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Safe as Houses: A review of the importance of housing design and layout in achieving security
Author: Warren, F and Stollard, P
Publish date: 1988
Publisher: Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, York
Keywords: housing, security, suburbs
Safe Cities: Guidelines for Planning Design and Management
Author: Wekerle, G R
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, N Y
Abstract: The book includes guidelines about how to improve urban safety, including guidelines for typical landuses such as residential streets, plazas, car parks and public parks.
Keywords: security
Safer City Centres
Author: Oc, T and Tiesdell, S
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: Paul Chapman Publishing, London
Abstract: A book that discusses how opportunities for crime can be reduced by approaches to design and management of the city centre public realm. Included are chapters on policing, the role of city centre management, lighting, closed circuit TV, transport and parking, housing in the city centre, and the twenty four hour city concept. Case-studies from USA and Britain are discussed.
Keywords: public space, security, social aspects of design
Safer Neighbourhoods: Redesigning housing developments to reduce crime and enhance community safety
Author: Stollard P, Osborn S, Shaftoe H and Croucher K
Publish date: 1989
Publisher: Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York, Working Paper
Abstract: Practical advice about how to design residential areas to reduce the incidence or fear of crime. Stollard's later book is based on this work.
Keywords: housing, security
Safer Neighbourhoods? Success and Failures in Crime Prevention
Author: Osborn, S and Shaftoe, H
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, The Homestead, 40 Water End, York YO3 6LP
Keywords: security
SafeScape: Creating Safer, More Livable Communities Through Planning and Design
Author: Zelinka,A and Brennan,D
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: Planners Press of the American Planning Association
Abstract: An urban design handbook with guidance for the design and management of community safety. The book looks at American examples to illustrate the issues and circumstances surrounding security in residential and central areas.
Keywords: security
Santa Fe Styles and Townscapes: the search for authenticity
Author: Moul, H
Editor: Scheer, B C and Preiser, W F E
Publish date: 1994
Journal: in Design Review: Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control
Publisher: Chpman Hall, New York
Pages: 95-110
Keywords: design control/review, united states of america
Saving Face: How corporate franchise design can respect community identity
Author: Fleming, R L
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: American Planning Assoc. Report No 452
Abstract: Report that looks at ways to advocate design of signage to respect both corporate and local identity. Includes a number of case-studies, and discussion of the costs and benefits of good design.
Keywords: shopfront
Saving Old Buildings
Author: Cantacuzino, S and Brandt, S
Publish date: 1980
Publisher: Architectural Press, London
Keywords: regeneration
Seaside: Making a Town in America
Author: Mohney, D and Easterling, K
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Abstract: Well illustrated book that describes the town of Seaside, and the process of its development.
Keywords: community, housing, new settlements, planning, united states of america
Seattle urban villages take the lead on design guidance
Author: Punter, J V
Publish date: April 7th 1995
Journal: Planning, No 1113
Pages: pp. 24-25
Keywords: design control/review, united states of america
Secured By Design
Author: Anon
Publish date: 1993
Keywords: housing, security
Secured by Design
Author: Patten, J
Publish date: May 1990
Journal: House Builder
Pages: 33
Keywords: housing, security
Securing the Estate Layout
Author: Slade, K
Publish date: May 1990
Journal: House Builder
Pages: 34-36
Keywords: housing, security
Security in the Built Environment: A planning and design guide for architects and design professionals
Author: American Institute
Publish date: October 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Keywords: design guide, security
Seeking Quality Assurance in Urban Design: Consumer Culture Meets Social Practice
Author: Dunlop, R and Salter, M
Publish date: 1996
Journal: Built Environment, Vol 22(4)
Pages: 315 - 322
Abstract: The authors briefly consider whether approaches to participation and consultation are evolving during what they refer to as the new "customer charter era", or whether things are pretty much as they have been for a while.
Keywords: assessing quality, participation, social aspects of design
Self-generated Neighbourhoods: The role of urban form in the consolidation of informal settlements
Author: Hillier,B. Greene,M, and Desyllas,J.
Publish date: 2000
Journal: Urban Design International, Vol 5 (2)
Pages: 61-96
Abstract: This article looks at the layout of settlements and their relation to the urban context. It looks at locational and spatial factors in the long term development of settlement. Based on research undertaken in Santiago.
