Book description
Drawing for Urban Design explores a wide range of ways to represent the city, from freehand sketching to sophisticated computer models. Architects and urban planners need to describe cities in the course of their work, be it through maps, diagrams, sketches, computer renderings, or models. This book provides a practical introduction to these techniques for students, while explaining the processes associated with describing and designing urban environments â it is an invaluable visual handbook for representing the contemporary city.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- The City in Context
- The City as Object
- The City as Data
- The City Imagined
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Masterplanning Projects
- A new quarter for a historic city: David Chipperfield Architects, Art and Technology Quarter, Segovia, Spain
- The city of the future: MVRDV, Vison 2030, Almere, The Netherlands
- The eco city: MVRDV, Eco City, Logroño Montecorvo, Spain
- Rebuilding a community: HOK, Arverne East, Rockaway Peninsula, Queens, New York, USA
- The new Asian city: von Gerkan Marg and Partners, Lingang New City, China
- Sustainability in an extreme environment: Metropolitan Workshop, Dead Sea Development, Jordan
- The virtual CAD image: Zaha Hadid Architects, Kartal–Pendik Masterplan, Istanbul, Turkey
- Conclusion
- Endmatter
Product information
- Title: Drawing Urban Design
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2011
- Publisher(s): Laurence King
- ISBN: 9781856697187
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