Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design

Time-saver Standards for Urban Design--------------------------------------------------Time Saver Standards for Urban Design, in the tradition of the Time-SaverStandards series, is the world's foremost professional reference onthe physical design of cities and urban places including communitiesand civic and public places. Scope of the work is international andtopics include preservation, renewal, patterns of settlement and sustainability.Key Features include: international coverage including recent Europeanand Asian sustainability initiatives, topics from allied disciplinessuch as transportation engineering, bioregionalism and environmentalengineering, heavily illustrated. The prestigious contributors includeAlan Plattus, Dean of the College of Architecture, Yale University.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: DONALD WATSON, FAIA, is Professor and Dean Emeritusof the School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,New York and honored as ASCA Distinguished Professor, 2002. His booksinclude Climatic Building Design, co-authored with Kenneth Labs, (McGraw-Hill1983, revised 1993), recipient of the Best Book in Architecture andPlanning Award from the American Publishers Association. He is editor-in-chiefof Time-Saver Standards for Architectural Design Data (7th edition,1997) and Time-Saver Standards for Building Materials and Systems (2000).ALAN PLATTUS is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Yale UniversitySchool of Architecture. He founded and directs the Yale Urban DesignWorkshop, a community design center that has worked with cities, townsand neighborhoods throughout the region. He also directs the Yale ChinaStudio, working with universities in China on urban design issues inrapidly developing cities. He has published widely on the history andtheory of architecture and urbanism, and edited the new edition ofHegemann and Peets classic text, The American Vitruvius. ROBERT G.SHIBLEY, AIA, AICP, is a professor of architecture and planning atthe School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, StateUniversity of New York. He is the Director of the Urban Design Project,a center for the study and practice of urban design. He also is theco-author of seven books including Urban Excellence with Philip Langdonand Polly Welsh (1990), Placemaking: The Art and Practice of BuildingCommunities with Lynda Schneekloth (1995), and Commitment to Place:Urban Excellence and Community (2000).