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  • 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

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  • Grand Avenues

    The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.

    by Scott W. Berg ...
    In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L’Enfant—a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathers—to design the new nation's capital. L’Enfant approached this task with unparalleled vigor and passion; however, his imperious and unyielding nature also made him many ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Branding New York

    How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World

    by Miriam Greenberg ...
    Series series Cultural Spaces
    Winner of the 2009 Robert Park Book Award for best Community and Urban Sociology book!Branding New York traces the rise of New York City as a brand and the resultant transformation of urban politics and public life. Greenberg addresses the role of "image" in urban history, showing who produces brands and how, and demonstrates the enormous consequences of branding. She shows that the branding of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital

    The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C.

    by David Ovason ...
    Today, there are more than twenty complete zodiacs in Washington, D.C., each one pointing to an extraordinary mystery. David Ovason, who has studied these astrological devices for ten years, now reveals why they have been placed in such abundance in the center of our nation's capital and explains their interconnections. His richly illustrated text tells the story of how Washington, from its ... Read more

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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

  • The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

    by Nabeel Hamdi ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context.Drawing on four decades of practical and teaching experience, the author offers fresh insight into the complexities faced by ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Planning for Sustainability

    Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities

    by Stephen Wheeler ...
    How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases.Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of planning for more sustainable and livable communities. The text explores topics such as how more compact and walkable ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Lost in the Transit Desert

    Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form

    by Diane Jones Allen ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to address this are lacking. This absence of public transit creates barriers to viable employment and accessibility to cultural networks, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Syntax of Cities

    by Peter F. Smith ...
    This book was first published in 1977. In bringing together psychology and urban design there is always the risk of alienating specialists in both fields. The psychologist may resent the failure to observe the strict rigour of his subject, whilst the urban designer may be put off by such rigour as exists. In such a book as this, it is only possible briefly to refer to the research that has ... Read more

    $63.99 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

  • Whose Public Space?

    International Case Studies in Urban Design and Development

    Edited by Ali Madanipour ...
    Public spaces mirror the complexities of urban societies: as historic social bonds have weakened and cities have become collections of individuals public open spaces have also changed from being embedded in the social fabric of the city to being a part of more impersonal and fragmented urban environments. Can making public spaces help overcome this fragmentation, where accessible spaces are ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Urban Condition

    by Brendan Gleeson ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown up challenges and threats, especially climate change, resource depletion, social division and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD