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| x Urban design |
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Urban design concerns the arrangement, appearance and functionality of towns and cities, and in particular the shaping and uses of urban public space. It has traditionally been regarded as a disciplinary subset of urban planning, landscape...
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| x Zoning |
Zoning is a device of land use regulation used by local governments in most developed countries . The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another....
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| x Urban renewal |
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Urban renewal (similar to urban regeneration in British English) is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use. Its modern incarnation began in the late 19th century in developed nations and experienced an...
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| x Urban planning |
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Urban, city, and town planning integrates land use planning and transport planning to improve the built and social environments of communities. Regional planning deals with a still larger environment, at a less detailed level.
Urban planning can...
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| x The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs, is a greatly influential book on the subject of urban planning in the 20th century. First published in 1961, the book is a critique of modernist planning policies claimed by Jacobs to be...
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| x The Geography of Nowhere |
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape is a book written in 1993 by James Howard Kunstler exploring the effects of urban sprawl, civil planning and the automobile on American society. The book is an attempt to...
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| x Some Ideas on Living in London and Tokyo by Stephen Taylor and Ryue Nishizawa |
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The exhibition marks the first North American presentation of residential projects by Taylor and Nishizawa and reveals their ideas addressing the challenges of building homes in existing city environments.
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| x Transportation planning |
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Transportation planning is a field involved with the evaluation, assessment, design and siting of transportation facilities (generally streets, highways, sidewalks (footways), bike lanes and public transport lines).
Transportation planning...
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