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Summary
Summary
This introduction to the field of urban design offers a comprehensive survey of the processes necessary to implement urban design work, explaining the vocabulary, the rules, the tools, the structures, and the resources in clear and accessible style. Providing a comprehensive framework for understanding urban design principles and strategies, the author argues that urban design is both a process and a collaboration in which the different forces involved are knit together. Moving from the regional scale down to the scale of places, the book examines the goals and strategies of the urban designer from the viewpoints of the private sector, public sector, and community. The text is illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings that make theory and practice relevant and alive.
Author Notes
MICHAEL DOBBINS , FAIA, AICP, an architect, city planner, and former Atlanta Commissioner of Planning and Development, is a Professor of Practice in the Architecture and City and Regional Planning programs in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. Mr. Dobbins also serves as urban design and development advisor to various organizations and agencies.
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Library Journal Review
Dobbins (architecture, Georgia Tech Univ.) has actively taught and practiced the professions of architectural design and urban design for 40 years and, until 2002, served as the Atlanta commissioner of planning and development. Here, he summarizes almost half a century of his active professional involvement with architectural design and urban planning. His purpose is to illustrate the public policy and professional pedagogy of urban design as a way to bring together the citizens, politicians, business people, and professionals in common business and design decisions. Dobbins includes a thorough, useful bibliography, listing over 50 authors, including W.H. Whyte, Lewis Mumford, Kevin Lynch, Jonathan Barnett, and Christopher Alexander. Verdict This is a tedious, difficult read with a dearth of illustrations. It's aimed at students as a textbook of administrative action and decision making and will only be of use to those with a specific technical interest in the subject.-Peter Kaufman, Boston Architectural Coll. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Acknowledgements |
| Illustration Credits |
| Part one Background |
| Overview - how people have occupied space and who decides |
| 1 People and Place - how people have shaped their worlds |
| Introduction |
| Antecedents |
| The '60s |
| The "movement" and the civic environment |
| Organizational responses to the rise of citizen participation |
| Growing pains - the challenges of citizen participation |
| Where we may be heading |
| Summary |
| 2 Urban Design Traditions? |
| Spatial models in the built world |
| Introduction |
| The organic tradition - natu |
| Simple Design Elements |
| Grading of Linear Elements |
| Grading By Proportion |
| Visualizing Topography from Contour Lines |
| Grading of Planar Areas |
| Swales to Divert Runoff |
| Area Grading Process |
| 6 Grading Process |
| Introduction |
| Applying the Grading Process |
| Grading Plan Graphics |
| 7 Soils in Construction |
| Role of Soil in Site Planning |
| Implications of Soils to Site Construction |
| Geotechnical Exploration and Soil Investigation |
| Soil Characteristics |
| Soil Classification |
| Engineering Properties of Soils |
| Structural Soils |
| Light Weight Soils |
| Geotextiles |
| Construction Sequence for Grading |
| Placing and Compacting Soils |
| Earthwork Specifications |
| 8 Earthwork |
| Definitions |
| Grading Operations |
| Computation of Cut and Fill Volumes |
| 9 Storm Water Management |
| Storm Runoff |
| Hydrologic Cycle |
| Nature of the Problem |
| Management Philosophy |
| Storm Water Management Strategies |
| Principles and Techniques |
| Case Studies |
| Summary |
| 10 Soil Erosion and Sediment Control |
| Introduction |
| Regulatory Requirements |
| Soil Erosion Factors |
| Erosion and Sedimentation Processes |
| Erosion and Sediment Control Principles |
| Development of an Erosion and Sediment Control Plan |
| Runoff Considerations |
| Construction Sequencing |
| Erosion Control Measures |
| Sediment Control Measures |
| Case Studies |
| Summary |
| 11 Determining Rates and Volumes of Storm Runoff: The Rational and Modified Rational Methods |
| Introduction |
| Rational Method |
| Modified Rational Method |
| Volumes of Runoff, Storage and Release |
| Required Storage for Detention or Retention Ponds by the Modified Rational Method |
| Summary |
| 12 Natural Resources Conservation Service Methods of Estimating Runoff Rates, Volumes, and Required Detention Storage |
| Introduction |
| Rainfall |
| Procedures of TR55 |
| Volume for Detention Storage |
| Summary |
| 13 Designing and Sizing Storm Water Management Systems |
| Management Systems |
| Design and Layout of Drainage Systems |
| Applications |
| Subsurface Drainage |
| Summary |
| 14 Site Layout and Dimensioning |
| Hierarchy of Dimensioning |
| Dimensioning Guidelines |
| Horizontal Layout Methods |
| Layout Plans |
| 15 Horizontal Road Alignment |
| Types of Horizontal Curves |
| Circular Curve Elements |
| Circular Curve Formulas |
| Degree of Curve |
| Stationing |
| Horizontal Sight Distance |
| Construction Drawing Graphics |
| Horizontal Alignment Procedures |
| Superelevation |
| Case Study |
| 16 Vertical Road Alignment |
| Vertical Curve Formula |
| Equal Tangent Curves |
| Calculating the Locations of High and Low Points |
| Unequal Tangent Curves |
| Construction Drawing Graphics |
| Vertical Sight Distances |
| Road Alignment Procedure |
| Appendix I Table of Metric Equivalents |
| Appendix II Drawing Scales |
| Glossary |
| Bibliography |
| Index |
