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Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the
design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces.
Historically, their use has helped create some of our best-loved
urban environments, while recent advances in coding have been a
growing focus of attention, particularly in Britain and North
America. However, the full potential for the role of codes has yet
to be realized. In Urban Coding and Planning, Stephen Marshall and
his contributors investigate the nature and scope of coding; its
purposes; the kinds of environments it creates; and, perhaps most
importantly, its relationship to urban planning. By bringing
together historical and ongoing traditions of coding from around
the world -- with chapters describing examples from the United
Kingdom, France, India, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, the
United States and Latin America -- this book provides lessons for
today's theory and practice of place-making.
Why does modern planning sometimes create urban environments that
are less attractive and functional than the 'organic urbanism' of
traditional cities? Cities Design and Evolution takes up the
challenge of this question, investigating 'how cities are put
together', both in the sense of how the parts are organized in
relation to the whole, and how they are created or evolve over
time. Cities Design and Evolution offers an engaging and original
narrative that interprets planning philosophies from Modernism to
New Urbanism, organic theories from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier,
and evolutionary thinking from Charles Darwin to Richard Dawkins.
The book develops a new evolutionary perspective that recognizes
both the 'designed' and 'organic' nature of cities, and provides a
rationale and impetus for fresh approaches to urban planning and
design. In what is the first book to significantly apply modern
evolutionary thinking to urbanism, Cities Design and Evolution
promises to stimulate thought, debate and action concerning the
nature of cities and future urban planning. The book should appeal
to all who are interested in cities, in design and in evolution.
There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be
planned with greater attention to 'placemaking' and urban design
quality, while maintaining the conventional transport functions of
accessibility and connectivity. However, it is not always clear how
this might be achieved: we still tend to have different sets of
guidance for main road networks and for local streetgrids. What is
needed is a framework that addresses both of these, plus main
streets - that don't easily fit either set of guidance - in an
integrative manner. Streets and Patterns takes up this challenge to
create a coherent rationale to underpin today's streets-oriented
urban design agenda. Informed by recent research, the book looks
behind existing design conventions and beyond immediate policy
rhetoric, and analyses a range of first principles - from Le
Corbusier and Colin Buchanan to New Urbanism. The book provides a
new framework for the design and planning of urban layouts,
integrating transport issues such as road hierarchy, arterial
streets and multi-modal networks with urban design and planning
issues such as street type, grid type, mixed-use blocks and urban
design coding.
Why does modern planning sometimes create urban environments that
are less attractive and functional than the 'organic urbanism' of
traditional cities? Cities Design and Evolution takes up the
challenge of this question, investigating 'how cities are put
together', both in the sense of how the parts are organized in
relation to the whole, and how they are created or evolve over
time. Cities Design and Evolution offers an engaging and original
narrative that interprets planning philosophies from Modernism to
New Urbanism, organic theories from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier,
and evolutionary thinking from Charles Darwin to Richard Dawkins.
The book develops a new evolutionary perspective that recognizes
both the 'designed' and 'organic' nature of cities, and provides a
rationale and impetus for fresh approaches to urban planning and
design. In what is the first book to significantly apply modern
evolutionary thinking to urbanism, Cities Design and Evolution
promises to stimulate thought, debate and action concerning the
nature of cities and future urban planning. The book should appeal
to all who are interested in cities, in design and in evolution.
There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be
planned with greater attention to 'placemaking' and urban design
quality, while maintaining the conventional transport functions of
accessibility and connectivity. However, it is not always clear how
this might be achieved: we still tend to have different sets of
guidance for main road networks and for local streetgrids. What is
needed is a framework that addresses both of these, plus main
streets - that don't easily fit either set of guidance - in an
integrative manner. Streets and Patterns takes up this challenge to
create a coherent rationale to underpin today's streets-oriented
urban design agenda. Informed by recent research, the book looks
behind existing design conventions and beyond immediate policy
rhetoric, and analyses a range of first principles - from Le
Corbusier and Colin Buchanan to New Urbanism. The book provides a
new framework for the design and planning of urban layouts,
integrating transport issues such as road hierarchy, arterial
streets and multi-modal networks with urban design and planning
issues such as street type, grid type, mixed-use blocks and urban
design coding.
This is a text/reference, written in a style accessible to
non-specialists as well as academic researchers. It shows the
inter-relationships between transport and land use planning,
emphasising the nature of their integration, and showing benefits
of integration. It demonstrates research findings and draws
conclusions for application to policy and practice. It is coherent
and comprehensive and is based on a major set of recently completed
European research projects (PLUME). It focuses on the relationships
between transport and land use planning. It addresses general
topics and specialist topics before providing a synthesis to the
discussion. The information is gathered from the PLUME project.
This book contains papers presented at the Noblesse Workshop on
Non-linear model based image analysis held in Glasgow, 1-3 July
1998. Current models have mainly been developed for image coding
purposes. They are rather simple and far away from being optimal
and do not contribute to more complex tasks like those needed in
image databases. This book meets the challenging tasks in
multimedia applications by discussing new sophisticated model-based
schemes for a high-level description of images and image sequences.
Novel results are covered in the papers presented in this book,
opening new potential fields of application like the support for
building databases in multimedia applications, image archiving and
image sequence coding, including such topics as: - 3D Image Models;
Image/Video Restoration; Segmentation and Object Oriented Coding;
Colour Image Processing; Database Retrieval; Image Models; Video
Pre- and Post processing
Translation and the Arts in Modern France sits at the intersection
of transposition, translation, and ekphrasis, finding resonances in
these areas across periods, places, and forms. Within these
contributions, questions of colonization, subjugation, migration,
and exile connect Benin to Brittany, and political philosophy to
the sentimental novel and to film. Focusing on cultural production
from 1830 to the present and privileging French culture, the
contributors explore interactions with other cultures, countries,
and continents, often explicitly equating intercultural
permeability with representational exchange. In doing so, the book
exposes the extent to which moving between media and codes—the
very process of translation and transposition—is a defining
aspect of creativity across time, space, and disciplines.
Translation and the Arts in Modern France sits at the intersection
of transposition, translation, and ekphrasis, finding resonances in
these areas across periods, places, and forms. Within these
contributions, questions of colonization, subjugation, migration,
and exile connect Benin to Brittany, and political philosophy to
the sentimental novel and to film. Focusing on cultural production
from 1830 to the present and privileging French culture, the
contributors explore interactions with other cultures, countries,
and continents, often explicitly equating intercultural
permeability with representational exchange. In doing so, the book
exposes the extent to which moving between media and codes-the very
process of translation and transposition-is a defining aspect of
creativity across time, space, and disciplines.
Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting
the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces.
Historically, their use has helped create some of our best-loved
urban environments, while recent advances in coding have been a
growing focus of attention, particularly in Britain and North
America. However, the full potential for the role of codes has yet
to be realized.
In Urban Coding and Planning, Stephen Marshall and his
contributors investigate the nature and scope of coding; its
purposes; the kinds of environments it creates; and, perhaps most
importantly, its relationship to urban planning.
By bringing together historical and ongoing traditions of coding
from around the world with chapters describing examples from the
United Kingdom, France, India, China, Japan, Australia, South
Africa, the United States and Latin America this book provides
lessons for today 's theory and practice of place-making.
He lay in the rain-soaked street reflecting how much time he had
left: what would he have changed, what could he have changed. His
daughters would be wondering what had happened; why didn't he tell
them, or anybody? Christine, an attractive and sexually uninhibited
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of losing her: was that what brought him here, to this point?
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allowing him another chance on life, but at a price. Would he take
it, and at what cost? He watched as the rain in the gutter turned
red and all feelings in his body ceased to hurt him. He whispered
her name and waited.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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