Repairing the American Metropolis: Common Place Revisited (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0295982047 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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"An essential release!" according to Tigran Haas. Review by Tigran Haas (Reproduced by permission from the Nordic Journal of Architectural Research, Sweden)Just when you thought that what you are looking at is nothing more than another book on anti-sprawl in America, along comes Douglas Kelbaugh's new book "Repairing the American Metropolis". This refreshing work is written with formidable ease of style, recherché lucidity and academic strength, as well as many years of practical experience. In a nutshell, this book offers a completely new reconsideration o
Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan design the built environment.This is an indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architecture and urban planning students and scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.. Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer
Douglas Kelbaugh is Dean of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, and former principal in Kelbaugh, Calthorpe & Associates in Seattle and in Kelbaugh + Lee in Princeton, New Jersey - firms that won a score of design awards and competitions. Among many other writings, he co-authored the national best seller The Pedestrian Pocket Book.
In contrast to architectural historians who do similar work, however, Kelbaugh also suggests solutions to the spatial problems he documents."Choice"An academic's thoughtful meditation on values that should underlie developmentcommunity, sustainable order, and human spiritand a discerning examination of the proposed remedies."New Urban News"The reader's urban experience will never be quite the same after experiencing this book. The author is uniquely well qualified to connect the dots betwe