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  • Affordable and Social Housing

    Policy and Practice

    de Paul Reeves ...
    Affordable and Social Housing - Policy and Practice is a candid and critical appraisal of current big-ticket issues affecting the planning, development and management of affordable and social housing in the United Kingdom. The successor to the second edition of the established textbook An Introduction to Social Housing, the book includes new chapters, reflecting the focal importance of customer ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Unsettled Urban Space

    Routines, Temporalities and Contestations

    While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people, urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges and perpetually under pressure. As the concept of unsettled appears to define the contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and ... Leer más

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  • Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise

    Innovative Global Solutions

    Edición de Galen D. Newman, Zixu Qiao ...
    This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture. The work explores how the appropriate mixture of integrated, multi-scalar flood protection mechanisms can reduce risks associated with flood events including sea level rise.Because sea level rise is a global issue, illustrative case studies ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Survey Practices and Landscape Photography Across the Globe

    Edición de Sophie Junge, Erin Hyde Nolan ...
    Series series Photography, Place, Environment
    This edited volume considers the many ways in which landscape (seen and unseen) is fundamental to placemaking, colonial settlement, and identity formation. Collectively, the book’s authors map a constellation of interlocking photographic histories and survey practices, decentering Europe as the origin of camera-based surveillance. The volume charts a conversation across continents - connecting ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Exploring Interstitiality with Mangroves

    Semiotic Materialism and the Environmental Humanities

    de Kate Judith ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    Mangroves thrive in intertidal zones, where they gather organisms and objects from land, river, and ocean. They develop into complex ecologies in these dynamic in-between spaces. Mobilising resources drawn from semiotic materialism and the environmental humanities, this book seeks a form of social theory from the mangroves; that is to think interstitiality from the perspective of mangroves ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Landscape Architecture as Storytelling

    Learning Design Through Analogy

    de Bob Scarfo ...
    This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jargon and derived from their existing knowledge. A step-by-step process has readers consider their knowledge of language as metaphorically related to basic design and landscape design. Through information delivery and questioning processes, readers build ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Urban Biodiversity

    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity.The field of urban biodiversity has emerged from within the broad discipline of urban ecology in the past two decades and is now a significant field in its own right. In view of this, the Routledge Handbook of Urban Biodiversity presents a thorough treatment of this field detailing the ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites

    Edición de Samer Bagaeen, Celia Clark ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites is the first book to analyze a profound land use change happening all over the world: the search for sustainable futures for property formerly dedicated to national defense now becoming redundant, disposed of and redeveloped. The new military necessity for rapid flexible response requires quite different physical resources from the massive fixed ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Sustainable Resource Use

    de Callum Hill ...
    This book explores the challenges our society faces in making the transition to renewable resource use in a way that is truly sustainable – environmentally, economically and socially.After exploring the physical limits the laws of thermodynamics impose on resource exploitation, the book outlines options for managing resources within these limits. It then moves on to look at the resources ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Role of the Outdoors in Residential Environments for Aging

    Edición de Susan Rodiek, Benyamin Schwarz ...
    Discover the physical and mental benefits of outdoor spaces for the elderlyThe Role of the Outdoors in Residential Environments for Aging presents new insights on the positive role nature and the outdoors can play in the lives of older adults, whether they live in the community, in an assisted-living environment, or in a skilled nursing ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Explorations in Place Attachment

    Edición de Jeffrey Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity
    The book explores the unique contribution that geographers make to the concept of place attachment, and related ideas of place identity and sense of place. It presents six types of places to which people become attached and provides a global range of empirical case studies to illustrate the theoretical foundations. The book reveals that the types of places to which people bond are not discrete. ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Sustainable Cities: Pioneering Approaches to Green Urbanism and Climate Resilience

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The book studies specific aspects of urban planning and environmental management, aiming to provide actionable insights and solutions. This book opens with an analysis of urban processes and the development of mass housing estates, using Famagusta, Cyprus, as a case study. It highlights how topographical factors influence urban growth and housing patterns, providing important implications for ... Leer más

    $282.09 USD

  • Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis

    A Global Response

    Edición de Adenrele Awotona ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.The book draws together expert contributions from countries across three continents – Asia, Europe and North America – which have provided external aid to ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context

    Volume 4 Symbolism and the Language of Geo-Architecture

    de Fang Wang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book approaches the concept of geo-architecture by analyzing the symbolic characters of architectures. It proves that the relationship between architecture and geography is not merely an embodiment of physical and functional demands but rather a formal expression of the materialization of culture. After analyzing the vast number of villages, groups of buildings and individual buildings the ... Leer más

    $52.49 USD

  • Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East

    Edición de Mohammad Gharipour ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
    The Middle East is well-known for its historic gardens that have developed over more than two millenniums. The role of urban landscape projects in Middle Eastern cities has grown in prominence, with a gradual shift in emphasis from gardens for the private sphere to an increasingly public function. The contemporary landscape projects, either designed as public plazas or public parks, have played a ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Conflict and Change in Australia’s Peri-Urban Landscapes

    Series series Urban Planning and Environment
    In an era of rapid urbanization, peri-urban areas are emerging as the fastest-growing regions in many countries. Generally considered as the space extending one hundred kilometres from the city fringe, peri-urban areas are contested and subject to a wide range of uses such as residential development, productive farming, water catchments, forestry, mineral and stone extraction and tourism and ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • New Urbanism and American Planning

    The Conflict of Cultures

    de Emily Talen ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners’ quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth century. In her survey of the last hundred or so years of urbanist ideals, Emily Talen identifies four approaches to city-making, which she terms ‘cultures’: incrementalism, plan-making, planned ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Metropolitan Transport and Land Use

    Planning for Place and Plexus

    As cities around the globe respond to rapid technological changes and political pressures, coordinated transport and land use planning is an often targeted aim.Metropolitan Transport and Land Use, the second edition of Planning for Place and Plexus, provides unique and updated perspectives on metropolitan transport networks and land use planning, challenging current planning strategies, offering ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Facilitating Watershed Management

    Fostering Awareness and Stewardship

    Facilitating Watershed Management brings together myriad distinctive voices to create an experiential learning process drawn from the most important innovators in the field. Presenting an introduction to the diversity of tools (sociological, pedagogical, phenomenological) needed to implement watershed management in the real world trenches, the book helps move students and practitioners from being ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • The Evolving Arab City

    Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development

    Edición de Yasser Elsheshtawy ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in studies of urbanisation.This collection reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order. The eight cities which form the core of ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Landscape and Branding

    The promotion and production of place

    de Nicole Porter ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
    Landscape and branding explores the way landscape is conceptualised, conceived, represented and designed by professionals in a brand-driven age.Landscape - incorporating tangible physical space as well as intangible concepts, narratives, images, and experiences of place - is constructed by a number of creative industries. This book tests the hypothesis that place branding, a powerful marketing and ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Tourism, the SDGs, and Partnerships

    This book appraises the place of partnerships in the pursuit of the 2030 Agenda across diverse international cases and tourism industry contexts. The potential for tourism to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals is roundly acknowledged, with SDG17 (Partnerships for the Goals) being perhaps the most pivotal of all SDGs, given that without multi-stakeholder approaches, very little ... Leer más

    $224.99 USD

  • Dalla parte degli alberi sulle strade

    de Renato Busata ...
    La vicenda descritta nel testo riguarda il taglio indiscriminato di molti alberi, in maggior parte platani che costituivano un filare stradale secolare lungo la SR11. Abbattimenti nei territori di Padova e di Rubano, per la realizzazione della nuova linea tranviaria Vigonza - Padova - Rubano (Sir2) con finanziamento PNRR. Le prime fasi dell'iter progettuale rassicuravano sul loro mantenimento, poi ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • LAND 25. Omaggio al Paesaggio Italiano

    Da 25 anni lo studio LAND promuove in Italia e in Europa il progetto per il Paesaggio, intendendo questo termine nella sua accezione più ampia e culturalmente ricca. Per primi i suoi fondatori Andreas Kipar e Giovanni Sala hanno introdotto una visione del “Paesaggio” che non è la quinta scenica bidimensionale e pittoresca dell’immagine da cartolina, né tantomeno il residuo bistrattato dell ... Leer más

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