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  • The AI City

    by Siegfried Zhiqiang WU ...
    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This open access book presents the concept of AI Cites for the first time. It includes the theoretical basis, development frontier, and different application scenarios of artificial intelligence cities. The book is accompanied by rich practical cases to conduct in-depth and detailed discussions on the proposition of artificial intelligence cities. It fills the gap between artificial intelligence ... Read more

    Free

  • 偉大城市的誕生與衰亡：美國都市街道生活的啟發

    The Death and Life of Great American Cities

    by 珍‧雅各（Jane Jacobs） ...
    Translated by 吳鄭重 ...
    Series series 現代名著譯叢
    讓規劃大師霍華德「田園城市」、建築巨擎科比意「光輝城市」黯然失色的經典名著！世紀好書、永恆必讀經典！超越時間與空間、跨越世代的城市之心2006年4月25日，哥倫比亞廣播公司、《紐約時報》、《華盛頓郵報》等北美各大媒體紛紛以大篇幅報導一名沒有大學文憑和「專業」背景的老太太過世，這就是《偉大城市的誕生與衰亡》一書的作者，珍‧雅各。這是她的第一本書，也是成名之作，一本徹底顛覆當時歐美規劃理論的經典之作。1961年剛出版時，便以淺白易懂的庶民觀點，深入人心。歷經半個世紀，它的影響力至今持續不墜。本書以城市生理學的角度出發，指出城市的規劃與重建，首重了解城市神秘和複雜的運作方式，以及城市人的真實生活。書的第一部分從許多真實案例中歸納出街道鄰里在都市生活中的重要地位。第二部分聚焦一個普遍性原則，就是城市需要一個非常複雜、細緻、多樣化的土地利用形態，在經濟和社會各方面不時相互支持。這也是作者的論述核心 ... Read more

    RM 38.98

  • Soft City

    Building Density for Everyday Life

    by David Sim ...
    Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the current reality in ... Read more

    RM 107.29

  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities

    by Jane Jacobs ...
    In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written.Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the ... Read more

    RM 87.79

  • Sacred Civics

    Building Seven Generation Cities

    Edited by Jayne Engle, Julian Agyeman, Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook ...
    Series series Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
    Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature.The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a ... Read more

    Free

  • Inclusive Transportation

    A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities

    by Veronica Davis ...
    Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the industry that are resistant to change. How do you change a system that was never designed to be equitable? How do you change a system that continues to ... Read more

    RM 93.19

  • Early Planning Utopias

    A Feminist Critique

    by Dorina Pojani, Cathy Keys, Rory Little ...
    There is little doubt that urban planning has historically failed women. To liberate the profession from patriarchal influences, it is necessary to revisit the preconceptions that shaped early efforts to design new cities or improve existing ones. This book critiques the work of twenty male planning luminaries who proposed urban models, interventions, and approaches on both sides of the North ... Read more

    RM 97.09

  • Housing Regeneration

    A Plan for Implementation

    by V. Charles Ward ...
    Written from an ‘in house’ perspective in response to the UK Government Housing White Paper released in February 2017, Housing Regeneration: A Plan for Implementation presents sustainable solutions to Britain’s housing crisis and will be a useful practical guide for anyone involved in the process of regeneration. Taking as its starting point an idea for a housing regeneration scheme, it provides ... Read more

    RM 129.34

  • Catastrophe in the Making

    The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow

    by William R. Freudenburg, Robert B. Gramling, Shirley Laska, Kai Erikson ...
    When houses are flattened, towns submerged, and people stranded without electricity or even food, we attribute the suffering to “natural disasters” or “acts of God.” But what if they’re neither? What if we, as a society, are bringing these catastrophes on ourselves?That’s the provocative theory of Catastrophe in the Making, the first book to recognize Hurricane Katrina not as a “perfect storm,” ... Read more

    RM 81.89

  • Urbanismo judicial

    Jurisprudencia para la ciudad del futuro

    by Rafael Fernández Valverde, gráfica futura ...
    Series Book 5 - Sin Prejuicios
    ¿Cómo las administraciones públicas o los tribunales pueden enjuiciar, en el estricto marco del recurso judicial, desde la perspectiva de la norma y del derecho, una ordenación urbanística? Estamos convencidos de que, con la adecuada aplicación de una serie de principios esenciales, deducibles de la normativa, de la práctica y la jurisprudencia actuales, es posible mantener los valores ... Read more

    RM 31.33 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to Spatial Planning in the Netherlands

    by Patrick Witte, Thomas Hartmann ...
    This book provides an introduction to spatial planning in the Netherlands. It explores the academic underpinnings of the discipline and its practical implications, making use of insights on planning practices from the Netherlands. As an academic book with relevance for spatial planning teaching and practice, the relation between planning practice and planning as an academic discipline are ... Read more

    RM 113.66

  • Shelter and Service Issues for Aging Populations

    International Perspectives

    by Leon A Pastalan ...
    Shelter and Service Issues for Aging Populations takes you for an inside look at what policies in Western Europe, Canada, and the United States have done to meet the housing and service needs of the elderly and the disabled and what policies have yet to accomplish. As you learn about a wide range of cost-effective and successful housing options, such as congregate housing, home equity conversions, ... Read more

