Skip to main content
Search Button
Malaysia Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

Planning eBooks

If you like Planning eBooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 1 - 24 of 4249 Results
Skip side bar filters

  • The AI City

    by Siegfried Zhiqiang WU ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    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

  • 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 108.89

  • 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 94.49

  • 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 87.59

  • 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 39.28

  • 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

  • Enabling the City

    Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Encounters in Research and Practice

    Edited by Josefine Fokdal, Olivia Bina, Prue Chiles, Liis Ojamäe, Katrin Paadam ...
    Enabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level in the 21st century, striking a balance between enthusiastic support for such transformational potential and a cautious note regarding the persistent challenges to the ethos as well as the practice of inter ... Read more

    Free

  • Site Matters

    Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies

    Edited by Carol Burns, Andrea Kahn ...
    One of the trends in twentieth century architecture and planning has been to denigrate and ignore the site, or larger context (both physical and social), surrounding a building or set of buildings.Focussing on Le Corbusier's designs, Site Matters presents that first considered theory and vocabulary for the inevitable reaction against Modernism in planning, beginning in the 1960s and swelling ... Read more

    RM 294.24

  • Expanding Disciplinarity in Architectural Practice

    Designing from the Room to the City

    by Tom Holbrook ...
    Series series Design Research in Architecture
    Expanding Disciplinarity in Architectural Practice presents an argument for the role of an architect as a generalist with a particular ability to bring spatial intelligence to bear on the significant issues of planning, settlement, and identity. The book draws on strategy and planning, landscape, infrastructure, urbanism, historical conservation, and interpretation, architecture, and the creative ... Read more

    RM 365.82

  • Unfinished Places: The Politics of (Re)making Cairo’s Old Quarters

    by Gehan Selim ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    The Emerging Politics of (Re) making Cairo's Old Quarters examines postcolonial planning practices that aimed to modernise Cairo’s urban spaces. The author examines the expanding field of postcolonial urbanism by linking the state’s political ideologies and systems of governance with methods of spatial representations that aimed to transform the urban realm in Cairo. Adopting an interdisciplinary ... Read more

    RM 294.24

  • The Uses of Art in Public Space

    Edited by Julia Lossau, Quentin Stevens ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    This book links two fields of interest which are too seldom considered together: the production and critique of art in public space and social behaviour in the public realm. Whilst most writing about public art has focused on the aesthetic, cultural and political intentions and processes that shape its production, this edited collection examines a variety of public artworks from the perspective of ... Read more

    RM 322.08

  • Architectural Exaptation

    When Function Follows Form

    by Alessandro Melis, Telmo Pievani, Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation. It presents exaptation as an opportunity to extend architectural design towards more sustainable approaches aimed at enforcing urban resilience.The use of exaptation’s definition in architecture supports the heuristic value of cross-disciplinary studies on biology and ... Read more

    RM 258.45

  • The Place Economy - Volume 3

    Celebrating the value in placemaking: Real community benefits. Real profits.

    by Andrew Hoyne ...
    As a project undertaken before, during and in the aftermath of a global pandemic, The Place Economy Volume 3 represents an increased appreciation of our need as humans for place and community. Spanning 80-plus stories, featuring the work of more than 100 global experts, you will find a celebration of the people, places and ideas that make cities great, alongside close examination of the barriers ... Read more

    RM 326.09 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sustainable City and Creativity

    Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives

    by Tüzin Baycan ...
    The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial role in supporting urban creativity and contributing to the new creative economy - has become central to most regional and urban development strategies in recent years. A creative city is supposed to develop imaginative and innovative solutions to a range of social, economic and ... Read more

    RM 306.17

  • The Design Charrette

    Ways to Envision Sustainable Futures

    Edited by Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book was written to support community involvement in the design process, to help prevent negative outcomes that can result from a top-down design approach. The combination of community involvement and design is, at least in literature, not very extensive. Although much has been written about stakeholder involvement, this is often not directly related to design processes, which – most ... Read more

    RM 375.29

  • Constructing Suburbs

    Competing Voices in a Debate over Urban Growth

    by Ann Forsyth ...
    Examining the debate between activists and professional planners over the vision of the future of a large growth corridor in Sydney, Australia, this case study maps the history of development from the late sixties to the mid-nineties, during which time serious environmental and financial problems arose. The book outlines five major visions of the future development and examines forms of political, ... Read more

    Free

  • 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 59.65

  • Charleston and Savannah

    The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of Two Rival Cities

    by Thomas D. Wilson ...
    Series Book 312 - Wormsloe Foundation Publications
    Thomas D. Wilson’s Charleston and Savannah is the first comprehensive history of Charleston and Savannah in a single volume that weaves together the influences and parallels of their intrinsic stories. As two of the earliest English-speaking cities founded in America, Charleston and Savannah are among the nation’s top historic sites. Their historic characters, which attract millions of visitors ... Read more

    RM 150.19

  • Spatial Practices

    Modes of Action and Engagement with the City

    Edited by Melanie Dodd ...
    This book explores ‘spatial practices’, a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban. Acting upon and engaging with the public realm, the field of spatial practices allows people to reconnect with their own sense of agency through engagement in space and place, exploring and prototyping ... Read more

    RM 262.43

  • Designing Accessibility Instruments

    Lessons on Their Usability for Integrated Land Use and Transport Planning Practices

    Edited by Cecilia Silva, Nuno Pinto, Luca Bertolini ...
    The integration of land use and transport planning is key to making cities sustainable and liveable. Accessibility can provide an effective framework for this integration. However, today there is a significant gap between the advances in scientific knowledge on accessibility and its effective application in planning practice. In order to close this gap, Designing Accessibility Instruments ... Read more

    RM 306.17

  • Bike Share

    by Elliot Fishman ...
    There are now over 2,000 cities with a bike share program. Bike Share examines all the major developments in the 50-year history of bike share. The book provides a detailed focus on contemporary bike share programs, including many of the most prominent systems, such as those in Paris, London, and New York, as well as the rapidly emerging dockless bike share sector. This book also addresses how ... Read more

    RM 222.66

  • Community Visioning Programs

    Processes and Outcomes

    Edited by Norman Walzer, Gisele Hamm ...
    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    Communities have practiced strategic planning for decades using a variety of tools and programs based on the initial Take Charge programs of the early 1990s. These efforts generated a large amount of research regarding their effectiveness, as well as ways to measure long-term outcomes and other related issues, in efforts to better understand the process of community change.This book provides ... Read more

    RM 282.31

  • El amparo de tierras: la acción, el proceso y el juez de restitución

    by Manuel Fernando Quinche Ramírez, Rocío del Pilar Peña Huertas, Luis Enrique Ruiz González, Ricardo Álvarez Morales, María Mónica Parada Hernández ...
    Series Book 1 - Textos de Jurisprudencia
    Esta obra es resultado de una revisión de los fallos de restitución proferidos desde el último trimestre del 2012 hasta las últimas que fueron publicadas del año 2014, que se hicieron públicos a través de los sitios de internet de la Unidad de Restitución de Tierras y del Consejo Superior de la Judicatura. Todos los fallos fueron organizados y sistematizados en una matriz que permitiera ... Read more

    RM 19.84 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Urban Block

    A Guide for Urban Designers, Architects and Town Planners

    by Jonathan Tarbatt, Chloe Street Tarbatt ...
    The block is no more than the land and building area defined by streets. It is the nature of the interface between the two, which has a critical impact on the quality of the spaces between those buildings. The importance of the block to city life is well rehearsed, and in any case, we seldom find ourselves in the business of making cities from scratch. But we are in the business of making new ... Read more

    RM 226.48