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Facadism

Author: Richards, J
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Routledge, London
Keywords: postmodernism, visual interpretation

Facing Up To Facades A report from the front

Author: Buchanan, P
Publish date: December 21-28 1988
Journal: Architects Journal
Pages: 22-27
Keywords: townscape

Fantastic Form: Architecture and Planning Today

Author: Risbero, Bill
Publish date: 1992
Publisher: The Herbert Press, London
Keywords: architecture, planning, social aspects of design, theory, urbanism

Financing the Reuse of Old Buildings

Author: URBED
Publish date: 1979
Publisher: URBED Research Trust, London
Keywords: regeneration

Fitting New Shops into Traditional City Centres

Author: Kochan, B. & Cane, M.
Publish date: January 2002
Journal: Urban Environment Today
Pages: p10-11
Abstract: This article considers how major new shopping schemes can be fitted into city centres and integrated into the existing street patterns. Looking at three schemes in the UK.
Keywords: shopfront, streets

Five Ways to People Places

Author: Lyndon, D
Publish date: September 1975
Journal: Architectural Record
Pages: 89-94
Keywords: behavioural, social aspects of design

Flexibility and variety - the key to new settlement policy?

Author: Amos, C
Publish date: February 1991
Journal: Town and Country Planning
Pages: 52-56
Keywords: new settlements, planning

Flexible Accummulation Through Urbanization: Reflections on "Post-Modernism" in the American City

Author: Harvey, D
Publish date: (1987)
Journal: Antipode Vol 19(3)
Pages: pp260-286
Keywords: postmodernism, theory

Foreword

Author: Appleyard, D
Editor: Moudon, A V
Publish date: 1987
Journal: Public Streets for Public Use
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, London
Keywords: behavioural, social aspects of design, streets

Form, Function and Sign: Signifying the Past in Urban Waterfront Regeneration

Author: O'Brien, C
Publish date: 1997
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 2(2)
Pages: 163 - 178
Abstract: Paper that discusses how the regeneration of the waterfront in Newcastle-upon-Tyne handles the past. The paper discusses how the conserved remains of previous port activities deny their own history and becomeself-referential signifiers.
Keywords: semiotics, visual interpretation

Fortress America: Gated communities in the United States

Author: Blakely, E J and Snyder, M G
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: Brookings Institution and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Keywords: security

Framing Places: Mediating power in built form

Author: Dovey, K
Publish date: 1999
Publisher: London: Routledge
Abstract: Investigates how built forms act as mediators of social practices of power. An account of how our lives are framed within clusters of rooms, buildings, streets and cities that we inhabit…
Keywords: theory

Framing with images

Author: Faludi, A
Publish date: 1996
Journal: Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Vol 23
Pages: pp. 93-108
Abstract: The paper examines the value of drawn images in framing, or giving shape to, verbal statements. The paper considers the value of this skill, and its relationship to other types of language, and recognises the value of urban design as a filed of endeavour.
Keywords: planning, skills, techniques, theory

From Abstract to Concrete: Subjective reading of urban space

Author: Kallus, R
Publish date: 2001
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 6 (2)
Pages: 129-150
Abstract: This paper attempts to encourage urban designers to go beyond concern with sensory, particularly visual qualities of urban space, indifferent to the human element and to move more towards a scientific approach. It looks specifically at the relationships between space and social processes.
Keywords: principles, social aspects of design

From Bauhaus to Our House

Author: Wolfe, T
Publish date: 1981
Publisher: Picador, London
Keywords: modernism

From Concept to Completion: a critical analysis of the urban village

Author: Biddulph M, Franklin B and Tait M
Publish date: 2003
Journal: Town PLanning Review 74(2)
Pages: 165 - 193
Abstract: Review of research into the process of implementing the urban village concept. A general survey of UK urban village schemes is completed and then three case studies are reviewed in depth. The paper reviews how the concept has been used in practice, and in particular how and why resulting developments fall short of achieving the vision.
Keywords: community, neo-traditional, new urbanism, regeneration, urbanism

From Design Policy to Design Quality

Author: Carmona,M ,Punter,J, Chapman,D
Publish date: November 2002
Publisher: Thomas Telford Publishing
Abstract: This guide sets out the framework for developing a comprehansive range of urban design policies. 20 key recommendations are made to direct both Local Authorities and designers/planers in the process of implementing and managing design policies.
Keywords: design control/review

From Hell Town to Angell Town

Author: Bentley, I
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: London: Routledge
Abstract: Publishers review: From Hell Town to Angel Town introduces contemporary approaches to urban transformation, encompassing both production and consumption and exploring the links between social theory and built form. The book explores how the processes of urban transformation work, investigates why this process generates a particular urban product, and enquires into the urban experience of this product, how people use urban environments and how cities can be transformed into better places.
Keywords: community, development process, housing, mixed use, participation, regeneration, theory

From Marx to Market: Deciding the Urban Form of Post-Soviet Tallinn, Estonia

Author: Jaakson, R
Publish date: 1996
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 1(3)
Pages: 329 - 354
Abstract: Paper that considers the changing nature of urban design in post Soviet-Union Estonia, and considers a decision-making matrix employed to help formulate the pattern of development for Tallinn.
Keywords: planning, urban form

From Public Space to Private Gain

Author: Bentley, I and McGlynn S
Publish date: March 1992
Publisher: Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes Univ
Pages: 1-9
Keywords: commercial, public space

From Village desgin Statements to Parish Plans: Some pointers towards community design making in the planning system in England

Author: Owen, S.
Publish date: 2002
Journal: Planning Practice and Research Vol 17(1)
Pages: 81-89
Abstract: A look at initiatives to integrate local communities in decision making and the use of village design stagtements to help reverse the erosion of distinctiveness in villages.
Keywords: britain, community, design control/review, identity, planning

Fundamentals of Urban Design

Author: Hedman, R
Publish date: 1985
Publisher: American Planning Association Press, Chicago
Abstract: A basic introduction to the principles of urban design, urban design analysis, and design review
Keywords: keywords, principles, Urban Design

Future Cities, Past Lives: Gender and Nostalgia in Three Contemporary Planning Visions

Author: Roberts, M
Publish date: 1997
Journal: Planning Practice and Research, Vol 12(2)
Pages: 109 - 118
Abstract: A review of three contemporary (and British) planning visions looking at how they have considered issues related to gender.
Keywords: gender, neo-traditional, women

Future Transport in Cities

Author: Richards, B
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: Spon Press
Abstract: Discusses the burden of transport in cities due to the popularity of the private car. The book looks at alternative ways to provide public transport and includes initiatives to encourage walking and cycling. It explores measures being tried out to improve transport, using the best examples from around the world. It examines ways in which transport systems are evolving and becoming integrated into the urban environment.
Keywords: accessibility, architecture, cycling, design strategy, highways, infrastructure, traffic