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  • Making Prestigious Places

    How Luxury Influences the Transformation of Cities

    Edited by Mario Paris ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Making Prestigious Places investigates the spatial dimension of luxury, both as a sector involving activities, operators and investments, and as a system of values acting as a catalyst for recent urban transformations. Luxury shares a well-established connection to the city, as a place of production, consumption and self-representation, and continues to grow despite economic difficulties. This ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Darwin Comes to Town

    How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

    by Menno Schilthuizen ...
    *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.*Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete.*Europe's urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of traffic.How is this happening?Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of "urban ecologists" studying how our ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture, Third Edition

    by Ernest Burden ...
    Now in full color--a thoroughly updated edition of the premier illustrated architectural dictionaryRevised and expanded, the Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture, Third Edition, features 8,000 definitions, 4,000 illustrations, and biographies of hundreds of architects accompanied by classic examples of their work. This new, full-color edition includes terms relating to green, ecological, and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Comparative Planning Cultures

    Edited by Sanyal Bishwapriya ...
    Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Low Car(bon) Communities

    Inspiring car-free and car-lite urban futures

    by Nicole Foletta, Jason Henderson ...
    With increasing awareness of the urgent need to respond to global warming by reducing carbon emissions and recognition of the social benefits of car-free and car-lite living, more and more city planners, advocates, and everyday urban dwellers are demanding new ways of building cities. In Low Car(bon) Communities, authors Nicole Foletta and Jason Henderson examine seven case studies in Europe and ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • The End of Automobile Dependence

    How Cities are Moving Beyond Car-Based Planning

    by Peter Newman, Jeffrey Kenworthy ...
    Cities will continue to accommodate the automobile, but when cities are built around them, the quality of human and natural life declines. Current trends show great promise for future urban mobility systems that enable freedom and connection, but not dependence. We are experiencing the phenomenon of peak car use in many global cities at the same time that urban rail is thriving, central cities are ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Loose Space

    Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life

    Edited by Karen Franck, Quentin Stevens ...
    In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. Loose Space explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space to meet their own needs and desires. Familiar or unexpected, spontaneous or planned, momentary or long-lasting, the activities that make urban ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • City Choreographer

    Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America

    by Alison Bick Hirsch ...
    One of the most prolific and influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009) was best known for the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Sea Ranch, the iconic planned community in California. These projects, as well as vibrant public spaces throughout the country—from Ghirardelli Square and Market Street in San Francisco to Lovejoy Fountain Park in Portland ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Urban Theory and the Urban Experience

    Encountering the City

    by Simon Parker ...
    Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another.From the foundations of modern urban theory in the work of Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebbvre to the writings of ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Housing in Europe (1984)

    Edited by Martin Wynn ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1984, this book presents a survey of housing problems in various European countries and how individual states have responded.Each chapter begins by surveying the problem in each country since the Second World War, before going on to outline the roles fulfilled by national housing agencies and local authorities, as well as assessing the impact of housing policies on society and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Planning Chicago

    by D. Bradford Hunt, Jon DeVries ...
    In this volume the authors tell the real stories of the planners, politicians, and everyday people who shaped contemporary Chicago, starting in 1958, early in the Richard J. Daley era. Over the ensuing decades, planning did much to develop the Loop, protect Chicago’s famous lakefront, and encourage industrial growth and neighborhood development in the face of national trends that savaged other ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Asian Alterity: With Special Reference To Architecture And Urbanism Through The Lens Of Cultural Studies

    by William Siew Wai Lim ...
    Asian Alterity is an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that vigorously contests the homogeneity of the mainstream Eurocentric values. Part I argues for the need for an alternate perspective to be introduced so as to understand the diversity of Asia's cultural differences at their varied development stages and to meet the complex challenges of the explosive urban expansion and disruptive ... Read more

    $85.99 USD