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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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  • Forgotten Agricultural Heritage

    Reconnecting food systems and sustainable development

    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    Contemporary agriculture is often criticized for its industrial scale, adverse effects on nutrition, rural employment and the environment, and its disconnectedness from nature and culture. Yet there are many examples of traditional smaller scale systems that have survived the test of time and provide more sustainable solutions while still maintaining food security in an era of climate change. This ... Leer más

    $84,655 CLP

  • Innovative Community Responses to Disaster

    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    Increasingly, community leaders around the world face major natural and economic disasters that require them to find ways to rebuild both physical infrastructure and the local economy. Doing this effectively requires an understanding of how various parts of the community are interconnected, as well as information as to which revitalization approaches have succeeded in the past. Community ... Leer más

    $81,223 CLP

  • Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process

    de Simon Bell ...
    Landscapes develop and evolve through an interacting series of processes – climatic, geological, ecological and cultural – over varying periods of time. These processes shape the structure and character of the landscapes which we experience. Over time, distinctive patterns emerge – ranging in scale from the distribution of small plants to the sculptured sides of a huge canyon. Our perception of ... Leer más

    $88,089 CLP

  • Framing Strategic Urban Projects

    Learning from current experiences in European urban regions

    Edición de Willem Salet, Enrico Gualini ...
    Presenting the findings of extensive research into the development of planning tools and strategies since the early 1970s, this book addresses key issues in urban development/governance and brings together a range of different national experiences.Helpfully divided into three sections, Framing Strategic Urban Projects sets out the study framework, with its social, policy and institutional contexts ... Leer más

    $88,089 CLP

  • La Via delle Meridiane

    Series series Liguria da leggere
    Una passeggiata sui sentieri di Camogli, passando per la spettacolare San Rocco e giù, fino al mare di Punta Chiappa, per contemplare i tradizionali orologi solari che giacciono sui muri delle case del golfo. ... Leer más

    $1,914 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $97,241 CLP

  • Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning

    In the decades following the first Earth Day in 1970, a generation has been enlightened about the unspeakable damage done to our planet. Federal, state, and local governments generated laws and regulations to control development and protect the environment. Local governments have developed environmental standards addressing their needs. The result-an ecologically incongruous pattern of land ... Leer más

    $83,512 CLP

  • 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

    $60,628 CLP

  • 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

    $69,782 CLP

  • 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

    $88,089 CLP

  • 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

    $84,655 CLP

  • A City Reframed

    Managing Warsaw in the 1990's

    Management of big cities is a relatively unresearched area, as compared to city planning and city governance. A study of Warsaw city management reveals the transformation process typically found in European countries in political and economic transition. In A City Reframed, Czarniawska conceptualises city management as an "action-net" under transformation, where three types of action are in focus: ... Leer más

    $74,358 CLP

  • 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

    $78,935 CLP

  • Transforming Distressed Global Communities

    Making Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities

    Series series Urban Planning and Environment
    Many of our global cities are distressed and facing a host of issues: economic collapse in the face of rising expectations, social disintegration and civil unrest, and ecological degradation and the threats associated with climate change, including more frequent and more severe natural disasters. Our long-held assumptions about man and nature and how they interact are defunct. We realize now that ... Leer más

    $74,358 CLP

  • City-making, Space and Spirituality

    A Community-Based Urban Praxis with Reflections from South Africa

    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people. It traces dynamics in inner city neighbourhoods of South Africa’s post-apartheid capital, Pretoria. Viewing the city through its most vulnerable people and places, it recognizes that urban space is never neutral and shaped by competing value frameworks.The first part of the book invites planners, city-makers, and ordinary ... Leer más

    $69,782 CLP

  • Urban Services to Ecosystems

    Green Infrastructure Benefits from the Landscape to the Urban Scale

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The aim of this book is to bring together multidisciplinary research in the field of green infrastructure design, construction and ecology. The main core of the volume is constituted by contributions dealing with green infrastructure, vegetation science, nature-based solutions and sustainable urban development.The green infrastructure and its ecosystem services, indeed, are gaining space in both ... Leer más

    $175,958 CLP

  • Urbanism for a Difficult Future

    Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis

    de Korkut Onaran ...
    Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use planning and urbanism that will enable us to adapt to and survive the consequences of climate change.The book offers strong, straightforward measures for creating a landscape of resilience via pockets of self-sufficiencies. It demonstrates how to secure ... Leer más

    $59,485 CLP

  • Metropolitan Governance in America

    Metropolitan government and metropolitan governance have been ongoing issues for more than sixty years in the United States. Based on an extensive survey and a review of existing literature, this book offers a comprehensive overview of these debates. It discusses how the centrifugal forces in local government, and in particular local government autonomy, have produced a highly fragmented ... Leer más

    $84,655 CLP

  • Living Architecture

    Green Roofs and Walls

    Extensively illustrated with photographs and drawings, Living Architecture highlights the most exciting green roof and living wall projects in Australia and New Zealand within an international context. Cities around the world are becoming denser, with greater built form resulting in more hard surfaces and less green space, leaving little room for vegetation or habitat. One way of creating more ... Leer más

    $69,980 CLP

  • Elemental Architecture

    Temperaments of Sustainability

    Elemental Architecture presents a new and refreshing approach to sustainable architectural practice. Going beyond the standard performance-based and quantitative sustainable measures, it incorporates a broader framework of considerations, including the more poetic and noetic possibilities of environmental design.The book is structured around the ancient Greek and medieval alchemists’ system of the ... Leer más

    $69,782 CLP

  • Sustainable Living Solutions: Renewable Energy and Engineering

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book includes topics that explore diverse and innovative aspects of architectural design, urban planning, infrastructure, and engineering. The "Values Trilogy Design Philosophy" emphasizes the harmonious integration of sustainability, cost-effectiveness, and artistic expression in architectural projects. "DIGIT-ACCESS" explores a digital gateway to enhance accessibility to heritage ... Leer más

    $327,304 CLP

  • Heterotopia and the City

    Public Space in a Postcivil Society

    Heterotopia, literally meaning ‘other place’, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. ... Leer más

    $70,926 CLP

  • Nature Conservation in Europe

    Policy and Practice

    de Peter Bromley ...
    The Rio Summit has pointed to the urgency for the development of an international conservation policy; and the post-Maastricht debates in Europe have highlighted the need for the EU to reassess structural funding in nature conservation, as well as the influences on policy and practice. This book is a 'route map' through the legislative and policy frameworks and explains how conservation works in ... Leer más

    $74,358 CLP