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Pub. Date
©1960
Physical Desc
194 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Description
What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, the author, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Description
Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology' is the definitive reference on the Rural-to-Urban Transect, a compilation of the most important essays, diagrams, and images on the subject. It provides historical, practical, and theoretical insights into one of the most effective urban planning methodologies developed in the 20th Century. The Transect is a unifying theory, serving as a framework for the various fields of urban design. The editors selected...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
v, 122 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
Profiles the systems that work together to keep urban areas running safely, discussing how cities have evolved since the first riverside settlements while outlining projects that explain facts about transportation, water systems, and architecture.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvi, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"America's dependency on the automobile began with the 1908 introduction of Henry Ford's car-for-everyone, the Model T. The "battle for right-of-way" in the 1920s saw the demise of streetcars and transformed America's streets from a multiuse resource for socializing, commerce, and public mobility into exclusive arteries for private automobiles. The subsequent destruction of urban transit systems and post WWII suburbanization of America enabled by...
14) Final environmental impact statement for the DelHur Inc. West Port Angeles annexation and rezone
Author
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
1 v. ; maps, tables.
Description
Delhur, Inc., a private firm, has submitted a valid petition for annexation of 454 acres of industrial zoned land southwest of the City of Port Angeles.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our fractured society. We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn't seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together, to find common purpose. But how, exactly, can this be done? In Palaces...
20) Citizen survey on planning issues, 1990: citizen views on growth management issues :Final report
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
1 v. ; graphs.
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