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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

  • 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 90.39

  • 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 104.49

  • A City's Architecture

    Aberdeen as 'Designed City'

    by William Alvis Brogden ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    When considering the successful design of cities, the focus tends to be on famous examples such as Paris or Rome, with equally successful but smaller and more remote examples being ignored. In addition, the more diffuse patterns of settlement of the north and western parts of Europe are hardly considered at all in comparison to the tightly formed urban centres of the Mediterranean. However, the ... Read more

    RM 286.16

  • Creating Neighbourhoods and Places in the Built Environment

    Edited by David Chapman ...
    This design primer examines the forces at work in the built environment and their impact on the form of buildings and their environments. The actions of a range of individuals and agencies and the interaction between them is examined, exploring the competing interests which exist, their interaction with physical and environmental forces and the uncertain results of both individual and corporate ... Read more

    RM 325.37

  • Server Manifesto

    Data Center Architecture and the Future of Democracy

    by Niklas Maak, Francesca Bria, Karsten Spengler ...
    Series Book 12 - Hatje Cantz Text
    Server farms are to the digital world what castles used to be: the seat of power. If data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics: Why are the places where it is stored still so invisible?Together with students from the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Niklas Maak shows what the future of the most important new building typology of the ... Read more

    RM 73.99

  • Creating Sustainable Cities Through Pedestrian Urbanism

    by Hyesun Jeong ...
    As cities grapple with climate change and social inequality, a growing movement recognizes walking as fundamental to urban sustainability. Creating Sustainable Cities Through Pedestrian Urbanism explores how communities worldwide are rethinking the relationship between mobility, place, and belonging.Drawing from diverse cities across North America, Europe, and Asia, this book examines the shift ... Read more

    RM 227.36

  • The Poetics of Arabian Sūqs

    A Hermeneutic Reading of the Development of Arabian Sūqs from the Pre-Islamic Era to Present

    by Jasmine Shahin ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book investigates the history of Arabian sūqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence from archaeological ruins, Islamic towns, modern cities, Arabic poetry, philosophical debates, political conflicts, puppet shows and the insights of modern-day market-goers, the book presents new and unforeseen interpretations of the Arabian sūq’s meaning and its transformation ... Read more

    RM 227.36

  • Istanbul

    Living with Difference in a Global City

    by Nora Fisher-Onar, Susan C. Pearce, Çaglar Keyder, Sami Zubaida, Feyzi Baban, Charles King, Ilay Romain Örs0, Amy Mills1, Anna Bigelow2, Kristen Sarah Biehl3, Hande Paker4 ...
    Series series New Directions in International Studies
    Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Located at the intersection of trade networks connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, Istanbul is western and eastern, northern and southern, religious and secular. Heir of ancient empires, Istanbul is the premier city of a ... Read more

    RM 95.89

  • Crime and Planning

    Building Socially Sustainable Communities

    by Ph.D., Derek J. Paulsen ...
    The form and layout of a built environment has a significant influence on crime by creating opportunities for it and, in turn, shaping community crime patterns. Effective urban planners and designers will consider crime when making planning and design decisions. A co-publication with the American Planning Association, Crime and Planning: ... Read more

    RM 243.04

  • Algarve Building

    Modernism, Regionalism and Architecture in the South of Portugal, 1925-1965

    by Ricardo Agarez ...
    Foreword by Adrian Forty.The Algarve is not only Portugal’s foremost tourism region. Uniquely Mediterranean in an Atlantic country, its building customs have long been markers of historical and cultural specificity, attracting both picturesque driven conservatives and modernists seeking their lineage. Modernism, regionalism and the ‘vernacular’ – three essential tropes of twentieth-century ... Read more

    RM 278.32

  • Protagonistas del cambio

    Conjunto de viviendas de baja altura: Rosario, 1950-1970

    by Aníbal Julio Moliné, Gina De Gaspari, Candela Méndez ...
    Partiendo de la premisa de que la formación y evolución urbana de Rosario (Argentina) se ha dado de manera sigilosa, se intenta descubrir y reflexionar a partir de 100 casos de estudio sobre los patrones que guiaron y marcaron esta evolución, logrando así compilar un aporte crítico-histórico, analítico y proyectual de las obras que han sido "protagonistas del cambio".El libro, resultado de una ... Read more

    RM 39.17 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Incomplete Streets

    Processes, practices, and possibilities

    Edited by Stephen Zavestoski, Julian Agyeman ...
    Series series Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
    The ‘Complete Streets' concept and movement in urban planning and policy has been hailed by many as a revolution that aims to challenge the auto-normative paradigm by reversing the broader effects of an urban form shaped by the logic of keeping automobiles moving. By enabling safe access for all users, Complete Streets promise to make cities more walkable and livable and at the same time more ... Read more

    RM 305.77

  • Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader

    Edited by Jos Boys ...
    Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader takes a groundbreaking approach to exploring the interconnections between disability, architecture and cities. The contributions come from architecture, geography, anthropology, health studies, English language and literature, rhetoric and composition, art history, disability studies and disability arts and cover personal, theoretical and innovative ideas ... Read more

    RM 313.61

  • Cultural Planning

    An Urban Renaissance?

    by Graeme Evans ...
    Using an historic and contemporary analysis, Cultural Planning examines how and why the cultures have been planned and the extent to which cultural amenities have been considered in town planning. From its ancient roots in the cities of classical Athenian, Roman and Byzantium empires, to the European Renaissance, public culture shows both an historic continuity and contemporary response to ... Read more

    RM 313.61

  • Women and Planning

    Creating Gendered Realities

    by Clara H. Greed ...
    Planning is currently a male profession, but an analysis of a century of town planning reveals this to be a new development; women have been central to the planning movement since it began. Women and Planning is the first comprehensive history and analysis of women and the planning movement, covering the philosophical, practical and policy dimensions of `planning for women'. Beyond the ... Read more

    RM 313.61

  • Architecture as Experience

    Radical Change in Spatial Practice

    Edited by Dana Arnold, Andrew Ballantyne ...
    Architecture as Experience investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it through contact with theoretical sophistication, without overwhelming the material.The chapters establish the continuity of a particular physical object and show it in at least two ... Read more

    RM 344.97

  • Urban Planning and Cultural Identity

    by William Neill ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Urban Planning and Cultural Identity reviews the intense spatiality of conflict over identity construction in three cities where culture and place identity are not just post-modernist playthings but touch on the raw sensibilities of who people define themselves to be. Berlin as the reborn German capital has put 'coming to terms with' the Holocaust and the memory of the GDR full square at the ... Read more

    RM 313.61

  • Urban Coding and Planning

    Edited by Stephen Marshall ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces. Historically, their use has helped create some of our best-loved urban environments, while recent advances in coding have been a growing focus of attention, particularly in Britain and North America. However, the full potential for the role of codes has yet to be ... Read more

    RM 286.16

  • Metropolitan Planning in Britain

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by Peter Roberts, Kevin Thomas, Gwyndaf Williams ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Metropolitan Planning in Britain is the first comparative analysis and assessment of metropolitan areas and their strategic planning for almost two decades. Changes in population distribution, styles of local government, business practices, and attitudes to the environment have all had an impact on cities in recent years which planners and other policy makers must take into consideration. Based on ... Read more

    RM 392.02

  • Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2014

    Proceedings of the International Conference in Dublin, Ireland, January 21-24, 2014

    Edited by Zheng Xiang, Iis Tussyadiah ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The papers presented in this volume advance the state-of-the-art research on social media and Web 2.0, electronic tourism marketing, website development and evaluation, search engine marketing and optimization, IT adoption and diffusion, virtual travel communities, mobile technologies, management information systems in tourism, eLearning, recommender systems for tourism businesses and destinations ... Read more

    RM 838.49