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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

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23 timer 47 min

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. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the environment. Ubiquitous free parking helps explain why ... Læs mere

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History of Architecture: From Ancient Monuments to Modern Cities in 10 Essential Chapters

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1 time 55 min

Transform your daily commute into an immersive architectural history of human civilization and urban design. Wander through an enormous open-air museum of the mind, pausing at ancient mud-brick villages and soaring glass towers. This atmospheric listening experience breathes life into the stone temples and bustling streets of our shared past.Whether winding down to relax or seeking focused ... Læs mere

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Waterfront Manhattan

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af Kurt C. Schlichting ...

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7 timer 44 min

For hundreds of years, the shorefront of Manhattan Island served as the country's center of trade, shipping, and commerce. With its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world's busiest port. It was a world of docks, ships, tugboats, and ferries, filled with cargo and freight, a place ... Læs mere

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A Paradise of Small Houses

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Fortalt af Shawn K. Jain ...

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9 timer 45 min

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Una historia personal de la arquitectura europea

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af David Ferrer ...

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12 timer 10 min

Un recorrido fascinante y extraordinariamente ilustrado que explica como nunca antes las claves de la arquitectura.El arquitecto David Ferrer nos acompaña en estas páginas a lo largo de un itinerario lleno de etapas fascinantes: la civilización griega con los primeros edificios de nuestra cultura, las portentosas construcciones romanas, las catedrales góticas, el clasicismo renacentista, el ... Læs mere

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The Timeless Way of Building

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10 timer 35 min

The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at.Now, at ... Læs mere

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Inventing Paradise

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af Paul Haddad ...

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af Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak ...

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A Pulitzer Prize–winning architectural critic explores how modern cities thrive when urban planning leaves room for happy accidents and innovations.“A city is not a symphony, composed as a single work,” Paul Goldberger writes. “It is more like jazz, with its mix of order and improvisation.” The Imperfect City is a record of Goldberger’s looking, lingering, and thinking about cities—how they ... Læs mere

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Town Planning in Practice

af Raymond Unwin ...

Fortalt af Mark Tester ...

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7 timer 6 min

Raymond Unwin was a prominent architect and engineer from the late 19th and early 20th century. He helped popularize the Arts and Crafts movement and was one of the first English voices in the town planning movement. Town Planning in Practice was published in 1909 and still resonates with planners and urban designers today. It reflects on discussions that are still happening to this day including ... Læs mere

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Brave New Home

Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing

af Diana Lind ...

Fortalt af Janina Edwards ...

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6 timer 45 min

This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better.Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same ... Læs mere

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The Well-Tempered Society

How Modern Science, Ancient Wisdom and Human Nature Guide us to Create Societies of Well-being in an Uncertain Time

af Jonathan Rose ...

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Darwin Comes to Town

af Professor Menno Schilthuizen ...

Fortalt af Chris Nayak ...

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8 timer 25 min

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That's not how I remember it

glimpses of the Packington Estate from those who were there

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Fortalt af Toni Lee, Yasemin Der, Charise Johnson, Donna Roe, John Okolo, Kim Stanton, Sheyma Buali, Susana Smith, Theresa Okolo ...

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2 timer 22 min

Interwoven memories of wallpaper, sugar sandwiches, violence and unwritten rules of community offer an insider history of the Pack, a now demolished London council estate. ... Læs mere

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The Eyes of the Skin

Architecture and the Senses

af Juhani Pallasmaa ...

Fortalt af Juhani Pallasmaa, Steven Holl, Simon Allford, Conleth Buckley, Paula Craft-Pegg, Eddie Heathcoat ...

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3 timer 35 min

Explore the relationship between architecture and the sensory experience with the fourth edition of this groundbreaking work.First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin is a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, is one single sense―sight―so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all ... Læs mere

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No Place To Go

How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs

af Lezlie Lowe ...

Fortalt af Amanda Wood ...

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6 timer 15 min

This book is Number One in addressing the politics of where we're allowed to "go" in public.Adults don’t talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one assumption: the world of public bathrooms is problem- and politics-free. No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fail our Private Needs reveals the opposite is true. No Place To Go is a toilet tour from London to San Francisco to Toronto ... Læs mere

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Transit Development: Engineering Urban Growth

af Gavin T. Railton ...

Fortalt af Digital Voice Martin G ...

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4 timer 17 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Discover how integrated transit planning can transform growing cities into vibrant, connected communities that thrive economically, socially, and environmentally. Transit Development: Engineering Urban Growth reveals proven strategies for aligning public transport networks with urban planning goals, enabling you to design systems that reduce congestion ... Læs mere

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Imperial San Francisco

Urban Power, Earthly Ruin

af Gray Brechin ...

Fortalt af Gray Brechin ...

Serier Lydbog 3 - California Studies in Critical Human Geography
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13 timer 41 min

Imperial San Francisco is the epic saga of how all great cities parasitize their hinterlands for the sake of those elites who own and run them by using the mass media at their command to shape the thought of those who unwittingly serve their interests. Using San Francisco as an example of how cities employ remote control technology to exploit water, energy, natural resources, and labor from an ... Læs mere

200,36 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

Imperial San Francisco is the epic saga of how all great cities parasitize their hinterlands for the sake of those elites who own and run them by using the mass media at their command to shape the thought of those who unwittingly serve their interests. Using San Francisco as an example of how cities employ remote control technology to exploit water, energy, natural resources, and labor from an
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In the Business of Change

How Social Entrepreneurs are Disrupting Business as Usual

af Elisa Birnbaum ...

Fortalt af Elisa Birnbaum ...

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6 timer 10 min

Meet the social entrepreneurs who are using business to disrupt the status quo and rebuild their communitiesOur communities are facing the fallout from the demise of vital industry, bankrupt economies, bad policy or policing, and political mismanagement. People are looking for answers, and the "same old" simply won't do.In the Business of Change is a practical and inspirational guide that ... Læs mere

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Street, Palace, Square

The Architecture of Democratic Spaces

af Jan-Werner Müller ...

Fortalt af James Armstrong ...

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5 timer 27 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Building requires power and resources – then, once created, our environment structures how we relate to each other. But what would a distinctly democratic built environment look like? Should we prioritize an inclusive process by which as many citizens as possible can decide how a building is designed? Or is it about how architecture and urban spaces can best represent ... Læs mere

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Roman Britain in Twenty Towns

A Visitor's Guide

af Professor Richard Hingley ...

Fortalt af Niall Lucas ...

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11 timer 21 min

Bloomsbury presents Roman Britain in Twenty Towns by Richard Hingley, read by Nial LucasFrom Hadrian’s Wall to Sulis Minerva’s spa at Bath and the public buildings and walled circuits of other towns, Britain has a wealth of Roman urban remains to examine.Designed for visitors wishing to explore the archaeological landscape, this user-friendly guide sets out a plan of 20 Roman towns – explaining ... Læs mere

154,98 kr.

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Speculative Futures

Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities We Need

af Johanna Hoffman ...

Fortalt af Heni Zoutomou ...

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4 timer 38 min

How the emerging field of speculative futures can help us dream--and build--better, sustainable, and more equitable cities for everyone.Speculative futures--design approaches that help us visualize new and potential worlds--move us beyond what currently exists into what could one day be. Inspired by art, film, fiction, and industrial design, they use speculation to provoke, imagine, and dream into ... Læs mere

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How the emerging field of speculative futures can help us dream--and build--better, sustainable, and more equitable cities for everyone.Speculative futures--design approaches that help us visualize new and potential worlds--move us beyond what currently exists into what could one day be. Inspired by art, film, fiction, and industrial design, they use speculation to provoke, imagine, and dream into
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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

History of Architecture: From Ancient Monuments to Modern Cities in 10 Essential Chapters

Waterfront Manhattan

A Paradise of Small Houses

Shade

Una historia personal de la arquitectura europea

The Timeless Way of Building

Ten Cities that Led the World

Inventing Paradise

The New Localism

The Imperfect City

Town Planning in Practice

Brave New Home

The Well-Tempered Society

Darwin Comes to Town

That's not how I remember it

The Eyes of the Skin

No Place To Go

Transit Development: Engineering Urban Growth

Imperial San Francisco

In the Business of Change

Street, Palace, Square

Roman Britain in Twenty Towns

Speculative Futures