Keywords: community, development process, housing
Selling Places: The City as Cultural Capital, Past and Present
Author: Kearns, G and Philo C
Publish date: 1993
Publisher: Oxford: Pergamon Press
Keywords: commercial, place, regeneration
Selling the City
Author: Ashworth, G J and Voogd, H
Publish date: 1991
Publisher: Belhaven, London
Keywords: commercial, conservation, heritage
Selling the inner city: regeneration and place marketing in London's Docklands
Author: Brownill, S
Editor: Gold, J R and Ward S V
Publish date: 1994
Journal: Place Promotion: the use of publicity and marketing to sell towns and regions
Publisher: John Wiley, Chichester
Pages: 133-151
Keywords: place, regeneration, spatial interpretation
Semi-derelict sites in the Thames gateway: a methodology for sustainable development
Author: Gosnell, J
Publish date: 1998
Journal: Urban Design Studies, Vol 4
Keywords: britain, sustainability
Settlement Texture: Study of a Mahalla in Dhaka
Author: Qazi Azizul Mowla
Publish date: 1997
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 2(3)
Pages: 259 - 275
Keywords: cultural, developing context, social aspects of design, typology
Settlements and Energy Revisited
Author: Owens S E and Rickaby P A
Publish date: 1993
Journal: Built Environment Vol 18 (4)
Pages: 247 -252
Keywords: sustainability
Shaping Neighbourhoods: a guide to health, sustainability and vitality
Author: Barton H, Grant M and Guise R
Publish date: 2003
Publisher: Spon Press, London
Abstract: It is a desktop manual for planners, designers, developers and community groups, acting as a guide to give advice for creating and maintaining neighbourhoods. It provides an integrated picture of sustainable, healthy neighbourhoods and pushes the recognised need for a change in practice towards sustainable development.
Keywords: community, neighbourhood, sustainability
Shaping the City: Studies in history, theory and urban design
Author: El-Khoury, Robins, Radolophe
Publish date: July 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: history, theory, Urban Design
Shifting Paradigms: Design Control Paper given at the New Academics in Planning Conference
Author: Carmona, M
Publish date: March 1994
Publisher: School of Planning, University of Strathclyde
Keywords: design control/review
Shopfront Security Report
Author: Shopfront Security Group
Publish date: no date
Publisher: British Retail Consortium, Bedford House, 69-79 Fulham High Street London SW6 3JW
Keywords: retail, security, shopfront
Shopfronts and Advertisements in Historic Towns
Author: English Historic Towns Forum
Publisher: English Historic Towns Forum, The Huntingdon Centre, The Paragon, Bath, BA1 5NA
Keywords: conservation, design control/review, heritage, retail, shopfront, townscape
Shopping Centres Retail Development, Design and Management
Author: Beddington, N
Publish date: 1991
Publisher: Butterworth Architecture, Oxford
Keywords: retail, typology
Should architects design cities?
Author: Stephens, S
Publish date: May 1994
Journal: Architectural Record
Pages: 28-31
Keywords: mixed use, new settlements, united states of america, urbanism
Should we burn our bridges? Emergence of the skywalk concept in Australia
Author: Flannigan, N
Publish date: September 1989
Journal: Australian Planner, Vol 27(3)
Pages: 30-35
Abstract: The paper describes the adoption of 'skywalks' in Australian cities and considers their impacts and their future.
Keywords: accessibility, pedestrian
Sick Remedy of the Rule Book
Author: Crawford, D
Publish date: October 1973
Journal: Architectural Review Vol 154
Pages: 228-244
Keywords: design control/review, housing, planning
Siedlungsmodelle: Ideen, Konzepte, Planungen
Author: Various
Publish date: 1998
Publisher: Prestel, Muenchen
Abstract: Review of new settlement proposals and housing forms in Germany. In German, well illustrated.
Keywords: housing, new settlements
Signs, Symbols and Architecture
Author: Broadbent, G Bunt, R and Jencks, C
Publish date: 1980
Publisher: John Wiley, Chichester
Keywords: architecture, semiotics, visual interpretation
Site Layout Planning for daylight and Sunlight - A Guide to Good Practice
Author: Building Research Establishment
Publish date: 1991
Publisher: BRE, Garston, Watford, Herts, WD2 7JR
Keywords: data, microclimate, standards
Site Planning
Author: Lynch, K and Hack, G
Publish date: 1986
Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge MASS
Keywords: keywords, process
Six Settlement Patterns Compared
Author: Rickaby, P
Publish date: 1987
Journal: Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Vol 14
Pages: pp 193-223
Keywords: sustainability
Skateboarding, Space and the City
Author: Borden,I
Publish date: April 2001
Publisher: Berg Publishers LTD
Keywords: public space
Skateboarding: The city as a playground
Author: Woolley, H and Johns, R
Publish date: 2001
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 6 (2)
Pages: 211-230
Abstract: This article looks at skateboarders as a particular group of young people who use the urban fabric for a certain activity. It looks at why certain places are used for this activity, concentrating on three metropolitan areas in the UK.
Keywords: behavioural, children and youth
Small Space is Beautiful: Design as if People Mattered
Author: Whyte, W
Publish date: July 1982
Journal: Technology Review Vol 85
Pages: 36-50
Keywords: behavioural, social aspects of design
Social Relations and Spatial Structures
Author: Gregory, D and Urry J (eds)
Publish date: 1985
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Keywords: social aspects of design, theory
Society of the Spectacle
Author: Debord, G
Publish date: 1972/83
Publisher: Red and Black, Detroit
Keywords: commercial, social aspects of design, theory
Soft City
Author: Raban, J
Publish date: 1973
Publisher: Fontana, London
Keywords: social aspects of design
Soho, Manhattan, New York: mixed use, density and the power of the myth
Author: Barr,A.
Publish date: 2002
Journal: Urban Design Studies, Vol 8
Pages: 29-48
Abstract: Paper examines the renewal of Soho, Manhattan from its dereliction in the 1960s to its currant vibrant, high density, mixed use environment. It looks at the interaction of mixed use, density and myth over the past 200 years.
Keywords: mixed use, regeneration, united states of america
Sources for Design Policy: a bibliographical guide
Author: Punter, J V Camona M and Platts A
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Centre for Planning, University of Strathclyde
Abstract: This is a comprehensive bibliography derived from an exhaustive analysis of British development plans to establish the sources of policy that policy writers find useful. It also includes many other useful sources which contain advice on design that can aid policy formulation, including academic texts, practice orientated studies and also lobbyists recommendations. References include sources on design and area appraisal, approaches to policy writing, sources on aspects of urban design theory, advice related
Keywords: assessing quality, bibliography, conservation, design control/review, design guide, design strategy, landscape, planning
Space around the home
Author: Coulson, N
Publish date: December, 24-31 1980
Journal: Architects Journal
Pages: 1245-1260
Keywords: design control/review, housing, planning
Space is the machine
Author: Hillier, B
Publish date: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Abstract: This book brings together research on space syntax completed in the University of London. The work presents and discusses further the application of space syntax analysis which has occurred since The Social Logic of Space.
Keywords: spatial interpretation, theory
Space Syntax a different urban perspective
Author: Hillier, Bill et al
Publish date: November 30 1983
Journal: Architects Journal Vol 178(48)
Pages: 47-63
Keywords: behavioural, morphology, security, social aspects of design, theory
Spatial Configuration and Built Form
Author: Jo, S
Publish date: 1998
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 3(3)
Pages: 285 - 302
Abstract: The paper considers the impact of unsympathetic architectural practices on the character of a city's urban form
Keywords: morphology, urban form
Sprawl and Public Place: Redressing the Mall
Author: Smiley
Publish date: September 2002
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: public space
Squares in Contemporary Architecture
Author: Favole, P
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Architectura and Natura Press, Amsterdam
Abstract: Glossy book that reviews a number of contemporary developments from around the world that have included squares.
Keywords: architecture, public space
Squares in Traditional Jordanian Cities
Author: Al-Aoabi,A.Y.
Publish date: 2001
Journal: Urban Design Studies, Vol 7
Pages: 35-44
Abstract: Paper looks at the historical development of urban spaces in the context of traditional Jordanian culture. It examines the formation and functions of squares and how guidance can be taken for modern designers to meet the neads of present day Jordan.
Keywords: cultural, history, urban form
Staedtebau: Band 1 Staedtebauliches Entwerfen
Author: Prinz, D
Publish date: 1999
Publisher: Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Architectur
Abstract: German introductory text to urban design
Keywords: keywords, Urban Design
Staedtebau: Band 2 Staedtebauliches Gestalten
Author: Prinz, D
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Architectur
Abstract: Core text introducing urban design in Germany.
