CK - Planning 1

An illuminating ramble along the American sidewalk: routinely unnoticed, yet central to daily life, neighborhood vitality, and significant legal controversies. Public infrastructure is as essential ……続きを見る

The Irvine Ranch: Fulfilling the Vision, 1977*‒*2025 continues the story of the planning and development of the Irvine Ranch under a partnership of high-powered businessmen to the single ownership o……続きを見る

The world’s largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting roadways, are frequently hailed as a marvel and tri……続きを見る

Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities but accounts for how people who participate in a community live, work, and shop there. The relationships tha……続きを見る

A step-by-step guide to more synthetic, holistic, and integrated urban design strategies, Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities is a practical manual to accomplish complex community design d……続きを見る

In Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity experts explain biological diversity conservation, focusing on the need for protecting large areas of the most diverse ecosystems, and connecting those ecosyst……続きを見る

A significant consequence of the development of natural landscapes is habitat loss and fragmentation that results in widespread loss of biological diversity. While scientists have made great strides……続きを見る

The United States is over eighty percent urbanized, yet over half of the population still lives in suburban settings, characterized by low-density, automobile-dependent development with separated la……続きを見る

"Transfer of Development Rights" (TDR) programs allow local governments to put economic principles to work in encouraging good land use planning. TDR programs most often permit landowners to forfeit……続きを見る

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, we will run out of time to keep our global ……続きを見る

Approximately 80% of the U.S. population now lives in urban metropolitan areas, and this number is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. At the same time, the built infrastructure sust……続きを見る

Innovation districts and anchor institutionsーlike hospitals, universities, and technology hubsーare celebrated for their ability to drive economic growth and employment opportunities. But the benef……続きを見る

How can we plan and design stronger communities? From New Orleans to Galveston to the Jersey Shore, communities struck by natural disasters struggle to recover long after the first responders have l……続きを見る

The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places alre……続きを見る

In the late sixties, as the world was waking to a need for Earth Day, a pioneering group founded a small non-profit research and education organization they called the New Alchemy Institute. Their a……続きを見る

Given the realities of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban……続きを見る

“Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work.” ーDavid Owen, staff writer at the New Yorker Nearly every US city would like to be more walkableーfor reasons o……続きを見る

How do you measure biodiversity, and why should landscape architects and planners care? What are the essential issues, the clearest terminology, and the most effective methods for biodiversity plann……続きを見る

This practical handbook bridges the gap between those scientists who study landscapes and the planners and conservationists who must then decide how best to preserve and build environmentally-sound ……続きを見る

Prepared for the 2013 National Climate Assessment and a landmark study in terms of its breadth and depth of coverage, this report blends the contributions of 120 experts in climate science, economic……続きを見る

Cities across the globe have been designed with a primary goal of moving people around quicklyーand the costs are becoming ever more apparent. The consequences are measured in smoggy air basins, spr……続きを見る

This trailblazing book outlines an interdisciplinary "process model" for urban design that has been developed and tested over time. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city precinct ……続きを見る

A central goal of transportation is the delivery of safe and efficient services with minimal environmental impact. In practice, though, human mobility has flourished while nature has suffered. Aware……続きを見る

From New York City's urban forest and farmland in Virginia to the vast Sonoran Desert of Arizona and riverside parks in Vancouver, Washington, green infrastructure is becoming a priority for cities,……続きを見る

Colleges and universities across North America are facing difficult questions about automobile use and transportation. Lack of land for new parking lots and the desire to preserve air quality are bu……続きを見る

Questions of how to green the North American economy, create a green energy and transportation infrastructure, and halt the deadly increase in greenhouse gas buildup dominate our daily news. Related……続きを見る

The Urban Design Toolkit provides a comprehensive compendium of applied urban design methods, techniques and approaches. Comprising 32 original 'toolkits', the book offers detailed step-by-step guid……続きを見る

Street vendors often face disproportionate state violence not simply for their use of public space, but because of who they are as users of public space. Through a multicity comparison, Street Vendi……続きを見る

From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings. 'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soul……続きを見る

Learn the most critical concepts for map comprehension and creation with the updated ninth edition of this authoritative text. Maps are sophisticated conceptual creations. They convey as much about ……続きを見る