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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “raffaele pernice”
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  • Waterfront Regeneration in a Time of Climate Change

    Recent Japanese and International Experiences

    Edited by Raffaele Pernice, Tetsuya Yaguchi ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world. This book explores possible local strategies and global solutions in the safeguarding of coastal cities and the often-neglected urban waterfronts, in terms of a more effective integration with the city, whilst paying attention to the mitigation of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Australia and China Perspectives on Urban Regeneration and Rural Revitalization

    Edited by Raffaele Pernice, Bing Chen ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    This edited volume reviews important contemporary issues through relevant case studies and research in China and Australia, such as the challenges posed by climate change, the development of eco-urban design, research on sustainable habitats and the relationship between ecology, green architecture and city regeneration, as well as, in general, the future of the city in the new millennium.The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Urbanism of Metabolism

    Visions, Scenarios and Models for the Mutant City of Tomorrow

    Edited by Raffaele Pernice ...
    This edited book explores and promotes reflection on how the lessons of Metabolism experience can inform current debate on city making and future practice in architectural design and urban planning. More than sixty years after the Metabolist manifesto was published, the author’s original contributions highlight the persistent links between present and past that can help to re-imagine new urban ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Adaptive Urban Transformation

    Urban Landscape Dynamics, Regional Design and Territorial Governance in the Pearl River Delta, China

    Edited by Steffen Nijhuis, Yimin Sun, Eckart Lange ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast urbanising deltas, taking the Pearl River Delta (China) as a case study. Deltaic areas are among the most promising regions in the world. Their strategic location and superior quality of their soils are core factors supporting both human development ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Tourism

    Principles, Contexts and Practices

    by David A. Fennell, Prof. Chris Cooper ...
    Series Book 6 - Aspects of Tourism Texts
    This new textbook provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable tourism framed around the UN’s sustainable development goals. It examines the origins and dimensions of sustainable tourism and offers a detailed account of sustainable initiatives and management across destinations, the tourism industry, public sector and leading agencies. The book explores the principal values and priorities in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Millionaire Migrants

    Trans-Pacific Life Lines

    by David Ley ...
    Series Book 97 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Japanese Love Hotels

    A Cultural History

    by Sarah Chaplin ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the 1980s and are now perceived as ‘leisure’, ‘fashion’ or ‘boutique’ hotels.Representing a timely ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet

    Environmental, Business and Policy Solutions

    by Megan Epler Wood ...
    This book helps all those involved in international tourism develop the new skills, tools and investments required to protect irreplaceable global resources from the impacts of escalating tourism demand over the next 50 years. It documents how technology and the growing global middle class are driving a travel revolution which requires a new paradigm in managing tourism destinations. Travel and ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Urban Playground

    How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities

    by Tim Gill ...
    What type of cities do we want our children to grow up in? Car-dominated, noisy, polluted and devoid of nature? Or walkable, welcoming, and green? As the climate crisis and urbanisation escalate, cities urgently need to become more inclusive and sustainable. This book reveals how seeing cities through the eyes of children strengthens the case for planning and transportation policies that work for ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Against Architecture

    by Franco La Cecla ...
    Translated by Mairin O’Mahony ...
    Series series Green Arcade
    First published in 2008, (as Contro l’architettura), Against Architecture has been translated into French and Greek, with editions forthcoming in Polish and Portuguese. The book is a passionate and erudite charge against the celebrities of the current architectural world, the “archistars.” According to Franco La Cecla, architecture has lost its way and its true function, as the archistars use the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sustainable Tourism

    by David Weaver ...
    Sustainable Tourism comprehensively examines the theoretical and applied dimensions of contemporary sustainable tourism from a global perspective. Using international case studies and examples, it provides cutting edge coverage of the latest developments in the area, both theoretically and practically. It takes the reader through all aspects of sustainable tourism from the emergence of the ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Housing for Degrowth

    Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities

    Edited by Anitra Nelson, François Schneider ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    ‘Degrowth’, a type of ‘postgrowth’, is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone’s basic needs.This groundbreaking collection on housing for degrowth addresses key challenges of unaffordable, unsustainable and anti-social ... Read more

    $65.99 USD