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Reading List

 

 

Literature: Reading List for Urban Design, 2006/2007

(incl. University of Newcastle Library Number at Auchmuty Library )

 

Methodologies; Typologies: Classics

 

Held (call number)/ Ordered

Details

307.67 LEGA 2003 3 rd ed.

307.76 LEGA 2000 2 nd ed.

307.76 LEGA [1996 - 1 st ed]

LEGATES, Richard T.; STOUT, Frederic (eds.) (1999): The City Reader. London, New York

711.4 ROSS 1982

ROSSI, Aldo (1966): The Architecture of the City. Milano

Not Held - Order placed

SIMMEL, Georg (1966): Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben. In: Wright Mills (Hrsg.) (1966) in: Klassik der Soziologie. (1. Edition Dresden, 1903) Frankfurt.

301 TONN

Community and association translation of " Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft" 1974.

TOENNIS, Ferdinand (1935): Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft. (1. Edition 1887). Leipzig.  

Not Held - Order placed

UFFELMANN, Andreas (1988): Typologie und Architekturtheorie - Historische Typenkonzepte

 

General Literature on Urban Design and Cities

 

Held (call number)/ Ordered

Details

307.76 HALL-1

HALL, Peter; PFEIFFER, Ulrich (2000): Urban Future 21. A Global Agenda for Twenty-First Century Cities. London

Not Held - Order placed

LE CORBUSIER (1964): Feststellungen zu Architektur und Städtebau. Ullstein Bauwelt Fundament 12. Frankfurt.  

307.7609 KOST

KOSTOF, Spiro (1991): The City Shaped. Urban Patterns and Meaning through History. London.

711.409 KOST

KOSTOF, Spiro (1992): The City Assembled. The Elements of Urban Form through History. London.

multiple eds & copies of :

" The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects"   @

711.409 MUMF 1961A

MUMFORD, Lewis (1963): History of the City / Die Stadt. Geschichte und Ausblick. Köln, Berlin.

Q307.76 URBA

United Nations Center for Human Settlements (Habitat) (1996): An Urbanizing World - Global Report on Human Settlements. Nairobi.  

Q307.76 UNIT 2001

United Nations Center for Human Settlements (Habitat) (2001): Cities in a Globalizing World - Global Report on Human Settlements 2001. Nairobi

Not Held - Order placed

United Nations Center for Human Settlements (Habitat) (2003): The Challenge of Slums - Global Report on Human Settlements 2003. Nairobi

Not Held - Order placed

UN-Habitat (ed.)(2004): The State of the World's Cities 2004/2005

 

City Culture, Urban Spaces, Urban Patterns

 

Held (call number)/ Ordered

Details

Not Held - Order placed

AHRENS, Daniela (2001): Grenzen der Enträumlichung. Weltstädte, Cyberspace und transnationale Räume in der globalisierten Moderne. Opladen.

306 APPA [c1996]   (Short loans)

APPADURAI, A. (1997): Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. London et.al.

Not Held - Order placed

ALSAYYAD, Nezar (ed.) (2001): Hybrid Urbanism. On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment. Westport.

Q711.409 BACO 1974 [rev ed. 1976]

BACON, Edmund (1978, revised edition): Design of Cities. London.

Q711.4 KRIE

KRIER, Rob (2003): Town Spaces. Birkhaeuser Publishers, Basel.

114 LEFE   (Huxley)

 

LEFEBVRE, Henri (1991): The Production of Space. Oxford (franz. Original 1974)  

720.9492 LOOT [1991]

LOOTSMA, Bart (2000): Superdutch. London.

Not Held - Order placed

MAKI, Fumihiko (1994): The City and Inner Space. In: Wolfgang Bo ¨ hm (1994): Das Bauwerk und die Stadt. Aufsätze fu ¨ r Eduard. F. Sekler. Wien et al.

Q720.952 NITS

NITSCHKE, Gu ¨ nter (1993): From Shinto to Ando. Studies in Architectural Anthropology in Japan. London.

307.336 RAPO [1969]

3 copies  

RAPOPORT, Amos (1977): House Form and Culture. Oxford et al.

711.4 RAPP

Rapoport, Amos (1977): Human Aspects of Urban Form. Towards a Man-Environment Approach to Urban Form and Design. Oxford et al.

301.360937 / 1

307.760937 RYKW 1998

  -- 1st MIT ed.

RYKWERT, Joseph (1976): The Idea of a Town. The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World. Princeton.

Not Held - Order placed

SJOBERG, Gideon (1960): The Pre-industrial City. Past and Present. Glencoe, Ill.

