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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

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Building a Multimodal Future

    Connecting Real Estate Development and Transportation Demand Management to Ease Gridlock

    by Justin B. Schor, Federico Tallis ...
    Whether you are a developer, planner, or property owner, if concerns about traffic impacts of proposed development are a challenge, this book offers solutions. Learn about best practices in transportation demand management and make the case by showing how ten communities across the nation implemented these policies and got results. ... Read more

    38,38 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Architecture and Politics in Nigeria

    The Study of a Late Twentieth-Century Enlightenment-Inspired Modernism at Abuja, 1900–2016

    by Nnamdi Elleh ...
    In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned architects these military leaders collaborated to build a city for three million inhabitants. Founded five years after the Civil War with Biafra, which caused around 1.7 million deaths, the city was envisaged as a place where justice would reign and ... Read more

    54,78 €

  • Making Suburbia

    New Histories of Everyday America

    Edited by John Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul, Katherine Solomonson ...
    What are the suburbs? The popular vision of monotonous streets curving into culs-de-sac and emerald lawns unfurling from nearly identical houses would have us believe that suburbia is a boring, homogeneous, and alienating place. But this stereotypical portrayal of the suburbs tells us very little about the lives of the people who actually live there. Making Suburbia offers a diverse collection of ... Read more

    22,57 €

  • Urban Development in Post-Reform China

    State, Market, and Space

    by Fulong Wu, Jiang Xu, Anthony Gar-On Yeh ...
    Radically reoriented under market reform, Chinese cities present both the landscapes of the First and Third World, and are increasingly playing a critical role in the country’s economic development. Yet, radical marketization co-exists with the ever-presence of state control. Exploring the interaction of China’s market development, state regulation and the resulting transformation and creation of ... Read more

    56,00 €

  • Architecture and the Smart City

    Edited by Sergio M. Figueiredo, Sukanya Krishnamurthy, Torsten Schroeder ...
    Series series Critiques
    Increasingly the world around us is becoming ‘smart.’ From smart meters to smart production, from smart surfaces to smart grids, from smart phones to smart citizens. ‘Smart’ has become the catch-all term to indicate the advent of a charged technological shift that has been propelled by the promise of safer, more convenient and more efficient forms of living. Most architects, designers, planners ... Read more

    62,09 €

  • Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective

    by Kirsteen Paton ...
    Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the enduring relationship between class and the urban. Class is so clearly articulated in the urban, from the housing crisis to the London Riots to the evocation of housing estates as the emblem of ’Broken Britain’. Gentrification is often presented to a moral and market antidote to such urban ills: deeply ... Read more

    64,53 €

  • Role of Non-Humans in Urban Planning

    by Izhar ul Haq ...
    Cities are not shaped by humans alone. Plants, animals, water bodies, climate, and technology all act as non-human forces that influence how urban areas grow, adapt, and survive. In this groundbreaking work, Izhar Ul Haq explores the hidden yet powerful role of these actors in shaping sustainable and resilient cities. From Dutch water management and polders to Lahore's rainwater harvesting tanks, ... Read more

    2,49 €

  • Latin American Modern Architectures

    Ambiguous Territories

    Edited by Patricio del Real, Helen Gyger ...
    Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A foreword by historian Kenneth Frampton sets the stage for essays on well-known architects, such as Lucio ... Read more

    71,83 €

  • Planning for Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide

    Learning from Case Studies in Six Continents

    Edited by Adenrele Awotona ...
    We are witnessing an ever-increasing level and intensity of disasters from Ecuador to Ethiopia and beyond, devastating millions of ordinary lives and causing long-term misery for vulnerable populations.Bringing together 26 case studies from six continents, this volume provides a unique resource that discusses, in considerable depth, the multifaceted matrix of natural and human-made disasters. It ... Read more

    62,09 €

  • Transgressive Design Strategies for Utopian Cities

    Theories, Methodologies and Cases in Architecture and Urbanism

    by Bertug Ozarisoy, Hasim Altan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book critically examines the philosophy of the term ‘transgression’ and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios.The aim of this book is to provide scholarly yet accessible graphic novel illustrations to inform narratives of urban manifestos. Through four select case studies from the UK, Cyprus and Germany, the book highlights the paradoxes and contradictions in ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • Local Development and Socio-environmental Systems

    Experiences and Practices toward Sustainability in Mediterranean Europe

    Edited by Clio Ciaschini, Vito Imbrenda ...
    Series series River Publishers Series in Social, Urban, Economic and Environmental Sustainability
    Departing from conventional narratives centered on environmental complexity, this book offers a fresh perspective on ecological dynamics in the Mediterranean basin, positing their correlation with social and economic regimes, demographic transformations, local governance structures, and deficiencies in spatial planning. The analysis delves into the neglected potential for mitigating environmental ... Read more

    121,76 €

  • Ed Bacon

    Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia

    by Gregory L. Heller, Alexander Garvin ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on shaping urban America. As director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Bacon forged new approaches to neighborhood development and elevated Philadelphia's image to the level of great world cities. Urban ... Read more

    32,43 €

  • Patrimonio urbano de la Ciudad de México: la herencia disputada

    by Víctor Delgadillo ...
    Contribución a la reflexión crítica sobre el futuro de nuestras ciudades, en particular, la Ciudad de México, a partir de sus centros y barrios históricos. El contexto son las recientes transformaciones urbanas realizadas bajo una lógica que privilegia el lucro. ... Read more

    2,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus