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  • The Pedestrian and the City

    The Pedestrian and the City provides an overview and insight into the development, politics and policies on walking and pedestrians: it includes the evolution of pedestrian-friendly housing estates in the 19th century up to the present day. Key issues addressed include the struggle of pedestrianization in town centers, the attempts to create independent pedestrian footpaths and the popularity of ... Les mer

    659,01 kr

  • Nature by Design

    The Practice of Biophilic Design

    Biophilia is the theory that people possess an inherent affinity for nature, which developed during the long course of human evolution. In recent years, studies have revealed that this inclination continues to be a vital component to human health and wellbeing. Given the pace and scale of construction today with its adversarial, dominative relationship with nature, the integration of nature with ... Les mer

    271,79 kr

  • The Hermit in the Garden

    From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome

    Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many ... Les mer

    113,53 kr

  • Art history

    A critical introduction to its methods

    Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art history’s own history as a discipline from its emergence in the late-eighteenth century to contemporary debates. By explaining the underlying ... Les mer

    163,29 kr

  • Nature Conservation in Europe

    Policy and Practice

    av Peter Bromley ...
    The Rio Summit has pointed to the urgency for the development of an international conservation policy; and the post-Maastricht debates in Europe have highlighted the need for the EU to reassess structural funding in nature conservation, as well as the influences on policy and practice. This book is a 'route map' through the legislative and policy frameworks and explains how conservation works in ... Les mer

    586,96 kr

  • Sustainable Gardens

    Redigert av Rob Cross, Roger Spencer ...
    The third title in the CSIRO Gardening Guide series, Sustainable Gardens by Roger Spencer and Rob Cross shows how horticulture can contribute towards a more sustainable future. Written for home gardeners, professional horticulturists, landscapers, and all those passionate about cultivated landscapes, this book examines the steps we can take towards harmonising gardening activity with the cycles of ... Les mer

    176,99 kr

  • American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979

    Serie serien Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s—from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art—in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.Susanneh Bieber analyzes the work of seven major artists, Donald Judd, Robert Grosvenor, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, Gordon Matta-Clark, ... Les mer

    568,02 kr

  • Heterotopia and the City

    Public Space in a Postcivil Society

    Heterotopia, literally meaning ‘other place’, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. ... Les mer

    624,84 kr

  • Controlling Development

    Certainty, Discretion And Accountability

    av Philip Booth ...
    First published in 1996. An introduction to development control, a topic of interest to students of planning or urban studies, with a comparative flavour, drawing particularly on the USA, France and Hong Kong. ... Les mer

    596,05 kr

  • Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World

    Finding Solutions in Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America

    New edition of Environmental Problems in Third World CitiesCities in Africa, Asia and Latin America contain some of the world's most life- and health-threatening human environments. Environment-related diseases and injuries cause millions of preventable deaths each year. In many squatter settlements, children are 40 to 50 times more likely to die before the age of five than they would be in Europe ... Les mer

    596,43 kr

  • Shaping Portland

    Anatomy of a Healthy City

    av Paddy Tillett ...
    Serie serien Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Portland is a young city founded on a river bank in a virgin forest less than 200 years ago. Shaping Portland: Anatomy of a Healthy City is about the values engendered by the place, and how those values have influenced the growing city. It examines how and why the public realm supports or obstructs the health-forward lifestyles of those who choose to live there.This book explores the values and ... Les mer

    624,84 kr

  • Professional Practice in Facility Programming (Routledge Revivals)

    Serie serien Routledge Revivals
    This compelling resource, which was first published in 1993, was the first book on facility programming to design parameters and specifications over a broad range of project types. The book’s practical, how-to approach is exceedingly beneficial to professionals and students involved with a wide variety of building types – from corporate facilities, to parks, day care centres, health centres, and ... Les mer

    994,11 kr

  • Developing Sustainable Agriculture and Community

    Serie serien Community Development – Current Issues Series
    This book illustrates the ways in which communities can strengthen the links and set the stage for long-term partnerships between sustainable agriculture and sustainable rural community development initiatives. It provides lessons learned, first, from the community development literature that can help shape sustainable agriculture strategies, and second, from the sustainable agriculture literature ... Les mer

    539,62 kr

  • Leisure and the Changing City 1870 - 1914 (Routledge Revivals)

    av Helen Meller ...
    Serie serien Routledge Revivals
    By the late nineteenth century, the city had become the dominant social environment of Britain, with the majority of the population living in large cities, often with over 100, 000 inhabitants. The central concern of this book, first published in 1976, is to assess how successful the late Victorians were in creating a stimulating social environment whilst these developing cities were being ... Les mer

