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  • Suburbia Reimagined

    Ageing and Increasing Populations in the Low-Rise City

    by Leon van Schaik, Nigel Bertram ...
    Worldwide, more and more people are living in cities, with suburbs conceived as appendages to the city, rather than being part of the city system, which is densely populated and offers a full range of services. But suburbs are not the city spread too thin, and in fact hold potential for a lived complexity as satisfying as that assumed to be available in inner cities. Just as the ecological ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure

    Making and Using the Urban Environment

    by Nigel Bertram ...
    Series series Design Research in Architecture
    Observation and analysis are types of invention. They make things apparent which perhaps were invisible. By noticing, drawing and naming something we bring it into being. On the other hand, building and making can be thought of as analytical observations, pointing out what had not been so clear before and revealing the potential for other actions yet to occur. This book is a collection of urban ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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  • The housing debate

    by Stuart Lowe ...
    Series series Policy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
    The emergence of Britain as a fully fledged home-owning society at the end of the 20th century has major implications for how houses are used not just as a home but as an asset. The key debate in this important and timely book is whether social policy and people's homes should be so closely connected, especially when housing markets are so volatile. It will be essential reading for all students ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Dispatches Against Displacement

    Field Notes from San Franciscos Housing Wars

    by James Tracy ...
    San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley. Recent evictions of long-time San Francisco residents, outrageous rents and home prices, and blockaded "Google buses" are only the tip of the iceberg. James Tracy's book focuses on the long arc of displacement over almost two decades of "dot com" boom and bust, offering the necessary perspective to analyze the latest ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Resilient Sustainable Cities

    A Future

    Edited by Leonie Pearson, Peter Newton, Peter Roberts ...
    Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world’s people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live in and technology we use will all determine how sustainable our cities will be. Bridging the increasing divide between cross-disciplinary academic insights and the latest practical innovations, Resilient Sustainable ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The New Global Frontier

    Urbanization, Poverty and Environment in the 21st Century

    Edited by George Martine, Gordon McGranahan, Mark Montgomery, Rogelio Fernandez-Castilla ...
    The worlds developing countries will be experiencing massive increases in their urban populations over the 21st century. If managed intelligently and humanely, this growth can pave the way to sustainable development; otherwise, it will favour higher levels of poverty and environmental stress. The outcome depends on decisions being made now.The principal theme that runs through this volume is the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Community Economic Development Movement

    Law, Business, and the New Social Policy

    by William H. Simon ...
    While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style is reflected in a panoply of Community Economic Development (ced) initiatives—efforts led by locally-based organizations to develop housing, jobs, and business opportunities in low-income neighborhoods.In this book William H. Simon provides the first ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Conflict, Improvisation, Governance

    Street Level Practices for Urban Democracy

    by David Laws, John Forester ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical challenges of "doing democracy" in the global/local context of the interconnected major European city of Amsterdam and its region. The book examines street level democratic processes through the experiences of ... Read more

    $79.99 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

  • The Politics of the Piazza

    The History and Meaning of the Italian Square

    by Eamonn Canniffe ...
    Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture. Illustrated by contemporary photographs and analytical drawings, it examines significant piazzas and situates these examples in their social and political contexts, highlighting the urban evidence of shifts between ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Urban Retrofitting for Sustainability

    Mapping the Transition to 2050

    Edited by Tim Dixon, Malcolm Eames, Miriam Hunt, Simon Lannon ...
    With a foreword from Paul King, Chief Executive, UK Green Building Council and Chairman, Zero Carbon HubAs concerns over climate change and resource constraints grow, many cities across the world are trying to achieve a low carbon transition. Although new zero carbon buildings are an important part of the story, in existing cities the transformation of the current building stock and urban ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

  • Exhibitions and the Development of Modern Planning Culture

    Edited by Robert Freestone, Marco Amati ...
    The evolution of city planning theory and practice in the first half of the twentieth century was captured and driven by a range of exhibitionary practices in a variety of settings globally, from international expos to local public halls. The agendas of the promoters varied, but exhibitions generally drew their social legitimacy from their status as ’appropriate educative agencies of citizenship’. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD