Main entry:

Dober, Richard P.

Title & Author:

Environmental design [by] Richard P. Dober.

Publication:

New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold [1969]

Description:

278 pages illustrations, maps, plans 23 x 29 cm

Notes:
[I.] Human habitation : The prospect for human habitation -- Large schools/small sites -- Landscape and open space -- Greenbelts -- The American experience -- Cookie-cutter landscape -- Outdoor recreation #1 -- Century of crises: decade of concern -- Clustering for open space -- The row house and community design -- Renewal, restoration, reclamation -- Landscaping, shaping and sculpting -- An overview of open space -- [II.] Design structure : Design structure -- The organic analogy -- Natural and cultural influences -- Site and situation -- Centers -- The agora as an archetype -- Civitas -- Attempts at a strong order -- Baroque attitudes -- Circulation -- By rail possessed -- Technologies of centralization and design effect -- The new force -- Accommodating the motor vehicle -- Technical requirements -- Patterns and networks -- Design for motion -- The line and cell in community design -- Influences of modern transport technology on design -- Transport planning: a fourth revolution? -- The design structure of a state: New York -- The urban state: Connecticut -- Finger and hand and diagrams: Copenhagen -- Metrodesigns for the nation's capital: Washington, D.C. -- [III.] A sense of place : A sense of place : The state of the art -- Beyond architecture -- Strategic design network -- Capital design/capital web -- Putting it together -- Climate and regional design -- Community function as a design influence -- Historic preservation -- The search for values in a printout of facts -- Cope, cope, or opt -- Quality engendered -- Freeways and expressways -- Traffic segregation -- Parking -- Micro-movement systems -- The pedestrian precinct -- Postscript.

Subject:

Urban beautification.
City planning.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
City planning Environmental aspects.
Urban ecology (Biology)
City Planning
Villes Embellissement.
Urbanisme.
Écologie urbaine.
urban environments.
urban beautification.
urban planning.
ruimtelijke ordening
physical planning
planning
esthetische waarde
aesthetic value
filosofie
philosophy
kunst
arts
Physical Planning (General)
Ruimtelijke ordening (algemeen)

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 119120
Call No.: W9506; ID:86-B4116
Status: Available