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  • Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales

    From Buildings to Cities

    Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This edited volume brings together practitioners and researchers to discuss climate-related resilience from the building to the city scale. This book highlights North American cases that deal with issues such as climate projections, public health, adaptive ... Leer más

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  • The Meanings of Landscape

    Essays on Place, Space, Environment and Justice

    Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R. Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities perspective. With influences from art, literature, theatre staging, architecture, and garden design, landscape has come to be viewed as a form of spatial scenery, but this reading captures only a narrow ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Wild By Design

    Strategies for Creating Life-Enhancing Landscapes

    Can nature—in all its unruly wildness—be an integral part of creative landscape design? In her beautifully illustrated book, Wild by Design, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick urges designers to look beyond the rules often imposed by both landscaping convention and sustainability checklists. Instead, she offers a set of principles for a more creative and intuitive approach that challenges the ... Leer más

    $41.79 USD

  • Sustainable Urban Design

    An Environmental Approach

    Edición de Adam Ritchie, Randall Thomas ...
    By the end of the twenty-first century it is thought that three-quarters of the world’s population will be urban; our future is in cities. Making these cities healthy, vibrant and sustainable is an exceptional challenge which this book addresses. It sets out some of the basic principles of the design of our future cities and, through a series of carefully-selected case studies from leading ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Territorial Governance across Europe

    Pathways, Practices and Prospects

    Edición de Peter Schmitt, Lisa Van Well ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    This book provides a comprehensive framework for analysing, comparing and promoting territorial governance in policy relevant research. It reveals in-depth considerations of the emergence, state-of-the art and evolution of the concept of territorial governance. A unique series of ten case studies across Europe, from neighbourhood planning in North Shields in the North East of England to climate ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Hybrid Future

    de Eric Thomsen ...
    Global energy markets are rapidly turning away from fossil fuels towards wind and other competitively priced renewable sources. As renewables’ role in power generation expands, technology becomes an important enabler. Renewable energy hybrid solutions have significant potential to provide the efficiency and flexibility needed to accelerate the global transition to a renewables-led energy mix. ... Leer más

    $9.95 USD

  • Innovative Measurement and Evaluation of Community Development Practices

    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    Finding innovative and useful measurement practices for community development projects is gaining in importance as policymakers increase the demands for accountability. This book examines some of the latest efforts to document the effectiveness of local development efforts. The types of documentation differ by types of project, jurisdiction, and country but they have a common focus of recognizing ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Policies and Institutions

    Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of the problems they confront, and the lack of institutional capacity to implement planning and ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Akteur «Wasser»: Betrachtungen aus den Rechts-, Geo-, Kunst-, Musik- und Literaturwissenschaften

    Edición de Sonja Fielitz ...
    Series Libro 6 - Kulturelle Identitaeten. Studien zur Entwicklung der europaeischen Kulturen der Neuzeit / Cultural Identities. Studies in Early Modern and Modern European Cultures
    In diesem interdisziplinären Sammelband wird nicht nur eine Motivgeschichte des Themas Wasser vorgelegt. Vielmehr eint die Beiträge der Ansatz, Wasser als ein mit vielfältigen kulturellen Bedeutungen aufgeladenes Phänomen und als Akteur zu verstehen. Alle Aufsätze befassen sich mit der Repräsentation der grundlegenden Eigenschaft von Wasser, nämlich dessen materieller Wandelbarkeit. Diese zeigt ... Leer más

    $61.19 USD

  • The Social Fabric of Cities

    Series series Design and the Built Environment
    Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics, human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this book deals with some key subjects in urban design: the multidimensional effects of the spatial form of cities, ways of appropriating urban space, and the different material factors involved in the emergence of social life. It puts forward an innovative conceptual ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Spatial and Economic Transformation of Mountain Regions

    Landscapes as Commodities

    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    Mountain regions are subject to a unique set of economic pressures: they act as collective enterprises which have to valorize rare resources, such as spectacular landscapes. While primarily rural in nature, they often border large cities, and the development of industries such as hydroelectric power and the rapid development of tourism can bring about sweeping socio-economic change and vast ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Lessons in Post-War Reconstruction

