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Haphazard start for home-grown home zones

Author: Cooper, P.
Publish date: September 2002
Journal: Urban Environment Today, Issue 156
Pages: p6-7
Abstract: Looking at the progress of home zones in the UK.
Keywords: britain, home zones, housing, streets, traffic calming

Hard Furnishings: Street Furniture

Author: Ashley, P
Publish date: April 2002
Publisher: Everyman Publishers
Abstract: A close look at the contribution that street furniture makes to everyday life.
Keywords: streets

Harmonies of Urban Design and Discords of City-form: Urban aesthetics in the rise of Western civilization

Author: Akkerman,A
Publish date: 2000
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 5 (3)
Pages: 267-290
Abstract: This article looks at the history of the concept of the ideal city through significant time periods such as Classical Greece, The Renaissance and Baroque city planning. It explores components of the ideal city including balanced environmental, economic and social development and the city as a reflection of cosmic harmony and perfection.
Keywords: aesthetics, history

Healing Through Housing in South Africa

Author: Lalloo, K
Publish date: 1996
Journal: Urban Design Studies, Vol 2
Keywords: housing, process, south africa

Help for Urban Planning: The transect strategy

Author: Talen, E
Publish date: 2002
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol7 (2)
Pages: 293-312
Abstract: The transect approach is a planning strategy that seeks to organise elements of urban ism in ways the preserve the integrity of different types of rural and urban environments. This paper seeks to encourage the widespread use of the theory in urban planning especially in resolving tensions such as planning for order verses diversity and town verses country.
Keywords: planning, theory

Helping New Retail Fit into the Urban Form

Author: Ogg, A.
Publish date: March 2002
Journal: Urban Environment Today, Issue 142
Pages: p12-13
Abstract: Looks at urban design in relation to understanding retail patterns and how people move around the city. Building on the concept that urban design should not be static.
Keywords: behavioural, retail

Here Comes the Sun, Architecture and Public Space in 20th Century European Culture

Author: Worpole,K
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: Reakton Books
Abstract: This publication investigates how the public spaces between buildings have been used for leisure since the 1920s and in the present day. It looks at the ideas, ideals and progressive thinking of the uses of these spaces now and in the future.
Keywords: architecture, public space

Heritage Planning

Author: Ashworth, G J
Publish date: 1975
Publisher: Geo Pers: Groningen
Keywords: conservation, heritage

Heteropolis: Los Angeles, the riots and the strange beauty of hetro architecture

Author: Jencks, C
Publish date: 1993
Publisher: Academy Editions, New York
Keywords: architecture, postmodernism, united states of america

Hexagonal Planning in Theory and Practice

Author: Joseph,E. and Gordon,D.
Publish date: October 2000
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 5 (3)
Pages: 237-265
Abstract: A chronologicl review of various hexagonal planning schemes and their designers since the early 20th century. It considers the advantages and disadvantages of the uses of hexagons in urban design.
Keywords: urban form

High Density Housing in Europe: lessons for London

Author: East Thames Housing Group
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: East Thames Housing Group, 3 Tramway Avenue, Stratford, London E15 4PN
Abstract: Research study looking at 8 case studies from across mainland Europe and reviewing the schemes in terms of their context, history, design quality, management and occupancy. Key lessons are considered for how such characteristics might be replicated in London.
Keywords: housing

Historic Buildings and Conservation Areas- Policy And Practice Circular 8/87

Author: Department of the Environment (UK)
Publish date: 1987
Publisher: HMSO, London
Keywords: conservation, heritage

History and Precedent in Urban Design

Author: Rapaport, A
Publish date: 1990
Publisher: Plenum Press, New York
Keywords: conservation, genius loci, history, identity, process, Urban Design

History of Urban Form

Author: Morris, A E Y
Publish date: 1979
Publisher: Godwin
Keywords: history, morphology, urban form

History of Urban Form: Bofore the Industrial Revolution

Author: Morris,A.E
Publish date: November 2003
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: history

Home Zone Design Guidelines

Author: Institute of Highway and Incorporated Engineers
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: London: IHIE
Abstract: This publication provides abvice about how to plan and design home zones, with a focus on the UK.
Keywords: design guide, highways, home zones, streets, traffic calming

Home Zones: a planning and design handbook

Author: Biddulph Mike
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: Policy Press, Bristol
Abstract: This publication introduces the home zone concept and explains principles of their design, and the procedures that might be adopted in their planning.
Keywords: design guide, highways, home zones, streets, traffic calming

Hong Kong: making the most of a compact city

Author: Hughes, K J
Publish date: March 1996
Journal: Urban Design International,Vol 1(1)
Pages: 95-99
Abstract: The paper considers how to achnowledge the positive consequences of Hong Kong's high population density. Currently high levels of pedestrian activity are squashed onto inadequate pavements, with as much space as possible given over to vehicular traffic. The paper suggests an alternative approach.
Keywords: pedestrian, public space, traffic

House, Form and Culture

Author: Rapaport, A
Publish date: 1969
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Keywords: cultural, housing