    719,52 kr

  • The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area

    Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion

    Through illustrated case studies and conceptual re-framings, this volume showcases ongoing transformations in public space, and its relationship to the public realm more broadly in the world’s most populous urban megaregion—the Greater Bay Area of southeastern China—projected to reach eighty million inhabitants by the year 2025.This book assembles diverse approaches to interrogating the forms of ... Les mer

    568,02 kr

  • Urban and Transit Planning

    City Planning: Urbanization and Circular Development

    Serie serien Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book represents a compilation of research in sustainable architecture and planning. Its main focus is offering strategies and solutions that help reducing of the negative impacts of buildings on the environment and emphasizing the suitable management of available resources. By tackling the topic of sustainability from a historical perspective and also as a vision for the future, the book in ... Les mer

    3 230,09 kr

  • Spon's Landscape Contract Handbook

    A guide to good practice and procedures in the management of lump sum landscape contracts

    This indispensable manual for landscape work covers the documentation and management of landscape contracts. It is written for all those involved in the landscape industry. ... Les mer

    586,96 kr

  • Home Beyond the House

    Transformation of Life, Place, and Tradition in Rural China

    av Wei Zhao ...
    Serie serien Explorations in Housing Studies
    Based on extended fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2019, this book aims to answer a simple question: What is the meaning of home for people living in vernacular settlements in rural China? This question is particularly potent since rural China has experienced rapid and fundamental changes in the twenty-first century under the influences of national policies such as "Building a New Socialist ... Les mer

    520,68 kr

  • Planning in an Uncanny World

    Australian Urban Planning in an International Context

    Serie serien RTPI Library Series
    This book places Australian conditions and urban planning centrally within comparative analysis of planning systems and cultures around the world to address issues including urban governance, climate change, transportation planning, regional development and migration planning.Australian urban conditions and their associated planning responses can and often have been seen as unique or exceptional. ... Les mer

    501,74 kr

  • Emotions and Architecture

    Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

    Serie serien Routledge Research in Architectural History
    Emotions and Architecture: Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time explores architecture as a medium to arouse or conceal emotions, to build consensus through shared values, or to reconnect the urban community to its alleged ancestry.The chapters in this edited collection outline how architectonic symbols, images, and structures were codified – and sometimes ... Les mer

    586,96 kr

  • New Trends in the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage

    The book entitled New Trends in the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage is a collection of twelve scientific articles (chapters) authored by Polish and foreign researchers in the field of cultural heritage protection. Specializing in various scientific disciplines (including legal, architectural, managerial, cultural studies considerations) and at different stages of scientific development ... Les mer

    332,29 kr

  • Growing Up in an Urbanizing World

    Redigert av Louise Chawla ...
    Half the world's children live in cities and the proportion is growing. Their environment critically determines their futures and the world they will make as adults. This text, by an interdisciplinary team of international child-environment authorities, explores how crucial the relationship of the young and their surroundings is. Covering eight countries, it shows the enormous benefits - for them, ... Les mer

    672,18 kr

  • Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities

    International Evidence and Prevention

    How cities are planned and designed has a major impact on individuals’ mobility and safety. If individuals feel unsafe in public transportation or on the way to it, they may avoid certain routes or particular times of the day. This is problematic, since research has also found that, in some cities, especially those in the Global South, a large percentage of women are "transit captives". Namely, ... Les mer

    520,68 kr

  • 造园行业规范指导手册

    近年来,国际上各国先进的造园理念不断传入,现今的造园理念和传统的古典园林营造理念已发生了翻天覆地的改变,日式的枯山水、法式的整齐对称的几何造型、英式的自然风情园林不断丰富着我国的造园行业现状,尤其东南沿海经济发达地区和中心城市,别墅洋房和度假山庄私家造园行业得到了飞速发展。庭院营造公司如雨后春笋般出现在神州大地。区别于大的市政园林绿化企业的是:庭院营造公司规模一般偏小且偏向于地区性,施工质量和水平良莠不齐,一些室内装修和环境艺术类企业也涉足庭院营造,相对于大尺度的景观园林行业来说,缺乏相应规范和行业标准,这也直接导致我国私家造园与西方发达国家相比还有着相当大的差距。 ... Les mer

    80,80 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus