The 14th 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 Inner City in the Post-Industrial Era - A study of Its Changing Social Fabric and Economic Function; New Influences on Persian Cities; A Case Study of Kerman, Iran; Movement in Midtown; Metro Impact Study; Living with Traffic; Mobile Shops in Chandigarh; The 'street' and 'hiroba' in Japan; 'Sense of Space' in Greek Anonymous Architecture; A Public Information System for Adams-Morgan Streets; The Neighbourhood Museums in the Inner City; British Inner City Planning - A Personal View; The Save Picadilly Campaign - An Annotated Dossier of Campaign Publications; Order in our Thinking; A Collection of Patterns which Generate Multi-Service Centres; Aesthetics as a Function of Retail Establishment; Mental Strategies in Architectural Design; The Development of Urban Gaming-Simulation in Britain; 'U-DIG' Game, a Tool for Urban Innovation; A Community Determines what its Centre is. The text is accompanied by numerous plates (photographs, plans, elevations and drawings) some of them depicting these structures: Plan of the Pedestrian Precincts in the Historic Core, Munich; Marienplatz in 1840 and 1972; Foliage and Water Fountains in the Marienplatz, the Richard-Strauss-Brunnen, and Karlsplatz, Munich; Lake Havasu City, desert of Arizona; Shopping Area in Ibadan, Nigeria; Lobkovic Palace, Prague; Design Concept for Holle Centre, Essen, Germany; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the rebuilt inner city; Prague's inner city; Hoboken, New Jersey; Subsidized Housing on Manhattan's West Side; Frederick Douglas Public Housing Project; Park West Village, middle-income subsidized housing; Typical Apartment House, Tremont Area of the Bronx; East Harlem Street Scene; Abandoned Apartment House, New York City; New Development in Southern Middlesex County, 45 miles from Times Square; Suburban Development in Paramus, New Jersey; Large0lot zoning in northwest Bergen County - Wickoff or Mahwah; Suburban School in Waldwick, New Jersey; 19th century Schools, Newark, New Jersey; Parking lots from Alexander's to Gimbels, in Paramus, New Jersey; A Cloverleaf in Paramus, New Jersey; Printing Plant of Wall Street Journal in Lower Middlesex County, New Jersey; The Ford Assembly Plant, Mahwah, New Jersey; Allied Chemical in Morris Township, New Jersey; Multi-level caravansarai in Tabriz Bazaar, Iran; Kerman City plans; Continuous Bazaar at Kerman; A Typical Kutchee in Kerman; Typical housing in Kerman; Oxford Street, London; King's Road Chelsea, London; Swiss Cottage Intersection, London; Tange's Hiroba Concept; Akabaka Tokyu Plaza Plan; Shinjuku Terminal; Everton Heights, Liverpool; Fishers Lane Redevelopment Area, Chiswick; Redevelopment on Northern Boundary of Covent Garden; Two Designs for multi-usage Community Centres in Pittsburgh.
A collection of ancient buildings with short descriptions, engravings and measurements. Buildings included are: Portico of Ottavia, Rome; Mausoleum or Temple of Bachus, Rome; Temple of Peace, Rome; Temple of Antonino and Faustina, Rome; Temple of Concord, Rome; Temple of Minerva, Athens; Temple of Erictea, Athens; Ruins of different buildings, Athens; Temple of Theseus, Athens; Odeon, Athens; Lantern of Demostene, Athens; Port of Pireu, Athens; The Arch of Theseus, Athens; Stadium, Athens; Temple of Corinth, Athens; Theater of Sparta, Athens; Dorico of Thoricion, Athens; Temple of Minerva Poliade, Athens; Tower of the Winds, Athens.
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (1727-1785), painter and engraver
