Author: Andrew Scott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136580301
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
ReNew Town puts forth an innovative vision of performative design and planning for low-carbon sustainable development, and illustrates practicable strategies for balancing environmental systems with urban infrastructure and new housing prototypes. To date, much of the discourse on the design of sustainable communities and ‘eco-cities’ has been premised on using previously undeveloped land. In contrast, this book and the project it showcases focus on the retrofitting and adaptation of an existing environment – a more common problem, given the extent of the world’s already-built infrastructure. Employing a ‘research through design’ model of inquiry, the book focuses on large-scale housing developments – especially those built around the world between the 1960s and the early 1980s – with the aim of understanding how best to reinvent them. At the center of the book is Tama New Town, a planned community outside Tokyo that faces a range of challenges, such as an aging population, the deterioration of homes and buildings, and economic stagnation. The book begins by outlining a series of principles that structure the ecological and energy goals for the community. It then develops prototypical solutions for designing, building and retrofitting neighborhoods. The intent is that these prototypes could be applied to similar urban conditions around the world. ReNew Town is the product of a collaborative design research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Architecture and Planning, and Japan’s Sekisui House LTD.
ReNew Town
Author: Andrew Scott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136580301
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
ReNew Town puts forth an innovative vision of performative design and planning for low-carbon sustainable development, and illustrates practicable strategies for balancing environmental systems with urban infrastructure and new housing prototypes. To date, much of the discourse on the design of sustainable communities and ‘eco-cities’ has been premised on using previously undeveloped land. In contrast, this book and the project it showcases focus on the retrofitting and adaptation of an existing environment – a more common problem, given the extent of the world’s already-built infrastructure. Employing a ‘research through design’ model of inquiry, the book focuses on large-scale housing developments – especially those built around the world between the 1960s and the early 1980s – with the aim of understanding how best to reinvent them. At the center of the book is Tama New Town, a planned community outside Tokyo that faces a range of challenges, such as an aging population, the deterioration of homes and buildings, and economic stagnation. The book begins by outlining a series of principles that structure the ecological and energy goals for the community. It then develops prototypical solutions for designing, building and retrofitting neighborhoods. The intent is that these prototypes could be applied to similar urban conditions around the world. ReNew Town is the product of a collaborative design research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Architecture and Planning, and Japan’s Sekisui House LTD.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136580301
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
ReNew Town puts forth an innovative vision of performative design and planning for low-carbon sustainable development, and illustrates practicable strategies for balancing environmental systems with urban infrastructure and new housing prototypes. To date, much of the discourse on the design of sustainable communities and ‘eco-cities’ has been premised on using previously undeveloped land. In contrast, this book and the project it showcases focus on the retrofitting and adaptation of an existing environment – a more common problem, given the extent of the world’s already-built infrastructure. Employing a ‘research through design’ model of inquiry, the book focuses on large-scale housing developments – especially those built around the world between the 1960s and the early 1980s – with the aim of understanding how best to reinvent them. At the center of the book is Tama New Town, a planned community outside Tokyo that faces a range of challenges, such as an aging population, the deterioration of homes and buildings, and economic stagnation. The book begins by outlining a series of principles that structure the ecological and energy goals for the community. It then develops prototypical solutions for designing, building and retrofitting neighborhoods. The intent is that these prototypes could be applied to similar urban conditions around the world. ReNew Town is the product of a collaborative design research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Architecture and Planning, and Japan’s Sekisui House LTD.
Renewal of Town and Village II
Author: International Union of Local Authorities
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401771235
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401771235
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Annual Report of the Comptroller, City of Buffalo
Author: Buffalo (N.Y.) Department of Audit and Control
Publisher:
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Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Atlantic Reporter
Author:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
Watertown Records: The third book of town proceedings and the second book of births, marriages and deaths to end of 1737, also plan and register of burials in Arlington Street Burying Ground
Author:
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Watertown Records ...: The third book of town proceedings, and the second book of births, marriages and deaths to the end of 1737; also plan and register of burials in Arlington street burying ground
Author: Watertown (Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Author: Maine. Supreme Judicial Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Report of the Division of Accounting
Author: Buffalo (N.Y.) Office of Comptroller
Publisher:
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Renewal of Town and Village
Author: International Union of Local Authorities
Publisher:
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Category : Urban renewal
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Urban renewal
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description