Measuring Urban Design - Metrics for Livable Places

Informationen zum Autor Reid Ewing is Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah and the author of Best Development Practices (9781884829109) and Growing Cooler (9780874200829). He is co-editor with Arthur C. Nelson of the Island Press series in Metropolitan Planning + Design. Reid lives in Salt Lake City! Utah. Otto Clemente is a senior transportation planner working and living in the Washington! DC region. Klappentext Addresses broad perceptions of street environments. This title provides operational definitions and measurement protocols of five intangible qualities of urban design! specifically: imageability! visual enclosure! human scale! transparency! and complexity. Zusammenfassung Addresses broad perceptions of street environments. This title provides operational definitions and measurement protocols of five intangible qualities of urban design! specifically: imageability! visual enclosure! human scale! transparency! and complexity.

Product details

• Authors: Otto Clemente, Reid Ewing, Reid Clemente Ewing, Reid/ Clemente Ewing
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2013
• EAN: 9781610911931
• ISBN: 978-1-61091-193-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Metropolitan Planning + Design; Metropolitan Planning + Design
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning