Measuring Urban Design
By:Reid Ewing,Otto Clemente
Published on 2013-07-20 by Island Press
What makes strolling down a particular street enjoyable? The authors of Measuring Urban Design argue it's not an idle question. Inviting streets are the centerpiece of thriving, sustainable communities, but it can be difficult to pinpoint the precise design elements that make an area appealing. This accessible guide removes the mystery, providing clear methods to measure urban design. In recent years, many |walking audit instruments| have been developed to measure qualities like building height, block length, and sidewalk width. But while easily quantifiable, these physical features do not fully capture the experience of walking down a street. In contrast, this book addresses broad perceptions of street environments. It provides operational definitions and measurement protocols of five intangible qualities of urban design, specifically imageability, visual enclosure, human scale, transparency, and complexity. The result is a reliable field survey instrument grounded in constructs from architecture, urban design, and planning.Readers will also find a case study applying the instrument to 588 streets in New York City, which shows that it can be used effectively to measure the built environment's impact on social, psychological, and physical well-being. Finally, readers will find illustrated, step-by-step instructions to use the instrument and a scoring sheet for easy calculation of urban design quality scores. For the first time, researchers, designers, planners, and lay people have an empirically tested tool to measure those elusive qualities that make us want to take a stroll.Urban policymakers and planners as well as students in urban policy, design, and environmental health willfind thetools and methods in Measuring Urban Design especially useful.
This Book was ranked at 17 by Google Books for keyword collins camcorder handbook.
Book ID of Measuring Urban Design's Books is bJAkmBqTz5AC, Book which was written byReid Ewing,Otto Clementehave ETAG "vAP9Pz5vzg4"
Book which was published by Island Press since 2013-07-20 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781610912099 and ISBN 10 Code is 1610912098
Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is false
Book which have "200 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryArchitecture
This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at ""
This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true
Book Preview
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar