Welcome to"Byrom" 2008. Fall semester at The Bergen Architecture School. An introduction to Urban Design and Planning in Medium Scale Spaces.
This class is organized around this blog. The calender on this blog will be updated constantly by the staff. If you have any questions about time and place or assignments this is the place to look for answers.
Further a blog is a place of exchange; this is a place for you to write your comments and questions ( or just post photos) as the term moves forward. All students will be given a logon such that you can post your thoughts or items of interest.
Read the following Wikipedia links before Sept 5. 2008 - (Follow the links from these pages as your curiosity leads you.)
Urban Planning (link)
Urban Design (link)
Transit Oriented Development (link)
List of Urban Studies Topics (link)
Required for Class Reading and Discussion:
Please purchase the "The City Reader" as soon as possible. This book will be used for reading and discussion through out the semester. (Be sure to get the fourth edition.)
From Amazon.com: "The fourth edition of the highly successful The City Reader brings together the very best of publications on the city. Classic writings by such authors as Lewis Mumford, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Wirth, Jane Jacobs and Kevin Lynch meet the best contemporary writings of, among others, Sir Peter Hall, Richard Florida, Mike Davis, Michael Porter, Robert Putnam, Andrus Duany, Saskia Sassen, and Manuel Castells. New to the fourth edition are important classic writings on urban economics by Wilbur Thomson and on bosses and machines by James Bryce, Jane Addams, and William L. Riordan, and new contemporary material on sustainable urban development , the creative class, metropolitics, occidentalism, Asian megacities, and urban futurism by The Bruntland Commission, Richard Florida, Myron Orfield, Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit, Aprodicio Laquian, and Joel Kotkin."
Link via Amazon (link)
Looking forward to an interesting semester.
O. N. Ely , et al
