Placemaking with Tall Buildings: A Guide to Ten Key Planning and Design Principles
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781041004981
ISBN-10: 1041004982
Pagini: 274
Ilustrații: 172
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1041004982
Pagini: 274
Ilustrații: 172
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic, Postgraduate, and Professional Practice & DevelopmentCuprins
Introduction: Rethinking Tall Buildings as Civic Agents for Placemaking
1. Enhancing Placemaking by Applying Lynch’s Imageability Theory
2. Fostering Placemaking Through Multiple Interconnected Shorter Buildings
3. Embracing Twin Towers as Catalysts for Placemaking
4. Adopting Contextual Design to Strengthen Placemaking
5. Harnessing Radical Contrast to Advance Placemaking
6. Elevating Placemaking with Structural Expressionism
7. Integrating Vertical Greenery to Promote Sustainability and Placemaking
8. Designing Public Plazas to Enrich Social Life and Strengthen Placemaking
9. Anchoring Placemaking with Thoughtfully Crafted Podiums, Entryways, and Gateways
10. Creating Engaging Interior Spaces to Foster Placemaking
1. Enhancing Placemaking by Applying Lynch’s Imageability Theory
2. Fostering Placemaking Through Multiple Interconnected Shorter Buildings
3. Embracing Twin Towers as Catalysts for Placemaking
4. Adopting Contextual Design to Strengthen Placemaking
5. Harnessing Radical Contrast to Advance Placemaking
6. Elevating Placemaking with Structural Expressionism
7. Integrating Vertical Greenery to Promote Sustainability and Placemaking
8. Designing Public Plazas to Enrich Social Life and Strengthen Placemaking
9. Anchoring Placemaking with Thoughtfully Crafted Podiums, Entryways, and Gateways
10. Creating Engaging Interior Spaces to Foster Placemaking
Notă biografică
Kheir Al-Kodmany is an expert in vertical urbanism, sustainable design, GIS, visualization systems, public participation, and crowd management. He is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), and previously worked for the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM).
Descriere
This book reconceptualizes tall buildings as civic agents that deliver spatial legibility, cultural significance, and vibrant social interaction by embedding placemaking at the heart of vertical development. It articulates ten pragmatic planning and design principles for integrating vertical structures into the surrounding context.