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Affordable Housing in US Shrinking Cities: From Neighborhoods of Despair to Neighborhoods of Opportunity? by Robert Mark Silverman 9781447327585
RRP: £29.99£23.02Given 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... -
Confronting Suburbanization: Urban Decentralization in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe by Kiril Stanilov 9781405185479
£33.39This 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... -
Making Places for People: 12 Questions Every Designer Should Ask by Christie Johnson Coffin 9781032413051
RRP: £135.00£117.68Making 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... -
Making Places for People: 12 Questions Every Designer Should Ask by Christie Johnson Coffin 9781032413044
RRP: £35.99£31.69Making 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... -
Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset by Adrienne Schmitz 9780874209402
RRP: £29.95£27.63Apologies 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 -
"I Was the Only Woman": Women and Planning in Canada by Sue Hendler 9780774825887
RRP: £31.00£27.36This 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... -
Rediscovering Thomas Adams: Rural Planning and Development in Canada by Wayne J. Caldwell 9780774819244
RRP: £39.00£34.52This 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... -
Thinking Planning and Urbanism by Beth Moore Milroy 9780774816151
RRP: £34.00£29.89When 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... -
Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay by Alison Isenberg 9780691172545
RRP: £38.00£31.61A 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... -
City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning by Michael J. Lewis 9780691171814
RRP: £40.00£31.93The 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... -
Essentials of Urban Design by Mark Sheppard 9780643108769
RRP: £73.00£63.97Essentials of Urban Design explains the fundamental concepts of urban design, providing the understanding and tools needed to achieve better design outcomes. It is equally useful for designing places and evaluating designs. Each chapter outlines the key... -
Middle Eastern Cities: A Symposium on Ancient, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Urbanism by Ira M. Lapidus 9780520323797
RRP: £34.00£26.97This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown by Roberta Brandes Gratz 9780471144175
£50.81"A love song for the city . . . [this] volume, attractivelypackaged and richly illustrated, is really a cookbook for downtownrevitalization." --Wall Street Journal In this pioneering book on successful urban recovery, two urbanexperts draw on their... -
Living Streets: Strategies for Crafting Public Space by Lesley Bain 9780470903810
RRP: £80.95£70.82Written for teams of engineers, transportation planners, landscape architects, and urban planners, this book provides a broad overview of the growing approach towards complete and sustainable street design. Its contents present the background on modern... -
Livable Communities for Aging Populations: Urban Design for Longevity by M. Scott Ball 9780470641927
RRP: £80.95£79.27Written by an architect with Duany Plater-Zyberk with expertise in design for an aging society, this is a guide to urban planning and urban design solutions to accommodate the needs of a population aging in place in both existing and new communities of... -
Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues, and Processes by J. Barry Cullingworth 9780415506977
£93.24This extensively revised and updated fourth edition of Planning in the USA continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of planning. Outlining land use, urban planning, and environmental protection policies, this... -
Chang'an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture by Shushan Yu 9780295992136
£61.07In this interdisciplinary narrative, the never-ending "completion" of China's most important street offers a broad view of the relationship between art and ideology in modern China. Chang'an Avenue, named after China's ancient capital (whose... -
The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design by Thaisa Way 9780295746463
RRP: £36.00£26.83Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In... -
Seaside by Steven Brooke 9781589802834
RRP: £30.99£20.85Apologies 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 -
Reflections on Seaside: Muses/Ideas/Influences by Dhiru Thadan 9780847870165
RRP: £75.00£55.20Reflections on Seaside is the most comprehensive book on the history and development of the nation s first and most influential New Urbanist town. The book chronicles the forty-year history of the evolution and development of the town of Seaside,... -
Designing Utopia: John Ruskin's Urban Vision for Britain & America by M.H. Lang 9781551641300
RRP: £13.99£11.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551641300Author M.H. LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books -
Visions of Seaside: Foundation/Evolution/Imagination. Built and Unbuilt Architecture by Dhiru A. Thadani 9780847841530
£70.52Time magazine noted that Seaside "could be the most astonishing design achievement of its era...." Visions of Seaside is the most comprehensive book on the history and development of the nation's first and most influential New Urbanist town. The book... -
Building Berlin: Developers Who Shaped the Emerging Metropolis by Wolfgang Schache 9783868595598
RRP: £41.50£38.97Viewing architecture and city planning from the perspective of developers is a significantly neglected theme in histories of art and architecture. If mentioned at all, developers often figure as adversaries of architects-their actions taken to be driven... -
City of Refugees: A Real Utopia by Peter Jay Zweig 9781943532841
RRP: £35.00£30.42Where should they go? 70 million displaced refugees and asylum seekers with no passport, no money, and no worldly goods. In 380 B.C. Plato wrote about the 'Ideal City', but it wasn't until 1516 AD that Sir Thomas More invented the word, 'Utopia',... -
Structures of Displacement by Baerbel Mueller 9783035623048
RRP: £34.50£31.29Structures of Displacement documents a joint project of the [applied] Foreign Affairs lab of the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The project involved... -
Increments of Neighborhood: A Compendium of Built Types for Walkable and Vibrant Communities by Brian O'Looney 9781940743868
RRP: £60.00£40.15ntended as a comprehensive resource, Increments of Neighborhood is a compendium of recent built work for urban neighbourhoods, encompassing the spectrum of building types financed/built by today's American real estate industry - from single family and... -
Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale: 2020 by Jonathan Barnett 9781642830439
RRP: £26.00£21.70As the US population grows, potentially adding more than 110 million people by 2050, cities and their suburbs will continue expanding, eventually meeting the suburbs of neighbouring cities and forming continuous urban megaregions. There are now at least... -
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It by Mindy Thompson Fullilove 9781613320402
£81.61Like a sequel to the prescient warnings of urbanist Jane Jacobs, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove reveals the disturbing effects of decades of insensitive urban renewal projects on communities of color. For those whose homes and neighborhoods were bulldozed,... -
Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities: Design in an Age of Urban Migration, Demographic Change, and a Disappearing Middle Class by Patrick M Condon 9781610919609
RRP: £31.00£26.33How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, we will run out of time to keep our global temperature from increasing. Since approximately 80% of... -
Parking Management for Smart Growth by Richard W. Willson 9781610914611
RRP: £37.00£31.17Written by an expert in parking management, Parking Management for Smart Growth shows how to manage on- and off-street parking supplies to achieve Smart Growth. In the last 50 years, parking management has grown from a minor aspect of local policy and... -
Measuring Urban Design: Metrics for Livable Places by Reid Ewing 9781610911948
RRP: £34.00£28.75What makes strolling down a particular street enjoyable? The authors of "Measuring Urban Design" argue it's not an idle question. Inviting streets are the centrepiece of thriving, sustainable communities, but it can be difficult to pinpoint the precise... -
Creating Mixed Communities through Housing Policies: Global Perspectives by Anna Maria Santiago 9781032625300
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book focuses on socially mixed (e.g. by income, tenure, ethnicity or any other characteristic) communities developed through housing renewal and critically examines the policies and practices in view of the growing urban inequality. The volume... -
Nature-Based Design in Landscape Architecture by Bruce Sharky 9781032550688
RRP: £32.99£29.56Nature-Based Design in Landscape Architecture showcases a range of built works designed by landscape architects from many countries of the world representing diverse environmental regions and uses. These projects demonstrate the transformative potential... -
Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad by Faiza Moatasim 9781512825206
£68.73Among urban designers and municipal officials, the term encroachment is defined as a deviation from the official master plan. But in cities today, such informal modifications to the urban fabric are deeply enmeshed with formal planning procedures. Master... -
Salvaging Buildings: Reclaiming a Livelihood from the Excesses of Istanbul's Mass Urbanization by Erdogan Onur Ceritoglu 9783837669244
RRP: £60.00£43.87For 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... -
Climate Change and U.S. Cities: Urban Systems, Sectors, and Prospects for Action by William D Solecki 9781610919784
RRP: £34.00£31.14Approximately 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... -
Old Cottages & Farm-Houses in Surrey by Curtis W Green
RRP: £15.99£15.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628451405Author Curtis W GreenFormat PaperbackImprint Windham PressPublisher Windham PressWeight(grams) 562g -
Practical Design, Construction and Operation of Food Facilities by J. Peter Clark 9780123742049
RRP: £128.00£115.43Around the world concerns about cost, efficiency, and safety - employee, product, process and consumer -- have led to changes in the way food plants are planned, constructed and evaluated. From initiation of major capital requests to legal design... -
Landscapes of Development: The Impact of Modernization Discourses on the Physical Environment of the Eastern Mediterranean by Panyiota Pyla 9780977122448
RRP: £20.95£16.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977122448Author Panyiota PylaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Harvard Graduate School of DesignPublisher Harvard Graduate School of Design -
The Superlative City: Dubai and the Urban Condition in the Early Twenty-First Century by Ahmed Kanna 9780977122431
RRP: £20.95£17.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977122431Author Ahmed KannaFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Harvard Graduate School of DesignPublisher Harvard Graduate School of Design