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  • Housing and Social Policy

    Contemporary Themes and Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Peter Somerville, Nigel Sprigings ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    This topical book transforms the analysis of housing problems into a lively, interesting and contentious subject of social scientific study, addressing themes of residential experience, inclusion/empowerment, sustainability and professionalism/managerialism, which lie at the heart of the housing and social policy debate. Each chapter considers a specific social category - such as class, gender, or ... Read more

    Free

  • Human Transit (Revised Edition)

    How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

    by Jarrett Walker ...
    An updated and expanded new edition of an acclaimed book about how to make public transportation work better for everyoneTransportation expert Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus on the underlying geometry that all transit systems share. In this revised edition of his acclaimed Human Transit*,* he provides the basic tools and critical questions needed to make smarter ... Read more

    26,70 €

  • Métapolis

    Ou l’avenir des villes

    by François Ascher ...
    Les grandes villes sont le lieu par excellence où les hommes créent, échangent, se rencontrent. Pourtant, on les rend souvent responsables de tous nos maux. François Ascher analyse ici la tendance actuelle à la concentration des hommes, des activités et des richesses dans les métropoles. Est-elle généralisée ? Quelles formes concrètes prend-elle ? Les nouveaux modes de communication vont-ils l ... Read more

    19,99 €

  • Building and Dwelling

    Ethics for the City

    by Richard Sennett ...
    **'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, Guardian**In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built environment and the good life. He argues for, and ... Read more

    17,99 €

  • Cities After Crisis

    Reinventing Neighborhood Design from the Ground-Up

    by Carlos Vazquez ...
    Cities After Crisis shows how urbanism and urban design is redefining cities after the global health, economic, and environmental crises of the past decades. The book details how these crises have led to a new urban vision—from avantgarde modern design to an artisan aesthetic that calls for simplicity and the everyday, from the sustainable development paradigm to a resilient vision that defends de ... Read more

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  • Urban Design Futures

    Edited by Malcolm Moor, Jon Rowland ...
    The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging ... Read more

    Free

  • Curbing Traffic

    The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

    by Chris Bruntlett, Melissa Bruntlett ...
    In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherlands. They had packed up their family in Vancouver, BC, and moved to Delft to experience the biking city as residents rather than as visitors. A year earlier they had become unofficial ambassadors for Dutch cities with the publication of their first book Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint ... Read more

    22,89 €

  • Manchester

    Something rich and strange

    Edited by Paul Dobraszczyk, Sarah Butler ...
    What is Manchester? Moving far from the glitzy shopping districts and architectural showpieces, away from cool city-centre living and modish cultural centres, this book shows us the unheralded, under-appreciated and overlooked parts of Greater Manchester in which the majority of Mancunians live, work and play. It tells the story of the city thematically, using concepts such a ‘material’, ... Read more

    11,44 €

  • Il Paesaggio Agrario: dal vincolo alla gestione negoziata

    by Nicoletta Ferrucci, Marco Brocca ...
    Il paesaggio agrario è un osservatorio privilegiato delle politiche paesaggistiche attuali, di cui denota limiti e potenzialità. Il regime di tipo vincolistico plasmato dal legislatore vale come presidio per la tutela del territorio, ma può anche ostacolare gli usi agricoli e le trasformazioni per finalità economiche proprie del settore agricolo. Il volume sostiene dunque la necessità di non ... Read more

    26,99 €

  • GIS-Based Simulation and Analysis of Intra-Urban Commuting

    by Yujie Hu, Fahui Wang ...
    Commuting, the daily link between residences and workplaces, sets up the complex interaction between the two most important land uses (residential and employment) in a city, and dictates the configuration of urban structure. In addition to prolonged time and stress for individual commuters on traffic, commuting comes with additional societal costs including elevated crash risks, worsening air ... Read more

    30,43 €

  • Paris Isn't Dead Yet

    Surviving Gentrification in the City of Light

    by Cole Stangler ...
    The Paris of popular imagination is lined with cobblestone streets and stylish cafés, a beacon for fashionistas and well-heeled tourists. But French American journalist Cole Stangler, celebrated for his reporting on Paris and French politics, argues that the beating heart of the City of Light lies elsewhere – in the striving, working-class districts, where residents are now being priced out. Paris ... Read more

    10,27 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • European Cities, Planning Systems and Property Markets

    Edited by J.N. Berry, W.S. McGreal ...
    A common theme running through both the market economies of Western Europe and the old command economies of Eastern Europe is the desire to combine local economic development objectives with those of the international investor. It is in this context that the interaction between planning systems and property markets is of paramount importance. ... Read more

    71,83 €

  • Lebanon’s Urban Development and Planning

    Edited by Christine Mady ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    After four hundred years of Ottoman rule followed by a little over two decades as part of the French Mandate, Lebanon finally gained independence in 1943. In her translation and editing of the four books by Mohammad Fawaz, Director of Lebanon’s Directorate General of Urbanism from 1974 to 1993, Christine Mady provides a unique insight into the development and urban planning of Lebanon and its ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • Quartierssanierung im Kontext urbaner Resilienz

    Der Beitrag von Business Improvement Districts als Beteiligungsansatz zur Förderung der urbanen Resilienz in innerstädtischen Quartieren

    by Benjamin Willi, Lucas Falter, Thomas Glatte ...
    Series series Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
    Städte und ihre Quartiere sind Transformationsprozessen unterworfen und stehen nach Krisen wie der Corona-Pandemie vor großen Herausforderungen.Diese Publikation aus der Reihe „Studien zum nachhaltigen Bauen und Wirtschaften” untersucht in welcher Konstellation und unter welchen Bedingungen Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) als ein Beteiligungsinstrument der Quartiersentwicklung für die ... Read more

    49,07 €

  • Routledge Revivals: The Politics of Urban Change (1979)

    Edited by David McKay, Andrew Cox ...
    First published in 1979, this book examines key planning policy areas such as land use planning, land values, housing and slum clearance, urban transport, industrial and regional economic location policies, and policies inner city policies to explain why particular policies have been adopted at particular times — assessing the role of political parties, bureaucrats and interests in setting the ... Read more

    43,82 €

  • Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories

    Edited by Juan M. Corchado, Saber Trabelsi ...
    Series Book 253 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
    This book constitutes the proceedings of this year’s Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories International Conference (SSCt 2021), held in Doha, Qatar, from the 27th to the 29th of April 2021. The SSCt 2021 is an open symposium that brings together researchers and developers from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest scientific and technical advances in the fields of Smart ... Read more

    162,17 €

  • Bioregional Planning

    Resource Management Beyond the New Millennium

    by D J Brunckhorst ...
    Presenting a pragmatic mixture of science, landscape ecology, ecosystem management, sociology, policy development and methods for transforming social and institutional cultures. Bioregional Planning: Resource Management Beyond the New Millennium is a timely and practical guide for the analysis, planning and development of bioregional projects for a sustainable future. Significantly, this book ... Read more

    200,92 €

  • Zev's Los Angeles

    From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power. A Political Memoir

    by Zev Yaroslavsky ...
    A unique memoir charting the modern political history of Los Angeles as told by one of its most consequential elected leaders.An activist with political skills can take on powerful special interests, and a balkanized governance structure, and make government work.An eye-opening, behind-the-scenes account of how government really works ... Read more

    20,13 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Periferia

    by Paola Gregory ...
    Series series Echi
    «Oggi molti studiosi concordano nell'attribuire al concetto di periferia – la cui radice etimologica indica le zone disposte ai margini esterni di una città – un significato prevalentemente sociale ed economico, piuttosto che formale e geografico. Analizzato da questa prospettiva, il concetto di periferia perde i suoi contorni tradizionali e la sua compatta e monolitica definizione. Lontana appare ... Read more

    0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Interventions

    Edited by Malcolm Miles, Tim Hall ...
    Series series Advances in Art and Urban Futures
    Interventions is a contribution to current considerations of how cultural initiatives and interventions affect the development of cities. It draws together policies and projects for cultural urban interventions, from the UK, Lithuania, India, and North America. The authors include artists, arts managers, academics in cultural and geographical fields, and policy makers. The book has three sections: ... Read more

    22,89 €

  • Sustainable Urbanism in China

    by Ali Cheshmehzangi, Ayotunde Dawodu, Ayyoob Sharifi ...
    Sustainable Urbanism in China explores the notion of "Sustainable Urbanism" by considering the role sustainable neighborhood planning plays in the larger picture of sustainable urbanism and suggests innovations and best practices that are either developed or adopted by China. These are narrated as lessons learnt for other countries where we see similar trends of development patterns or emerging ... Read more

    48,70 €

  • The Government of Space (Routledge Revivals)

    Town Planning in Modern Society

    by 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 ... Read more

    35,30 €

  • Planning Metropolitan Australia

    Edited by Stephen Hamnett, Robert Freestone ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Australia has long been a highly (sub)urbanized nation, but the major distinctive feature of its contemporary settlement pattern is that the great majority of Australians live in a small number of large metropolitan areas focused on the state capital cities. The development and application of effective urban policy at a regional scale is a significant global challenge given the complexities of ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict

    by Tim Cunningham ...
    Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict exposes how governments, public officials and private actors on both sides of the Atlantic entrenched racial and ethnic divisions through manipulation of the planning and design of the built environment.Based on interviews, never-before-seen documents, and field work carried out in Belfast,Chicago, Miami, Washington D.C., and New York City, this book ... Read more

    64,53 €