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  • Revitalising Historic Urban Quarters

    by Tim Heath, Taner Oc, Steve Tiesdell ...
    This book synthesizes urban design and urban regeneration by examining the revitalization of a number of historic urban quarters. Its focus is on quarters or areas where there is a significant number of historic buildings concentrated in a small area; with places and area-based approaches. Many cities have such quarters that confer on them a sense of place and identity through their historic ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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  • Sustainable Urbanism

    Urban Design With Nature

    by Douglas Farr ...
    Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and ... Read more

    $77.00 USD

  • The Measure of Manhattan

    The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor

    by Marguerite Holloway ...
    "Randel is endlessly fascinating, and Holloway’s biography tells his life with great skill." —Steve Weinberg, USA TodayJohn Randel Jr. (1787–1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan’s development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel’s engrossing and dramatic life story for the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Housing Bomb

    Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society

    by M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Peterson, Jianguo Liu ...
    How our thirst for more and larger houses is undermining society and what we can do about it.Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don’t multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading environmental researchers M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Ontario Municipal Board

    From Impact to Subsistence 1971-2016

    by Peter H. Howden ...
    The Ontario Municipal Board attracted power to it from the time it was formed in 1906 as a railway overseer and thereafter until 1932 when it became the regulatory tribunal for municipal financing and urban and regional planning applications. By 2006, the same government of Ontario that had entrusted the OMB with pre-eminent authority as the provincial land use, expropriation, and development ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Climate Change at the City Scale

    Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Cape Town

    Edited by Anton Cartwright, Susan Parnell, Gregg Oelofse, Sarah Ward ...
    Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs. In recent years cities have begun to craft their own climate change responses against the backdrop of the reluctance displayed by nation-states in committing to emissions reductions and managing the consequences of climate change.Climate Change at the City Scale presents a fresh ... Read more

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  • The City Crown by Bruno Taut

    by Matthew Mindrup, Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut’s early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Written under the influence of World War I, Taut developed The City Crown to promote a utopian urban concept where people would live in a garden city of ’apolitical socialism’ and peaceful collaboration around a single purpose-free crystalline structure ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Interior Urbanism

    Architecture, John Portman and Downtown America

    by Professor Charles Rice ...
    Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being 'inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and claims that they can destroy the quality of a city's authentic life 'on the outside'.Interior Urbanism ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Karen Seto, William Solecki, Corrie Griffith ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Ventilating Cities

    Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living

    by Shinsuke Kato, Kyosuke Hiyama ...
    Series series Springer Geography
    The majority of the world’s population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the urban heat island effect, a known urban climate problem. This book discusses how to evaluate the urban wind environment, including ventilation ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change

    by David Crichton, Fergus Nicol, Sue Roaf ...
    From the bestselling author of Ecohouse, this fully revised edition of Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change provides unique insights into how we can protect our buildings, cities, infra-structures and lifestyles against risks associated with extreme weather and related social, economic and energy events.Three new chapters present evidence of escalating rates of environmental change. ... Read more

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  • The Government of Space (Routledge Revivals)

    Town Planning in Modern Society

    by Alison Ravetz ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Britain’s planning system began as ‘town and country planning’ to repair the ravages of unplanned industrialism and promote ideal environments for the future. Steering a course between left and right, public control and for-profit development, it survived successive booms and busts, broadening to include new concerns like ecology, conservation and community participation.By the 1986, when this ... Read more

    $38.99 USD