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Life Between Buildings

Using Public Space

podle Jan Gehl ...

“. . .thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening...”—Jane Jacobs“This book will have a lasting infl uence on the future quality of public open spaces. By helping us better understand the larger public life of cities, Life between Buildings can only move us toward more lively and healthy public places. Buy this book, fi nd a comfortable place to sit in a public park or plaza, begin reading, look ... Přečtěte si více

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“. . .thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening...”—Jane Jacobs“This book will have a lasting infl uence on the future quality of public open spaces. By helping us better understand the larger public life of cities, Life between Buildings can only move us toward more lively and healthy public places. Buy this book, fi nd a comfortable place to sit in a public park or plaza, begin reading, look
... Přečtěte si více
A Natural History of Empty Lots

Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

podle Christopher Brown ...

An "instant classic", this genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self, and society (Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author).During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of Austin, Texas. The property—abandoned and full of litter and debris ... Přečtěte si více

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An "instant classic", this genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self, and society (Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author).During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of Austin, Texas. The property—abandoned and full of litter and debris
... Přečtěte si více
Cities for People

podle Jan Gehl ...

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes ... Přečtěte si více

901,39 Kč

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes
... Přečtěte si více
Walkable City

How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

podle Jeff Speck ...

Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth ... Přečtěte si více

236,19 Kč

Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth
... Přečtěte si více
The New Urban Crisis

How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

podle Richard Florida ...

In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Přečtěte si více

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In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth
... Přečtěte si více
European Planning History in the 20th Century

A Continent of Urban Planning

Upravil: Max Welch Guerra, Abdellah Abarkan, María A. Castrillo Romón, Martin Pekár ...

The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other levels of spatial planning. Thereby, planning has constituted itself in Europe as an international subject. Since its emergence, through intense ... Přečtěte si více

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The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other levels of spatial planning. Thereby, planning has constituted itself in Europe as an international subject. Since its emergence, through intense
... Přečtěte si více
The High Cost of Free Parking

Updated Edition

podle Donald Shoup ...

One of the American Planning Association’s most popular and influential books is finally in paperback, with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published. In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. ... Přečtěte si více

1 232,11 Kč

One of the American Planning Association’s most popular and influential books is finally in paperback, with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published. In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems.
... Přečtěte si více
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

podle Jane Jacobs ...

In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written.Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the ... Přečtěte si více

459,19 Kč

In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written.Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the
... Přečtěte si více
Humanise

A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World

podle Thomas Heatherwick ...

From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that' GRAYSON PERRY*****Our world is losing its humanity.Too many developers care more about their shareholders than society. Too many politicians care more about ... Přečtěte si více

367,29 Kč

From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that' GRAYSON PERRY*****Our world is losing its humanity.Too many developers care more about their shareholders than society. Too many politicians care more about
... Přečtěte si více
Mallparks

Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption

podle Michael T. Friedman ...

In Mallparks**, Michael T. Friedman observes that as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns and skyscrapers epitomized those within industrial cities, sports stadiums exemplify urban American consumption at the turn of the twenty-first century.** Grounded in Henri Lefebvre and George Ritzer's spatial theories in their analyses of consumption spaces, Mallparks examines how the ... Přečtěte si více

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In Mallparks**, Michael T. Friedman observes that as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns and skyscrapers epitomized those within industrial cities, sports stadiums exemplify urban American consumption at the turn of the twenty-first century.** Grounded in Henri Lefebvre and George Ritzer's spatial theories in their analyses of consumption spaces, Mallparks examines how the
... Přečtěte si více
Life Among Urban Planners

Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City

Upravil: Jennifer Mack, Michael Herzfeld ...

Série série The City in the Twenty-First Century
A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practicesUrban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their choices can determine how a city will merge its public transit and automobile traffic or how it will meet a demand for thousands of new ... Přečtěte si více

2 449,79 Kč

A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practicesUrban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their choices can determine how a city will merge its public transit and automobile traffic or how it will meet a demand for thousands of new
... Přečtěte si více
The Urban Improvise

Improvisation-Based Design for Hybrid Cities

podle Kristian Kloeckl ...

