Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design

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* The foremost professional reference on the physical design of cities and urban places
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Planning and Urban Design Standards (Wiley Graphic Standards)

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A public sector must-have resource

Planning and Urban Design Standards (Wiley Graphic Standards)
American Planning Association
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0471475815

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From the publishers of Architectural Graphic Standards, this book, created under the auspices of The American Planning Association, is the most comprehensive reference book on urban planning, design, and development available today. Contributions from more than two hundred renowned professionals provide rules of thumb and best practices for mitigating such environmental impacts as noise, traffic, aesthetics, preservation of green space and wildlife, water quality, and more. You get in-depth information on the tools and techniques used to achieve planning and design outcomes, including economic analysis, mapping, visualization, legal foundations, and real estate developments. Thousands of illustrations, examples of custom work by todays leading planners, and insider information make this work the new standard in the field. Order your copy today.

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A public sector must-have resource.......2007-04-07

An excellent resource for anyone involved in public sector land-use planning. Contains great detail on many different subjects. Good illustrations throughout. Not the best resource for site planning, though.

Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities

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excellent introduction to how residential streets evolved

Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities
Michael Southworth , and Eran Ben-Joseph
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill
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ASIN: 0070598088

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Streetwise Community Development Big-city traffic snarls in once-tranquil suburban settings. Outdated community patterns that provide ample access for private automobiles at the expense of public transport. As America's cities continue to expand and engulf surrounding suburbs, Michael Southworth and Eran Ben-Joseph's, Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities offers a new, sensible approach to street design--one that can help you reduce urban sprawl to create more cohesive, livable and energy-efficient communities and metropolitan areas. This illustrated planning tool shows you how street layouts shape the character of a community. . .how various street patterns can have dramatically different effects. . .how streets have changed due to the growth of technology. . .how a standard system can help communities grow in a rational manner. . .and more.

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excellent introduction to how residential streets evolved.......2000-03-24

This books describes the history and evolution of residential streets in the US and Britain. It remains very objective, until the last chapter when the authors push for the shared streets concept. As a transportation planning professional, I found it very informative and compelling. It did the impossible: it changed my mind on the value of cul-de-sacs.

Design Review: Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control

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Design Review: Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control
Brenda C. Scheer , and Wolfgang F.E. Preiser
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0412991616

Coding--bringing architects back to the volume housing table.(Design Matters): An article from: Town and Country Planning

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Coding--bringing architects back to the volume housing table.(Design Matters): An article from: Town and Country Planning
Matthew Carmona
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from Town and Country Planning, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1128 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Coding--bringing architects back to the volume housing table.(Design Matters)
Author: Matthew Carmona
Publication: Town and Country Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 75 Issue: 11 Page: 326(2)

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Monster houses? Yes! No!(Statistical Data Included): An article from: Planning

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Monster houses? Yes! No!(Statistical Data Included): An article from: Planning
Robert E. Lang , Karen A Danielsen , and Mark L. Hinshaw
Manufacturer: American Planning Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Planning, published by American Planning Association on May 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2724 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Monster houses? Yes! No!(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Robert E. Lang
Publication: Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: 68 Issue: 5 Page: 24(4)

Article Type: Statistical Data Included

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Park and shop: some guidelines. (strip mall standards): An article from: Planning

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Park and shop: some guidelines. (strip mall standards): An article from: Planning
Ruth Eckdish Knack
Manufacturer: American Planning Association
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Planning, published by American Planning Association on May 1, 1992. The length of the article is 1694 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Difficulties in designing a strip shopping center include local laws and factors such as access, lighting and landscaping. Nevertheless, the trend toward more centers seems to be growing, although development of centers in some areas may have peaked. Centers also are being designed to offer a particular service or product. Examples of centers in various areas of the US are presented.

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Title: Park and shop: some guidelines. (strip mall standards)
Author: Ruth Eckdish Knack
Publication: Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1992
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: v58 Issue: n5 Page: p18(4)

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Planning for sustainable living: the new community of hammarby Sjostab in Stockholm sets environmental standards that put UK development models to shame.: An article from: Town and Country Planning

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Planning for sustainable living: the new community of hammarby Sjostab in Stockholm sets environmental standards that put UK development models to shame.: An article from: Town and Country Planning
Paul Burall
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Town and Country Planning, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1565 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Planning for sustainable living: the new community of hammarby Sjostab in Stockholm sets environmental standards that put UK development models to shame.
Author: Paul Burall
Publication: Town and Country Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 75 Issue: 4 Page: 114(3)

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Retail needs, local standards conflict in state's urban settings.(Economic Development): An article from: California Planning & Development Report

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Retail needs, local standards conflict in state's urban settings.(Economic Development): An article from: California Planning & Development Report
June D. Bell
Manufacturer: California Planning & Development Report
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from California Planning & Development Report, published by California Planning & Development Report on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1174 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Retail needs, local standards conflict in state's urban settings.(Economic Development)
Author: June D. Bell
Publication: California Planning & Development Report (Newsletter)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: California Planning & Development Report
Volume: 19 Issue: 1 Page: 6(1)

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Shaping the North East plan: policy officer David Waterhouse outlines some of the key issues on which the TCPA addresses the recent Examination in Public ... An article from: Town and Country Planning

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Shaping the North East plan: policy officer David Waterhouse outlines some of the key issues on which the TCPA addresses the recent Examination in Public ... An article from: Town and Country Planning
David Waterhouse
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ASIN: B000I6AIX0
Release Date: 2006-09-01

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This digital document is an article from Town and Country Planning, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 978 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Shaping the North East plan: policy officer David Waterhouse outlines some of the key issues on which the TCPA addresses the recent Examination in Public into the draft East Regional spatial strategy.
Author: David Waterhouse
Publication: Town and Country Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 75 Issue: 4 Page: 95(1)

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Comics aren't just for kids, and illustrations don't merely transpose text into image. Picture stories can do more than just tell a simple, illiterate narrative, and design, well, design infiltrates the visual aspects of nearly everything that surrounds us. If these statements seems like truisms, they are, but they were hardly obvious conclusions just a few years ago, before the arts once considered merely commercial exploded into the mainstream. Unlike any other publication, the Ganzfeld gathers together a diverse sampling of recent design, illustration, and comics, together with essays that place them in a historical and critical context. Better still, this volume includes the first publication of comics genius Chris Ware's color sketchbooks; endpapers designed by nest editor Joseph Holtzman, covers by the Beastie Boys and GAP designer Mike Mills; an illustrated story by Maira Kalman; wallpaper designs by a cartoonist, a fine artist, an illustrator, and a designer; visual reportage on the Venice Biennale by Paul Davis; and far too much more to mention here.

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The Ganzfeld No.2
Daniel and Peter Buchanan Smith (editors) Nadel
Manufacturer: Distributed Art Publishers/D. A. P.
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MZ5OYK

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The Salton Sea is a man-made catastrophe, redolent with the smell of algae and decomposing fish. Nevertheless, the lake's vast, placid expanses continue to attract birdwatchers, tourists and artists. In Greetings from the Salton Sea, photographer Kim Stringfellow explores the history of California's largest lake from its disastrous beginnings—the "sea" was formed when Colorado River levees broke and spilled into a depression 280 feet below sea level—to its heyday as a desert paradise in the 1950s and its current state as an environmental battleground. Like the 400-plus species of birds that use the lake as a halfway point in their annual migration, developers flocked to the water too: they planted palm trees, built golf courses, and hired showstoppers such as the Beach Boys to perform at area resorts. These days, politicians seek to redirect the lake's only source of replenishment—agricultural runoff from surrounding farms—to water golf courses and green lawns elsewhere. Greetings from the Salton Sea's photographs capture the war among policymakers, environmentalists, developers, and the individuals still living along the lake's shores. As Stringfellow aptly documents, it is a war for water and, ultimately, for existence.

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Saline drip.......2006-09-04

The Salton Sea seems to be California's dirty little secret but with the help of Kim Stringfellow's excellent book and growing interest from environmentalists and others this fascinating water and desert area is slowly getting the corrective attention it deserves. In the past this eerie area has had plenty of attention, especially from land developers.

At the start of the photo section of the book there is promotional map from the Holly Corporation showing their early sixties Salton City development. A marina or two, schools, a main street and plenty of landscaped roads are shown, in fact if you look up the City on Google Earth you'll see every road has a name and even the single runway airstrip (naturally called Salton City Airport) is surrounded by curving roads with aeronautical names. You'll also see that very few dwellings were actually built and like so much development around the lake they became victims of the various environmental and flooding problems not too mention the incredible salt content of the water.

A by-product of the failed commercial developments around the shore means that there is plenty of abandoned buildings and just plain man-made rubbish everywhere, this clearly acts as a magnet for landscape photographers it seems. I first found out about Salton from Troy Paiva's book 'Lost America' (ISBN 076031490X) which includes about twenty dramatic photos of the area, Kim Stringfellow visited some of the same sites. The forty-five photos in her book are more of a precise visual record of abandonment, either man-made or natural. In the first twenty-nine pages she writes a very succinct history of the Sea and I was pleased to see in the back a couple of very informative web sites listed.

As this is a photo book there is the usual nonsense of not having the captions with the photos, they are in the back with thumbnails of each image so readers have to constantly keep turning pages to find a simple bit of information. Needless to say the captions could have easily been included with photos if the book's designer was more professional.

Apart from the caption aspect (so four stars) I thought this was a fascinating book about a slightly known area of the Golden State.

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When a father and son on their way to an English village go missing, the new "stranger" in town, Harlan Draka, becomes the number one suspect. Unwittingly drawn into this mystery, Harlan meets the beautiful Amber - who knew Harlan's father and just so happens to be a vampire herself! Together they seek out the monster that has been terrorizing the helpless village for so long.

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