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050	0	0	_aNA9050 _bT46 2013
100	1		_aThomas, Derek _d1940- _9283480
245	1	0	_aArchitecture and the urban environment : _bholistic design / _cDerek Thomas _htxt
264			_aSimon's Town (16 Ricketts Close, Simon's Town 7975) : _bMercutio Books, _c2013.
300			_aviii, 228 p. _bill. (chiefly col.) _c25 cm. _fbook
336			_2rdacontent _btxt _atext
337			_2rdamedia _bn _aunmediaded
338			_2rdacarrier _bnc _avolume
500			_aOriginally published under title: Architecture and the urban environment : a vision for the new age. 2002.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 222-224) and index.
505			_aIntroduction - From the craftman to the technician, from manual to digital, architecture is facing arguably its greatest challenges yet to be worthy of its historical precedent. The intemperance and secularity of the developed world , the declining quality of urban life globally , and a universal disregard for proper stewardship of the natural resources of the planet will determine the future course that architecture and urban design will follow.- POST - MILLENIUM IMPERATIVES - HOLISTIC DESIGN – Directions in Architecture -- " Architecture is the printing press of all ages , and gives a history of the state of society in which it was erected . " ( Morgan ).- THE ROOTS OF ARCHITECTURE -- The Wide World - Contemporary directions - Revivalism - Individualism - THE ARAB WORLD - Inappropriate 'imports' and tokenism - Returning authentic identity - AFRICA RISING- Architecture of Symbolism - The Apartheid Museum - Derivatives and theme worlds - Deconstructivism and Fractal design - The responsive practitioner - CHART : Main stem of Western Architecture - The Cultural Dynamic-- In the urban environment , failure to meet the cultural needs of the community end user , threatens the amenity value of the social environmentwith potentially dire sociological consequences. - MEMETICS : THE COLLECTIVE MINDSET - UNIVERSAL CULTURAL NEEDS - Response to lifestyle - Spaces that liberate - Outdoor urban life - Space for informal marketing and jobs- Planned commercial opportunity - Territorial needs - Sense of community - Security through the presence of others - Permaculture - living design - Recreational needs: Sport and Play - Mega – events- The Urban Ecosystem -- Planning and design of the urban setting should aim uncompromisingly at ' engt and ' ennobling ' environments. Inevitably, this demands a process based on De driven dynamics, in other words, planning inspired by the perceptions of the us urban space. Cultural needs and urban space - Socio - spatial patterning - Urban micro - climate - Movement corridors and destinations - The urban ecosystem and natural regimes - Form and Imagery-- Nowhere do mathematics, science, philosophy and the natural senses permet one another so intimately as in the understanding of the character of a piece of architecture and that of urban space. Form and culture -- Proportion and the Golden Section - The human scale - Distance and movement - THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COLOUR - Colour systems - Modifying properties of texture - Noticeable difference or similarity - Code for Sustainability -- " Oil and coals or energy carriers , and so , in abstract form , is money . And the answer to that burning question is of course exactly where that money , your money , has to flow - affordable clean energy " ( Extract from ' Solar ' : McEwan).- Protect the natural environment - Sustainable design - Respect for the site - Working with the climate - Energy - conserving design - Sustainable construction - Minimise resource extraction - RESTORATION- Adaptive re-use and regeneration - The ethical imperative - Architecture in Response -- Much of what is currently presented under the banner of architecture and , curiously rewarded and applauded by architects themselves , is preoccupled with excess such as designs which are inappropriate to climate , such as glass curtainwan structures in hot , sundrenched climates , necessitating complete reliance on energy resources. - Architectural ethics and protocol - The contextual edge - Active building fronts- Building edge options - Sense of place - A conservation ethos - Conservation of heritage sites - The Cradle of Humankind - HOLISM IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN - End - user and the design process - Green principles and technological advances - Sound aesthetic principles - Landscaping and Architecture - INSPIRING THE FUTURE - Organic design - Spirit of man in architecture - Fractal geometry Fractal geometry and architectural design - OTHER STRUCTURES - Sports stadia - Landmark bridges - Urban Design in Response -- The rigorous design axioms of the Modern Movement have caused streets to lose their attraction as gathering places. As a consequence individual attitudes to urban space have been radically altered . . . Functionalism, which laid the groundwork for our loss of traditional space, became obsessed with efficiency ' (Trancik 1986). - Urban morphology - Sense of place and space - The potential catalyst - A sense of neighbourhood - Personal space - The courtyard house - Small stands - The residential / public interface - Meaningful urban space - Public space guidelines - Criteria for public squares - Spatial closure and visual order - Streetscaping - Places to linger - Controls on sun and wind - Pollution - free public spaces - Pedestrians - only streets - Clusters and common land - SUSTAINABLE DENSITY OPTIONS - Density test criteria - Urban imprints on natural regimes- Conserve ecological diversity - Offset geomorphic impacts- On Resource Economics -- This branch of economics, otherwise resource economics, is perhaps the ke bridging the current huge divide between the expediency of big business en on the one hand and the more conservationist vision on the other. - The measure of sustainability - Blueprint for a green economy - Profit through conservation - PRACTICAL ECONOMICS - The user - pays principle - The payback principle - CASE STUDY: A TERMITARY FOR WORKING - Alternative technologies - The Timeless Way -- The timeless masterpieces in urban design and architecture of the past in all cultures globally were achieved with comparatively less means and destruction of the Earth’s ecological diversity than today. - Appendices - What is ISO 14001? - ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES - ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIFICATIONS for construction activities - BIBLIOGRAPHY - PHOTO SOURCES & ACKNOWLEDGEMENT - INDEX-
520			_a "Architecture and the Urban Environment – Holistic Design, forms a critical appraisal of the place and direction of architecture and urban design in the new world order, a decade into the 21st Century. This philosophical and practical source book highlights current social, cultural, natural and technological resource issues and aims to assist architects, urban designers and landscape architects – and those in training – to synthesise the elements of holistic and sustainable design." --Publisher.
650		0	_aSustainable architecture _9176114
650	0	0	_aArchitecture _xEnvironmental aspects. _954081 _2Local
650	0	0	_aCity planning _973701 _2Local
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