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'Virtually everything in this book is highly relevant to the work of landscape architects tackling urban problems.'
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This is a practical book about architecture and urban design. It is most concerned with the areas of design which most frequently go wrong and impresses the idea that ideals alone are not enough. Ideals must be linked through appropriate design ideas to the fabric of the built environemnt itself. This book is a practical attempt to show how this can be done.
* Explore what is meant by the concept of a 'responsive environment'
* Illustrated step-by-step guide shows you how to achieve a 'responsive environment' in real-life design
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The Oxford School of Urban Design is primarily associated with its strong advocacy of perimeter blocks, that is a courtyard form with development facing outward onto the surrounding streets. This development model has the advantage of buildings addressing the public realm at the street level with private open space enclosed within the court. It avoids the problems associated with the backs of buildings and service areas being exposed to public view and blank gable ends of housing facing the street. Perimeter housing blocks were developed as the usual form of social housing in several European countries at the beginning of the 20th century and the form has been taken up by urban designers of today to such an exteent that is has become a universal model of urban structuring. The perimeter block is not however a universal panacea for all situations and students need to be especially careful not to treat it as such but use it only where circumstances are appropriate.
'Responsive Environments' lives up to its title as a manual for (urban) designers and when first published in 1985 had the field pretty much to itself in the UK. Since the Urban Taskforce Report of 1999 there have been a number of guides to urban design published in response to the higher profile of urban design resulting from the Lord Rogers' Report. Recent publications include 'By Design', 'The Value of Urban Design' and 'The Urban Design Compendium', all glossy publications published by the DETR which set high standards in terms of presentation with colour diagrams and photographs. By contrast 'Responsive Environments' now looks somewhat dated. Although the latest edition was issued in 2001 some of the information needs updating particularly the construction costs and values in Chapter 2.4 'Calculating Project Values'.
Readers of 'Responsive Environments' may also wish to acquire the new handbook written by the University of Westminster urban design tutors called 'Approaching Urban Design' which broadly outlines the urban design masters course at the University of Westminster.
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