Turning a Town Around: A Proactive Approach to Urban Design

# Paperback: 200 pages
# Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (January 2, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1405170239
# ISBN-13: 978-1405170239

Product Description
This good practice guide addresses practical action and shows planners and developers how to incorporate design principles into policy, make design briefing effective, and prepare for successful negotiation.

Design Out Crime: Creating Safe and Sustainable Communities

# Paperback: 344 pages
# Publisher: Architectural Press; 1 edition (February 9, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0750654929
# ISBN-13: 978-0750654920

Product Description
Here is a book about the practical design of communities and housing in which people can enjoy a good quality of life, free from crime and fear of crime.

Recognising that crime, vandalism and anti-social behaviour are issues of high public concern, and that the driving forces behind crime are numerous, this book argues that good design can help tackle many of these issues. It shows how, through integrating simple crime prevention principles in the design process, it is possible, almost without notice, to make residential environments much safer.

Written from the perspective of an architect and town planner, this book offers practical design guidelines through a set of accessible case studies drawn from the UK, USA, The Netherlands and Scandinavia. Each example illustrates how success comes when design solutions reflect local characteristics and where communities are truly sustainable; where residents feel they belong, and where crime is dealt with as part of the bigger picture of urban design.

* A practical guide to the creation of secure spaces through design
* Accessible narrative shows examples of best practice internationally
* 100 plans and drawings describe how to create a safer built environment through architecture and urban design

Introduction to Residential Layout

# Paperback: 224 pages
# Publisher: Architectural Press (January 3, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0750662050
# ISBN-13: 978-0750662055

Product Description
Introduction to Residential Layout is ideal for students and practitioners of urban design, planning, engineering, architecture and landscape seeking a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of designing and laying out residential areas.

Mike Biddulph provides a clear and coherent framework from which he offers comprehensive practical advice for designers of housing developments. Referring to a wealth of international examples, this is a richly illustrated, accessible resource covering the whole range of issues that should be considered by
anyone engaging in the planning and design of a new residential scheme.

A successful residential development must work on many levels - financial, social and environmental. This book includes analysis of commercial viability, the importance of place making, environmental sustainability and designing accessibility. Mike Biddulph details successful approaches to designing out crime and maximising permeability as part of an integrated approach to urban design.

Highly illustrated throughout, this work will show you how to turn design aspirations and principles into practical design solutions. Written without preconceptions, Introduction to Residential Design
highlights the strengths and weaknesses of particular design solutions to encourage both depth of thought and creativity.

Mike Biddulph is Senior Lecturer in Urban Design at Cardiff University

* The only textbook that provides practical design advice sourced from principles of residential layout design
* Comprehensive coverage of urban design theory gives an ideal introduction to the subject
* Encompasses sustainability, accessibility and holistic design - all the key concerns in designing the built environment

Designing Community: Charrettes, Masterplans and Form-based Codes

# Paperback: 288 pages
# Publisher: Architectural Press (May 17, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 075066925X

# ISBN-13: 978-0750669252

Product Description
Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities.

In America, design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become widely used as a means of bringing together these divergent groups, using detailed design exercises to establish agreement around a development masterplan. Despite the increasing frequency of their use, charrettes are widely misunderstood and can be misapplied. This book provides a detailed guidance on the proper and most effective ways to use this helpful tool. The book combines charrette masterplanning with the creation of "design-based" codes (also known as "form-based" codes) to control the development's implementation in line with the design and planning principles established during the charrette process.

* Provides detailed and specific guidance on the management and best use of the increasingly popular, yet complex, public design event
* Blends history, theory and practice to paint the full picture of the past, present and possible future of community planning
* Shows how to manage the conflict between development, design and planning professionals and community interests inherent in current design and planning practice

Design for Diversity: Exploring Socially Mixed Neighbourhoods

# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Architectural Press (March 12, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0750681179
# ISBN-13: 978-0750681179

Product Description
The city is more than just a sum of its buildings; it is the sum of its communities. The most successful urban communities are very often those that are the most diverse - in terms of income, age, family structure and ethnicity - and yet poor urban design and planning can stifle the very diversity that makes communities successful.

Just as poor urban design can lead to sterile monoculture, successful planning can support the conditions needed for diverse communities. Emily Talen explores the linkage between urban forms and social diversity, and how one impacts the other. Learning the lessons from past successes and failures, and building from detailed case studies of different neighborhoods, Design for Diversity provides urban designers and architects with design strategies and tools to ensure that their work sustains and nurtures social diversity.

* Explores the link between urban form and social diversity
* Based on detailed studies of socially diverse neighbourhoods in cities
* Outlines urban design strategies to support diverse communities

Urban Design: Street and Square, Third Edition

# Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: Architectural Press; 3 edition (April 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0750657170
# ISBN-13: 978-0750657174

Design First: Design-based Planning for Communities

# Paperback: 304 pages
# Publisher: Architectural Press; 1 edition (June 17, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0750659343
# ISBN-13: 978-0750659345

RIBA Book of British Housing, Second Edition: 1900 to the present day

# Paperback: 416 pages
# Publisher: Architectural Press; 2 edition (February 25, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 075068254X
# ISBN-13: 978-0750682541

Book Description
A beautifully illustrated, inspirational guide to British housing design

Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope

# Hardcover: 272 pages
# Publisher: Routledge (August 1, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0415304008
# ISBN-13: 978-0415304009

Product Description
Planning Middle Eastern Cities is both an important book for scholars and a useful book for practitioners. Its contributors, all from the Middle East, present an insider's narrative with a broad focus that illustrates how scholars from the region problematize both their work and practice.

Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance

# Paperback: 356 pages
# Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (January 7, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 140510290X
# ISBN-13: 978-1405102902

Product Description
Sustainable Urban Planning introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability. Its publication reflects a growing recognition in the fields of planning and environmental studies that cities, where the majority of humans now live, need to be developed in a sustainable way.

The text takes a balanced approach, weaving together the concerns of planning, capitalism, development, and cultural and environmental preservation. It helps students and planners to connect the needs of the environment with the need for financial gain. This approach is mirrored in the structure of the book which is divided into two parts, one focusing on theories and the other on techniques.

Sustainable Urban Housing in China: Principles and Case Studies for Low-Energy Design

# Hardcover: 270 pages
# Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (May 7, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1402047851
# ISBN-13: 978-1402047855

Product Description

There is increasing attention to the need to preserve and improve the global environment for current and future generations. This book summarizes new research done in this area based on a number of important collaborative projects in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China. Sustainable Urban Housing in China features case studies and recommendations for new approaches to environmentally responsive sustainable building. It illuminates many principles of sustainability and energy efficiency applicable to buildings throughout the world, and in developing countries in particular. These projects identify practical new and existing technologies that will enable designs to provide energy-efficient, healthy, and comfortable conditions. Individual chapters treat aspects of sustainable design including ventilation, controls, materials, and daylighting; design guidelines and organizational methods used in urban projects are also discussed.

This book will be an important reference for architects, developers, planners, and engineers active in the emerging field of sustainable or green residential construction, and will serve as a useful guide for professionals and NGOs working on sustainable solutions for the rapid growth in the developing world.

Introduction to Urban Housing Design: At Home in the City

# Paperback: 384 pages
# Publisher: Architectural Press (June 6, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0750659025
# ISBN-13: 978-0750659024

Product Description
The book is a very interesting and informed analysis that can be read on several different levels. I poses challenges to planners, insights to urbanists, intersecting detail for social historians and questions for architects


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