ABC/338 - The Architects' Year Book 13 - The Growth of Cities

ABC/338

The Architects' Year Book 13 - The Growth of Cities

1 volume

The 13th volume from a series of Year Books aimed to help and inspire architects by offering them a compilation of technical and aesthetic information on the contemporary architectural practices. It covers subjects such as: The Role of Design; The French Z.U.P. Technique of Urban Development; Runcorn; The Columbia Process - The Potential for New Towns; subUrban Design; On Pop Art, Permissiveness, and Planning; Ten Rules for Planners; Barriers and Channels for Housing Development in Modernizing Countries; Houses Generated by Patterns; A New View of the Housing Deficit; The Modern Mayan House Site; Concentric Towns - The Valley of the Mzab; The Regeneration of Regensburg; Observations on Three Aegean Island Towers; Government-built Cities and People-made Places; Church Street South Housing in New Haven; Housing and Urban Growth; Thamesmead: planning, report and transportation planning. The text is accompanied by numerous plates (photographs, plans, elevations and drawings) some of them depicting these structures: Paolo Soleri, Babel IIB, from 'The City in the Image of Man'; Town of Ghardaia in the Valley of the Mzab; Chatham Village, Pittsburgh; Downtown Pittsburgh; Seagram Building, New York; Runcorn Diagrammatic Master Plan; Astmoor Industrial Estate; Housing at Brow Estate; Housing at Castlefields Estate; Location of Columbia in the Washington-Baltimore Corridor; Diagrams of Towns and Villages; The Merriweather Post Pavilion of Music; Wilde Lake Village Centre; City Centre and Plaza, Columbia, Maryland; Plan of London ca. 1574; 'Habitat', Expo. '67, Montreal, Canada; View of Heidelberg, 1645; Aerial view of central Paris and of Washington D.C.; Suburbia in Montgomery County, Maryland; Chatham Village, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Suburban Commercial Centres; Parking in Rockville, Maryland; Highway Signs, Interstate 95, Philadelphia; Silver Spring, Maryland; Montgomery County Community Renewal Programme; Good Year Tyres, 6610 Laurel Canyon, North Holywood, California; Works of Edward Ruscha; Development of Cuevas; Project Valdivieso, Lima; Ghardaia Market; Regional Plan for Regensburg; Hydra, Astypalaia, and Kalymnos; Kastro on Sophos; Town of Naxos on Naxos; Chora on Patmos; Quitini Castle; Houses, northern section of Kalymnos III; Aerial view of the Expansion of Johannesburg; Core of Western Native Township, around Hay Avenue; Street Elevation of Molatane Street between Hay and Roberts Avenue; Garment Workers' Union Co-operatives and the Rochdale Village Co-operative, New York City; Linear Housing Sections.

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