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  • A Pattern Language

    Towns, Buildings, Construction

    Series series Center for Environmental Structure Series
    You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Urban Climatic Map

    A Methodology for Sustainable Urban Planning

    Edited by Edward Ng, Chao Ren ...
    Rapid urbanization, higher density and more compact cities have brought about a new science of urban climatology. An understanding of the mapping of this phenomenon is crucial for urban planners. The book brings together experts in the field of Urban Climatic Mapping to provide the state of the art understanding on how urban climatic knowledge can be made available and utilized by urban planners. ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • City Planning

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Carl Abbott ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls on the same range of disciplines and approaches that we use for understanding cities themselves, from art and literature through the social and natural sciences. Surrounding the core profession of ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Building the Cycling City

    The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality

    In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials are rediscovering it as a multi-pronged (or -spoked) solution to acute, 21st-century problems, including affordability, obesity, congestion, climate change, inequity, and social isolation. As the world’s foremost cycling nation, the Netherlands is the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Home Truths

    Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis

    This is the book that Canadians must read to understand, and solve, our housing crisis. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians exist on the edge. Renters fear eviction, homeowners feel trapped, and both are vulnerable to becoming homeless with a single stroke of misfortune.Unaffordable housing in Canada is tearing communities apart. Rising prices force long-time residents to move elsewhere, while ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • The 15-Minute City

    A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet

    A fresh and innovative perspective on urban issues and creating sustainable citiesIn The 15-Minute City: A Solution for Saving Our Time and Our Planet, human city pioneer and international scientific advisor Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • 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

    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

    $9.94 USD

  • Navigating the New Retail Landscape

    A Guide for Business Leaders

    The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change. This book is intended to serve as a robust and practical guide to leaders of enterprises tasked with both understanding and delivering success in the new landscape of retailing. The book firstly describes the major directions and drivers of change that define the new global landscape of ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Open Architecture for the People

    Housing Development in Post-War Japan

    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Open Architecture for the People explores Japanese architecture and the three different phases of development between the years 1950 and 2018.Changing ways of life through differing generations have caused fluctuations in the building industry. This book demonstrates how each generation's expectations have resulted in discernible eras in architecture which can be examined collectively as well as ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Housing for Degrowth

    Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities

    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    ‘Degrowth’, a type of ‘postgrowth’, is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone’s basic needs.This groundbreaking collection on housing for degrowth addresses key challenges of unaffordable, unsustainable and anti-social ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Frankenstein Urbanism

    Eco, Smart and Autonomous Cities, Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City

    This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments, shedding light on the theories that preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our cities. The narrative is threefold and delves first into the eco-city, second the smart city and third the autonomous city intended as a place where existing smart technologies are evolving into artificial ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • How Infrastructure Works

    Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

    by Deb Chachra ...
    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of An Immense WorldA new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us**Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • An Even Better Way to Zone

    Achieving More Affordable, Equitable, and Sustainable Communities

    Zoning is the tool that everyone loves to hate. It may also be the most important and least understood process affecting how US communities shape the lives of their residents. While almost every community comprehensive plan calls for more affordable, equitable, and sustainable development, zoning is often blamed for preventing that from happening. As US communities face an unprecedented housing ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Estimo Immobiliare Urbano & Elementi di Economia

    Con valutazione economico-finanziaria degli investimenti per la valorizzazione e trasformazione delle opere pubbliche

    La disciplina Estimativa Immobiliare Urbana e l’Economia Urbanistico-Infrastrutturale-Territoriale, è rivista in questo testo, (pensato quale strumento didattico e compendio professionale), come momento della Scienza Economica della quale utilizza tutti gli strumenti al fine di individuare i valori, espressi in moneta, dei beni stabili. Essa non può non ricomprendere la conoscenza di altre ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Site Matters

    Strategies for Uncertainty Through Planning and Design

    Edited by Andrea Kahn, Carol J. Burns ...
    In the era of the Anthropocene, site matters are more pressing than ever. Building on the concepts, theories, and multi-disciplinary approaches raised in the first edition, this publication strives to address the changes that have taken place over the last 15 years with new material to complement and re-position the initial volume.Reaching across design disciplines, this highly illustrated ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Bird-Friendly City

    Creating Safe Urban Habitats

    How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it has also become more dangerous for countless species of birds. Warblers become disoriented by nighttime lights and collide with buildings. Ground-feeding sparrows fall prey to feral cats. Hawks and other birds-of-prey are ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Railroaded

