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  • 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

  • New SubUrbanisms

    Historically, we see the city as the cramped, crumbling core of development and culture, and the suburb as the vast outlying wasteland – convenient, but vacant. Contemporary urban design proves this wrong. In New SubUrbanisms, Judith De Jong explains the on-going "flattening" of the American Metropolis, as suburbs are becoming more like their central cities – and cities more like their suburbs ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • 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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  • The Green City and Social Injustice

    21 Tales from North America and Europe

    Series series Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
    The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America over a 20-year period. It analyses the circumstances under which greening interventions can create a new set of inequalities for socially vulnerable residents while also failing to eliminate other environmental risks and impacts.Based on fieldwork in ten countries and on ... Leer más

    $57.99 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

  • 奇山:佛教道教名山

    de 张建成 ...
    中华文化也叫华夏文化、华夏文明,是中国各民族文化的总称,是中华文明在发展过程中汇集而成的一种反映民族特质和风貌的民族文化,是中华民族历史上各种物态文化、精神文化、行为文化等方面的总体表现。 ... Leer más

    $9.43 USD

  • Japanese Gardens

    Symbolism and Design

    The unique beauty of the Japanese garden stems from its spirituality and rich symbolism, yet most discussions on this kind of garden rarely provide more than a superficial overview. This book takes a thorough look at the process of designing a Japanese garden, placing it in a historical and philosophical context.Goto and Naka, both academic experts in Japanese garden history and design, explore ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Urban Access for the 21st Century

    Finance and Governance Models for Transport Infrastructure

    This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for all. For most of the last century cities have followed a path of dependency on car dominated urban transport favouring the middle classes. Urban Access for the 21st Century seeks to change this. Policies need to be more inclusive of the accessibility needs of the urban poor. Change requires redesigning the existing public finance ... Leer más

    $84.99 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

  • Making Cities Work

    Role of Local Authorities in the Urban Environment

    Series series Energy and Infrastructure Set
    For too long, cities have been thought of as environmental blackspots, with high levels of air and soil pollution, overcrowding, poor sanitation and growing waste disposal problems. This book takes a more positive attitude: cities can be made to work sustainably. Their high population density can work in the environment's favour if they can achieve efficient use of resources such as energy and ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Multispecies Leisure: Human-Animal Interactions in Leisure Landscapes

    Multispecies Leisure: Human-Animal Interactions in Leisure Landscapes seeks to ‘bring the animal in’ to the leisure studies domain and contribute to greater understanding of leisure as a complex, interwoven multispecies phenomenon.The emerging multidisciplinary field of human-animal studies encourages researchers to move beyond narrow focus on human-centric practices and ways of being in the world ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays

    Successes and Failures

    To attract investment and tourists and to enhance the quality of life of their citizens, municipal authorities are paying considerable attention to the quality of the public domain of their cities – including their urban squares. Politicians find them good places for rallies. Children consider squares to be playgrounds, the elderly as places to catch-up with each other, and for many others squares ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Familiar Past?

    Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain

    The Familiar Past surveys material culture from 1500 to the present day. Fourteen case studies, grouped under related topics, include discussion of issues such as:* the origins of modernity in urban contexts* the historical anthropology of food* the social and spatial construction of country houses* the social history of a workhouse site* changes in memorial forms and inscriptions* the ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Ecology, Community and Delight

    An Inquiry into Values in Landscape Architecture

    de Ian Thompson ...
    This book examines the three principal value systems which influence landscape architectural practice: the aesthetic, the social and the environmental, and seeks to discover the role that the profession should be playing now and for the future. The book integrates an investigation of historical sources with contemporary research into the beliefs and values of practitioners. The book raises ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Creating Smart-er Cities

    Edición de Mark Deakin ...
    Drawing upon the smart experiences of "world class" cities in North America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based and market-dependent representations of knowledge production are now being replaced with a community of policy makers, academic leaders, corporate strategists and growth management alliances, with the potential to liberate cities from ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries

    de Thomas Hall ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries examines urban development and planning in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Emphasis is on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, and the authors of each 'country-study' look at their own national developments against the background of those in other Nordic countries well as the rest of Europe and the USA. ... Leer más

    $68.99 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

  • 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

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Riqualificazione ex Foro Boario - Nola

    de Anna Tufano ...
    Progetto di riqualificazione di un'area del centro storico della città di Nola (NA). ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Modern Landscapes of Ted Smyth

    Landscape Modernism in the Asia-Pacific

    The modern period in landscape architecture is enjoying the fascinated appreciation of scholars and historians in Europe and the Americas, and new themes, new subjects and new appraisals are appearing. This book contributes to the conversation by focusing on the work of a singular designer who spent his entire career in a province of the North Island of New Zealand. Ted Smyth practiced an assured ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • A Landscape of Architecture, History and Fiction

    de Jonathan Hill ...
    Architecture can be analogous to a history, a fiction, and a landscape. We expect a history or a novel to be written in words, but they can also be cast in concrete or seeded in soil. The catalyst to this tradition was the simultaneous and interdependent emergence in the eighteenth century of new art forms: the picturesque landscape, the analytical history, and the English novel. Each of them ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Sand Dunes of the Northern Hemisphere

    Distribution, Formation, Migration and Management, Volume 1

    This book in two volumes, and with a foreword by the renowned Professor M.A.J. Williams, draws on evidence from coastal and inland regions, including desert dunes, wind-blown dust, river and lake sediments, glacial moraines, plant and animal fossils, isotope geochemistry, soils and prehistoric archaeology to better understand the genesis and development of dunes systems in selected northern ... Leer más

    $86.99 USD