The built environment : a collaborative inquiry into design and planning

✍ Scribed by McClure, Wendy Rule; Bartuska, Tom J

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 422
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book takes a sweeping view of the ways we build things, beginning at the scale of products and interiors, to that of regions and global systems. In doing so, it answers questions on how we effect and are affected by our environment and explores how components of what we make--from products, buildings, and cities--are interrelated, and why designers and planners must consider these connections

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Part I. Introduction: Definition, design and development of the built environment : 1. The built environment: definition and scope / Tom J. Bartuska --
2. Four traditions in the built environment / Henry C. Matthews --
Part II. Central issues: human-environmental-technical dimensions of a quality environment : 3. Understanding environment(s) : built and natural / Tom J. Bartuska --
4. Designing with people: human behavior, culture and user participation / Paul G. Windley and Wendy R. McClure --
5. Designing with the environment: land and climate / Michael S. Owen and Bruce T. Haglund --
6. Designing with technology: collaborative and creative process / Matthew A. Taylor and Kenneth L. Carper --
7. Designing with a visual language: elements and ordering systems / Gregory A. Kessler --
Part III. Design and planning components (levels of integration) in the built environment : Component 1. Products: industrial and product design : 8. The humanly made object / Catherine M. Bicknell --
9. From craft tradition to industrial design / Catherine M. Bicknell --
Component 2. Interiors: interior design : 10. Cultural blueprints of human existence / John C. Turpin --
11. Human nature and the near environment / Nancy H. Blossom --
12. Interior design: contemporary issues and challenges / Jo Ann A. Thompson and Tina H. Johansen --
Component 3. Structures architecture, engineering and construction --
13. Historic and contemporary trends in architecture / Katherine M. Keane --
14. Architecture as a cultural layer / Wendy R. McClure --
15. The fitness test: designing with human and environmental factors / Bruce T. Haglund and Tom J. Bartuska --
16. Engineering contributions / Carl W. Hall --
17. Constructing the built environment / W. Max Kirk --
Component 4. Landscapes: landscape architecture and planning : 18. Landscape architecture through time / Frederick R. Steiner --
19. Landscape architecture today: purpose, process and palette / Kenneth R. Brooks --
20. Comparative campus design and planning / Phillip S. Waite. Component 5. Cities: urban design and planning : 21. The history of urbanization / Robert J. Patton --
22. The inherited city as a resource / Robert M. Baron --
23. Cities today: the imprint of human needs in urban patterns and form / Tom J. Bartuska --
24. Urban design and planning / Michael S. Owen --
Component 6. Regions: regional planning and management : 25. Defining and planning the regional context / Barbara M. Parmenter --
26. Regional planning: historic and contemporary developments, / Frederick R. Steiner --
27. Connections: products to regional planning and policies / William W. Budd --
Component 7. Earth: global policies, planning and management : 28. Global life-support system and the built environment / Eldon H. Franz --
29. Taking local-global action in the built environment / Diane Armpriest --
Part IV. Challenges: designing and planning a quality sustainable environment for all : 30. Urbanization and the global housing crisis / Bashir A. Kazimee --
31. Livable/sustainable communities / Wendy R. McClure --
32. Conspectus / Tom J. Bartuska.