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  • Harmony of disenchantment

    The look of a disenchanted neapolitan violinist is the thread that connects the nodes of its existence. The magic of Budapest as a backdrop to the sinking of his illusions; yet it is precisely the ability to react to any defeat will make him a kind of skillful surfer, able to ride the waves most impressive. In this eternal resume lies, perhaps, the harmony that governs his life. ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Design for Social Diversity

    Series series Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
    The most successful urban communities are very often those that are the most diverse – in terms of income, age, family structure and ethnicity – and yet poor urban design and planning can stifle the very diversity that makes communities successful. Just as poor urban design can lead to sterile monoculture, successful planning can support the conditions needed for diverse communities.This new ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design

    Linking Theory and Practice for Sustainable Cities

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative urban design, as urban areas exemplify complex systems. With something approaching half of the world’s ... Leer más

    $209.79 USD

  • Great City Parks

    de Alan Tate ...
    Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of thirty significant public parks in major cities across Western Europe and North America. Collectively, they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans are being made for them at ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Urban Roar

    A Psychophysical Approach to the Design of Affective Environments

    Urban Roar argues for the existence of 'autonomous affectivities' that roar beneath the din of the urban, seeking the attention of us humans so captured by the environments of our own making. In hearing the urban roar, it is the mythic intention of this book to discover ways in which we can work with the intensities of more-than-human forces to vitalize our cities. The book explores methods by ... Leer más

    $28.19 USD

  • Ecosystem Services

    Key Issues

    de Mark Everard ...
    Series series Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability
    Revised and fully updated, this textbook provides a detailed yet accessible introduction to the key aspects of ecosystem services.Ecosystem services is one of the most powerful guiding principles for ecology, biodiversity conservation and the management of natural resources. It provides the basis of assessing the multiple values and services that ecosystems can provide to humankind, including ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Infrastructural Optimism

    Infrastructural Optimism investigates a new kind of twenty-first-century infrastructure, one that encourages a broader understanding of the interdependence of resources and agencies, recognizes a rightfully accelerated need for equitable access and distribution, and prioritizes rising environmental diligence across the design disciplines. Bringing together urban history, case studies, and ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Sustainable Development Goals and Indian Cities

    Inclusion, Diversity and Citizen Rights

    Edición de Ashok Kumar, D.S. Meshram ...
    Series series Towards Sustainable Futures
    This book critically examines Sustainable Development Goals and cities in developing countries with special reference to climate change, inclusion, diversity, and citizen rights in India. It discusses global issues of sustainability and climate change in the context of rapid urbanisation and focuses on the role of equitable and just processes of urban development aimed at protecting social ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • my cool treehouse

    Treehouses have always been a symbol of imagination and adventure, but despite the traditional stereotype, treehouses are not just for children and children's stories. Well built and in the right spot, they can add real value to your home and lifestyle. Beloved for centuries as ramshackle palaces of backyard escape and fun, the modern-day treehouse has evolved from more traditional structures, in ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

  • The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change

    Edición de Lisa Berglund, Siobhan Gregory ...
    The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores cultural shifts that result from gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of racially and economically marginalized groups are appropriated or erased by the introduction luxury real estate and retail branding.The book explores the literal and symbolic shifts in ownership that are happening in urban locations undergoing redevelopment and ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures (OPEN ACCESS)

    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on often forgotten, but some of the most essential, aspects of contemporary urban life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion of post-socialist transformation.As the skeletons of cities, infrastructures capture the ways in which urban environments are assembled and urban lives unfold. Focusing on post-socialist cities, ... Leer más

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  • Forest Ecosystem Management and Timber Production

    Divergence and Resource Use Resilience

    Series series The Earthscan Forest Library
    Timber sourcing is shifting from extraction from natural forests to forms of cultivation that are increasingly agricultural in nature. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to examine the socio-political, biophysical and discursive dimensions of this divergence of wood production from forests. This analysis challenges the historical integration of wood production and forest ecosystem ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The Place of Home

    English domestic environments, 1914-2000

    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    A comprehensive and in-depth history of the 20th century English home, how it has been created, and how it works for people. It focuses on the various influences bearing on the development of domestic space since 1914 and covers both design and housing policy. Current debates from participation to co-operative housing are examined and several themes not previously brought together are linked, e.g. ... Leer más

