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  • Urban Design

    The Basics

    by Tim Heath, Florian Wiedmann ...
    Series series The Basics
    Urban Design: The Basics provides a brief but compelling overview and introduction to the theory and practice of the multi-disciplinary field of urban design.It is an ‘easy-to-understand’ and ‘jargon-free’ introduction to the fundamental principles of urban design. By introducing the essentials of urban design, the book is an important starting point for future study of the discipline. Topics ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf

    Urban Transformation in the Middle East

    by Florian Wiedmann, Ashraf M. Salama ...
    Human history has seen many settlements transformed or built entirely by expatriate work forces and foreigners arriving from various places. Recent migration patterns in the Gulf have led to emerging 'airport societies' on unprecedented scales. Most guest workers, both labourers and mid to high-income groups, perceive their stay as a temporary opportunity to earn suitable income or gain experience ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Demystifying Doha

    On Architecture and Urbanism in an Emerging City

    by Ashraf M. Salama, Florian Wiedmann ...
    Over the past decade or so, the wealth produced by Qatar's oil and gas exports has generated a construction development boom in its capital city of Doha and the surrounding vicinity. Since the late 1990s, the number of inhabitants has grown from less than 400,000 to more than 1.7 million today. In many respects, Doha is portrayed as an important emerging global capital in the Gulf region, which ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Planet of Slums

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    THE BEST-SELLING MODERN CLASSIC: The world’s leading urbanist offers a “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author).According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Shape of the Suburbs

    Understanding Toronto's Sprawl

    by John Sewell ...
    It is now impossible to understand major North American cities without considering the seemingly never-ending and ever-growing sprawl of their surrounding suburbs. In The Shape of the Suburbs, activist, urban affairs columnist, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water and sewage systems, highways, and the decision-making of Toronto ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Edge City

    Life on the New Frontier

    by Joel Garreau ...
    First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities

    Edited by R.B. Singh ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In this book, an interdisciplinary research group of faculty members, researchers, professionals, and planners contributed to an understanding of the dynamics and dimensions of emerging challenges and risks in megacities in the rapidly changing urban environments in Asia and examined emerging resilience themes from the point of view of sustainability and public policy. The world’s urban population ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Engineers and Communities

    Transforming Sanitation in Contemporary Brazil

    by Earthea Nance ...
    Access to water and sanitation service in industrialized countries is nearly taken for granted, but in many developing countries less than half of the population has access to such services. Decades of effort on a global scale have been invested to solve this problem. One such effort—Brazil’s participatory approach to water and sanitation—is Nance’s subject in Engineers and Communities. In the ... Read more

    $105.29 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

  • Development of the Settlement Network in the Central European Countries

    Past, Present, and Future

    Edited by András Balogh, Tamás Csapó ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume intends to summarize the most important changes in the Central European countries and their settlement network emphasizing the last 20 years since the collapse of the Iron Curtain. ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Lecture Notes In Urban Economics And Urban Policy

    by John Yinger ...
    Series Book 4 - World Scientific Lecture Notes In Economics
    Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for both a PhD level course in urban economics and a master's level course in urban policy. Both the US ... Read more

    $62.99 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