Housing and Urban Capacity

Author: UK Round Table on Sustainable Development
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: London: Department of the Environment
Keywords: housing, mixed use, sustainability

Housing as a Product: Design Guidance and Resident Satisfaction in the Private Sector

Author: Booth, P
Publish date: 1982
Journal: Built Environment, Vol 8(1)
Pages: 20 - 24
Abstract: Paper that examines the extent to which residents are involved in the production of design guidance for the estates in which they live.
Keywords: design control/review, design guide, housing, participation

Housing as if People Mattered

Author: Cooper Marcus, C and Sarkissian, W
Publish date: 1986
Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press
Abstract: This book provides a range of principles and advice about the design of medium density housing, using the results of both empirical research, but also the authors' own observations of a wide range of housing environments. Its very well written and presented and includes a bias towards addressing childrens needs.
Keywords: children and youth, housing, social aspects of design

Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam: Reconfiguring Urban Order and Identity, 1900 - 1920

Author: Stieber, N
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Abstract: Excellent book about the period of social reform that saw the development of now famous plans for social housing around Amsterdam's historic core.
Keywords: housing

Housing design, urban form and sustainable development: reflections on the future residential landscape

Author: Goodchild, B
Publish date: 1994
Journal: Town PLanning Review, April, Vol 65(2)
Pages: 143 - 158
Keywords: housing, mixed use, sustainability

Housing Environment Standards: Existing Fallacies and a New Approach

Author: Williams, K and Hill, N
Publish date: November 10 1976
Journal: Architects Journal
Pages: 893-898
Keywords: design control/review, housing, planning, standards

Housing Layout and Crime Vulnerability

Author: Chin-Feng Shu, S
Publish date: 2000
Journal: Urban Design International, Vol 5 (3)
Pages: 177-188
Abstract: Using spaces syntax analysis to look at the relationship betweent the spatial layouts of housing estates and urban areas and the spatial distribution of property offences. What features make spaces safer?
Keywords: housing, security

Housing layout, housing quality and residential density

Author: Goodchild, B
Publish date: 1984
Journal: Housing Review Vol 33(4)
Keywords: assessing quality, housing, suburbs

Housing plot developments compared Part 2: England

Author: Noble, J
Publish date: March 11 1981
Journal: Architect's Journal
Pages: 439-449
Keywords: housing, planning

Housing plots developments compared Part 1: Denmark

Author: Noble, J
Publish date: March 4 1981
Journal: Architect's Journal
Pages: 393-404
Keywords: design control/review, housing, planning

Housing Preferences - The case of single person households

Author: Hooper, A
Publish date: 1998
Journal: Town and Country PLanning, Vol 67(6) July
Pages: 220 - 221
Abstract: Brief paper that reviews research into the demands and needs of single person households, and arguments about the type of housing that they offered.
Keywords: assessing quality, housing

Housing Typology A Rule of Thumb Guide for Urban Designers

Author: Haywood, R
Publish date: October 1987
Publisher: Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes Univ.
Pages: 1-3
Keywords: housing, morphology, process, typology

Housing: Roads Second Edition

Author: Cheshire County Council
Publish date: September 1988
Publisher: Cheshire County Council, Chester
Keywords: design control/review, highways, housing, suburbs

How Green Is Your City?

Author: Davidson, J
Publish date: 1988
Publisher: Bedford Square Press, London
Keywords: sustainability

How relevant is 'planning by neighbourhoods' today?

Author: Madanipour,A
Publish date: 2001
Journal: Town Planning Review, Vol 72 (2)
Pages: 171-
Abstract: An article that looks at why the promotion of communities has re-emerged on the agenda for urban planners, designers, architescts and social scientists. It examines the implications for planners and designers.
Keywords: community, planning

How To Be A Property Developer

Author: Bailey, A
Publish date: 1988
Publisher: W H Allen, London
Keywords: commercial, development process, process

How to Crowd but Still Be Kind

Author: Guttenberg, A Z
Editor: Guttenberg, A Z
Publish date: 1993
Journal: The Language of Planning: Essays on the Origins and Ends of American Planning Thought
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, Urbana
Keywords: sustainability, urbanism

How Women Saved the City

Author: Spain, D
Publish date: December 2000
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Abstract: The role that women played in the shaping of the American urban landscape betweent the Civil War and World War II.
Keywords: women

Hulme Development Guide

Author: Ross, P
Publish date: 1997
Journal: Urban Design Quarterly, No 62
Pages: 22 - 23
Keywords: design control/review, design guide, regeneration

Human Aspects of Urban Form

Author: Rapoport, A
Publish date: 1977
Publisher: Pergamon, Oxford
Keywords: psychology, social aspects of design, theory, urban form

Hyperreality in the Shire: Bicester village and the village of Bicester

Author: Reeve, A. and Simmonds, R.
Publish date: 2000
Journal: Urban Design International, Vol 5 (2)
Pages: 161-175
Abstract: The article explores the problems of aesthetic authenticity in the practice of urban design. It looks at how this is particularly revealed in contemporary purpose built shopping environments, comparing the attributes of traditional high streets with factory retail outlets.
Keywords: identity, retail, style