    Antes $68.99 USD Ahora $61.99 USD

  • Erfassung, Bewertung und Sicherung der Stadtgestalt

    Schnelleinstieg für Architekten und Planer

    Series series Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
    Christa Reicher gibt einen Überblick über die Inhalte der Stadtgestalt und wie diese im planerischen Kontext im Sinne der Stadtgestaltung beeinflusst werden können. Neben einer Begriffsdefinition werden die unterschiedlichen Dimensionen der Stadtgestalt anschaulich beschrieben. In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten haben sich verschiedene Städtebauer und Stadtforscher mit der Stadtgestalt ... Leer más

    $5.43 USD

  • The Dissolution of Place

    Architecture, Identity, and the Body

    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many interchangeable, generic anti-architectural cubes and slabs. This book extends this debate beyond the modernist/postmodernist rivalry to situate ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific

    Knowledge Co-Production and Empowerment

    Edición de Stephen Acabado, Da-wei Kuan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Indigenous Peoples and Policy
    This book demonstrates how active and meaningful collaboration between researchers and local stakeholders and indigenous communities can lead to the co-production of knowledge and the empowerment of communities.Focusing on the Asia Pacific region, this interdisciplinary volume looks at local and indigenous relations to the landscape, showing how applied scholarship and collaborative research can ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society

    Series series BRI Research Series
    Current expectations and standards of comfort are almost certainly unsustainable and new methods and ideas will be required if there is to be any prospect of a significantly lower carbon society. This collection reassesses relationships between people and the multitude of environments they inhabit in the context of increasing carbon intensities of everyday life. In this bold and unconventional ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • 'Otherness’ in Space and Architecture

    Jews, Muslims and Christians in Western European Art (1200-1650)

    This conference proceeding (Sessions on "Otherness in Space and Architecture", International Medieval Conference, Leeds, 2017 and 2018) is a compilation of articles written by both young and senior scholars, who are working on the question of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ in Christian, Jewish and Islamic cultures. The articles examine how material, ‘oriental’ objects and knowledge originating in non ... Leer más

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  • The Regenerative Landscaper

    Design and Build Landscapes That Repair the Environment

    2024 Nautilus Award Gold Medal Winner! This awe-inspiring guide weaves together permaculture design, food resiliency, climate adaptation, community organizing, and indigenous wisdom that you can implement in your own backyard.This book has been crafted for beginner gardeners and large scale permaculturists alike . It is a step-by-step manual starting from your landscaping ideas and ending with ... Leer más

    $13.69 USD

  • Interdisciplinary Approaches of Sustainable Economy and Urban Cultural Landscapes

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the intricate relationship between landscapes and architecture in this iconic region. Delving into topics such as sustainable landscape planning, geosciences for resource management, modern landscape architectural techniques, and the integration of green spaces in urban areas, this book highlights the unique challenges and innovative solutions ... Leer más

    $229.69 USD

  • Environmental Noise Barriers

    A Guide To Their Acoustic and Visual Design, Second Edition

    Environmental Noise Barriers is a unique one-stop reference for practitioners, whether acoustical engineers, landscape architects, or manufacturers, and for highways departments in local and central authorities. This extensively revised new edition is updated in line with UK and EU legislation and international provision of barriers. ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD

  • Urban Agriculture for Improving the Quality of Life

    Examples from Bulgaria

    Edición de Dona Pickard ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents the findings of a multidisciplinary study on the effects of urban agriculture (UA) on the social, economic and environmental aspects of the quality of life in Sofia - the capital of Bulgaria. The analyses are based on a sociological survey representative of 3 districts of Sofia (among 750 people), in-depth interviews, focus groups, expert statements, ecological monitoring of UA ... Leer más

    $83.89 USD

  • Urban Heat Mitigation Strategies

    An Architecture Perspective

    Urban Heat Mitigation Strategies: An Architecture Perspective explores heat mitigation strategies integrated into the urban architecture of global cities, aiming to enhance citizens’ quality of life through thoughtful design decisions blending architecture, science and engineering. The projects examined exemplify top-tier approaches in architecture, urban planning, landscape design and engineering ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Eco-Urbanism and the South East Asian City

    Climate, Urban-Architectural Form and Heritage

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book traces the history of urban design in tropical South East Asia with a view to offering solutions to contemporary architectural and urban problems. The book examines how pre-colonial forms and patterns from South East Asian traditional cities, overlaid by centuries of change, recall present notions of ecological and organic urbanism. These may look disorganised, yet they reflect and ... Leer más

    $146.79 USD