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  • Social Infrastructure in Neighbourhoods and Cities

    Studying the Facilities That Sustain Community, Social Networks, and Trust

    by Peter Dirksmeier, Angelina Göb, Liza Griffin, Kay Pallaris, Hannah Widmer, Lee Crookes, Beth Perry, Irene Manzini Ceinar, Regan Koch, Liz Cox, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika S. Svendsen, Michelle L. Johnson, Laura Landau, David Trouille, Michael DeLand, Alasdair Jones, Sophie Yarker, Luke Billingham, Alison Stennng, Olivia Theocharides-Feldman, Julia King, David Prytherch, Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiro, Mave Blackman, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Lucy Natarajan, Myfanwy Taylor, John Tomaney, Gesine Tuitjer, Leonie Tuitjer, Anna-Lisa Müller, Ersilia Verlinghieri, Rachel Aldred, Asa Thomas, Harriet Larrington-Spencer, Salene Schloffel-Armstrong, David Conradson, Owen Garling, Matthew Wolfe, Eric Klinenberg ...
    From parks and libraries to pubs and schools, social infrastructures are the everyday places that bring people together, support community life, and foster connection. As interest in the concept grows, this timely and accessible edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of social infrastructure—its origins, development, and practical impact.Packed with innovative case studies from the UK, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space

    Edited by Julie Cidell, David Prytherch ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    The contemporary urban experience is defined by flow and structured by circulating people, objects, and energy. Geographers have long provided key insights into transportation systems. But today, concerns for social justice and sustainability motivate new, critical approaches to mobilities. Reimagining the city prompts an important question: How best to rethink urban geographies of transport and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Law, Engineering, and the American Right-of-Way

    Imagining a More Just Street

    by David Prytherch ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the geography of the everyday roadway and contemplates how regulation and design shape our streets. People may question the hegemony of cars, but reimagining public streets is a major conceptual and technical challenge. Drawing from “new mobilities” and transport studies, Prytherch addresses how streets are structured by policy standards; what it means to have a right to the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • Suburban Nation

    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

    by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck ...
    The essential handbook for ending suburban sprawl and automobile-based settlement patternsFor a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Efficient Society

    Why Canada Is As Close To Utopia As It Gets

    by Joseph Heath ...
    In this fascinating account of what makes Canada such a successful society, Joseph Heath celebrates the much-maligned value of efficiency and asks some searching questions about the forces that threaten to undermine our quality of life. Canada is an efficient society, much more efficient than our neighbour to the south, where personal liberty takes precedence over collective well-being. This is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Elsewhere, U.S.A.

    How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to theHome Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety

    by Dalton Conley ...
    Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. In Elsewhere, U.S.A., acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley connects our day-to-day experiences with occasionally overlooked sociological changes, from women’s increasing participation in the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Urban Design Reader

    by Steve Tiesdell, Matthew Carmona ...
    Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the authors of the best ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Urban Design Reader

    Edited by Michael Larice, Elizabeth Macdonald ...
    Series series Routledge Urban Reader Series
    The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent writings by Waldheim, Koolhaas, and Sorkin. Following the widespread success of the first edition of ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Reconsidering the Bicycle

    An Anthropological Perspective on a New (Old) Thing

    by Luis Vivanco ...
    Series series Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
    In cities throughout the world, bicycles have gained a high profile in recent years, with politicians and activists promoting initiatives like bike lanes, bikeways, bike share programs, and other social programs to get more people on bicycles. Bicycles in the city are, some would say, the wave of the future for car-choked, financially-strapped, obese, and sustainability-sensitive urban areas.This ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Design First

    by David Walters, Linda Brown ...
    Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • No Accident

    Eliminating Injury and Death on Canadian Roads

    by Neil Arason ...
    It is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canada’s roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve comparable results as early as 2020. In Canada, though, citizens must turn their thinking on its head and make road safety a national priority.Since the motor vehicle first went into mass production, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Ambient Commons

    Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

    by Malcolm McCullough ...
    On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able ... Read more

    $21.99 USD