urban design: method and techniques
endanger the world. They advocate a steady state or preferably a decline in population and an economic slow down. The organic mo ...
theory which will prevent humanity, in its present mindlessness, from developing into the final distur- bance which the Earth ca ...
URBAN DESIGN: METHOD AND TECHNIQUES Figure 5.5Ecological garden design. ...
quarter, or in Mollinson’s terms, the village; the street block surrounding its own green space; the individual home with its ow ...
both are changed by the interaction ... the second law of thermodynamics (states that) energy tends to dissipate towards entropy ...
district centre. Districts are sub-divided into neigh- bourhoods with a neighbourhood centre. The neigh- bourhoods further divid ...
to determine the precise state of each structure and the stage of development of the social unit or family occupying that partic ...
the form is apparent from the beginning: the pattern is in the seed, that is, at the point of origin. For example, while the gro ...
‘There are equal numbers of large, medium and small projects’.^20 There is an argument in favour of reducing Alexander’s figure ...
building, an outdoor space, a garden, a wall, a road, a window, a complex of several of these at the same time ... In general, a ...
16 Great Guilford Street, London SE1, was designed by Gale and Snowden, an architectural practice based in Barnstaple and specia ...
are also features of the design. All materials and products used in the building will be ‘healthy’, that is, those products and ...
chambers (bark pits), reed beds and in the ponds on site: the foul water will be converted into usable compost. Compost will be ...
THE RAILWAY COTTAGES, DERBY (Designed by Derek Latham & Company Limited) Two decades after their conservation was under- tak ...
URBAN DESIGN: METHOD AND TECHNIQUES Figure 5.20Railway Cottages, Derby. Axonometric. ...
reasonable alternative to council housing was the rehabilitation of the cottages for sale on the open market. With this in mind ...
URBAN DESIGN: METHOD AND TECHNIQUES Figure 5.22Railway Cottages, Derby. Before rehabilitation. Figure 5.23Railway Cottages, Derb ...
improvements increased the rehabilitation costs to £11 500 per house, requiring a new sale price of £12 750. The new sale price ...
21.^26 It is proposed here to illustrate in greater detail some of the techniques which enable people to take part actively in t ...
GENERATING ALTERNATIVES Figure 5.26Millgate, Newark, the site. Figure 5.27Millgate, Newark, design meeting on the site. ...
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