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  • Classic Readings in Urban Planning

    by Jay Stein ...
    This new edition of "the best anthology in planning" includes 33 selections by many of the profession's most respected thinkers and eloquent writers. Returning editor Jay M. Stein chose the articles, about half of them new to this edition, based on suggestions from colleagues and students who used the first edition, recommendations from planning scholars, awards for writing in the field of ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

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    An Historic Examination of Dealing with the Impacts of Climate Change for the Kaoping River Delta in Taiwan

    by Chen Kun Chung ...
    This book argues that the floods following extreme precipitation result not only from very heavy rainfall but also from the significant impact of human activities on natural water systems. While most literature emphasises that the increasing magnitude of storm rainfall extends beyond the original protection standards of hydrologic facilities in highly populated delta cities. Based on the knowledge ... Read more

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  • Emerging Concepts in Urban Space Design

    by Professor Geoffrey Broadbent, Geoffrey Broadbent ...
    This important work, now available in paperback, from Professor Geoffrey Broadbent, provides a clear analysis of the nature of many of today's design problems, identifying their causes in history and suggesting a basis for co-ordinated solutions. The author discusses `picturesque' and `formal' tendencies in modern architecture, relating them to parallels between philosophic thought and design ... Read more

    $140.00 USD

  • 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

  • Demystifying Your Business Strategy

    by David Lei, John Slocum ...
    While scores of strategic management books have been written, many books fail to take into consideration the influences that shape and constrain managers’ ability to formulate and execute well-thought out strategies. Demystifying Your Business Strategy acknowledges and harnesses those influences, providing practitioners with a helpful new approach to developing and maintaining a competitive ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Agile City

    Building Well-being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change

    by James S. Russell ...
    In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it?Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global warming-and blunt its effects-by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns. The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Connecting Places, Connecting People

    A Paradigm for Urban Living in the 21st Century

    by Reena Tiwari ...
    What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and transport networks to create environmentally friendly, economically sound, and socially just communities? How can we meet the challenges of growing pollution, depleting fossil fuels, rising gasoline prices, traffic congestion, traffic fatalities, increased prevalence of obesity, and lack of social inclusion?The era of car-based planning ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • More Urban Less Poor

    An Introduction to Urban Development and Management

    by Goran Tannerfeldt, Per Ljung ...
    A world more urban...The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment....but less poorUnplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Interior Urbanism

    Architecture, John Portman and Downtown America

    by Professor Charles Rice ...
    Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being 'inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and claims that they can destroy the quality of a city's authentic life 'on the outside'.Interior Urbanism ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Dublin-Belfast Development Corridor: Ireland’s Mega-City Region?

    Edited by John Yarwood ...
    Series series Urban and Regional Planning and Development Series
    The aim of the Dublin-Belfast Development Corridor is to link several towns and cities by various modes of communication in order to create a poly-centric mega-city region in Ireland on a scale large enough to compete with the major urban clusters of continental Europe. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars and practitioners from both sides of the border to ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The University and Urban Revival

    Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets

    by Judith Rodin ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address the problems in their own backyards. Others attempted to develop better community relations, though changes were hard to sustain.Spurred ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Housing, Markets and Policy

    Edited by Peter Malpass, Rob Rowlands ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    This book of specially commissioned essays by distinguished housing scholars addresses the big issues in contemporary debates about housing and housing policy in the UK. Setting out a distinctive and coherent analysis, it steers a course between those accounts that rely on economic theory and analysis and those that emphasize policy.It is informed by the idea that the 1970s was a pivotal decade in ... Read more

    $79.99 USD