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  • 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 €

  • 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

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

  • 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

  • Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life

    Edited by Peter Cheyne ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aesthetics of imperfection with issues in areas including philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art theory, and cultural studies.The contributors to this volume argue that imperfection has value in being open and inclusive. The ... Read more

    48,70 €

  • The spatial strategies of Italian regions

    by AA. VV. ...
    Spatial planning is undergoing radical changes all over Europe. This book tries to explore this process of change by examining the cases of five Italian regions with different histories and patterns of development. ... Read more

    22,99 €

  • Urban Planning and its Discontents

    Practice in Contemporary India

    by Darshini Mahadevia, Rutool Sharma ...
    This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice. Urban planning in India means many things to city residents and is used generically to include all interventions in the cities, such as public policy design, institutional design, spatial and territorial plans, infrastructure plans, ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • Citizens in the 'Smart City'

    Participation, Co-production, Governance

    by Paolo Cardullo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    This book critically examines ‘smart city’ discourse in terms of governance initiatives, citizen participation and policies which place emphasis on the ‘citizen’ as an active recipient and co-producer of technological solutions to urban problems.The current hype around smart cities and digital technologies has sparked debates in the fields of citizenship, urban studies and planning surrounding the ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Resistant City: Histories, Maps And The Architecture Of Development

    by Eunice Mei Feng Seng ...
    This vivid book is an inquiry into the stagnation between the development of architectural practice and the progress in urban modernization. It is about islands as territories of resistance. It is about dense places where multitudes dwell in perennial contestations with the city on every front. It is about the histories, tactics and spaces of everyday survival within the hegemonic sway of global ... Read more

    24,05 €

  • Play and the City

    How to Create Places and Spaces To Help Us Thrive

    by Alex Bonham ...
    Play is essential, for children but also adults. It's how we relax and revitalise ourselves, build and maintain friendships, try new things, learn and innovate.Cities have always been sites of play, bringing people together and pushing the boundaries of what is humanly possible. And now we need our cities to encourage and facilitate play of all kinds more than ever. If we want a world for our ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Functionalism Revisited

    Architectural Theory and Practice and the Behavioral Sciences

    by Jon Lang, Walter Moleski ...
    A range of current approaches to architecture are neglected in our contemporary writings on design philosophies. This book argues that the model of 'function' and the concept of a 'functional building' that we have inherited from the twentieth-century Modernists is limited in scope and detracts from a full understanding of the purposes served by the built environment. It simply does not cover the ... Read more

    71,83 €

  • Cultura alpina contemporanea e sviluppo del territorio

    by Maria Anna Bertolino, Federica Corrado ...
    Il volume presenta una riflessione sulla cultura alpina contemporanea come dispositivo di attivazione di processi di sviluppo territoriale. L’obiettivo è di fornire indicazioni teorico-metodologiche per la definizione di un nuovo percorso che lega le pratiche culturali (più in generale la cultura) ai processi di sviluppo nelle aree a bassa densità, in particolare rurali/montane, mostrando come ... Read more

    15,99 €

  • Hitler’s Northern Utopia

    Building the New Order in Occupied Norway

    by Despina Stratigakos ...
    The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model “Aryan” society in Norway during World War IIBetween 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today, was designed to extend the Greater German Reich beyond the Arctic Circle and turn the Scandinavian ... Read more

    15,25 €

  • Intorno al centro

    Che cos'è centro? Che cos'è periferia? La necessaria pratica dei confini

    by Lucio Saviani ...
    Il kentron fu in origine pungiglione, ma anche una puntura. Solo più tardi avrebbe indicato la punta di un compasso, il punto fermo che intacca una superficie originando una circonferenza o periphereia. Sembra essere una puntuale riproposizione del gesto gerarchizzante delle classiche op- posizioni concettuali: contenuto/forma, eterno/ temporale, anima/corpo, stabilità/transitorietà. Il primo ... Read more

    3,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cities and Natural Process

    A Basis for Sustainability

    by Michael Hough ...
    Cities and Natural Process is a book for all concerned with the future of our cities, their design and sustainability, and our quality of life within them. Michael Hough describes how economic and technological values have squeezed any real sense of nature out of the modern city, the ways in which this has led to a divisive separation of countryside and city, wasted much of the city's resources, ... Read more

    66,96 €

  • Bootstrap New Urbanism

    Design, Race, and Redevelopment in Milwaukee

    by Joseph A. Rodriguez ...
    Series series Comparative Urban Studies
    Joseph A. Rodriguez critically examines the urban design and revitalization initiatives undertaken by both the government and the people of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the 1990s, New Urbanists followed a city tradition of using urban design to solve problems while seeking to elevate the city’s national reputation and status. While New Urbanism was not the only design element undertaken to further ... Read more

    106,52 €

  • Visual Research Methods in Design (Routledge Revivals)

    by Henry Sanoff ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1991, this book is about applications and issues relating to the visual environment. The content pertains to the understanding of human behaviour in the environment by recording behaviour and actions or by direct interaction with people. The author examines research and planning methods that primarily stress the visual features of the physical environment. Traditionally, ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Die nachhaltige Kommune – Die Dokumentation

    50 Tiefeninterviews mit Bürgermeistern und Bürgermeisterinnen

    by Anja Theßenvitz, Stefan Theßenvitz ...
    Series series Business and Economics (German Language)
    Dieses Buch ergänzt das Werk „Die Nachhaltige Kommune – Gestaltungsmacht nutzen“ und dokumentiert die ihm zugrunde liegende Befragung. Alle Aussagen der 50 Bürgermeisterinnen und Bürgermeister sind hier im Original nachzulesen.Hinter der Befragung steht die Arbeitshypothese: „Geht die Erneuerung möglicherweise nicht von den Großstädten aus, sondern aus den resiliente Strukturen auf dem Land, in ... Read more

    35,71 €