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  • Resilient Sustainable Cities

    A Future

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

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  • Radical Cities

    Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

    de Justin McGuirk ...
    What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.Ever since the mid ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • City Rules

    How Regulations Affect Urban Form

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $35.29 USD

  • Remaking Cities

    An Introduction to Urban Metrofitting

    de Tony Fry ...
    Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability – in the face of such problems our current attempts at producing a sustainable agenda for the world's cities appear fragmented and inadequate. Fresh thinking is needed.In Remaking Cities, renowned design theorist Tony Fry brings a ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning

    An International Evaluation

    de Michael Short, Mark Baker, Jeremy Carter, Stephen Jay, Carys Jones ...
    'A wonderfully international and up-to-date perspective on strategic environmental assessment of land use plans by leading experts in the field. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning covers not only how much such SEAs are carried out and in what context, but whether they are effective and why. It provides invaluable insights for practitioners and researchers in this rapidy ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Planning for Sustainability

    Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities

    de Stephen Wheeler ...
    How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases.Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of planning for more sustainable and livable communities. The text explores topics such as how more compact and walkable ... Leer más

    $115.99 USD

  • The No-Growth Imperative

    Creating Sustainable Communities under Ecological Limits to Growth

    de Gabor Zovanyi ...
    More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based on such limits, The No-Growth Imperative discounts current efforts to maintain growth through eco-efficiency initiatives and smart-growth programs, and argues that growth is inherently unsustainable and that the true nature of the challenge ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Common Ground in a Liquid City

    Essays in Defense of an Urban Future

    de Matt Hern ...
    If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And, says veteran environmental activist Matt Hern, cities are the best chance we have left for a truly ecological future . . . but what does it take to make a truly sustainable city?Common Ground in a Liquid City is a fun and engaging look at the future of urban life. Hern takes us on a journey ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Planning After Petroleum

    Preparing Cities for the Age Beyond Oil

    Edición de Jago Dodson, Neil Sipe, Anitra Nelson ...
    Thepast decade has been one of the most volatile periods in global petroleum markets in living memory, and future oil supply security and price levels remain highly uncertain. This poses many questions for the professional activities of planners and urbanists because contemporary cities are highly dependent on petroleum as a transport fuel. How will oil dependent cities respond, and adapt to, the ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Moving People, Goods and Information in the 21st Century

    The Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Networked Cities

    Edición de Richard Hanley ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    Globalisation and technological innovation have changed the way people, goods, and information move through and about cities. To remain, or become, economically and environmentally sustainable, cities and their regions must adapt to these changes by creating cutting-edge infrastructures that integrate advanced technologies, communications, and multiple modes of transportation. The book defines ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The Craft of Collaborative Planning

    People working together to shape creative and sustainable places

    de Jeff Bishop ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Unlike books that focus solely on methods, The Craft of Collaborative Planning provides a detailed guide to designing and managing all aspects of the collaborative process, advocating for making collaborative work the norm.Beginning with a discussion of the political and legal context of collaborative practice in UK land use planning systems, The Craft of Collaborative Planning tracks a path ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Enabling Eco-Cities

    Defining, Planning, and Creating a Thriving Future

    Edición de Dominique Hes, Judy Bush ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Cities are striving to become more resilient, adaptive and sustainable; this requires new ways of governing and developing the city. This book features chapters by researchers using regenerative development and transitions theories to envisage how Eco-Cities could be planned, designed and created, and concludes with practical tools and an outline of how this evolution could be facilitated. It ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD