Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
Eric Firley is the author of this book’s companion volumes The Urban Housing Handbook (2009) and The Urban Towers Handbook (2011). Assistant Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture since January 2011, he is a trained architect and urban designer with work experience in real estate and several design practices in Paris and London. Regularly invited to speak at architectural institutions around the world, he has a specific interest in interdisciplinary research and in the relationship between architecture and the urban fabric.
Katharina Grön is a German planner who graduated in 2008 from the Hamburg University of Technology. Already involved in the production of The Urban Housing Handbook, she has developed the graphic concept of the book, including diagrams and custom-made urban plans. She lives and works as a planner and urban designer in Hamburg.Acknowledgements
Introduction
Case studies
1. Broadgate, London
2. Masséna Nord, Paris
3. Stuyvesant Town, New York
4. Battery Park City, New York
5. Avenue de l’Opéra, Paris
6. Vauban, Freiburg
7. Antigone, Montpellier
8. Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
9. Kirchsteigfeld, Potsdam
10. Spangen, Rotterdam
11. Belgravia, London
12. False Creek North, Vancouver
13. Sarphatipark, Amsterdam
14. Marunouchi, Tokyo
15. Euralille, Lille
16. Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires
17. Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm
18. Downtown Dubai
19. Beijing Central Business District
20. La Défense Seine Arche, Greater Paris
Appendices
Timeline
Density figures
Figure-ground diagrams
Scale comparison of all projects
Bibliography
Image credits
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.