A book for architects, designers, planners, and urbanites that explores how cities can embrace improvisation to improve urban lifeThe built environment in today’s hybrid cities is changing radically. The pervasiveness of networked mobile and embedded devices has transformed a predominantly stable background for human activity into spaces that have a more fluid behavior. Based on their capability ... Přečtěte si více

598,89 Kč

A book for architects, designers, planners, and urbanites that explores how cities can embrace improvisation to improve urban lifeThe built environment in today’s hybrid cities is changing radically. The pervasiveness of networked mobile and embedded devices has transformed a predominantly stable background for human activity into spaces that have a more fluid behavior. Based on their capability
... Přečtěte si více
Repairing the American Metropolis

Common Place Revisited

podle Douglas S. Kelbaugh ...

Série série Samuel and Althea Stroum Books
Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan ... Přečtěte si více

657,29 Kč

Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan
... Přečtěte si více
A book of bridges

podle Walter Shaw Sparrow ...

A Book of Bridges by Walter Shaw Sparrow is an illuminating study of one of humanity’s greatest architectural achievements—the bridge. Blending art, engineering, and history, Sparrow explores the evolution of bridge construction from ancient times to the modern age, celebrating both their technical ingenuity and their poetic beauty as symbols of connection and progress.Through vivid descriptions, ... Přečtěte si více

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A Book of Bridges by Walter Shaw Sparrow is an illuminating study of one of humanity’s greatest architectural achievements—the bridge. Blending art, engineering, and history, Sparrow explores the evolution of bridge construction from ancient times to the modern age, celebrating both their technical ingenuity and their poetic beauty as symbols of connection and progress.Through vivid descriptions,
... Přečtěte si více
Green Urbanism In Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers

podle Peter Newman, Anne Matan ...

The world is facing an age of scarcity which will challenge all cities to reduce their resource footprint, especially carbon, improve biodiversity and at the same time continue to create economic opportunities and liveable places. This is green urbanism. Asian urban growth is leading the world in the rapidity of its change but how is it doing on green urbanism? This book finds emerging innovations ... Přečtěte si více

455,99 Kč

The world is facing an age of scarcity which will challenge all cities to reduce their resource footprint, especially carbon, improve biodiversity and at the same time continue to create economic opportunities and liveable places. This is green urbanism. Asian urban growth is leading the world in the rapidity of its change but how is it doing on green urbanism? This book finds emerging innovations
... Přečtěte si více
Medium design

Riprogettare il mondo

podle Keller Easterling ...

Série série Visioni
Come affrontare in modo alternativo i grandi dilemmi del nostro tempo, dal riscaldamento climatico alla disuguaglianza, alle concentrazioni di potere autoritario? Keller Easterling sostiene che la ricerca di soluzioni ai singoli problemi sia un errore e offre la prospettiva del medium design, che considera non solo oggetti, idee ed eventi separati ma anche lo spazio e i legami tra di essi. La ... Přečtěte si více

269,00 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

Come affrontare in modo alternativo i grandi dilemmi del nostro tempo, dal riscaldamento climatico alla disuguaglianza, alle concentrazioni di potere autoritario? Keller Easterling sostiene che la ricerca di soluzioni ai singoli problemi sia un errore e offre la prospettiva del medium design, che considera non solo oggetti, idee ed eventi separati ma anche lo spazio e i legami tra di essi. La
... Přečtěte si více
Negotiating Cultures

Delhi’s Architecture and Planning from 1912 to 1962

podle Pilar Maria Guerrieri ...

Focusing on one of the largest megacities in the world—Delhi—this volume is a rare peek into the ineluctable process of hybridization between Indian and ‘other’ cultures within its local architecture and urban planning. The book explores a segment of the history of Delhi from 1912 through 1962, when the contemporary megacity was born, making a comparison between pre- and post-Independence, which ... Přečtěte si více

1 126,59 Kč

Focusing on one of the largest megacities in the world—Delhi—this volume is a rare peek into the ineluctable process of hybridization between Indian and ‘other’ cultures within its local architecture and urban planning. The book explores a segment of the history of Delhi from 1912 through 1962, when the contemporary megacity was born, making a comparison between pre- and post-Independence, which
... Přečtěte si více
Sacred Civics

Building Seven Generation Cities

Upravil: Jayne Engle, Julian Agyeman, Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook ...

Série série Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature.The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a ... Přečtěte si více

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Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature.The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a
... Přečtěte si více
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cities, Urban Processes, and Policies

Upravil: Jesús M. González-Pérez, Clara Irazábal, Rubén C. Lois-González ...

This handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean. The content of this multidisciplinary book is organized into four large sections focusing on the histories and trajectories of urban spatial development, inequality and displacement of urban populations, contemporary debates on urban policies, and the future of the city in ... Přečtěte si více

1 316,14 Kč

This handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean. The content of this multidisciplinary book is organized into four large sections focusing on the histories and trajectories of urban spatial development, inequality and displacement of urban populations, contemporary debates on urban policies, and the future of the city in
... Přečtěte si více
Functional Urban Areas in Poland

Demographic Trends and Migration Patterns

podle Sławomir Kurek, Mirosław Wójtowicz, Jadwiga Gałka ...

Série série Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This book explores demographic changes in Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) in Poland since 1990. Functional Urban Areas, introduced by ESPON, refer to functional territorial units that can be defined as travel-to-work-area, representing strong integration between urban cores and their immediate hinterland. The functional urban area consists of a city plus its commuting zone. It fills a significant ... Přečtěte si více

1 968,89 Kč

This book explores demographic changes in Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) in Poland since 1990. Functional Urban Areas, introduced by ESPON, refer to functional territorial units that can be defined as travel-to-work-area, representing strong integration between urban cores and their immediate hinterland. The functional urban area consists of a city plus its commuting zone. It fills a significant
... Přečtěte si více
Earth Repair

A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes

podle Leila Darwish ...

Resistance is fertile – bioremediation techniques to heal the earth.Millions of acres of land have been contaminated by pesticides, improperly handled chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants in the United States and Canada. This toxic legacy impacts the environment, our health, our watersheds, and land that could otherwise be used to grow healthy local food and ... Přečtěte si více

344,79 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

Resistance is fertile – bioremediation techniques to heal the earth.Millions of acres of land have been contaminated by pesticides, improperly handled chemicals, dirty energy projects, toxic waste, and other pollutants in the United States and Canada. This toxic legacy impacts the environment, our health, our watersheds, and land that could otherwise be used to grow healthy local food and
... Přečtěte si více
Landscape of Discontent

Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris

podle Andrew Newman ...

Série série A Quadrant Book
On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d’Éole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved for infrastructure, but the Mayor’s vision of urban sustainability was met with jeers.Drawing ... Přečtěte si více

450,69 Kč

On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d’Éole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved for infrastructure, but the Mayor’s vision of urban sustainability was met with jeers.Drawing
... Přečtěte si více
Retrofitting the City

Residential Flexibility, Resilience and the Built Environment

podle Stefan Bouzarovski ...

Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world s energy consumption. If we are to reduce our demands on the planet s resources how can we make our urban areas more energy efficient? One way is to refit existing buildings with more thermally efficient building materials. But such retrofitting involves significant issues of social acceptance and public participation. Retrofitting the City ... Přečtěte si více

3 211,19 Kč

Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world s energy consumption. If we are to reduce our demands on the planet s resources how can we make our urban areas more energy efficient? One way is to refit existing buildings with more thermally efficient building materials. But such retrofitting involves significant issues of social acceptance and public participation. Retrofitting the City
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Modernism’s Magic Hat

Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital

podle Ijlal Muzaffar ...

Série série Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.In Modernism’s Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help resolve one of the central dilemmas of the mid-twentieth-century world order: how to make decolonization plausible without accounting for centuries of capital drain under colonial rule. In the years after World War II, ... Přečtěte si více

820,19 Kč

Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.In Modernism’s Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help resolve one of the central dilemmas of the mid-twentieth-century world order: how to make decolonization plausible without accounting for centuries of capital drain under colonial rule. In the years after World War II,
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Plánování elektronické knihy

Life Between Buildings

A Natural History of Empty Lots

Cities for People

Walkable City

The New Urban Crisis

European Planning History in the 20th Century

The High Cost of Free Parking

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Humanise

Mallparks

Life Among Urban Planners

The Urban Improvise

Repairing the American Metropolis

A book of bridges

Green Urbanism In Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers

Medium design

Negotiating Cultures

Sacred Civics

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Functional Urban Areas in Poland

Earth Repair

Landscape of Discontent

Retrofitting the City

Modernism’s Magic Hat