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Cities and Buildings
Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs
Häftad, 1994
436 kr
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In this text, Ford offers an account of the relationship between urban architecture - especially vernacular architecture - and the spatial arrangement and development of cities in North America. From office towers in the central business district to commercial strips in the "edge city", Ford shows …
Spaces between Buildings
Häftad, 2000
436 kr
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Gates and fences, sidewalks and driveways, alleys and parking lots-these ordinary features have an important architectural impact, influencing how a building relates to the spaces around it. As geographer Larry R. Ford argues, architectural histories and guidebooks tell us surprisingly little about …
America's New Downtowns
Revitalization or Reinvention?
Inbunden, 2003
564 kr
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What makes a good downtown, and why? Are today's downtowns, with their waterfront parks, festival markets, sports arenas, and cultural centers, more vibrant and lively than the "central business districts" of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Was there ever a "golden age" of downtowns? …
Metropolitan San Diego
How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment
Häftad, 2004
345 kr
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The San Diego of popular imagination is a lotus land of sun and surfers, a ruggedly beautiful region where Mexican barrios coexist with mountain villages and deserts sprawl as far as the eye can see. Functionally, if not officially, its reaches extend all the way to Tijuana, Mexico, giving it an …
