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  • City Publics

    The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters

    par Sophie Watson ...
    Collections series Questioning Cities
    Some cities have grown into mega cities and some into uncontrolled sprawl; others have seen their centres decline with populations moving to the suburbs. In such times, questions of the public realm and public space in cities warrant even greater attention than previously received.Concerned with the borders and boundaries, constraints and limits on accepting, acknowledging and celebrating ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

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  • Uses of Disorder

    par Richard Sennett ...
    The excitement of the brilliantly innovative book is that it challenges the reader to revise his concept of order—and to consider the seemingly disparate problems of the individual personality and the urban society in the light of a fresh, unified framework that has the shock of new truth.Drawing on recent ideas in psychology, sociology, and urban history, Sennett shows how the excessively ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Architect's Portable Handbook: First-Step Rules of Thumb for Building Design 4/e

    par John Guthrie ...
    The Essentials of Building Design--at Your Fingertips!Fully updated with the 2009 IBC International Building Code, this practical guide delivers the key data you need in every step of an architectural project--from initial planning and estimating through design and completion. The Architect's Portable Handbook, Fourth Edition, provides the latest code and cost information, along with a wealth of ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe

    Modifié par Ali Madanipour, Sabine Knierbein, Aglaée Degros ...
    European cities are changing rapidly in part due to the process of de-industrialization, European integration and economic globalization. Within those cities public spaces are the meeting place of politics and culture, social and individual territories, instrumental and expressive concerns. Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe investigates how European city authorities ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • The City Crown by Bruno Taut

    par Matthew Mindrup, Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis ...
    Collections series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut’s early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Written under the influence of World War I, Taut developed The City Crown to promote a utopian urban concept where people would live in a garden city of ’apolitical socialism’ and peaceful collaboration around a single purpose-free crystalline structure ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

  • Small Cities

    Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis

    par David Bell, Mark Jayne ...
    Collections series Questioning Cities
    Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas. In this topical new volume, David Bell and Mark Jayne redress this balance, focusing on urban change within small cities around the world.Drawing together research from a strong international team of ... En savoir plus

    $71.44 CAD

  • The Peri-Urban Interface

    Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

    Modifié par Duncan McGregor, David Simon, Donald Thompson ...
    Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Adapting Buildings for Changing Uses

    Guidelines for Change of Use Refurbishment

    par David Kincaid ...
    Adapting Building for Changing Uses discusses the comprehensive refurbishment of buildings to enable them to be used for purposes different to those originally intended.For those involved in the often risky business of conversion of buildings from one type of use to another, Adapting Building for Changing Uses provides secure guidance on which uses may be best suited to a particular location. This ... En savoir plus

    $147.02 CAD

  • The Making of a World City

    London 1991 to 2021

    par Greg Clark ...
    After two decades of evolution and transformation, London had become one of the most open and cosmopolitan cities in the world. The success of the 2012 Olympics set a high water-mark in the visible success of the city, while its influence and soft power increased in the global systems of trade, capital, culture, knowledge, and communications.The Making of a World City: London 1991 - 2021 sets out ... En savoir plus

    $90.99 CAD

  • Making Plans

    How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment

    par Frederick R. Steiner ...
    “Community and regional planning involve thinking ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others,” according to Frederick R. Steiner. “Improved plans can lead to healthier, safer, and more beautiful places to live for us and other species. We can also plan for places that are more just and more profitable. Plans can help us not only to sustain what we value but also to ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Urban Planning And The Development Process

    par David Adams ...
    This text is about the very essence of urban planning in a market economy. It is concerned with people - landowners, developers, investors, politicians and ordinary members of the public - who produce change in towns and cities as they relate to each other and react to development Pressure. Whether Such Change Occurs Slowly And Is Almost Unnoticed, Or happens rapidly and is highly disruptive, a ... En savoir plus

    $114.04 CAD

  • Technologies and Innovations for Development

    Scientific Cooperation for a Sustainable Future

    Modifié par Alexandre Schmid, Gabriela Tejada, Eileen Hazboun, Jean-Claude Bolay ...
    Collections series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Technological innovation – combined with scientific research – has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies. At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations that are adapted to the social, environmental, cultural and economic conditions of receiving countries, ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD