Tall Buildings

One Trade Centre(formerly freedom tower by daniel libeskind) New York- Architect David Childs(som)
104 storey(+5 basement floors)
pinnacle height 541m
roof   417m
current rank -4
former                                                                                                                                             freedom tower

Books and Authors

Amos Rapoport     On the Cultural origin of Settlements

Andreas Falludi         Planning Theory

Arthur B Gallion        The Urban Pattern

Ayn Rand                The Fountainhead

Christopher Alexander  A Pattern language:Towns, Buildings and Construction
                                    The Timeless way of Building
                                    A New Theory of Urban Design
                                    The Nature of Order

Ebenezer Howard   Garden Cities of tomorrow

Edmund Bawn       Design of Cities

E. F. Schumacher  Small is beautiful (human scale)

Francis D K Ching  Form, Space and Order

Ian McHarg             Design with Nature pioneered concept of ecological planning

Jane Jacob              The death and life of great American cities

Kevin Lynch            The Image of a City
                               What time is this Place?
                               Site Planning
                               Good City Form
                               The view from the Road
                               City Sense an City design

Leo Jacobson & Ved Prakash    Urbanization and National Development

Paul D Spreiregen   Urban Design: Architecture of Towns an Cities

Sigfried Giedion     Space, Time and Architecture











                       

Pritzker Prize Winners

History of Architecture

http://www.slideshare.net/BinumolTom

Techniques of Planning

Age-Sex Pyramid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_pyramid

Indifferance curve

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indifference_curve

Geographic Information Systems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system