    Case Studies from Lebanon in the Aftermath of the 2006 War

    Edición de Howayda Al-Harithy ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    After the ceasefire, a group of architects and planners from the American University of Beirut formed the Reconstruction Unit to help in the recovery process and in rebuilding the lives of those affected by the 2006 war in Lebanon .Here, a series of case studies documenting the work of the Unit discusses the lessons to be learned from the experiences of Lebanon after the July War, and suggests how ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Government of Space (Routledge Revivals)

    Town Planning in Modern Society

    de Alison Ravetz ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Britain’s planning system began as ‘town and country planning’ to repair the ravages of unplanned industrialism and promote ideal environments for the future. Steering a course between left and right, public control and for-profit development, it survived successive booms and busts, broadening to include new concerns like ecology, conservation and community participation.By the 1986, when this ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

    Edición de Kate Gilhuly, Nancy Worman ...
    This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the burgeoning ... Leer más

    $109.09 USD

  • Sustainable Infrastructure Investment

    Toward a More Equitable Future

    This book provides examples and suggestions for readers to understand how public investment decisions for sustainable infrastructure are made. Through detailed analysis of public investment in infrastructure over the last few decades in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Finland, the author explores how the decision-making processes for major public works spending, many of them requiring ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Transport Models in Urban Planning Practices

    Tensions and Opportunities in a Changing Planning Context

    This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context. Most models are rooted in decades of development work and are geared to offer value-free, academic and explicit knowledge to transport planning experts. However, planning practice has changed dramatically over the years, resulting in a less technical rational view on the use of ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Active Landscape Photography

    Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture

    Series series Active Landscape Photography
    Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of essays and case studies, this seminal text unpacks the complex relationship between landscape architecture and photography. It explores the influence of photographic seeing on the design process by presenting theoretical concepts from photography and ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Whose Green City?

    Contested Urban Green Spaces and Environmental Justice in Northern Europe

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Against the backdrop of an accelerating global urbanization and related ecological, climatic or social challenges to urban sustainability, this book focuses on the access to “safe, inclusive and accessible green and public space” as outlined in United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal No. 11. Looking through the lens of environmental justice and contested urban spaces, it raises the question ... Leer más

    $94.39 USD

  • Modernism and the making of the Soviet New Man

    The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. Modernism and the Making of the New Man explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aesthetics and politics. The design of the material environment, according to the author, was the social effort that most clearly articulated the dynamic ... Leer más

    $22.29 USD

  • Smartcities, Resilient Landscapes and Eco-Warriors

    de CJ Lim, Ed Liu ...
    Following on from the success of the first edition, Smartcities + Eco-Warriors (2010), this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from one of the world’s leading urban design and architectural thinkers. An ecological symbiosis between nature, society and the built form, the Smartcity cultivates new spatial practices and creates diverse forms of resilient landscapes including ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World

    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientific knowledge, and the emergence of an increasingly integrated global economy all affected how states articulated and projected visions of authority into ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Green Infrastructure and Public Health

    There is a growing body of knowledge revealing a sweeping array of connections between public health and green infrastructure – but not until now have the links between them been brought together in one comprehensive book. Green Infrastructure and Public Health provides an overview of current research and theories of the ecological relationships and mechanisms by which the environment influences ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Coastal Towns in Transition

    Local Perceptions of Landscape Change

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Many coastal areas around the world are experiencing dramatic landscape changes as a result of increased tourism development and the "sea change phenomenon" – the migration of affluent urbanites to small coastal towns seeking beautiful, natural surroundings. In response to these changes local residents in these places often complain that the distinctive character of their towns and/or individual ... Leer más

    $136.39 USD

  • Infrastructure Sustainability and Design

    You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental design, architecture, and landscape architecture review current sustainable large-scale projects, the ... Leer más

    $166.99 USD