Keywords: keywords, Urban Design
Steps towards sustainability
Author: Hussell, D
Publish date: March 1995
Journal: Housebuilder Vol 54(3)
Keywords: sustainability
Stop, look and listen
Author: Nicholson, I and Donohoe, A
Publish date: October 1992
Journal: Which
Pages: 32-35
Keywords: highways, traffic, traffic calming
Strategy to shake off design decrees
Author: Chetwyn, D
Publish date: 1998
Journal: Planning, Issue 1283, 28 August
Pages: 14 - 15
Abstract: Brief paper that introduces the design strategy produced by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, England. The paper discusses in particular its approach to encouraging creative architectural design that does not mimic the past.
Keywords: aesthetics, architecture, design control/review, design strategy, planning
Street Furniture: Code of Practice for the Disabled
Author: Welsh Council for the Disabled
Publish date: 1992
Publisher: The Welsh Council for the Disabled, Llys Ifor, Cresent Road, Caerphilly, CF1 1XL
Keywords: design control/review, standards
Street Graphics Cuba
Author: Dawson,B
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Abstract: A look at the imput of individuals on the street once the urban designers, architects and construction workers have left. How individual detail and expression can give life to the street.
Keywords: personalisation, streets
Street Graphics India
Author: Dawson,B
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Abstract: A look at how individuals have a imput into the street once the urban designers, architects and construction workers have left. How individual detail and expression can give the street life.
Keywords: personalisation, streets
Street Improvements in Historic Areas
Author: English Heritage
Publisher: English Heritage, Fortress House, 23 Savile Row, London, W1X 1AB
Keywords: conservation, heritage, standards
Street Standards and the Shaping of Suburbia
Author: Southworth, M and Ben-Joseph E
Publish date: 1995
Journal: American Planning Association Journal, Winter
Pages: 65-81
Keywords: design control/review, housing, standards, streets, suburbs
Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities
Author: Southworth M and Ben-Joseph, E
Publish date: 1997
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York
Abstract: Book that discusses the evolution of residential street standards, and their affect on neighbourhood character and livability, drawing mainly on the experiences of the USA and Britain.
Keywords: housing, streets, suburbs
Streets for People
Author: Landscape Institute
Publish date: April 1996
Publisher: The Landscape Institute, 6-8 Barnard Mews, London, SW11 1QU, UK
Abstract: Landscape Institute policy document. The document is in three parts - a policy statement directed at Governmnet and other policy makers; guidance notes aimed at the professions involved in development; and an Appendix giving legal advice about the need to gain planning permission for such work in Britain.
Keywords: landscape, pedestrian, principles, streets, traffic
Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space
Author: Celik Z, Favro D and Ingersoll, R
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley
Keywords: cultural, public space, social aspects of design, streets, urbanism
Streetscape Manual
Author: City of Toronto
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: City of Toronto
Abstract: Illustrated manual that details the design elements and accepted practices approved in Toronto. Includes reference to lighting, street furniture, trees and pavement construction.
Keywords: landscape, standards, streets, townscape
Structured Accidentalness: An Argument in Favour of Livaeable Urban Gongestion
Author: Maller, A
Publish date: 1999
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 4, No 2
Pages: 131 - 153
Abstract: Paper that examines the extent to which we can promote congestion as a mechanism for generating conditions for urban living where accidental encounters are encouraged.
Keywords: theory
Structuring a Landscape, Structuring a Sense of Place: The enduring complexity of Olmsted and Vaux's Brooklyn Parkways
Author: Macdonald, E
Publish date: 2002
Journal: Journal of Urban Design, Vol 7 (2)
Pages: 177-143
Abstract: A study of Eastern and Ocean Parkways in Brooklyn, NY, looking at how they were conceived, have evolved, been managed and survived. It also looks at the impact they have had on the surrounding urban form and describes how the streets have helped to create a unique sense of place.
Keywords: place, public space, united states of america
Studies in the Morphology of the English Building Stock
Author: Steadman, J P, Brown F B and Rickaby P
Publish date: 1991
Journal: Environment and Planning B Vol 18
Pages: 85-89
Keywords: morphology, typology
Studying the Factors of Housing Success, Research Note 10
Author: Smith, Nicholas
Publish date: November 1982
Publisher: Joint Centre for Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University
Pages: 1 -11
Keywords: housing, urban form
Suburban Syntax
Author: Macormac, R
Publish date: October 1985
Journal: Architectural Review, No 1065
Pages: 53-54
Abstract: Short but useful paper that discusses some principles of suburban layout.
Keywords: housing, morphology, suburbs
Successes and failures in neighbourhood crime prevention
Author: Osborn, S and Shaftoe, H
Publish date: June 1995
Journal: Findings, Housing Research No 149, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Publisher: JRF, The Homestead, 40, Water End, York, YO3 6LP
Keywords: security
Sustainability at the Cutting Edge
Author: Smith, P
Publish date: October 2002
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Abstract: Details of the new designs and details for the built environment in relation to sustainability.
Keywords: design strategy, sustainability
Sustainable Communities in Europe
Editor: Lafferty, W. M
Publish date: 2001
Publisher: Earthscan Publications
Abstract: Presents detailed research into the participation and involvement of local communities of the European countries in Local Agenda 21. Overviews of its implementation in each country are accompanied by comprehensive analysis of positive and negative changes to date. Best practice and case studies are provided and barriers to achieving sustainability are highighted.
Keywords: community, conservation, management, participation, politics
Sustainable Communities: a new design synthesis for cities, suburbs and towns
Author: Van der Ryn and Calthorpe, P
Publish date: 1986
Publisher: Sierra Club Books, San Francisco
Keywords: community, suburbs, sustainability
Sustainable Communities: Dimensions and Challenges
Author: Kearns A and Turok I
Publish date: October 2003
Publisher: Economic and Social Research Council/Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Abstract: Review of research and thinking relating to sustainability which includes dimensions of design and development.
Keywords: community, sustainability
Sustainable Communities: What's Going on Here?
Author: Pease, M
Publish date: 1995
Journal: Places Vol 6 No 3
Pages: pp 50 - 69
Keywords: community, sustainability, urban form
Sustainable Development and Urban Form
Author: Breheny, M J
Publish date: 1992
Publisher: Pron Press Ltd, London
Keywords: sustainability
Sustainable Ecosystems and the Built Environment- Multi-source Synthesis
Author: Battle,G
Publish date: October 2001
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LTD
Keywords: sustainability
Sustainable Settlements and Shelter: The United Kingdom National Report, Habitat 2
Author: Department of the Environment (UK)
Publish date: 1996
Publisher: London: HMSO
Keywords: mixed use, sustainability
Sustainable Settlements: a guide for planners, designers and developers
Author: Local Government Management Board and Univ of West of England
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Local Government Management Board, Luton
Keywords: sustainability
Sustainable Settlements: A guide for planners, designers and developers
Author: Barton H, Davis G and Guise R
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Local Government Management Board, Luton
Abstract: A comprehensive guide that considers practical advice about how to achieve sustainable development at a variety of scales ranging from the city wide scale down to the design of individual buildings and spaces.
Keywords: design guide, standards, sustainability
Sustainable Urban Design in the Developing World
Author: Zetter,R and Watcon,G.B
Publish date: January 2003
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Keywords: developing context, sustainability
Sustainable Urban Design: An environmental approach
Author: Thomas, R
Publish date: December 2002
Publisher: Spon Press
Abstract: The book takes an overview of the important aspects of sustainable urban design, particlarly focusing on physical aspects including landscaping, transport, energy and water.
Keywords: sustainability
Sustainable Urban Design: The local plan agenda
Author: Carmona, M
Publish date: January 1996
Journal: Urban Design Quarterly, No 57
Pages: 18 -23
Abstract: A brief paper that considers how a new generation of unitary and district-wide development plans are now grappling with how to integrate their traditional focus upon contextual design and urban conservation with the increasingly accepted principle of sustainable development.
Keywords: design control/review, planning, sustainability
Sustainable Urban Landscapes: The Brentwood design charrette
Author: Condon,P.M and Proft,J
Publish date: December 1999
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Abstract: An illustration of how Brentwood town might look if the if it were sustainable, from the view of landscape architects and architects.
Keywords: practice, sustainability
Sustaining Cities: Environment planning and management in urban design
Author: Leitmann,J
Publish date: July 1999
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Abstract: This book addresses the environmental problems found in cities from the urban designer/planner's perspective. It offers practical guidance for planning in the future.
Keywords: sustainability
Symbolism, styles and settings: the built environment and the imperatives of urbanized capitalism
Author: Knox, P L
Publish date: 1982
Journal: Architecture and Behaviour, Vol 2
Pages: 107 -121
Keywords: semiotics, style, theory
Symbols, Public and Private
Author: Firth, R
Publish date: 1985
Publisher: George Allen and Unwin, London
Keywords: semiotics
