Urban Ecological Design A Process for Regenerative Places
Urban Ecological Design presents an interdisciplinary method of transforming urban spaces that considers issues of ecology and sustainability alongside urban form. Rather than offer a prescriptive approach, the authors describe a “process model” that has
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Urban Ecological Design A Process for Regenerative Places
Danilo Palazzo and Frederick Steiner
Washington | Covelo | London
© [2011 Danilo Palazzo and Frederick Steiner] All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher: Island Press, Suite 300, 1718 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009. Some material in this book appeared in Urban Design: Un processo per la progettazione urbana by Danilo Palazzo © 2008 Mondadori Education S.p.A., Milano. 1st publication Mondadori Università, Milan, Italy, May 2008. Used with permission. ISLAND PRESS is a trademark of the Center for Resource Economics. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Palazzo, Danilo, 1962– Urban ecological design : a process for regenerative places / Danilo Palazzo and Frederick Steiner. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-59726-828-8 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-59726-828-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-1-59726-829-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-59726-829-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. City planning. 2. Urban ecology (Sociology) 3. Ecological landscape design. I. Steiner, Frederick R. II. Title. HT166.P325 2011 307.1’216--dc23 2011026666 Typesetting by Blue Heron Typesetters, Inc. Printed on recycled, acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Keywords: architecture; Battery Park City; campus master plan; charrette; Chisinau, Moldova; ecological planning; Envision Central Texas; GIS; Ground Zero; High Point, Seattle; historical data; land use planning; landscape architecture; Leamouth Peninsula, London; Mantua, Italy; McHarg, Ian; Nolli maps; Orsenigo, Italy; Piano, Renzo; public participation; Regional Plan Association; Reykjavík, Iceland; Riverside, Illinois; transects; transportation; United Kingdom; University of Cincinnati; University of Texas at Austin, urban design; urban morphology
For Michela, Giulia, and Anil and Anna, Halina, and Andrew
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword
xi xvii xix
Introduction
1 25 37 47 95 131 167 189 205 227 243 261
1 Processes 2 Prerequisites 3 Knowledge 4 Synthesis 5 Options 6 Dialogues 7 Master Plan 8 Presentation 9 Details 10 Implementation 11 Conclusion Bibliography Index
271 289
Illustrations
Figures Foreword-1 Parc Diagonal Mar, Barcelona xx 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3 Greater London Plan by Sir Patrick Abercrombie 10 0.4 Millennium Park, Chicago 12 0.5 The High Line, New York City 12 0.6 Lower Don Lands Proposal, Toronto, Canada 13 0.7 Not-Only-One-Solution Process and Its Ten Phases 17 1.1 Ecological Planning Model 28 1.2 Layer-Cake Model 29 1.3 Process of Plan Making as a Continuous Cycle 30 1.4 Map of Moldova in the European Continent 33 1.5 Phasing Table for the Chisinau Workshop 34 2.1 Aerial Map of the Vatnsmy´ri Site 44 2.2 Participants at the “Consultation Days” Event 45 3
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