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  • Green Urbanism In Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers

    by Peter Newman, Anne Matan ...
    The world is facing an age of scarcity which will challenge all cities to reduce their resource footprint, especially carbon, improve biodiversity and at the same time continue to create economic opportunities and liveable places. This is green urbanism. Asian urban growth is leading the world in the rapidity of its change but how is it doing on green urbanism? This book finds emerging innovations ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • Good Cities, Better Lives

    How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism

    by Peter Hall ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    This book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play? What can we learn from other countries, especially our near neighbours in Europe? And, in turn, can we provide lessons for other countries facing similar dilemmas?Urban Britain is not functioning as it should. Social inequalities and regional disparities show ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Independent for Life

    Homes and Neighborhoods for an Aging America

    Edited by Henry Cisneros, Margaret Dyer-Chamberlain, Jane Hickie ...
    Do you want to age independently in your own home and neighborhood? Staying home, aging in place, is most people's preference, but most American housing and communities are not adapted to the needs of older people. And with the fastest population growth among people over 65, finding solutions for successful aging is important not only for individual families, but for our whole society. In ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Moving People, Goods and Information in the 21st Century

    The Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Networked Cities

    Edited by Richard Hanley ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    Globalisation and technological innovation have changed the way people, goods, and information move through and about cities. To remain, or become, economically and environmentally sustainable, cities and their regions must adapt to these changes by creating cutting-edge infrastructures that integrate advanced technologies, communications, and multiple modes of transportation. The book defines ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Design for Good

    A New Era of Architecture for Everyone

    by John Cary ...
    "I can't recommend John Cary's book, Design for Good, highly enough. His argument...is clear and revolutionary." —Melinda Gates“That’s what we do really: we do miracles,” said Anne-Marie Nyiranshimiyimana, who learned masonry in helping to build the Butaro Hospital, a project designed for and with the people of Rwanda using local materials. This, and other projects designed with dignity, show the ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • The Social Fabric of Cities

    by Vinicius Netto ...
    Series series Design and the Built Environment
    Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics, human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this book deals with some key subjects in urban design: the multidimensional effects of the spatial form of cities, ways of appropriating urban space, and the different material factors involved in the emergence of social life. It puts forward an innovative conceptual ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Place-Keeping

    Open Space Management in Practice

    Edited by Nicola Dempsey, Harry Smith, Mel Burton ...
    Place-Keeping presents the latest research and practice on place-keeping – that is, the long-term management of public and private open spaces – from around Europe and the rest of the world. There has long been a focus in urban landscape planning and urban design on the creation of high-quality public spaces, or place-making. This is supported by a growing body of research which shows how high ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Life Space and Economic Space

    Third World Planning in Perspective

    by John Friedmann ...
    Friedmann perceives a global crisis which he traces to the dissolution of territorial relations. This he believes results from penetration of the global system of markets into the remotest corners of the world, undermining tradition cultures and ways of life. The consequence is incipient breakdown, he asserts, and we need to repoliticize space and subordinate the power of capital to the collective ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Green Spaces for Sustainable Cities, Citygreen Issue 6

    by angeliasia ...
    CITYGREEN, winner of the APEX Awards for Publication Excellence for three consecutive years - 2014, 2013 and 2012, is a biannual publication of the Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore. It presents current research on greening and ecology of the urban environment, and features outstanding green projects in international cities. This issue of CITYGREEN aims to share insights on the values ... Read more

    $8.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Front to Back

    by Sally Lewis ...
    FRONT TO BACK sees urban housing as places to live rather than individual buildings. Using a unique design agenda it provides a step by step approach to achieving quality urban living. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Reviving Critical Planning Theory

    Dealing with Pressure, Neo-liberalism, and Responsibility in Communicative Planning

    by Tore Øivin Sager ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Discussing some of the most vexing criticism of communicative planning theory (CPT), this book goes on to suggest how theorists and planners can respond to it. Looking at issues of power, politics and ethics in relation to planning, this book is for both critics and advocates of CPT, with lessons for all.With severe criticisms being raised against CPT, the need has arisen to systematically think ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo

    by Miriam Paeslack ...
    Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in transition between its past and future. It is a classic example of one of many 'shrinking cities' in North America and elsewhere which once prospered because of heavy industrialization, but which now have to deal with various degrees of urban decay. Bringing together a range of scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, art and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD