Urban & Land Use Planning

Following on from the 2017 House 1 project, a public architectural intervention in Zurich, ALICE's teaching programme and the All About Space series enter the realm of urban and suburban space. The series' latest volume Beyond the Object: The Imagination...

What does it mean to be a resilient city in the age of a changing climate and growing inequity? As urban populations grow, how do we create efficient transportation systems, access to healthy green space, and lower-carbon buildings for all citizens?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874203578Author Urban Land InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Urban Land Institute,U.S.Publisher Urban Land Institute,U.S.Weight(grams) 390g

In his influential 1991 book Edge City, Joel Garreau argued that every American city is growing in the fashion of Los Angeles, with multiple urban cores. He named these cores edge cities because they perform all of the city functions, but rise in places...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816528950Author Tim SullivanFormat PaperbackImprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 456gDimensions(mm)...

This book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory. The period between the 1890s and the 1940s was a fertile time for utopian thinking. Significant geographic shifts of...

Africa is one of the most dynamic continents. It will play a key role in the coming decades in relation to the growth of cities, and environmental conditions will be of primary importance. The structural lack of water and sanitation infrastructure...

This thought-provoking book exhorts planners to establish community development programs that achieve greater social and economic equity. Some of the 13 chapters urge planners to incorporate community equity concerns into traditional planning areas such...

This book presents the meticulous case studies of three individual houses from different eras, which serve to depict the social, political, and cultural effects that domestic architecture and interior design had on the upper class, the city of Boston,...

In America's car-dominated landscape, public transit has long played second fiddle, but rising gasoline prices and the global warming crisis point to a need for alternative means of transportation. Darrin Nordahl sets the stage for these efforts by...

Making Use of Deleuze in Planning translates and re-creates some of Gilles Deleuze's most abstract philosophical concepts to form a new, practicable planning assessment tool. It shows what his philosophy can do for planning theory as well as planning...

This handbook introduces surveyors to the use of microcomputers in the property industry using 'real-life' example applications with clear explanations, it will provide the surveyor with the knowledge and expertise to design spreadsheets and database...

Sharing Mobilities focuses on the emergence of future sustainable and collaborative mobility cultures. At the intersection of physical and virtual capacity and access to people, goods, ideas, and services, this book poses fundamental challenges and...

This book was first published in 1983.Book InformationISBN 9781138882058Author S.H. PutmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942483380Author Clinton E. BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Buffalo Heritage PressPublisher Buffalo Heritage Press

The Political Culture of Planning is written for two quite distinct readerships. The main body of the book synthesizes a mass of information to provide an overview of a complex and amorphous field. This material is designed to meet the needs of students...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874204261Author Justin B. SchorFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint Urban Land Institute,U.S.Publisher Urban Land Institute,U.S.Weight(grams) 376g

Does wellness make business sense as a development objective? How have developers pursued this objective? What has the market response been? And how have developers measured their success? Building for Wellness: the Business Case highlights 13 projects...

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorJ Muir O.B.E, M.A. of the Inner Temple, BarristerBook InformationISBN 9780728202313Author J Muir WattFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Estates...

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780728202160Author J. Muir WattFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Estates Gazette LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorBarry Denyer-Green LLM PhD FRICS of the Middle Temple, Barrister.Book InformationISBN 9780728202122Author Barry Denyer-GreenFormat PaperbackPage...

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorJ Muir O.B.E, M.A. of the Inner Temple, BarristerBook InformationISBN 9780728201606Author J Muir WattFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Estates...

This title was first published in 1986 during a recession much like that faced in recent years, which placed immense pressure on the British planning system and led to social unrest in the inner cities and in many disadvantaged areas. Within this...

The Planning Law Reports are currently the leading set of planning reports available. This service offers an archive of cases dating back to their inception and the unique ability to cross-refer from and to the narrative, legislation, guidance and cases...

The Estates Gazette Law Reports are an indispensable reference for property law practitioners researching and advising on all aspects of landlord and tenant law, valuation, professional negligence, conveyancing, real property, leasehold enfranchisement...

Undergirded by a multidisciplinary framework of political science, geography, and sociology, this book examines hte manner in which neighborhood economic resources and family structure shape individual political behavior among white and black citizens in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874204193Author Chris DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 43Imprint Urban Land Institute,U.S.Publisher Urban Land Institute,U.S.Weight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558443525Author Diego Alfonso ErbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublisher Lincoln Institute of Land...

Collective Urban Planning in Research, Teaching and Practice This practice orientated handbook aims at all urban actors wishing to develop and realise complex urban planning concepts. It sets out a series of techniques, methods and process models that...

Seit uber 70 Jahren dominiert das private Auto den oeffentlichen Raum deutscher Stadte. Mit dem Free Street Manifesto stellt eine kreativ-wissenschaftliche Allianz dieses Dogma grundsatzlich infrage und thematisiert vergessene und unerkannte Qualitaten...

Originally published in 1981 and based on the authors' own research, this book provides a comprehensive review of planning in the Soviet Union up until the early 1980s for both geographers and Soviet specialists. Planning was particularly important in...

Portland, Oregon's innovative and distinctive landmark, Tilikum Crossing Bridge of the People, is the first major bridge in the U.S, carrying trains, busses, streetcars, bicycles, and pedestrians- but no private automobiles. When regional transportation...

Toxic spills, acid rain, poor air quality-scarcely a day goes by without a report in the press on an environmental risk issue. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in New Jersey, a leading state in the production of chemicals, and the state with the...

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorJ Muir O.B.E, M.A. of the Inner Temple, BarristerBook InformationISBN 9780728202252Author J Muir WattFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Estates...

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorJ Muir O.B.E, M.A. of the Inner Temple, BarristerBook InformationISBN 9780728202375Author J Muir WattFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Estates...

Following the lifework (1960s to 2010) of visionary Singaporean architect William S. W. Lim, The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia) is a compelling compilation of case studies and historical projects. This multifaceted publication takes Lim's ideas to...

Public and private, traffic and open space, planned and spontaneous - our idea of a city is characterised by opposites. However, the contributors to this bilingual book show that these poles can also be consciously connected. The urban building blocks...

Constructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples traces the emergence of the South Indian city of Kanchi as a major royal capital and multireligious pilgrimage destination during the era of the Pallava and Chola dynasties (ca. seventh through thirteenth...

River Cities in Asia uncovers the intimate relationship between rivers and cities in Asia from a multi-disciplinary perspective in the humanities and the social sciences. As rivers have shaped human settlement patterns, economies, culture and rituals, so...

In parts of Asia, citizens are increasingly involved in shaping their neighbourhoods and cities, representing a significant departure from earlier state-led or market-driven urban development. These emerging civic urbanisms are a result of an evolving...