11.952 | Spring 2005 | Graduate

Gaoming Studio - China

Readings

Transportation Sources

Cervero, R. “Creating a Linear City with a Surface Metro: The Story of Curitiba, Brazil.” Working Paper 643. Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, National Transit Access Center, 1995.

Corbett, Judy, and Paul Zylofsky, eds. Building Livable Communities: A Policymaker’s Guide to Transit-oriented Development. Sacramento, CA: The Center for Livable Communities, 1999.

Ewing, Reid. Pedestrian and Transit-Friendly Design: A Primer for Smart Growth. Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association and Smart Growth Network, 1999. (PDF - 2.8 MB)

Fingerhuth, Carl, and Ernst Joos. The Kunming Project: Urban Development in China: a Dialogue. Boston, MA: Birkhauser, 2002. ISBN: 3764367423.

Grava, Sigurd. Urban Transportation Systems: Choices for Communities. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 0071384170.

Lion, Satish McKay. Transit Oriented Development Strategy: Guangzhou Case Study. Thesis (S.M.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003.

Midgley, P. Urban Transport in Asia: An Operational Agenda for the 1990s. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1994. ISBN: 0821326244.

Serra, M. V. Urban Land Markets and Urban Land Development: An Examination of Three Brazilian Cities: Brasília, Curitiba and Recife. Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley, 2004.

Transit Cooperative Research Program. The Role of Transit in Creating Livable Metropolitan Communities, TCRP Report 22. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997. ISBN: 0309060575.

Tan, Lily. Singapore’s 100 Historic Places. Singapore: Archipelago Press, 2004. ISBN: 9814068233.

Yuen, Belinda. Planning Singapore: From Plan to Implementation. Singapore: Singapore Institute of Planners, 1998. ISBN: 9810405731.

Water/Hydrology

France, R. L. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design. Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 1566705622.

Schueler, T. R., H. K. Holland, and Center for Watershed Protection. The Practice of Watershed Protection. Ellicott City, MD: Center for Watershed Protection, 2000.

Housing in China

Junhua, Lu, Peter G. Rowe, and Zhang Jie, eds. Modern Urban Housing in China 1840-2000. New York, NY: Prestel, 2001. ISBN: 3791325078.

Chen, Ke. Housing in the Special Economic Zones: A Preliminary Study of Housing Provision and Conditions in Shenzhen. Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong: Department of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. ISBN: 9628272209.

———. Urban Housing in China: An Introductory Study of “Year 2000 Urban and Rural Xiaokang Housing Scientific and Technological Industrial Project”. Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong: Department of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. ISBN: 9628272101.

———. Affordable Housing in China: A Study of Pilot Housing Estates in Three Cities. Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong: Department of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. ISBN: 9628272306.

Urban Design

Sasaki Associates. Sasaki Associates. Hong Kong: Well Century International Ltd., 2004.

Watson, Donald, Alan Plattus, and Robert G. Shibley, eds. Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 007068507X.