Urban & Land Use Planning

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...

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...

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 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 9788773079744Author Gitte MarlingFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Aalborg UniversitetsforlagPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 1650g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788773077122Author Helene VacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 211Imprint Aalborg UniversitetsforlagPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 554g

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...

Climate change, increasing resource scarcity, and rising traffic volumes are forcing us to develop new environmentally friendly and people-oriented mobility options. With the expansion of digital information systems, we will soon be able to reconfigure...

Complexity, Cognition and the City aims at a deeper understanding of urbanism, while invoking, on an equal footing, the contributions both the hard and soft sciences have made, and are still making, when grappling with the many issues and facets of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783496015321Author Inge BeckelFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dietrich ReimerPublisher Dietrich ReimerWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 170mm *...

For plenty years, many popular mountain resorts have seen largely uncontrolled development consisting of the multiplication of archetypal chalet-style houses. This is usually accompanied by roadbuilding for private cars. In order to protect these...

Over the last decade in India, many cities have undertaken pathbreaking initiatives in resolving issues associated with urban transport, and, specifically, mass transit system. The Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) is now acknowledged as a key mode to help...

Londoners Making London tells the story of nine projects that have transformed urban neighbourhoods. Countering the expectation that the development of cities is exclusively controlled by architects, planners and developers, this book demonstrates that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783089529Author Davide GenelettiFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783086023Author Mattijs Van MaasakkersFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638400585Author Stephane LemoineFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar Publishers

The failure to plan for disaster recovery results in a process of rebuilding that often presages the next disaster. It also limits the collective maximization of governmental, nonprofit, and private resources, including those resources that are available...

Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life-threatening impact, especially for older adults – generally speaking, people 65 or older. Older adults often face mobility, cognitive, and resource challenges, which contribute to a...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081833Author Clare MelhuishFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739211578Author LANDE JEWELSFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint LANDE JewelsPublisher LANDE JewelsWeight(grams) 166g

"Hank lived by the credo, `first listen, then design'." -Scott Bernstein, Founder and Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Center for Neighborhood Technology Hank Dittmar was a globally recognised urban planner, advocate, and policy advisor. He...

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...

American's landscape is undergoing a profound transformation as demand grows for a different kind of American Dream - smaller homes on smaller lots, multifamily options, and walkable neighbourhoods. This trend presents a tremendous opportunity to...

Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They are the heart of the city that drives its future. If we are to have healthy downtowns, we need to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550653991Author Avi FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vehicule PressPublisher Vehicule PressWeight(grams) 312g

In Mallparks, Michael T. Friedman observes that as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns and skyscrapers epitomized those within industrial cities, sports stadiums exemplify urban American consumption at the turn of the twenty-first...

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" –...

Using a broad international comparative perspective spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, contributors explore resident-led self-building for low- and middle-income groups in urban areas. Although social, economic and urban...

Given the rapid urbanisation of the world's population, the converse phenomenon of shrinking cities is often overlooked and little understood. Yet with almost one in ten post-industrial US cities shrinking in recent years, efforts by government and...

Making Places for People explores 12 social questions crucial to environmental design. Authors Christie Johnson Coffin and Jenny Young bring perspectives from practice and teaching to challenge assumptions about how places meet human needs. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874209402Author Adrienne SchmitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Urban Land Institute,U.S.Publisher Urban Land Institute,U.S.Weight(grams) 408g

This book will interest students and scholars of planning history and community planning, as well as those interested in women's involvement in the professions.Book InformationISBN 9780774825887Author Sue HendlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint...

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in planning, the planning profession, or the history of urban and rural form in Canada.Book InformationISBN 9780774819244Author Wayne J. CaldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint University of...

When manufacturers and retailers vacate traditional locations, they leave holes in a city's fabric that signal a shifting urban-industrial terrain. Who should mend these spaces, and how should they approach the problem? Thinking Planning and Urbanism...

A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this...

The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis takes readers across centuries and continents to show how Utopian town planning produced a distinctive type...