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  • The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard

    Contradiction and Meaning in City Form

    by Abraham Akkerman ...
    Ebenezer Howard, an Englishman, and Jane Jacobs, a naturalized Canadian, personify the twentieth century’s opposing outlooks on cities. Howard envisaged small towns, newly built from scratch and comprised of single-family homes with small gardens, while Jacobs embraced existing inner-city neighbourhoods that emphasized the verve of the living street. Both figures have had their share of supporters ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Phenomenology of the Winter-City

    Myth in the Rise and Decline of Built Environments

    by Abraham Akkerman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores how the weather and city-form impact the mind, and how city-form and mind interact. It builds on Merleau-Ponty’s contention that mind, the human body and the environment are intertwined in a singular composite, and on Walter Benjamin’s suggestion that mind and city-form, in mutual interaction, through history, have set the course of civilization. Bringing together the fields of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Philosophical Urbanism

    Lineages in Mind-Environment Patterns

    by Abraham Akkerman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book expands on the thought of Walter Benjamin by exploring the notion of modern mind, pointing to the mutual and ongoing feedback between mind and city-form. Since the Neolithic Age, volumes and voids have been the founding constituents of built environments as projections of gender—as spatial allegories of the masculine and the feminine. While these allegories had been largely in balance ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities

    by Nabeel Hamdi ...
    What exactly is 'small change'?Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects.This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, small-scale actions. Written by Nabeel Hamdi, the guru of urban ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Vulnerability of Cities

    Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

    by Mark Pelling ...
    When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters on cities, the conditions leading to high losses from urban disasters and why some households and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Space

    Materiality, Social Structures, and Action

    by Martina Löw ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures and actions. Based on a critical discussion of classic theories of space, Löw develops a new dynamic ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Battery Park City

    Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront

    by David L. A. Gordon ...
    Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing was built on the site for more than a decade after the first master plan was approved, and the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Municipalities and Finance

    A Sourcebook for Capacity Building

    by Nick Devas ...
    Series series Municipal Capacity Building Series
    Finance is a critical issue for municipal governments around the world, and a major constraint on the delivery of pro-poor services at the local level. In many countries, decentralisation has brought the issue of municipal finance to the fore. This sourcebook provides a framework for analysing municipal finance capacity and ways of addressing financial constraints.The ideas come from real-life ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • The Planning Game

    An Information Economics Approach to Understanding Urban and Environmental Management

    by Alex Lord ...
    Trading information is an essential aspect of the negotiations that underpin planning practice across the globe. In this book, Alex Lord uses information economics to outline a way of thinking about these negotiations that places the strategies that actors in the planning game use at the heart of the debate.Dialogue between economics and planning theorists has been, until now, rare. Lord argues ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Marketing the City

    The role of flagship developments in urban regeneration

    by H. Smyth ...
    This book assesses the value of flagship developments and draws out lessons for best policy and practice. It looks at marketing strategies and the sales process for flagship developments and the areas in which they are located for urban regeneration. It discusses the management of marketing strategies and the development through the policy formulation, project implementation and policy/project ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Calculation of Roundabouts

    Capacity, Waiting Phenomena and Reliability

    by Raffaele Mauro ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Roundabouts have become one of the most significant traffic control measures because they are generally statistically safer and more efficient than traditional at grade intersections. This book is dedicated to the evaluation of the operating conditions of roundabouts. In five parts, it thoroughly illustrates the calculation of the capacity, including reliability, and waiting phenomena parameters, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew

    Twentieth Century Architecture, Pioneer Modernism and the Tropics

    by Iain Jackson, Jessica Holland ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its spread into the late-colonial arena and finally, to its re-evaluation that resulted in a more ... Read more

    $72.99 USD