Seattle Townscape Walks

Seattle Townscape Walks
Title Seattle Townscape Walks PDF eBook
Author Tyler E. Burgess
Publisher
Pages 122
Release 2018-06-21
Genre
ISBN 9780692145036

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Urban walks from all the Light Rail Stations. Total of 52 walks, 210 miles of the magic that is Seattle.

Seattle Townscape Walks

Seattle Townscape Walks
Title Seattle Townscape Walks PDF eBook
Author MS Tyler E Burgess
Publisher
Pages 128
Release 2016-06-13
Genre
ISBN 9780981659923

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Seattle has one of the world's most lovely natural settings. Explore the waterfront, Pikes Market, charming neighborhoods and the University of Washington on foot. Fall in love with this beautiful city as you walk.

The Image of the City

The Image of the City
Title The Image of the City PDF eBook
Author Kevin Lynch
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 212
Release 1964-06-15
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780262620017

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The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Eugene and Springfield Townscape Walks

Eugene and Springfield Townscape Walks
Title Eugene and Springfield Townscape Walks PDF eBook
Author M. S. Tyler E. Burgess
Publisher
Pages 114
Release 2018-06-04
Genre
ISBN 9780692136225

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Discover the magic that is Eugene and Springfield, Oregon, in 40 walks in Eugene and 10 walks in Springfield. Easy to follow directions with charming illustrations.

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
Title Twenty Minutes in Manhattan PDF eBook
Author Michael Sorkin
Publisher North Point Press
Pages 274
Release 2013-03-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0865477582

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Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn't in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in Twenty Minutes in Manhattan, he explains what he sees, what he imagines, what he knows—giving us extraordinary access to the layers of history, the feats of engineering and artistry, and the intense social drama that take place along a simple twenty-minute walk.

Eugene, Oregon Walks

Eugene, Oregon Walks
Title Eugene, Oregon Walks PDF eBook
Author Tyler Burgess
Publisher
Pages 68
Release 2008-05-01
Genre Eugene (Or.)
ISBN 9780981659909

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Guide, including distances, elevation, level of difficulty and directions for 32 enjoyable walks in Eugene Oregon.

City

City
Title City PDF eBook
Author William H. Whyte
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 405
Release 2012-09-10
Genre Social Science
ISBN 081220834X

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Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time." For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of what is staggeringly obvious about the urban environment but seemingly invisible to those responsible for planning it. Whyte uses time-lapse photography to chart the anatomy of metropolitan congestion. Why is traffic so badly distributed on city streets? Why do New Yorkers walk so fast—and jaywalk so incorrigibly? Why aren't there more collisions on the busiest walkways? Why do people who stop to talk gravitate to the center of the pedestrian traffic stream? Why do places designed primarily for security actually worsen it? Why are public restrooms disappearing? "The city is full of vexations," Whyte avers: "Steps too steep; doors too tough to open; ledges you cannot sit on. . . . It is difficult to design an urban space so maladroitly that people will not use it, but there are many such spaces." Yet Whyte finds encouragement in the widespread rediscovery of the city center. The future is not in the suburbs, he believes, but in that center. Like a Greek agora, the city must reassert its most ancient function as a place where people come together face-to-face.