CASE STUDY: Planning and Designing Singapore (1971, 1991, 2001, 2014) -- New Town Planning and Urban Design -- CASE STUDY: Columbia, Howard County, Maryland, United States of America (1962-2014+) -- Commentary: Is City Planning Just Urban Design? Is Urban Design Just City Planning? -- 7 The Products of Landscape Architecture and the Nature of Urban Design -- The Products of Urban Landscape Architecture: Streets, Pedestrian Malls, Squares, and Parks -- Street Landscapes -- CASE STUDY: 16th Street Mall, Denver, Colorado, United States of America (1982, 2001, 2013-14) -- CASE STUDY: State Street, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America (1979, 1993-6, 2008) -- CASE STUDY: George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (1997-9, 2010-17) -- Squares -- CASE STUDY: Cours Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France (1980-5) -- CASE STUDY: Pershing Square, Los Angeles, California, United States of America (1994-9, 2014+) -- Parks -- CASE STUDY: Parc de la Villette, Paris, France (1979-87, 2010, 2015) -- CASE STUDY: High Line Park, New York, New York, United States of America (1999-2015+) -- Commentary: Are These Landscape Architectural Projects Plug-in Urban Designs? -- 8 The Products of Architecture and the Nature of Urban Design -- The Product of Architecture: Buildings -- Contextual Design -- Buildings as Catalysts for Urban Development: As Plug-in Urban Designs? -- CASE STUDY: The Guggenheim Museum (1987-97) and Abandoibarra, Bilbao, Spain -- Megastructures as Total Urban Designs? -- CASE STUDY: Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (1969-76, 2012-25) -- CASE STUDY: Arcosanti, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America (1970-2030) -- Vertical Cities: Total Urban Designs or Simply Mixed-use Buildings? -- CASE STUDY: Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, People's Republic of China (2012-15)
Dimensions: 216 x 279
Author: Jon Lang
ISBN: 9781138188358
Format: Paperback
Pages: 236