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  • Planning Sustainable Cities

    An infrastructure-based approach

    by Spiro Pollalis ...
    Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability, focusing on the services and performance of infrastructure systems.The book approaches infrastructure as a series of systems that function in synergy and are directly linked with urban planning. This method streamlines and guides the planning process, while still highlighting ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Infrastructure Sustainability and Design

    Edited by Andreas Georgoulias, Daniel Schodek, Spiro Pollalis, Stephen Ramos ...
    You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental design, architecture, and landscape architecture review current sustainable large-scale projects, the ... Read more

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  • Low Car(bon) Communities

    Inspiring car-free and car-lite urban futures

    by Nicole Foletta ...
    With increasing awareness of the urgent need to respond to global warming by reducing carbon emissions and recognition of the social benefits of car-free and car-lite living, more and more city planners, advocates, and everyday urban dwellers are demanding new ways of building cities. In Low Car(bon) Communities, authors Nicole Foletta and Jason Henderson examine seven case studies in Europe and ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Biophilic Cities

    Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning

    by Timothy Beatley ...
    Tim Beatley has long been a leader in advocating for the "greening" of cities. But too often, he notes, urban greening efforts focus on everything except nature, emphasizing such elements as public transit, renewable energy production, and energy efficient building systems. While these are important aspects of reimagining urban living, they are not enough, says Beatley. We must remember that human ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures

    Australia and Beyond

    by Janet McGaw, Anoma Pieris ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • City Rules

    How Regulations Affect Urban Form

    by Emily Talen ...
    City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle, our communities. Emily Talen demonstrates that regulations are a primary detriment to the creation of a desirable urban form. While many contemporary codes encourage sprawl and even urban blight, that hasn't ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Sociable Cities

    The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City

    by Peter Hall, Colin Ward ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard’s To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 – an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard’s original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003. In this revised edition of Sociable Cities, sadly now without Colin Ward, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Urban Green

    Architecture for the Future

    by Neil B. Chambers ...
    Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural world. Author Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, sustainable architecture for years, and Urban Green is his revolutionary vision for bringing the power of the conservation and design movements together. He advocates ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • Smart Cities

    Governing, Modelling and Analysing the Transition

    Edited by Mark Deakin ...
    Smart city development has emerged a major issue over the past 5 years. Since the launch of IBM’s Smart Planet and CISCO’s Smart Cities and Communities programmes, their potential to deliver on global sustainable development targets have captured the public’s attention. However, despite this growing interest in the development of smart cities, little has as yet been published that either sets out ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Place-Keeping

    Open Space Management in Practice

    Edited by Nicola Dempsey, Harry Smith, Mel Burton ...
    Place-Keeping presents the latest research and practice on place-keeping – that is, the long-term management of public and private open spaces – from around Europe and the rest of the world. There has long been a focus in urban landscape planning and urban design on the creation of high-quality public spaces, or place-making. This is supported by a growing body of research which shows how high ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • High-Tech Fantasies

    Science Parks in Society, Science and Space

    by Doreen Massey, David Wield ...
    Science parks are becoming established in increasing numbers in almost all parts of the world. Promoted as places on the frontiers of science where a new breed of scientist-entrepreneur invents a new future, extolled as high-status workplaces where a new style of employee and flexible labour process is in the making, they are seen as the potential saviours of local and national economies.High-Tech ... Read more

    $79.99 USD