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Back to Phenomenological Placemaking

Author: Aravot,I
Publish date: 2002
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 7 (2)
Pages: 201-212
Abstract: This artical describes the metamorphosis of urban design at the begining of the 1990s making an argument of disillusion and discreditation of phenomenological place making.
Keywords: place, techniques

Banlieues 89: Urban design and the urban question

Author: Roberts, M
Publish date: February 2000
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 5 (1)
Pages: 19-40
Abstract: The Banlieues 89 movement was a design-led initiative in French urban policy in the 1980's. This paper outlines the history of the movement and looks at its contempoary significance. One of the focuses of the movement was social exclusion and how it could be improved through design-led considerations.
Keywords: history, social aspects of design

Barcelona: a city regenerated

Author: Buchanan, P
Publish date: August 1992
Journal: The Architectural Review, Vol 191, No 1146
Pages: 11 - 63
Abstract: Special edition of the Architectural Review which presents the development schemes occurring at the time of the Olympics in Barcelona.
Keywords: architecture

Bath Shopfronts

Author: Bath City Council
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Bath City Council, Dept of Environmental Services
Keywords: conservation, design control/review, retail, shopfront

Bath: A Study in Conservation

Author: Buchanan, C and Partners
Publish date: 1968
Publisher: HMSO, London
Keywords: conservation, heritage

Battery Park City: an American dream of urbanism

Author: Russell, F P
Editor: Scheer, B C and Preiser, W F E
Publish date: 1994
Journal: Design Review: Challenging urban aesthetic control
Publisher: Chapman Hall, New York
Pages: 197-209
Abstract: Using the case-study of Battery Park, New York the relationship between the requirements of design guidelines, and their culturally specific and ideologically driven iconography and morphology is discussed.
Keywords: design control/review, design guide, semiotics, united states of america

Beazley's Design and Detail of Space Between Buildings

Author: Pinder A and Pinder A
Publish date: 1990
Keywords: landscape, pedestrian, public space, techniques

Before and After Shot

Author: Villars, P
Publish date: 1993
Journal: Planning, 22nd January
Pages: 6-7
Abstract: Review of an exhibition about the impact of planning on original designs
Keywords: aesthetics, design control/review, planning

Behind the Postmodern Facade: architectural change in late twentieth century America

Author: Larson, Magali Sarfatti
Publish date: 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: aesthetics, architecture, social aspects of design

Better Places to Live: learning from the French experience

Author: Pattacini,L.
Publish date: 2002
Journal: Urban Design Studies, Vol 8
Pages: 61-72
Abstract: This paper consideres alternative development processes and practices (taken from residential areas in Paris) that could be applied in Britain to improve the quality of new residential developments. Issues include; identity, vitality, permeability, sustainability and mixed use.
Keywords: france, housing, identity, mixed use, sustainability

Big Plans: The allure and folly of urban design

Author: Kolson, K
Publish date: October 2001
Publisher: The John Hopkins University Press
Abstract: This book explores how serendipity impacts the urban experience.
Keywords: Urban Design

Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life

Author: Welter, V
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: The MIT Press
Abstract: A book about Patrick Geddes socio-biological approach to understanding cities and regions. In this book Welter tries to avoid the focus on Geddes' life and work and penetrate further into his ideas and theories.
Keywords: history, theory

Book of Details and Good Practice in Shopfront Design

Author: English Historic Towns Forum
Publish date: 1993
Publisher: EHTF, The Huntingdon Centre, The Vineyards, The Paragon, Bath, BA1 5NA
Keywords: conservation, heritage, retail, shopfront, townscape

Brief and to the point

Author: Allison, J
Publish date: September 8th 1994
Journal: Planning Week
Pages: 15
Keywords: design control/review

Briefing Housing Land

Author: Lock, D
Publish date: 1982
Journal: Built Environment Vol 8(1)
Pages: 30 - 34
Abstract: Paper that discusses what a development brief should contain.
Keywords: briefing, design control/review, housing

Brindley Place: Implementation

Author: Chatwin, J
Publish date: 1997
Journal: Urban Design Quarterly, Issue 62
Pages: 12 - 15
Abstract: Brief paper that discusses the process of implementing the plan for Brindley Place in Birmingham.
Keywords: britain, practice

British Townscapes

Author: Johns, E
Publish date: 1965
Publisher: London: Edward Arnold
Keywords: conservation, townscape

British Urban Planning and Urban Design: Principles and Policies

Author: Smith Morris, E
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: Longman, Harlow
Abstract: An introductory text which discusses the evolution of planning and urban design in Britain principally over the last century. The book discusses the relationship between planning instruments, urban design principles and practices and architectural desin practices. It also includes reference to a wide range of illustrated examples.
Keywords: britain, history, planning, Urban Design

Buasteine fuer Planungspraxis in Nordrhein Westfalen: Verkehrsberuhigung und Strassenraumgestaltung

Author: Institut fuer Landes- and Stadtentwicklungsforchung des Landes Nordrhein Westfalen
Publish date: 1992
Abstract: Publication form Nordrhein Westfalen discussing approaches to traffic calming.
Keywords: traffic calming

Building Community

Author: Martin, J T
Publish date: 1996
Journal: Urban Land Vol 55(3)
Pages: 28 - 32, 55 - 56
Keywords: community, gated community

Building in the Peak: a design brief

Author: Peak Park Planning Board
Publish date: 1964
Publisher: Peak Park Planning Board, Aldern House, Bakewell
Keywords: briefing, design control/review, visual interpretation

Building the 21st Century Home

Author: Falk, N and Rudlin, D
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann, Architectural Press, Oxford
Abstract: The book argues that in developed countries urban development has been working against the city and its characteristics, and has created forms of housing and patterns of living that are unsustainable. In response the authors present their concept of the sustainable urban neighbourhood, and discuss how this form of development might be realised.
Keywords: community, mixed use, neo-traditional, place, principles, sustainability

Building the Sustainable Environment

Author: Vale B and Vale R
Editor: Blowers, A (ed)
Publish date: 1993
Journal: Planning for a Sustainable Environment
Publisher: Earthscan, London
Keywords: sustainability

Buildings and Power Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types

Author: Markus, T A
Publish date: August 1993
Publisher: Routledge, London
Keywords: cultural, social aspects of design, style, typology

Buildings and Society Essays on the social development of the built environment

Author: King, A D
Publish date: 1980
Publisher: Routledge, London
Keywords: morphology, social aspects of design, urban form

Bureaucratic Patronage and Local Urban Form Research Note 15

Author: Bentley, I
Publish date: October 1983
Publisher: Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes Univ
Pages: 1-11
Keywords: commercial, development process, urban form

Burglars don't understand defensible space

Author: Hillier, B and Shu, S
Publish date: 1999
Journal: SUN Dial, Issue 9
Publisher: URBED, Manchester
Pages: 6 - 7
Abstract: Brief article about the sorts of layout that are vulnerable to burglary
Keywords: security

Business Parks

Author: Various
Publish date: June 20 1992
Journal: Estates Gazette
Pages: 71-102
Keywords: business parks, commercial, typology

By Design: Better Places to live

Author: DTLR/CABE
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: London: Thomas Telford
Abstract: This is a companion guide to Planning Policy Guidance Note 3, the UK Governments policy statement on planning for housing in the UK. It is also a companion to the other By Design document. It is essentially a residential design guide, particularly for housing of over 30 units per hectare.
Keywords: britain, design guide, housing

By Design: Urban design in the planning system

Author: DTLR
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: Thomas Telford publishing
Abstract: This publication aims to promote higher standards of urban design and provide practical advice to encourage a commitment to good design from the UK Government. It suggests that more thought is needed about living environments that are being created.
Keywords: design guide