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Ideal Cities - Utopianism and the (un)built environment

Author: Eaton, R
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Abstract: This book was written to relate to the 2000 Utopia Exhibition on Utopian Thought that was shown in France and New York. An attractively illustrated book, it aims to be a chronological history of the search for the ideal city form but becomes a more general history of ideas. It starts with Babylon, moves through the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution to present day, discussing the types of environments we have created for ourselves.
Keywords: history, urban form, utopian thought, utopianism

Ideas are in things: an application of the space syntax method to discovering house genotypes

Author: Hillier, B Hanson J and Graham H
Publish date: 1987
Journal: Environment and Planning B Vol 14
Pages: 363-385
Keywords: housing, typology

Identity By Design

Author: Bentley,I and Butina-Watson,G
Publish date: September 2003
Publisher: Architectural Press
Abstract: A study examining how the search for identity through design by designers and communities differs thoughout the world. I looks at how design can affect and help to construct identity.
Keywords: identity

Il Papa e Il Duce: Sixtus V's and Mussolini's Plans for Rome, Capital of the World

Author: Anker, A
Publish date: June 1996
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 1(2)
Pages: 165 - 178
Abstract: This paper traces similarities in Mussolini's and Sixtus V's urban ideology, and discusses how their shared passion for such things as obelisks and expansive boulevards demonstrates, on the one hand, a desire to internationalise the city of Rome and, on the other, an effort to eliminate traces of what Mussolini referred to as "colore locale."
Keywords: history, italy

Image Congruity, Place Attachment and Community Design

Author: Hull, R B
Publish date: 1992
Journal: The Journal of Architectural and Planning Research Vol ((3)
Pages: 181-192
Keywords: community, gated community, place, psychology

Imagery and Form: Arriyadh city core

Author: Saleh,M.A.E.
Publish date: 2002
Journal: Urban Design Studies, Vol 8
Pages: 73-86
Abstract: This paper looks at the development of urban imagery and form from the roots of a mediaeval Islamic town. It consideres the religious and cultural traditions that have enhanced the imagery and form and encouraged social interaction. Looking specifically at combining the restored and the new in the regeneration of a Saudi Arabian city.
Keywords: cultural, saudi arabia, urban form

Images of the Street: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space

Author: Fyfe, N R
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: London: Routledge
Abstract: Wide ranging publication of edited papers discussing: the planning and design of streets; social activities and identities associated with street-life; and aspects of the control of street activity
Keywords: identity, public space, social aspects of design, streets

Images of the Urban Environment

Author: Pocock, D and Hudson, R
Publish date: 1978
Publisher: Macmillan Press Ltd, London
Keywords: psychology, spatial interpretation

Improving Design in the High Street

Author: Davis, C J /Royal Fine Art Commission
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: Architectural Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford
Abstract: "The book is intended for local government councillors and officers, architects, investors, retailers, chambers of commerce and community groups. It explains in straightforward language, clear diagrams and colour illustrations how to identify the defining visual characteristics of a high street. It shows how, through a programme of action, quslities of convenience and chararcter can be improved" (cover description)
Keywords: assessing quality, design strategy, principles, shopfront, techniques

Improving Problem Housing Estates

Author: Department of the Environment (UK) Priority Estates Project
Publish date: 1982
Publisher: HMSO, London
Keywords: housing, process, regeneration

Improving the Content and Utility of Design Briefs

Author: Turner, S
Publish date: 1994
Journal: Planning Practice and Research Vol 9(3)
Pages: 289-310
Keywords: briefing, design control/review, planning, techniques

Improving the urban environment

Author: Mega, V
Publish date: 1994
Journal: European Urban Management
Keywords: urbanism

Improving the Urban Environment: How to Adjust National and Local Government Policy for Sustainable Growth

Author: Button, K and Pearce, D
Publish date: 1989
Journal: Progress in Planning Vol 32 No 3
Publisher: Pergamon Press, Oxford
Keywords: sustainability

Improving Urban Areas Good Practice in Urban Regeneration

Author: Department of the Environment (UK) Inner Cities Inspectorate
Publish date: 1988
Publisher: HMSO, London
Keywords: process, regeneration

In Defence of Space

Author: Hillier, Bill
Publish date: November 1973
Journal: RIBA Journal
Pages: 539-544
Keywords: behavioural, housing, security

In defence of the imagination: bridging the gap between planners and architects

Author: Richardson, M and Trowell, D
Publish date: 1997
Journal: Urban Design Studies, Vol 3
Keywords: architecture, planning, techniques

Inclusive Mobility: A guide to best practice on access to pedestrian and transport infrastructure

Author: Oxley, Philip R
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: Mobility and Inclusion Unit, Department for Transport
Abstract: A design guide for ensuring adequate provision for people with physical, sensory or learning impairments. The guide illustrates arrangements and provides standards relating to pedestrian access, tactile surfaces, car parking, bus stops, taxi ranks, signage and access to transport related buildings.
Keywords: accessibility, design guide, Disability, standards

Inclusive Urban Design: Public toilets

Author: Greed,C
Publish date: March 2003
Publisher: Archtectural Press
Abstract: This publication provides guidance for design and policy making in relation to how public toilets should be provided to be accessible to everyone.
Keywords: design guide, public space, standards

Industrial Rehabilitation the use of redundant buildings for small enterprises

Author: Eley, P and Worthington, J
Publish date: 1984
Publisher: Architectural Press, London
Keywords: process, regeneration

Inner City regeneration and Good Design

Author: Aldous, T
Publish date: 1988
Publisher: Royal Fine Arts Commission, HMSO, London
Keywords: design control/review, regeneration

Integrated Land Use

Author: Hillman, J
Publish date: 1992
Journal: Living Cities
Publisher: London: Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
Keywords: mixed use

Internal Structure of the City

Author: Bourne, L
Publish date: 1974
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
Keywords: morphology

Introducao Ao Desenho Urbano

Author: Del Rio, Vicente
Publish date: 1990
Publisher: Sao Paulo: Editora Pini
Pages: 198pp
Abstract: The book deals with the origins, concepts and methodologies of urban design, as well as its role and potentialities within the city planning process. It focuses on four basic methods: morphological analysis, townscape, environmental perception and behaviour. Three case-studues are discussed in appendicies.
Keywords: behavioural, morphology, planning, psychology, theory, townscape, Urban Design

Introducing Gender to the Critque of Privatized Public Space

Author: Day, K
Publish date: 1999
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 4(2)
Pages: 155 - 178
Abstract: Paper the examines the experiences of women in privatized urban spaces.
Keywords: gender, women

Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses

Author: Greed, C and Roberts, M
Publish date: 1998
Journal: `
Publisher: Longman
Abstract: Not really an introduction to urban design, but a book which involves contributions from a range of urban design academics, researchers and consultants writing from a social science/planning perspective about a good range of urban design issues: a recent history of the discipline, design control issues, urban design and regeneration, landscape and urban design, art in the public realm, design and movement, disability, women's experiences of the public realm, design and crime prevention, and public involvem
Keywords: accessibility, art, britain, conservation, design control/review, gender, highways, landscape, participation, regeneration, security, social aspects of design, Urban Design, women

Introduction to Valuation

Author: Richmond, D
Publish date: 1985
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Keywords: valuation

Introduction: The Debate on Design Review

Author: Scheer, B C
Editor: Scheer, B C and Preiser, W F E
Publish date: 1994
Journal: in Design Review: Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control
Publisher: Chapman and Hall, New York
Pages: 1-10
Abstract: Introduction to the book that presents aspects of the debate about design review, from an essentially American perspective.
Keywords: design control/review

Involving local communities in urban design: promoting good practiceg

Author: Wates, N
Publish date: July 1998
Journal: Urban Design Quarterly, Issue 67
Pages: 15 - 38
Abstract: Special report of British Urban Design Group's "Public Participation Programme" which was funded by the DoE's "Quality in Town and Country" Campaign. The report is based on research into 12 public participation exercises and the result of discussions at ten workshops. Methods of participation are listed, and the report includes a wide ranging bibliography.
Keywords: community, participation

Iranian Organic Cities Demystified: a unique urban experience or an organic city like others?

Author: Karmimi, K
Journal: Built Environment, Vol 28 (3)
Pages: p187-201
Abstract: This article looks at the organic growth of cities and how their form is different to that of other city types. Using spatial analysis the differences between Iranian cities and other city types are are examined.
Keywords: morphology, urban form

Is Art the Answer?

Author: Pattacini, L.
Publish date: 2000
Journal: Landscape Design 295
Pages: p43-
Abstract: Examining the role of public art in the urban environment. Does it have the power to make people aware of the importance of public spaces and have social impacts or is it only decorative?
Keywords: art, behavioural, psychology, public space, spatial interpretation

Is there a feminist analysis of architecture?

Author: Boys, J
Journal: Built Environment Vol 10(1)
Pages: 25-34
Keywords: gender, women

Israeli Planners and Designers: Profiles of community builders

Author: Forester, J. Fischler, R. & Shmveli, D. (eds)
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: State University of New York Press, New York
Keywords: community, development process

Issues in Urban Regeneration: an annotated bibliography :the economic, political, social and spatial processes of urban change and redevelopment

Author: Franklin, B and Symes, M
Publish date: 1991
Publisher: School of Architecture, Univ of Manchester
Keywords: keywords, regeneration