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The City at Eye Level
Author | : Meredith Glaser |
Publsiher | : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V. |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9789059727144 |
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Although rarely explored in academic literature, most inhabitants and visitors interact with an urban landscape on a day-to-day basis is on the street level. Storefronts, first floor apartments, and sidewalks are the most immediate and common experience of a city. These "plinths" are the ground floors that negotiate between inside and outside, the public and private spheres. The City at Eye Level qualitatively evaluates plinths by exploring specific examples from all over the world. Over twenty-five experts investigate the design, land use, and road and foot traffic in rigorously researched essays, case studies, and interviews. These pieces are supplemented by over two hundred beautiful color images and engage not only with issues in design, but also the concerns of urban communities. The editors have put together a comprehensive guide for anyone concerned with improving or building plinths, including planners, building owners, property and shop managers, designers, and architects.
The City at Eye Level in the Netherlands
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9492474123 |
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'The City at Eye Level' is an open source learning network and a programme for improving cities, streets, and places worldwide that aims to create human-scale interaction between buildings and streets, good placemaking, and a people-centric approach based on user experience. The latest instalment of its book series focuses on recent examples in the Netherlands. Through roughly 40 narratives, written in cooperation with cities, developers, and various practitioners, the book gathers examples from medium-sized and large cities to examine how challenges and strategies are changing, as well as how many new, small-scale initiatives have emerged in recent years.
Building the Cycling City
Author | : Melissa Bruntlett,Chris Bruntlett |
Publsiher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018-08-28 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781610918794 |
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The world is rediscovering the bicycle as a multi-pronged solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. The Netherlands has built an accessible cycling culture that cities around the world can learn from. Chris and Melissa Bruntlett share the incredible success of the Netherlands through engaging interviews with local experts and stories of their own delightful experiences riding in five Dutch cities. Building the Cycling City examines the triumphs and challenges of the Dutch while also presenting stories of North American cities already implementing lessons from across the Atlantic. Discover how Dutch cities inspired Atlanta to look at its transit-bike connection in a new way and showed Seattle how to teach its residents to realize the freedom of biking, along with other encouraging examples.
Soft City
Author | : David Sim |
Publsiher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2019-08-20 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781642830187 |
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Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the current reality in most cites—separated uses and lengthy commutes in single-occupancy vehicles that drain human, environmental, and community resources—to support a soft city approach? In Soft City David Sim, partner and creative director at Gehl, shows how this is possible, presenting ideas and graphic examples from around the globe. He draws from his vast design experience to make a case for a dense and diverse built environment at a human scale, which he presents through a series of observations of older and newer places, and a range of simple built phenomena, some traditional and some totally new inventions. Sim shows that increasing density is not enough. The soft city must consider the organization and layout of the built environment for more fluid movement and comfort, a diversity of building types, and thoughtful design to ensure a sustainable urban environment and society. Soft City begins with the big ideas of happiness and quality of life, and then shows how they are tied to the way we live. The heart of the book is highly visual and shows the building blocks for neighborhoods: building types and their organization and orientation; how we can get along as we get around a city; and living with the weather. As every citizen deals with the reality of a changing climate, Soft City explores how the built environment can adapt and respond. Soft City offers inspiration, ideas, and guidance for anyone interested in city building. Sim shows how to make any city more efficient, more livable, and better connected to the environment.
Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-10-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789004264885 |
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Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts examines how places give shape to scientific knowledge production. Contributors to this volume use four hundred years of Dutch history as laboratory to contribute to spatialized understanding of the history of knowledge.
A Concise History of the Netherlands
Author | : James C. Kennedy |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2017-07-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521875882 |
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This book offers a comprehensive yet compact history of this surprisingly little-known but fascinating country, from pre-history to the present.
City and Society in the Low Countries 1100 1600
Author | : Bruno Blondé,Marc Boone,Anne-Laure Van Bruaene |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2018-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108474689 |
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A comprehensive dissection of the making of urban society in the Low Countries during the middle ages and the sixteenth century.
Sweet Salt
Author | : Tracy Metz,Maartje van den Heuvel |
Publsiher | : Nai010 Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9056628488 |
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Water management runs in the blood of the Dutch. Draining the Netherlands and keeping it dry is a process they started centuries ago and continue to this day. But will this still suffice? In the project Sweet & Salt (book and exhibition) author and journalist Tracy Metz and curator Maartje van den Heuvel demonstrate, in text and images, how the Netherlands shapes its evolving relationship with water. The sea level is rising, rivers are swelling, there is more rain, there are more storms and sometimes there's a drought. There is a growing awareness that not just dikes and dams but natural processes too play a significant role in our security. This is the greatest challenge currently facing Dutch designers. There is also increasing attention given to the aesthetics of the water landscape being designed.