Urban & Land Use Planning

... we of this Architectural Centre in Wellington are a group of architects and draughtsmen and wood engravers and other people whose greatest claim to affiliation is an overriding enthusiasm for good design."" - Design Review, 1948...

The purpose of urban plans is to help planners and planning students make better choices when developing plans. This work attempts to explore the logic of plans for a practical purpose.Book InformationISBN 9781559638531Author Lewis D. HopkinsFormat...

Estates Gazette Law Reports are an indispensable reference source for property law practitioners and students, researching and advising on all aspects of: Landlord & tenant, Valuation, Professional negligence, Conveyancing, Real property Leasehold...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989331746Author Nina RappaportFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint ActarD Inc.Publisher ActarD Inc.Weight(grams) 576g

Learning in Las Vegas documents the development of plans for a campus of resorts on the Las Vegas Strip by a studio of ten Yale students.Book InformationISBN 9780393733341Author Brook DenisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156340199Author Professor Lewis MumfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 345g

Renowned for his extensive work in architectural history and historic preservation as an educator, scholar, activist, and public lecturer, Richard Longstreth is one of the most important architectural preservationists of the recent past. Looking beyond...

The statesman and reformer James Oglethorpe was a significant figure in the philosophical and political landscape of eighteenth-century British America. His social contributions--all informed by Enlightenment ideals--included prison reform, the founding...

This book focuses on understanding how a megacity like Seoul can be read as a formal architectural composition and not an endless urban sprawl.In a broader sense, the book discusses the dichotomy between city and urbanization: “city” being an...

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...

'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics of Istanbul' PETER FRANKOPAN 'A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578664576Author Richard RegisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Ecocity WorldPublisher Ecocity WorldWeight(grams) 209g

In City Life, Witold Rybczynski looks at what we want from cities, how they have evolved, and what accounts for their unique identities. In this vivid description of everything from the early colonial settlements to the advent of the skyscraper to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615543444Author Joe WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Klaatu Publishing CompanyPublisher Klaatu Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 322g

An approach to city planning examining the achievements and failures of the past, the opportunities and difficulties of the present, and the possibilities and prospects of the future.Book InformationISBN 9780393001747Author Henry S. ChurchillFormat...

Why on earth would anyone want to float a pool up the Atlantic coastline to bring it to rest at a pier on the New York City waterfront? In The Floating Pool Lady, Ann L. Buttenwieser recounts her triumphant adventure that started in the bayous of...

The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs...

This book explores Latino and Black and other relevant local experiences of collaboration and contention around policies and initiatives of advancement, in the context of recent global and national socioeconomic changes and changes in social policies in...

Housing is a matter of great urgency around the world. In cities that drive technological change and staggering wealth, there is a fierce struggle over two different models of creating affordable living conditions for working people, the poor, and...

An unprecedented look at the central role one man played in the transformation of New York City On January 1, 2002, Michael R. Bloomberg took office as the 108th mayor of New York City, with smoke still rising from the World Trade Center site. Many...

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) 533g

Silt Sand and Slurry is a visually rich investigation into where, why, and how sediment is central to the future of America’s coasts. Sediment is an unseen infrastructure that shapes and enables modern life. Silt is scooped from sea floors to deepen...

The Speculative City explores property speculation as a key aspect of financialization and its role in reshaping the contemporary built environment. The book offers a series of case studies that encompass a range of cities whose urban fabrics have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914314186Author Harriet ThorpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Hoxton Mini PressPublisher Hoxton Mini Press

As MoMA's recent exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia showed, the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia launched a unique experiment with progressive social policies, matched by unique urban and spatial development. The period from the end of the 1960s up to...

Case studies from across Europe exemplify the challenges and conflicts facing cities in the arena of urban development. Europe's current crisis is also a crisis of the European city. Economic, social, and political insecurities have changed our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948034537Author Shumon BasarFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Bidoun IncPublisher Bidoun Inc

City for City presents examples of the work of the City College Architectural Center over the past fifteen years. The projects selected are grouped under the categories of exhibitions, visioning exercises, planning and urban design studies and also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095060Author Bernd UpmeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462085381Author Meta Berghauser PontFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462084599Author Adrien Ravon, Winy MaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462083158Author Jelte BoeijengaFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789085940289Author Jacques KimmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Techne PressPublisher Techne PressWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789085940074Author Julia RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Techne PressPublisher Techne Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088462Author Hans VenhuizenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789040725562Author A. M. Fernandez-MaldonadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Delft University PressPublisher Delft University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788898774289Author M. Del SignoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint ListLabPublisher ListLab

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788773079744Author Gitte MarlingFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Aalborg UniversitetsforlagPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 1650g