Urban Design - Ron Kasprisin

Urban Design

The Composition of Complexity

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Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2011
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-59146-1 (ISBN)
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For planning to be successful, design must mean more than simply blindly following the dictates of legislation and regulation – yet losing sight of the importance of the design process is all too often exactly what has happened.





Ron Kasprisin has written a book for students of planning and urban design that reconnects the process of designing with outcomes on the ground, and puts thinking about design back at the heart of what planners do. The book identifies the elements and principles of composition and explores compositional order and structure as they relate to the meaning and functionality of cities. It discusses new directions and methods, outlines the importance of both buildings and the open spaces between them.





Mixing accessible theory, practical examples and carefully designed exercises in composition from simple to complex settings, Urban Design is an essential textbook for classrooms and design studios across the full spectrum of planning and urban studies fields. Not only filled with illustrations and graphics of excellent projects, it gives students tools to enable them to sketch, draw, design and above all, to think.

Ron Kasprisin is an architect, urban planner, and artist with over forty years of experience as a practitioner in urban design as Kasprisin Pettinari Design; and over twenty years of academic experience as an Associate Professor in Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Ron is also an accomplished watercolor painter with national recognition, awards, and exhibitions. Ron lives on Whidbey Island northwest of Seattle, Washington in Puget Sound, where he offers watercolor painting workshops at Kasprisin Ridge Studios, Langley, Washington.

Foreword and Acknowledgements  1. Introduction  2. Definitions and Fundamentals of Urban Design in Culture  3. Urban Design Language and Parameters  4. Elements and Principles of Design Composition  5. Relationships in Composition  6. Transformations of Form in Urban Design  7. Context, Program and Typology  8. Experiments in Composition  9. Theoretical Considerations  Appendix 1: Drawing Types for Urban Design  Appendix 2: Working with People: The Politics of Urban Design  Appendix 3: Remnants, Bridging, Hybridity, and Edges

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.6.2011
Zusatzinfo 195 Halftones, color
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 804 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 0-415-59146-5 / 0415591465
ISBN-13 978-0-415-59146-1 / 9780415591461
Zustand Neuware
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