301.360951/1

WHEATLEY, Paul (1971): The Pivot of the Four Quarters. Chicago

 

Globalisation and Urbanisation

 

Held (call number)/ Ordered

Details

303.483 CAST (Huxley)

CASTELLS, Manuel (1989): The Informational City. Information Technology, Economic Restructuring and the Urban-Regional Process. Oxford.

307.76 CLAR

CLARK, David (1996): Urban World - Global City. London/New York

The global City: New York, London, Tokyo. - 2 nd ed. c2001.

332.042 SASS 2001

SASSEN, Saskia (1996): Global Cities / Metropolen des Weltmarkts. Die neue Rolle der Global Cities Frankfurt.

Not Held - Order placed

TAYLOR, P.J. (2001): Visualizing a new Metageography: Explorations in World-City Space. In: Dijkink, G; Knippenberg, H. (eds.) (21001): The Territorial Factor: Political Geography in a Globalizing World. Amsterdam.

Online

&

S910.6/4 1893-2003

Imperfect holdings for early vols.

TAYLOR, P.J.; HOYLER, M.; WALKER, D.R.F.; SZEGNER, M.J. (2001): A New Mapping of the World for the New Millennium. In: Geographical Journal, 167 (3), pp 213.222.

 

Global City

 

Held (call number)/ Ordered

Details

Not Held - Order placed

LO, Fu-Chen; YEUNG, Yue-Man (eds.)(1998): Globalization and the World of Large Cities. New York

Not Held - Order placed

OE NCUE, Ayse; WEYLAND, Petra (1997): Space, Culture and Power. New Identities in Globalizing Cities. London.  

Q711.4 / R1 (Huxley)

ROWE, Colin; KOETTER, Fred (1978 / 1997): Collage City. (Original edition Cambridge Mass. 1978) Basel et al.

Cities without cities : an interpretation of the Zwischenstadt

307.760943 SIEV 2003

SIEVERTS, Thomas (1997): Zwischenstadt. Zwischen Ort und Welt, Raum und Zeit, Stadt und Land. Bauwelt Fundamente 118. Braunschweig.

Not Held - Order placed

STRATMANN, Bernhard (1999): Stadtentwicklung in globalen Zeiten. Lokale Strategien, städtische Lebensqualität und Globalisierung. Basel.

 

Urban Economy  

 

Held (call number)/ Ordered

Details

Not Held - Order placed

International Labour Office (2002): Report IV. Decent Work and the Informal Economy. Geneva

Not Held - Order placed

MCGEE, Terry G. (1996): On the Utility of Dualism: The Informal Sector and Mega-Urbanization in Developing Countries. In: Regional Development Dialogue. Vol 17, No.1, pp. 1-16 .

Not Held - Order placed

ROY, Ananya; ALSAYYAD, Nezar (eds.)(2004): Urban Informality. Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America and South Asia. Lanham et.al.

330.91724/34

SANTOS, Milton (1979): The Shared Space. The Two Circuits of the Urban Economy in Underdeveloped Countries. London et al.

 

Informal Habitat, Slums and Squatter Settlements; Housing  

Held (call number)/ Ordered

Details

Not Held - Order placed

DURAND-LASSERVE, Alain; Royston Lauren (eds.) (2002): Holding their Ground. Secure Land Tenure for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries. London.

Not Held - Order placed

HARDOY, Jorge E.; SATTERTWAITHE, David (1989): Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban Third World. London.

Q728.31/4

SHERWOOD, Roger (1978): Modern Housing prototypes. Harvard University Press.

Not Held - Order placed

TURNER, John F.C.; FICHTER, Robert (1972): Freedom to Build. New York.  

Not Held - Order placed

TURNER, John F.C. (1976): Housing by People. Towards Autonomy in the Building Environments. London.

Not Held - Order placed

United Nations Center for Human Settlements (UNCHS) (1982): Survey of Slum and Squatter Settlements. Development Studies Series. Volume 1. Dublin.

Not Held - Order placed

United Nations Center for Human Settlements (Habitat) (1988): Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000. New York.

Not Held - Order placed

United Nations Center for Human Settlements (Habitat) (2001): The Challenge of Slums - Global Report on Human Settlements 2003. Nairobi

   

Further Recommended Reading  

Held (call number)/ Ordered

Details

724.901 CONR

CONRADS, Ulrich (1964; 1970): Programs and Manifestoes on 20 th -century architecture, The MIT Press, Cambridge.  

724.91 / 3 [1982 - 1 st ed.]

724.91 / 3B [1987 - 2 nd ed.]

724.6 CURT 1996

[3 rd ed. MISSING - order placed ]

CURTIS, William J. (1982): Modern Architecture since 1900, London.  

Not Held - Order placed

FONATTI, Franco (1982): Elementare Gestaltungsprinzipien in der Architektur, Akademie der bildenden Kuenste, Wien.  

Not Held - Order placed

FRAMPTON, Kenneth (1983): Towards a Critical Regionalism. Six points for an Architecture of Resistance, in: Foster, Hal (ed.) (1983): The Anti-Aesthetic, New York.

724.9 / 62 Rev.ed. 1983

724 FRAM 1992    3 rd rev. ed.

FRAMPTON, Kenneth (1983): Modern Architecture: A Critical History; London: Thames and Hudson.   

Q724.5 FRAM

FRAMPTON, Kenneth (1995): Studies in Tectonic Culture. The Poetics of Construction in 19 th and 20 th Century Architecture; Cambridge: MIT Press.  

720.92 MURC-2 FROM

Order placed

FROMONOT, Francoise (1995): Glenn Murcutt. Works and Projects, T&H, London.  

Not Held - Order placed

GEUZE, Adriaan and West8 (1995): Landschapsarchitectuur, Catalogue SRM Foundation, Rotterdam.  

Not Held - Order placed

GIDDENS, Anthony (1999): Runaway World; London.

hbk 720.9 / G1     3 rd ed. 1954

abk 720.9 GIED-1 1962   4 th ed.

abk 720.9 GIED-1 1967   5 th ed.

(also @ 720W/G4542/2 C,D,E)

 

GIEDION, Sigfried (1941): Space, Time and Architecture, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

abk 7201. JOHN

JOHNSON, Paul-Alan (1994): The Theory of Architecture. New York, Reinhold.

aqq   Q712.6 KIEN [1997]

KIENAST, Dieter (2002): Kienast Vogt: Parks and Cemetries, Basel.

Donated to Library

LEHMANN, Steffen (ed.) (2005): Absolutely Public. Crossover: Art and Architecture, Images Publishing, Melbourne.  

aqq   Q712 LYAL 1997

LYALL, Sutherland (1991): Designing the new Landscape, T&H, London.

abk   720. NORB-3 1980
&

abk 720W/N8222/1 B

NORBERG-SCHULZ, Christian (1980): Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. New York: Rizzoli.

abk   724.6 OCKM

OCKMAN, Joan (1993): Architecture Culture 1943-1968. A Documentary Anthology, New York.

abk   720.9/24   c1964

abk   720.9 RUDO 1972

RUDOFSKY, Bernard (1964): Architecture without Architects; New York: MOMA.

aqq   Q724.6 LEFA

TZONIS, Alexander, and LEFAIVRE, Liane (2003): Critical Regionalism. Architecture and Identity in a Globalized World; Munich: Prestel Verlag.

aqq   Q720.222 WEST

WESTON, Richard (2004): Plans, Sections and Elevations: Key Buildings of the 20 th Century, London.  

Useful Websites regarding Urban Design

www.undp.org

www.unhsp.org/programmes/ump

www.unchs.org/programmes/guo/default.asp

www.worldbank.org/wbi/urban

www.unchs.org

www.unhabitat.org

www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/

www.sustainabledevelopment.org/blp

www.citynet-ap.org/

www.slab.com.au

Links to NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL

 

Narrative snapshot of the inner city from the NCC Community Plan

http://www.ncc.nsw.gov.au/services/community/social/pdfs/inner_city.pdf

http://www.ncc.nsw.gov.au/council/plans/research/floorspace.cfm

 

CCP master plan

http://www.ncc.nsw.gov.au/majorprojects/ccp/index.cfm

 

Link to Newcastle Consolidated Control Plan. Element 6 contains the City Centre components and can be downloaded separately.

http://www.ncc.nsw.gov.au/council/plans/development/ndcp2005.cfm

 

Link to Newcastle Urban Strategy . It contains further links to enable download of the document.

http://www.ncc.nsw.gov.au/council/plans/future/urban.cfm

 

Additional Reading for 'art gallery' project:

Additional Reading for 'high rise tower' project:

 

Examples for Research of Precedents:

Indigenous Centres and building projects for Aboriginal communities

   

In Australia:

Overseas:

Examples for Research of Precedents:

Inner-city open spaces with strong interconnection between landscape and architecture

Examples for Research of Precedents:

Public buildings for educational purposes

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