, and footprints
Social patterns
Culture
4 Natural systems and greenspaces
Ecosystem, community, and population ecology
Freshwater and marine coast ecology
Earth and soil
Microclimate and air pollutants
Greenspaces
5 Thirty-eight urban regions
Selecting cities, determining boundaries, mapping regions
Key spatial attributes
Thirty-eight urban regions mapped
Place-name synopses of the regions
Broad patterns of the urban-region set
6 Nature, food, and water
Spatial analysis for patterns
Nature in urban regions
Food in urban regions
Water in urban regions
7 Built systems, built areas, and whole regions
Natural systems within and next to built areas
Built systems
Built areas
Whole regions
8 Urbanization models and the regions
Land-change patterns and models
Four urbanization models
Models applied to case studies
Urbanization options evaluated with 18 attributes and 38 regions
9 Basic principles for molding land mosaics
Patch sizes, edges, and habitats
Natural processes, corridors, and networks
Transportation modes
Communities and development
Land mosaics and landscape change
10 The Barcelona Region’s land mosaic
Perspective and approach
Nature, food, and water
Built areas and systems
Three plan options for the region
Reflections two years later
11 Gathering the pieces
Settings and forms of urban regions
Ability to extrapolate the Barcelona solutions
Local communities, ecology, and planning
Good, bad, and interesting patterns in urban regions
12 Big pictures
Garden-to-gaia, urban sustainability, disasters
Climate change, species extinction, water scarcity
Big-ideas–regulation–treaties–policy–governance, megacities,
sense of place
Awakening to the urban tsunami
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Author: Philippe Panerai
Publisher: Architectural Press, First published 2004
Size: 7.5 MB
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Contents:
CHAPTER 1: HAUSSMANNIEN PARIS: 1853–82
CHAPTER 2: LONDON: THE GARDEN CITIES, 1905–25
CHAPTER 3: THE EXTENSION OF AMSTERDAM: 1913–34
CHAPTER 4: THE NEW FRANKFURT AND ERNST MAY: 1925–30
CHAPTER 5: LE CORBUSIER AND THE CITE ´ RADIEUSE
CHAPTER 6: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE BLOCK AND THE PRACTICE OF SPACE
CHAPTER 7: THE DEVELOPMENT AND DIFFUSION OF ARCHITECTURAL MODELS
CHAPTER 8: BUILDING THE CITY: 1975–95
CHAPTER 9: AN ANGLO-AMERICAN POSTSCRIPT
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Author: Charles E. Aguar and Berdeana Aguar
Publisher: McGraw-Hill , 2002
Size: 20MB
Format: SFXed pdf
Contents:
1. Introduction:F orces That Shaped theY oung Architect
2. The Emergent Years:1889–1897
3. The Oak Park Studio Years:1897–1909
4. The Pivotal Years:1909–1915
5. The California Years:A Search for New Direction, 1916–1923
6. The Closing Years of an Era:1923–1929
7. The Depression Years—A Time for Reflection, 1929–1937
8. The Taliesin Fellowship Years—The Era of Usonia:1937–1959
9. Afterword
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Author: Stephen Emmitt
Publisher: Blackwell Science Ltd, 2002
Size: 2MB
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Contents:
PARTI: A PRIMER
1 Setting the agenda
2 Evolving architectural technology
3 Constructive links
4 A question of detail
PART II; THE BUILDING AND THE PROCESS
5 Planning for life
6 Regulations, codes and standards
7 Healthy, safe and secure buildings
8 The art of detailing
9 Product selection
10 Communicating design intent
11 Assembling the parts
12 Building performance and durability
PART III: SYNTHESIS
13 The language of detail
14 Technological innovation
15 Towards a theory for practice
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Author: Allison Lee Palmer
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2008
Size: 2.37MB
Format: SFXed pdf
Contents:
List of Illustrations
Editor’s Foreword Jon Woronoff
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Bibliography
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Author: Jonathan Hill
Publisher: Routledge,First published 1998
Size: 3.61MB
Format: SFXed pdf
Contents:
CHAPTER 1 Building an Architect Mark Cousins
CHAPTER 2 Curriculum Vitae: The Architect’s Cultural Capital: Educational Practices and Financial Investments Katerina Rüedi
CHAPTER 3 ResponseAbility: The Ability to Provoke or Provide Response Lesley Naa Norle Lokko
CHAPTER 4 Architecture of the Impure Community Jeremy Till
CHAPTER 5 Contaminating Contemplation Fat
CHAPTER 6 Space Within Carlos Villanueva Brandt
CHAPTER 7 Shared Ground Muf ArtArchitecture
CHAPTER 8 An Other Architect Jonathan Hill
CHAPTER 9 The Landscape of Luxury Paul Davies
CHAPTER 10 The Knowing and Subverting Reader Ben Godber
CHAPTER 11 Body Architecture: Skateboarding and the Creation of Super-Architectural Space lain Borden
CHAPTER 12 Striking Home: The Telematic Assault on Identity Philip Tabor
CHAPTER 13 Doing It, (Un)Doing It, (Over)Doing It Yourself: Rhetorics of Architectural Abuse Jane Rendell
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Editor: David Banister
Publisher: E & FN Spon, 1994
Size: 2.24MB
Format: SFXed pdf
Contents:
01 Transport and Travel in the Last 40 Years
The era of the car
Current patterns and trends
International comparisons
Conclusions
02 The Evolution of Transport Planning: the 1960s and 1970s
Introduction to the transport planning process
The development of the land-use transport study: the 1960s
Rejection of the 1960s approach 30
The re-emergence of the land-use transport study: the 1970s
Conclusions
03 Developments in Planning Analysis and Evaluation
Parallels in land-use analysis
Evaluation in planning and transport
Evaluation and the environment in the 1980s and 1990s
04 Radical Policy Change
The market alternative to transport provision –the Conservative years
The lessons from the Conservative years
05 Contemporary Transport Policy
Introduction
Transport and the environment
Transport and sustainable development
The third way
Conclusions
06 The Limitations of Transport Planning
The theoretical arguments
The limitations of the transport planning model
The response in the 1970s and 1980s
The response since 1990
Renaissance in the 1990s and 2000s?
07 Overseas Experience
Introduction
Transport policy in the European Union
Transport planning in Germany
Transport planning in France
Transport planning in the Netherlands
European approaches to evaluation in transport
Transport Planning in the United States
Conclusions
08 Transport Agenda 21: the Way Forward
Introduction
The new agenda
The new challenge
Into the new millennium
Implications for analysis methods
09 The Role of Transport Planning
Introduction
The market–state relationship
The funding of transport investment
The planning framework
10 Conclusions
Ethics in transport planning
Infrastructure and finance
The future leisure society
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Author: Robert Riddell
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2004
Size: 2.3MB
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Contents:
Part I Principles
1 Sustainable and Ethical
Development, Planning and Sustainability
Property, Interests and Neomodernity
Property
Interests
Neomodernity
Conservancy and Development Ethics
Practice ethics
With Sustainable and Ethical Intent
2 Knowledge Power Outcomes: The Theory Fundamentals
How Planning Works
Traditional-Lineal Planning
The Radical-Multiplex Approach
Progressive Change
Part II Practice
3 Charter for Conservation with Development
Backgrounding
Foregrounding
Resource Exploitation and Discard Dynamics
Socio-Environmentalism: The New Reality
The political ecology of scale shifts
Resource Guardianship: Principles into Practice
The Soft Pathways Matrix
The New Culture: Balanced Harmony
4 Growth Pattern Management
Multiplier Principles
Growth Pattern Information Needs
Data assembly and raw data analysis
Linkage and pattern analyses
Rural-urban understandings
Growth Management Basics
Project propagation (generation)
Risk assessment and risk management
Project implementation
Macro Practice Patterns
‘Ownerships’ and ‘rights’
Urban-rural growth patterning
Coastal zone management
Agriculture and forestry
Tourism
Unemployment alleviation
Waste disposal management
Growth Pattern Policy Directions
5 Urban Growth Management
Yesterday’s Solutions, Today’s Problems
Suburbia and Ex-urbia Costed
Urban Reforms: Options and Actions
Urban social arrangement and style
Ex-urban sprawl control
Small-town conservation with development
