Background
Barnett, Jonathan was born on January 6, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of David and Josephine Barnett.
( All too often, no one--neither the public, city officia...)
All too often, no one--neither the public, city officials, nor developers--is happy with the course of new development. But growing support for urban design and successful examples of redesigned cities are signs of positive change. In this book, Jonathan Barnett explains how design can reshape suburban growth patterns, revitalize older cities, and retrofit metropolitan areas where earlier development went wrong. He describes, in detail, specific techniques, materials, and technologies that should be known (but often aren't) by planners, public officials, and citizens--and, in the process, makes a valuable contribution to the development initiatives of the future.
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John Portman is an american architect who founded his office in 1953 in Atlanta, Georgia. He is literally the grandfather of the "Architect as Developer" principle which he describes in detail in his book of the same name. During his 50-year long working period he initiated many buildings as a developer and planed those as an architect with his office. Thereby he mainly focused on hotels and shopping malls in downtown Atlanta.
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Targeted at architects, students, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, and city and regional officials, The Fractured Metropolis provides a thorough analysis of not only cities but also the entire metropolitan region, considering how both are intrinsically linked and influence one other.
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Can the United States adopt smart growth policies before it's too late? The United States is in the midst of a crisis of energy consumption and environmental degradation. This crisis is masked by our vibrant economy, high standard of living, and abundant land, but as our population continues to grow and our cities continue to sprawl, the costs of current development policies will become increasingly clear. The U.S. population is likely to grow from 281 million in 2000 to 433 million in 2050, while sprawl in urban regions doubles. Most of the growth will take place in nine multicity regions, where development is already rolling over fields and forests much faster than necessary, unbalancing the natural environment, creating huge traffic problems on highways and at airports, and burning petroleum at rates far greater than the rest of the world. Meanwhile, our global competitors are investing in smart growth: high-speed rail; regional rapid transit; compact, mixed-use development; and natural resources conservation. Smart Growth in a Changing World, the latest book from respected planner and urban designer Jonathan Barnett, documents the United States' hidden crisis and shows how balanced transportation and natural resources preservation can make new urban development sustainable, as well as more efficient and more equitable.
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architect educator urban planner
Barnett, Jonathan was born on January 6, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of David and Josephine Barnett.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Yale University, 1958. Master of Architecture, Yale University, 1963. Master of Arts Mellon fellow, University Cambridge, England, 1960.
Designer, Haines, Lundberg & Waehler, Archts., New York City, 1963, 64;
associate editor, Architectural Record, New York City, 1964-1967;
consultant, New City Exhibition at Museum Modern Art, 1966, 67;
principal urban designer, New York City Planning Department, 1967-1968;
director urban design group, New York City Planning Department, 1969-1971;
professor, director graduate program in urban design, City College of New York, 1971-1998;
professor of city and regional planning, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1998. Visiting professor University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1981. William Henry Bishop professor Yale University, 1983.
Kea distinguished visiting professor U. Maryland., 1988, 89. Sam Gibbons eminent scholar U. South Florida, 1991-1994. Planning consultant, since 1971.
Consultant American Institute of Architects, South Street Seaport Museum, National Park Svc., Louisville, Kansas City, Cleveland, Charleston, South Carolina., Norfolk, Virginia, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, Sioux City, Iowa, Wildwood, Missouri, New York City, Miami, Florida, Brookfield, Wisconsin, also others. Lecturer in field; member visiting committee Harvard University Graduate School Design, 1976-1981, Yale University School Architecture, 1974-1980, University of California at Los Angeles, 1990.
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Member of advisory board Environment and Behavior, 1968-1978. Board directors District of Columbia Preservation League, since 1996. Member Committee of 100 on Federal City.
Fellow American Institute of Architects. Member American Institute Certified Planners, Archl. League New York (vice president 1968-1970, director 1975-1998, president 1977-1981), Municipal Art Society (board directors 1970-1978, 81-86), Institute for Urban Design (board directors since 1989), Berzelius Society, New York Landmark Conservancy (board directors 1972-1997), Congress New Urbanism(board directors since 1995), Yale Club, Century Association, Elizabethan Club of Yale.
Married Nory Miller, March 19, 1983.