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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

  • 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

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

    Free

  • Aesthetics, Well-being and Health

    Essays within Architecture and Environmental Aesthetics

    Edited by Birgit Cold ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Ethnoscapes
    In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health. Originally published in 2001 as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series,reissued now with a new series introduction, Aesthetics, Well-being and Health: Essays within Architecture and Environmental ... Read more

    42,61 €

  • Creating Wealth

    Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies

    by Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Bernard Lietaer ...
    The power of local currenciesCommunities everywhere are challenged by issues such as health, elder and child care, housing, education, food security and the environment. On the surface, these problems appear to be rooted in economic crisis-forexample budget cuts have triggered reduced public services, soaring food prices have created food security concerns, and the subprime mortgage disaster has ... Read more

    12,82 €

  • Learning from Other Countries: The Cross-National Dimension in Urban Policy Making

    Edited by I. Masser, Mrs Bernadette Williams, R. Williams ...
    Looking at the lessons we can learn from international research in urban and regional planning, this book explores the challenges in using cross-country studies. The contributors address how to approach researching planning in other countries, and how to then diffuse the planning information. Key topics include:comparable urban data, and how to use itworking with international agenciesmethodological ... Read more

    53,57 €

  • The Urban Vernacular in Southeast Asia

    Settlement as Serendipity

    Edited by Nor Zalina Harun, Shireen Jahn Kassim ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book constructs a number of discourses, dialectics and analyses across the disciplines of urban form, architecture and urban experience, thus incorporating both conservation and design issues.It bridges the gap between practice and theory by reconstructing the role of the “village” or “vernacular” in the discourses and trends of the twenty-first century post-Covid19 environment. Bringing ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • Confronting Suburbanization

    Urban Decentralization in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Kiril Stanilov, Ludĕk Sýkora ...
    Series series IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    This fascinating book explains the processes of suburbanization in the context of post-socialist societies transitioning from one system of socio-spatial order to another. Case studies of seven Central and Eastern Europe city regions illuminate growth patterns and key conditions for the emergence of sprawl.Breaks new ground, offering a systematic approach to the analysis of the global phenomenon ... Read more

    20,99 €

  • Building the Inclusive City

    Theory and Practice for Confronting Urban Segregation

    by Nilson Ariel Espino ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Urban segregation is one of the main challenges facing urban development around the globe. The usual outcome of many urban development patterns is an unequal social geography, with the urban poor living in large clusters that are remote, isolated, dangerous or unhealthy. The result is inequality in a number of dimensions of urban life, from deficient urban access, services or infrastructure to ... Read more

    66,96 €

  • Engaging Children and Young People in Planning

    A Handbook for Transformative Practice

    by Teresa Strachan ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Engaging Children and Young People in Planning places planners’ skills for engagement with children and young people centre stage by discussing several projects delivered or supported by planning students to young people in the Northeast of England. Urban or town and country planning is a largely unfamiliar concept to children and young people. Moreover, in England, the environment in which young ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • Temporary Cities

    Resisting Transience in Arabia

    by Yasser Elsheshtawy ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Are Arab Gulf cities, the likes of Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Doha, on their way to extinction? Is their fate obsolescence? Or, are they the model for our urban future? Can a city whose very existence is predicated on an imported labour force who build and operate these gleaming urban centres remain a viable urban entity? Could the transient nature of this urban model, its temporariness and ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Gentrification and the Media

    Building and Propagating Discourses on Exclusive Urban Change

    Edited by Stéphane Sadoux, Marie-Pierre Vincent, David Fée, Louise Dalingwater ...
    Series series Cities and Cultures
    Gentrification is extensively discussed in the media, where coverage can describe changing neighbourhoods and analyse the causes and consequences of such change. The media are also arenas in which the voices of those who advocate or resist gentrification can be heard. How can this profusion of content be examined? What methods can be used to critically address the role of the media in constructing ... Read more

    Free

  • The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980

    by Andrew Leach, John Macarthur ...
    In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International and Borromini’s dome for Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza. The values shared between the baroque age and the modern were thus encapsulated on a single page spread. As Giedion put it, writing of Sant’Ivo, Borromini accomplished 'the movement of the whole ... Read more

    64,53 €

  • Life Among Urban Planners

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

    Edited by Jennifer Mack, Michael Herzfeld ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    62,00 €

  • Goiânia de Attilio Corrêa Lima (1932 a 1935)

    Ideal estético e realidade política

    by Anamaria Diniz ...
    Attilio nunca desistiu de Goiânia. A pesquisa realizada pela arquiteta e urbanista Anamaria Diniz propõe um contraponto e uma reparação à história oficial sobre o planejamento urbano da capital do estado de Goiás, realizado por Attilio Corrêa Lima. Para isso, ela se utiliza de fontes primárias e documentos inéditos capazes de comprovar a conclusão e a entrega do trabalho de idealização de uma ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • Man and Place

    Creative Design Transformations

    Edited by Asmaa Ibrahim, Mady A. A. Mohamed, Mohamed Fekry ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is a result of the 1st ARCH and DESN International Conference (previously Memaryat) Conference held at Effat university on the 8th and 9th of February 2023, and includes chapters dealing with the critical manifestation of “Man and Place” to accommodate and embrace social, economic, and environmental needs within a balanced, integrated system.The book is groundbreaking in that it brings ... Read more

    199,38 €

  • South Bronx Rising

    The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City

    by Jill Jonnes ...
    Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by community activists—Jill Jonnes returns to chronicle the ongoing revival of the South Bronx. Though now globally renowned as the birthplace of hip-hop, ... Read more

    27,34 €