Urban & Land Use Planning

Back to the Future explores new urbanism and urban revitalization within the context of public policy trends such as regional governance and the role of nonprofits. The purpose of this book is to provide students and professionals alike with a context...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938740046Author Victor J. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar PublishersWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

The consequences of climate change, increasing storm surge, and rising sea levels are being seen and felt by coastal communities across the globe as hurricanes, coastal storms, and flooding increase in intensity and frequency. Understanding how coastal...

What happens when artists are asked the questions usually addressed to planners and administrators?Here artists, architects, writers, designers and curators come together to reimagine Sydney's relationship to its environment.They envisage a future where...

This title offers a comprehensive overview of coastal planning and management issues for students and professionals in the field. Since publication of the first edition in 1994, population growth and increasing development pressures on our coasts have...

The book wants to analyse and integrate landscape, urbanism and architecture going from large to small scales, from macro to micro areas and from micro to macro, making a complete analysis. The topics keywords are: land-form, sensitive limits, urban...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869408152Author Julia GatleyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Auckland University PressPublisher Auckland University Press

Since its foundation in 1977 IJURR has been at the cutting-edge of critical urban scholarship. IJURR is taking forward its commitment to interdisciplinary and international urban research, connecting with new audiences and debates, consolidating its...

Despite the intolerable costs of climate change and inevitably declining oil, natural gas and uranium reserves, the vast majority of cities and urban communities are planned and managed as if such existential crises did not exist. Hence the transition...

"Building Institution" chronicles the expansion of architecture as a profession and discipline in the postmodern era. Kim Foerster traces the compelling history of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, which was active in New York from 1967...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007785Author Max PodemskiFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 161mm * 24mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788494752322Author Katja AssmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Dpr-BarcelonaPublisher Dpr-Barcelona

This monograph discusses the role that ruins play in urban centres in terms of their meaning, testimony, and value, and the opportunities they provide. After an outline of historical and contemporary of ap proaches, with a special analysis of British and...

The City of Mariupol's heroic defence and systematic destruction at the beginning of the Russian invasion have made it an international symbol of senseless brutality and Ukrainian defiance. The ruined city today still harbours the embers of that...

Looking at suburbs as places of creativity gives rise to novel and thought-provoking narratives that typically run counter to the idea that suburbs are sites of "ordinary," "mundane," and "everyday" practices. Far from being geographies of "nowhere" -...

BUILDINGS FOR PEOPLE Buildings for People: Responsible Real Estate Development and Planning explores how to balance social concerns with financial and investment considerations without sacrificing profit. This timely volume provides key technical and...

Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and confined to residential institutions. Deinstitutionalization - the closure of these sites and integration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897476017Author Robert EnrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 367Imprint Simply Read BooksPublisher Simply Read BooksWeight(grams) 1515g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642833447Author Thalia VerkadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Island PressPublisher Island Press

The movement towards creating sustainable communities has gained increased prominence with approaches such as New Urbanism, yet there are few examples of the successes. This text offers an analysis of one such example: Village Homes outside Davis,...

"Congestion is the life of the city . . . it is what we came for, what we stay for, what we hunger for", wrote Charles Downing Lay, prominent American landscape architect and planner of the early 1920s. These words are relevant today as density and...

If your doorstep were a trailhead, how would you experience your city? With this newfound freedom, you might head in a new direction, walk to a restaurant in an area you've never explored, begin to savour your daily walk to work, or set out with a...

Today, there are more than three parking spaces for every car in the United States. No one likes searching for a space, but in many areas, there is an oversupply, wasting valuable land, damaging the environment, and deterring development. Richard Willson...

The headlines about cities celebrate their resurgence, with empty nesters and Millennials alike investing in our urban areas, moving away from car dependence, and demanding walkable, transit-oriented neighbourhoods. But, in reality, these changes are...

For five thousand years, human settlements were nearly always compact places. Everything a person needed on a regular basis lay within walking distance, But then the great project of the twentieth century, sorting people, businesses, and activities into...

Suburbs deserve a better, more resilient future. June Williamson shows that suburbs aren't destined to remain filled with strip malls and excess parking lots; they can be reinvigorated through inventive design. Drawing on award-winning design ideas for...

Levine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to accessibility-oriented planning, providing much needed conceptual clarity as to what accessibility is and is not. But their book also represents a major step toward transforming...

Our street-level economy is undergoing dramatic change. Retailers are reeling from the rise of e-commerce, rising rents, and increasing storefront vacancies, along with a cultural shift from material to experiential consumerism. Today, the COVID-19...

How China's borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China's land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world's longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but...

This fascinating book explains the processes of suburbanization in the context of post-socialist societies transitioning from one system of socio-spatial order to another. Case studies of seven Central and Eastern Europe city regions illuminate growth...

State and local governments in the United States are increasingly being called upon to deal with the problems associated with defense downsizing and environmental damage caused by the military. What is unknown to many people is that the government...

An innovative look at design solutions for building lifelong neighborhoods Livable Communities for Aging Populations provides architects and designers with critical guidance on urban planning and building design that allows people to age in their own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589802834Author Steven BrookeFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

The September 11 terrorist attacks targeted, in Osama bin Laden's words, "America's icons of military and economic power." In "The Architecture of Aftermath", Terry Smith argues that it was no accident that these targets were buildings: architecture has...

Dissatisfied with the world we live in, we have been longing since time immemorial for two opposing topoi: the peaceful garden -- a carefree paradise -- the New City -- a harmonious community. Utopia has long been sought after by urban architects since...

For at least two decades, major cities in Turkey have been subjected to endless waves of urban development that has left scores of building demolitions in its wake. The construction waste produced is immense but its removal or abatement is completely...

Approximately 80% of the U.S. population now lives in urban metropolitan areas, and this number is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. At the same time, the built infrastructure sustaining these populations has become increasingly...

The Cleveland area is rightly famed for its Emerald Necklace, an almost continuous corridor of parklands, largely assembled during the first half of the twentieth century, that encircles the central city. Less appreciated is the recent revitalization of...

By weaving in a single narrative the city's siting, geography, spatial qualities, culture, economy, society, and tragedy, it affords us an exceptional insight into the city as it is today, and remains a passionate journey through one of our nation's most...

Of all building types, the skyscraper strikes observers as the most modern, in terms not only of height but also boldness, scale, ingenuity, and daring. As a phenomenon born in late-nineteenth-century America, it quickly became emblematic of New York,...