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“nathan cherry”

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  • Grid/ Street/ Place

    Essential Elements of Sustainable Urban Districts

    by Nathan Cherry ...
    Today's urban resident is seeking a more flexible, sustainable environment-representing a unique, diverse, vibrant, and responsible way of living-as an alternative to the typical development patterns of suburban and semi-urban sprawl. Can urban design help create this type of sustainable urbanism? Grid Street Place presents a unique approach to understanding urban design through scientific, ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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  • City in the Sky

    The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center

    by James Glanz, Eric Lipton ...
    The definitive biography of the iconic skyscrapers and the ambitions that shaped them--from their dizzying rise to their unforgettable fallMore than a year after the nation began mourning the lives lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center, it became clear that something else was being mourned: the towers themselves. They were the biggest and brashest icons that New York, and possibly America, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Deep in the Heart of San Antonio

    Land and Life in South Texas

    by Char Miller ...
    Char Miller's collection of essays provides an insightful survey of San Antonio and South Texas. The essays are grouped into six thematic sections: an overview; natural and environmental history; water issues; urban development; politics; and the city's future. Miller describes the First Friday Art Walks in Southtown, where the promenade reenacts the pedestrian traffic envisioned by the San ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Stepping Up with Green, Citygreen Issue 7

    by angeliasia ...
    CITYGREEN, winner of the APEX Awards for Publication Excellence for three consecutive years - 2014, 2013 and 2012, is a biannual publication of the Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore. It presents current research on greening and ecology of the urban environment, and features outstanding green projects in international cities. This issue rounds up a number of project features that ... Read more

    $8.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Urban Agenda

    The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area

    by Bill Freeman ...
    2015 Speaker's Book Award — ShortlistedCity planning in the GTHA has been mired in political grandstanding for the past decade, The New Urban Agenda offers a plain language solution to the issues plaguing the GTHA.Politics in the Greater Toronto, Hamilton Area (GTHA) have become increasingly divisive over the past decade, and solutions to the city’s problems have become hot-topic issues debated in ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cities Under Siege

    The New Military Urbanism

    by Stephen Graham ...
    Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world’s rapidly expanding metropolitan areas.Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western militaries and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Intimate Metropolis

    Urban Subjects in the Modern City

    Edited by Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton, Marina Lathouri ...
    Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private.Rather than focusing purely on public spaces—such as streets, cafés, gardens, or department stores—or on the domestic sphere, the book investigates those spaces and practices that engage both the urban and the domestic, the public ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Geodesign by Integrating Design and Geospatial Sciences

    Edited by Eduardo Dias, Henk J. Scholten, Danbi J. Lee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In Europe, the emerging discipline of geodesign was earmarked by the first Geodesign Summit held in 2013 at the GeoFort, the Netherlands. Here researchers and practitioners from 28 different countries gathered to exchange ideas on how to merge the spatial sciences and design worlds. This book brings together experiences from this international group of spatial planners, architects, landscape ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Designing the City

    Towards a More Sustainable Urban Form

    by Hildebrand Frey ...
    Designing the City looks at current urban problems in cities and demonstrates how effective urban design can address social, economic and environmental issues as well as the physical planning at local level. The book is highly visual and illustrates the topic with a variety of sketches, line drawings, axonometrics and models. The author draws upon the valuable experience gained by the City of ... Read more

    $46.95 USD

  • Gentrification in a Global Context

    Edited by Rowland Atkinson, Gary Bridge ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This book throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that deeply divides commentators on its worth and social costs given its ability to physically improve areas but also to displace indigenous inhabitants.Gentrification in a Global Perspective brings ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Architectural Body

    by Madeline Gins, Shusaku Arakawa ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one anotherThis revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry. Together, they have created an experimental and widely admired body of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Abulecentrism

    Rapid Development of Society Catalyzed at the Local Community Level

    by Olurinde Lafe ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book describes a development concept called abulecentrism. The Yoruba word abule (pronounced: a-boo-lay) literarily means “the village”. abulecentrism seeks to achieve rapid and sustainable development of a given society by the strategic execution of projects and the provision of critical services at the local community level. The village has always been the traditional unit of communal living ... Read more

    $49.49 USD