Urban Design: The Composition of Complexity

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Taylor & Francis, 9 Haz 2011 - 248 sayfa

For planning to be successful, design must mean more than simply blindly following the dictates of legislation and regulation – yet losing sight of the importance of the design process is all too often exactly what has happened.

Ron Kasprisin has written a book for students of planning and urban design that reconnects the process of designing with outcomes on the ground, and puts thinking about design back at the heart of what planners do. The book identifies the elements and principles of composition and explores compositional order and structure as they relate to the meaning and functionality of cities. It discusses new directions and methods, outlines the importance of both buildings and the open spaces between them.

Mixing accessible theory, practical examples and carefully designed exercises in composition from simple to complex settings, Urban Design is an essential textbook for classrooms and design studios across the full spectrum of planning and urban studies fields. Not only filled with illustrations and graphics of excellent projects, it gives students tools to enable them to sketch, draw, design and above all, to think.

 

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Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Definitions and fundamentals of urban design in culture
10
Chapter 3 Urban design language and parameters
20
Chapter 4 Elements and principles of design composition
30
organization and structure
45
elements and composition
81
Chapter 7 Context program and typologies
107
the basis for placemaking
151
Chapter 9 Theoretical considerations
184
Drawing types for urban design
199
Working with people the politics of urban design
213
Remnants bridging hybridity and edges
232
Index
238
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Ron Kasprisin is an architect, urban planner, and artist with over forty years of experience as a practitioner in urban design as Kasprisin Pettinari Design; and over twenty years of academic experience as an Associate Professor in Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Ron is also an accomplished watercolor painter with national recognition, awards, and exhibitions. Ron lives on Whidbey Island northwest of Seattle, Washington in Puget Sound, where he offers watercolor painting workshops at Kasprisin Ridge Studios, Langley, Washington.

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BaşlıkUrban Design: The Composition of Complexity
YazarRon Kasprisin
Baskıresimli
YayıncıTaylor & Francis, 2011
ISBN1136845615, 9781136845611
Uzunluk248 sayfa
  
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