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“charles bohl”

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  • Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis

    Modern Civic Art and International Exchanges

    Edited by Charles Bohl, Jean-François Lejeune ...
    These essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects for the first decades of the twenty-first century, the authors open up a broad international dialogue on civic art, which relates historical practice to the contemporary meaning of civic art and its application to community building within today ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Detroit City Is the Place to Be

    The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

    by Mark Binelli ...
    Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists—all have been drawn to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Can a City Be Sustainable? (State of the World)

    by The Worldwatch Institute ...
    Series series State of the World
    Cities are the world’s future. Today, more than half of the global population—3.7 billion people—are urban dwellers, and that number is expected to double by 2050. There is no question that cities are growing; the only debate is over how they will grow. Will we invest in the physical and social infrastructure necessary for livable, equitable, and sustainable cities? In the latest edition of State ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Measuring Landscapes

    A Planner's Handbook

    by Andre Botequilha Leitao, Joseph Miller, Jack Ahern, Kevin McGarigal ...
    This practical handbook bridges the gap between those scientists who study landscapes and the planners and conservationists who must then decide how best to preserve and build environmentally-sound habitats. Until now, only a small portion of the relevant science has influenced the decision-making arenas where the future of our landscapes is debated and decided.The authors explain specific tools ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Ecotopia 2121

    A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia?in 100 Cities

    by Alan Marshall ...
    **A 2016 Green Book Festival "Future Forecasts" WinnerA stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea.**Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, about an island paradise far away from his troubled land. It was an instant hit, and the literati ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Cityscape in the Era of Information and Communication Technologies

    by Agata Bonenberg ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book discusses the impact of information and communication technologies, particularly social media, on the structure and landscape of contemporary cities. It presents a multidisciplinary range of theories and practical case studies and addresses a broad readership, from graduate students to practitioners active in the fields of urbanism and the architectural design of urban space. The book ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities

    Issues, Examples, Solutions

    by Will Toor, Spenser Havlick ...
    Colleges and universities across North America are facing difficult questions about automobile use and transportation. Lack of land for new parking lots and the desire to preserve air quality are but a few of the factors leading institutions toward a new vision based upon expanded transit access, better bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and incentives that encourage less driving.Transportation ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning

    Spatial Governance in a Fragmented Nation

    Edited by Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Philip Allmendinger ...
    This book provides a multi-disciplinary study of territory, identity and space in a devolved UK, through the lens of spatial planning. It draws together leading internationally renowned researchers from a variety of disciplines to address the implications of devolution upon spatial planning and the rescaling of UK politics. Each contributor offers a different perspective on the core issues in ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

  • Adapting Cities to Climate Change

    Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges

    Edited by David Dodman, Jane Bicknell, David Satterthwaite ...
    Series series Earthscan Climate
    This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. Framed by an overview of the main possibilities and constraints for adaptation, the contributors examine the implications of climate change for cities in Africa, Asia and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Globalizing Taipei

    The Political Economy of Spatial Development

    Edited by Reginald Kwok ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Taipei's quest to become a global city is the key to its urban development. Globalizing Taipei looks at this "Asian Dragon", a major city in the South China Growth Triangle and a centre for transnational production, revealing how the development of this capital has received firm state support but is conditioned by international and domestic politics.The book is divided into four parts: economic ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Architecture and Utopia

    The Israeli Experiment

    by Michael Chyutin ...
    Series series Design and the Built Environment
    There are more than 450 Moshavim settlements and about 270 kibbutzim in Israel. While there is a range of communal and cooperative kibbutz movements, all with slight ideological differences, they are all collective rural communities, based on an ideal to create a social utopian settlement. Placing the kibbutz within the wider context of utopian social ideals and how they have historically been ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • What We See

    Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs

    Edited by Stephen A. Goldsmith, Lynne Elizabeth ...
    A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs' insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD