John Wiley & Sons, the leading publisher of architecture & design books,
is releasing two new titles that explore the biggest trends affecting
our cities and working environments. The first book, Live-Work
Planning and Design: Zero-Commute Housing ($80.00; April
2012) investigates the end of commuting and the creation of urban
designs that bring lives back together through shortening or eliminating
the separation between work and life. The second book, Living
Streets: Strategies for Crafting Public Space ($85.00; April
2012), looks at the creation of livable public spaces. The importance of
this has never been greater, as public spaces shape lives, and have more
stakeholders than ever from business owners who want to see their retail
districts become profitable, to health experts encouraging exercise, to
a commuter who uses the sidewalk to reach the bus stop on his daily trip
to work.
Live-work is the hybrid building type that integrates living space with
a work space. For thousands of years, cities and towns contained
shophouses, the original live-work buildings, in which work and commerce
were carried on at the street level and some or all of the workers lived
above or behind the work area. More recently, due to the vast
availability of warehouse space, live-work spaces re-emerged with
artists renovating warehouse spaces in New York and other cities and
have evolved into a building type that is increasingly common for new
construction as well as renovations of existing buildings. Live-Work
Planning and Design is the only comprehensive guide to the
design and planning of live-work spaces for architects, designers, and
urban planners. Readers will learn from built examples of live-work,
both new construction and renovation, in a variety of locations.
Professionals will learn how various municipalities have developed and
incorporated live-work within building codes and city plans. Author,
Thomas Dolan, whose pioneering website, live-work.com, has been guiding
practitioners and users of live-work since 1998, is the United States'
leading expert on the subject.
The second title, Living Streets:
Strategies for Crafting Public Space, encourages designers to
look at streets as more than just places to drive, and explores movement
as only one of several roles that street space can play. The authors
look at the importance of street design from a multi-use and spatial
standpoint rather than a single-purpose traffic function. In many
cities, streets are considered to be a network of spaces with a mix of
uses and users, with spatial qualities and unique contexts. Inside, it's
revealed how proper street planning can:
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Create excellent places to live, work, and play
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Strengthen community interaction
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Encourage healthier lifestyles
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Develop local economies
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Promote urban patterns that are less dependent on fossil fuels
The book provides a broad overview of the growing approach toward
complete and sustainable street design. Its contents present the
background on modern street design and where it has failed, describe a
series of street typologies, and demonstrate, through diverse case
studies, the applicable lessons learned from each. Featuring examples
from over two-dozen completed street design projects around the world,
the book provides practical guidance on the complete street approach to
sustainable and community-minded street and road design. Living
Streets: Strategies for Crafting Public Space, is written for
teams of engineers, transportation planners, landscape architects, and
urban planners.
These two new titles are essential additions to the libraries of any
architecture or design professional involved with urban development.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
LIVE-WORK PLANNING AND DESIGN:
Thomas Dolan, is the principal of Thomas Dolan Architecture (TDA)
in Oakland, California. An architect, landscape and urban designer, and
development and code consultant, Dolan designed the first purpose-built
live-work complex constructed in the United States. He was instrumental
in the development of the live-work building code for the city of
Oakland. Dolan is active in the Congress for the New Urbanism and is the
founder of the pioneering website www.live-work.com,
which has been a resource for practitioners and users of live-work since
1998.
LIVING STREETS:
Lesley Bain, AIA, LEED AP, Seattle, WA, is an architect and urban
designer and a Principal at Weinstein AU Architects and Urban Designers.
Lesley has played prominent roles in many of Seattle's urban design
efforts including pedestrian planning, station area development, campus
planning and incorporating transportation into neighborhoods. Lesley has
a B.A. from Yale University and a Master of Architecture degree from
University of Pennsylvania.
Barbara Gray, AICP, LEED AP, Seattle, WA, is an urban planner
with eighteen years of professional experience in community design and
transportation planning. She currently manages the Transportation
Systems Design and Planning group for the Seattle Department of
Transportation. Barbara's areas of expertise include urban design,
street design for pedestrian and bicycle safety and access, land use
planning, transit-oriented development, and neighborhood planning. She
led the staff effort to develop Seattle's Complete Streets Ordinance and
is the project manager for Seattle's citywide pedestrian master plan.
Dave Rodgers, PE, LEED, Portland, OR, is recognized as one of the
civil engineers on the forefront of innovative sustainable design in
Seattle and nationwide. He is a Principal at SvR Design Company. SvR has
been involved in projects including Growing Vine Street, Maynard Avenue
Green Street, Terry Ave Design guidelines, Bell Street Park Project, and
the High Point Neighborhood green community design.
LIVE-WORK PLANNING AND DESIGN
Zero-Commute Housing
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Publication date: April 23, 2012
$80.00; Hardcover; 272 pages; ISBN: 978-0-470-60480-9
LIVING STREETS
Strategies for Crafting Public Space
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Publication date: April 2, 2012
$85.00; Hardcover; 336 pages; ISBN: 978-0-470-90381-0