    The Untold History of Halifax's Rail Cut

    by Bob Chaulk ...
    An incisive illustrated history of the ill-planned and calamitous construction of Halifax's railway from the author of Atlantic's Last Stop.Halifax in the early twentieth century had a problem. It was in the wrong place in a thinly populated country, far from Canada's builders, spenders, movers, and shakers.Grumbling about the city's subpar performance in the movement of goods, people, and mail ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • The Computable City

    Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions

    by Michael Batty ...
    How computers simulate cities and how they are also being embedded in cities, changing our behavior and the way in which cities evolve.At every stage in the history of computers and communications, it is safe to say we have been unable to predict what happens next. When computers first appeared nearly seventy-five years ago, primitive computer models were used to help understand and plan cities, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • 好城市的空間法則【長銷經典版】:給所有人的第一堂空間課,看穿日常慣性,找出友善城市的101關鍵要素

    101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School

    Translated by 吳莉君 ...
    Series Book 18 - On-master
    認識友善城市、日常空間&場所精神的 101 課景觀、建築、都市計劃、城鄉規劃、土木工程、環境科學、社會學、關心城市文化、都更議題、公共政策……釐清核心價值、系統學習、進入專業的快速鍵以事件為基礎的文化只能收割一次,以日常為基礎的文化日日都有回報。城市生活品質不只是城市規劃師的事!你的都市生活是你的選擇,還是無意識的慣性?都市設計並非建築的「放大版」「空間」才是優先考慮的對象給所有人的第一堂日常空間教育課像城市規劃師一樣思考,重新審視自己的城市... ... Read more

    Was $8.48 USD Now $7.20 USD

  • Suburban Nation

    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

    The essential handbook for ending suburban sprawl and automobile-based settlement patternsFor a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater ... Read more

    $8.89 USD

  • Creating Cohousing

    Building Sustainable Communities

    The cohousing "bible" by the US originators of the concept.A man's home is his castle. But demographic and economic changes haveturned our castles into islands. How can we regain the elements of the traditional village – family, cooperation, community and a sense of belonging – within the context of 21st century life?Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities is an in-depth exploration ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • 失根城市:當代都市的斷裂、擬仿,與公共空間的消失

    Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space

    Translated by 賴彥如 ...
    Series series Common
    **人群聚居的城市,不再為了人群而存在於是空間與人皆無所適從「美國建築界最直言不諱的良心」邁克爾.索金,犀利剖析當代都市亂象的跨時代經典**  生活在都市裡,你是否曾覺得想歇歇腳步卻無處可坐?是否曾舊地重遊卻因光鮮亮麗的街景喚不起回憶而寂寞?是否曾想和他人說話卻又隱隱心生恐懼?  城市原本是人自然聚居之處,為什麼演變至今卻讓身處其中的人感受到無比壓力、徬徨孤獨?這樣的情緒,許多人都曾感受到,卻難以言說、無所適從。箇中原因,其實早在一九九○年代,就有美國著名建築評論家、都市計畫專家邁克爾.索金直指核心。他銳眼看破欣欣向榮的都市霓虹背後,城市變得名存實亡,率先提醒「虛空都市」對於人們的影響無孔不入,掏空情感、記憶、交流卻讓人不自覺。本書出版後,制衡了美國對於都市的盲目樂觀,也成為建築都市領域理解當代空間結構的必讀經典。  城市作為人群匯集之處,曾是活力十足、自由開放的所在,給人機會多、人流多 ... Read more

    $12.94 USD

  • Shade

    The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource

    by Sam Bloch ...
    **An extraordinary investigation into shade, this “compelling . . . conversation-starter draws examples from history, city-planning and social policy” (NPR) to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to all.“Thought-provoking . . . Bloch, an environmental journalist, examines how shade is now a privilege, often denied to farmworkers, the homeless, and ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • Transnational Architecture and Urbanism

    Rethinking How Cities Plan, Transform, and Learn

    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Transnational Architecture and Urbanism combines urban planning, design, policy, and geography studies to offer place-based and project-oriented insight into relevant case studies of urban transformation in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.Since the 1990s, increasingly multinational modes of design have arisen, especially concerning prominent buildings and places. Traditional ... Read more

    $60.99 USD