Water’s edge urbanization
ECO-village ideals
Raw land suburbanization
Urban retrofit compaction and clustering
Shopping as a lesiure activity
The Delivery of Outcome
Balanced Urban Living
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Edited by: Thomas A. Markus and Anthony D. King
Publisher: Routledge, 2004
Size: 21.58MB
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Contents:
Part One THEORIES
1 WORLDS IN THE CITY: FROM WONDERS OF MODERN DESIGN TO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
2 INTERROGATING GLOBAL CULTURE(S)
3 CULTURES AND SPACES OF POSTCOLONIAL KNOWLEDGES
4 THE TIMES AND SPACES OF MODERNITY
5 WRITING TRANSNATIONAL PLANNING HISTORIES:
THE DIALECTICS OF DUAL DEVELOPMENT
Part Two HISTORIES
6 SUBURB/ETHNOBURB/GLOBURB: THE MAKING OF CONTEMPORARY MODERNITIES
7 VILLAFICATION: THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHINESE CITIES
8 IMAGINING THE WORLD AT HOME: THE DISTANT SPACES OF THE INDIAN CITY
9 TRANSNATIONAL DELHI REVISITED: THE SPATIAL LANGUAGE OF THREE MODERNITIES
10 IMPERIALISM, COLONIALISM AND ARCHITECTS OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS IN BRITAIN
Part Three PASTS/PRESENTS/FUTURES
11 WAYS OF SEEING: SERENDIPITY, VISUALITY, EXPERIENCE
AFTERWORD
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Author: Brian Edwards
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2008
Size: 22.13MB
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Contents:
Chapter 1
The benefits of drawing
Part One
Guiding Principles
Chapter 2
Why draw?
Chapter 3
Choosing the subject
Part Two
Techniques
Chapter 4
Perspective
Chapter 5
Line and shade
Chapter 6
Composition
Chapter 7
The importance of practice
Chapter 8
From sketch to plan making and documentary investigation
Chapter 9
Sequential sketches
Chapter 10
Drawing and photography
(with Susan Fahy)
Part Three
Case Studies in Drawing
Chapter 11
Towns, townscapes and squares
Chapter 12
Streets, lanes and footpaths
Chapter 13
Landmarks, skyline and
city image
Chapter 14
Gateways, entrances and
doorways
Chapter 15
The façades of buildings
Chapter 16
Machinery, function and
modernism
Chapter 17
Landscape
Chapter 18
Sustainability
Chapter 19
History and archaeology
Chapter 20
Interiors
Chapter 21
Using drawing to analyse an urban area
Case study 1
The Merchant City, Glasgow
Case study 2
The Bastide towns, France
Case study 3
Japanese urbanism
Part Four
The Way Forward
Chapter 22
Exploration through the sketchbook– some suitable subjects
Chapter 23
From sketch to design
Chapter 24
Designing through drawing
Chapter 25
Drawing in architectural practice
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by David Walters
Publisher: Architectural Press
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2007-05-17
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 075066925X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750669252
Binding: Paperback
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Book Description:
Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities.
In America, design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become widely used as a means of bringing together these divergent groups, using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development masterplan. Despite the increasing frequency of their use, charrettes are widely misunderstood and can be misapplied. This book provides a detailed guidance on the proper and most effective ways to use this helpful tool. The book combines charrette masterplanning with the creation of “design-based” codes (also known as “form-based” codes) to control the development’s implementation in line with the design and planning principles established during the charrette process.
* Provides detailed and specific guidance on the management and best use of the increasingly popular, yet complex, public design event
* Blends history, theory and practice to paint the full picture of the past, present and possible future of community planning
* Shows how to manage the conflict between development, design and planning professionals and community interests inherent in current design and planning practice.
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