    RM 203.83

  • Empoderamiento comunitario en la construcción de viviendas saludables

    Zonas vulnerables de Bogotá

    by César Augusto García Ubaque, Camilo Alberto Torres Parra, Juan Carlos García Ubaque ...
    La importancia de tener una adecuada habitabilidad de las viviendas la cual se ve reflejada en contar con una unidad habitacional saludable donde el núcleo familiar se pueda desarrollar con dignidad, seguridad y pertenencia; es la base para desarrollar diversas propuestas encaminadas a mejorar las condiciones de calidad de vida de comunidades que se han desarrollado bajo el manto de la ... Read more

    RM 15.64 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Compreendendo as Cidades

    Método em projeto urbano

    by Alexander R. Cuthbert ...
    Translated by Anita Di Marco, Anita Natividade ...
    Series series Urbanidades Fraturadas
    Livro inaugural de uma nova série da editora Perspectiva, Urbanidades Fraturadas, desenvolvida com o professor Leandro Medrano, da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo, Compreendendo as Cidades, de Alexander Cuthbert, mapeia, organiza, conceitualiza e desenvolve as bases do urbanismo como um campo do saber estruturado sobre sólidas bases de conhecimentos, análises e ... Read more

    RM 50.93 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • She City

    Designing Out Women’s Inequity in Cities

    by Nicole Kalms ...
    Rooted in feminist political thought, She City illuminates how gender shapes our urban spaces and city design. Through three sections: 'Resisting Sexist Cities', 'Designing Feminist Cities', and 'Prioritizing Safer Cities', Kalms examines barriers to women's public participation and focuses on the practical strategies, policies and actions to overcome them.Addressing significant themes such as ... Read more

    RM 114.19

  • Atlas del sistema urbano de la provincia de Mendoza

    by Mónica Cortellezzi, Nesrin Karake, Martín Rizzo ...
    Series Book 5 - Territorios
    El trabajo dirigido por las docentes e investigadoras Mónica Cortellezzi y Nesrin Karake contó con la valiosa colaboración del cartógrafo Martín Rizzo y los geógrafos profesionales Yésica Jacqueline Tapiz y Daniel Aricoma Mérida, quienes realizaron diferentes tareas para la concreción de este atlas.Partimos de una certeza: casi el 90 % de la población mendocina vive en ciudades que están ... Read more

    RM 23.48 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Changing Dynamics and Mechanisms of Maritime Asia in Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Shigeru Akita, Hong Liu, Shiro Momoki ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book attempts to reveal historical dynamism of transforming contemporary Maritime Asia and to identify key driving forces or agencies for the evolution and transformation of Maritime Asia in the context of global history studies. It seeks to accomplish these goals by connecting different experiences in Maritime Asia both historically from the late early-modern to the present and spatially ... Read more

    RM 586.99

  • Advances in Urban Planning in Developing Nations

    Data Analytics and Technology

    Edited by Arnab Jana ...
    This book studies the increasing use of data analytics and technology in urban planning and development in developing nations. It examines the application of urban science and engineering in different sectors of urban planning and looks at the challenges involved in planning 21st-century cities, especially in India.The volume analyzes various key themes such as auditory/visual sensing, network ... Read more

    RM 266.56

  • Community Visioning Programs

    Processes and Outcomes

    Edited by Norman Walzer, Gisele Hamm ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    Community visioning is key in helping local public officials and community leaders create a flourishing future for their cities, and is essential for the effective planning and implementation of these strategies. Visioning involves collaborative goal setting to motivate actions – of planners, citizens, and officials – in order to design and carry out a strategic planning process for the successful ... Read more

    RM 278.32

  • 洛阳副中心城市建设研究

    by 梁留科, 余江波, 高贵现 ...
    本书共六章，内容包括：洛阳副中心城市建设的现实背景、洛阳副中心城市建设的现实基础、洛阳副中心城市建设的定位体系、洛阳副中心城市建设的重要载体、洛阳副中心城市建设的重要内容、洛阳副中心城市建设的对策建议等。 ... Read more

    RM 57.84

  • Eugenics in the Garden

    Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity

    by Fabiola López-Durán ...
    Series series Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
    Winner, Robert Motherwell Book Award, Outstanding Book on Modernism in the Arts, The Dedalus Foundation, 2019As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of the “inheritance of ... Read more

    RM 135.89

  • Minoru Yamasaki

    Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World

    by Dale Allen Gyure ...
    The first book to reevaluate the evocative and polarizing work of one of midcentury America’s most significant architectsBorn to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986) became one of the towering figures of midcentury architecture, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1963. His self-proclaimed humanist designs merged the modern materials and functional ... Read more

    RM 208.99

  • Designing in Times of Crisis

    Envisioning and Applying

    Edited by Jorge Cruz Pinto, Ljiljana Čavić, Hugo Lopes Farias, Luis Miguel Ginja ...
    Series series Project Thinking on Design
    Designing in Times of Crisis offers insights, visions, and strategies for architects and urban designers to question and respond to the crises and challenges of the contemporary anthropocentric world. The book highlights the urgency of addressing global crises and encourages architects and urban designers to consider new approaches related to gender equity, city ethics, and fundamental human ... Read more

    Free

  • Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction

    Creating the modern townscape

    Edited by John Pendlebury, Erdem Erten, Larkham Peter ...
    The history of post Second World War reconstruction has recently become an important field of research around the world; Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction is a provocative work that questions the orthodoxies of twentieth century design history.This book provides a key critical statement on mid-twentieth century urban design and city planning, focused principally upon the period ... Read more

    RM 313.61