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The School of Public Life: Doormats No. 4 by Fred Dewey 9780988937512
RRP: £9.50£9.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988937512Author Fred DeweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Errant BodiesPublisher Errant BodiesWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 112mm * 18mm -
Developing Active Adult Retirement Communities by Diane R. Suchman 9780874208474
RRP: £93.00£83.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874208474Author Diane R. SuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint Urban Land Institute,U.S.Publisher Urban Land Institute,U.S.Weight(grams) 907g -
Designing Our Way to a Better World by Thomas Fisher 9780816698875
RRP: £94.00£81.48Envisioning what we need, when it doesn't yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world-functioning schools, working infrastructure, thriving cities-why not design one? Fisher shows how the... -
The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation: Beijing, Chicago, and Paris by Yue Zhang 9780816683697
RRP: £23.99£20.84While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation. Based on... -
New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape by Peirce F. Lewis 9780813940991
£43.54By 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... -
Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City by Scott Gabriel Knowles 9780812220780
RRP: £25.99£22.49When Philadelphia's iconoclastic city planner Edmund N. Bacon looked into his crystal ball in 1959, he saw a remarkable vision: "Philadelphia as an unmatched expression of the vitality of American technology and culture." In that year Bacon... -
The Last Landscape by William H. Whyte 9780812217995
RRP: £36.00£31.98The remaining corner of an old farm, unclaimed by developers. The brook squeezed between housing plans. Abandoned railroad lines. The stand of woods along an expanded highway. These are the outposts of what was once a larger pattern of forests and farms,... -
L'Enfant's Legacy: Public Open Spaces in Washington, D.C. by Michael J. Bednar 9780801883187
RRP: £61.50£54.40Many American democratic ideals are embodied in the public spaces of its cities, especially in Washington, D.C. In L'Enfant's Legacy architect and scholar Michael Bednar explores the public spaces of the nation's capital, examining the context of the... -
Rediscovering Thomas Adams: Rural Planning and Development in Canada by Wayne J. Caldwell 9780774819237
RRP: £94.00£81.88This book is essential reading for anyone interested in planning, the planning profession, or the history of urban and rural form in Canada.Book InformationISBN 9780774819237Author Wayne J. CaldwellFormat HardbackPage Count 428Imprint University of... -
Thinking Planning and Urbanism by Beth Moore Milroy 9780774816144
RRP: £94.00£81.88When 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... -
Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945-1965 by Barbara Miller Lane 9780691167619
RRP: £45.00£36.32While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as... -
Cities That Think like Planets: Complexity, Resilience, and Innovation in Hybrid Ecosystems by Marina Alberti 9780295743677
RRP: £36.00£32.59As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen to offer useful ways of thinking about coupled human and natural systems.On the... -
The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design by Thaisa Way 9780295994482
RRP: £54.00£40.03Richard 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... -
The Wasted City: Approaches to Circular City Making by Francesca Miazzo 9789492095312
RRP: £20.00£17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095312Author Francesca MiazzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz -
Urban Challenges, Resilient Solutions: Design Thinking for the Future of Urban Regions by Sandra Van Assen 9789492095336
RRP: £28.00£20.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095336Author Sandra Van AssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm * 25mm -
White Paper on Land, Law and the Imaginary by Adelita Husni-Bey 9789492095275
RRP: £15.00£14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095275Author Adelita Husni-BeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz -
Around Amsterdam's Waterfront by Sabine Lebesque 9789078088486
RRP: £18.00£17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088486Author Sabine LebesqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 454g -
Farming the City - Food as a Tool for Today's Urbanization by Francesca Miazzo 9789078088639
RRP: £28.00£27.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789078088639Author Francesca MiazzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 170mm * 23mm -
Monograph.it: Landscape Sensitive Design: v. 2 by Pino Scaglione 9788895623214
RRP: £26.00£22.67In this issue of "monograph.it" we present five architecture, urbanism and landscape studios , Italians and foreigners working on contemporary design sensitive to context and landscape. Diller Scofidio + Renfro with James Corner, present the... -
The architect/urbanist and the town design by Ludovico Quaroni 9788894148343
RRP: £15.00£12.56The second issue in the Words of Architecture series is an unpublished conference by the Italian architect Ludovico Quaroni who shares his ideas about the Architect-Urbanist discussing that it is not possible to be an urbanist without being an architect... -
Harbourscape by Hans Kirk 9788773077900
RRP: £28.00£23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788773077900Author Hans KirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint Aalborg UniversitetsforlagPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 590g -
Performative Urban Design by Hans Kiib 9788773079829
RRP: £34.95£29.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788773079829Author Hans KiibFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Aalborg UniversitetsforlagPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 1040g -
Berlin Urban Strategy: The Genius of Improvisation by Ariella Masboungi 9783869223025
RRP: £30.00£24.17This book aims to explore Berlin's ability not to trivialise new ideas and thus remain a leader in innovation. Berlin is a city that continues to fascinate. It has a tormented history, is the capital of two reconciled Germanies, is an increasingly... -
Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing by Ilana Preuss 9781642831924
RRP: £23.99£20.11Too many U.S. cities and towns have been focused on a model of economic development that relies on recruiting one big company (such as Amazon), a single industry (usually in technology), or pursuing other narrow or short-term fixes that are inequitable... -
The Nature of Urban Design: A New York Perspective on Resilience by Alexandros Washburn 9781610916998
RRP: £40.00£33.99The global shift to an urban population comes with an uncomfortable corollary; People who live in cities as they are currently designed produce more greenhouse gasses than their non-urban counterparts, as a global average about three times more. But... -
Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters by Jaimie Hicks Masterson 9781610915854
RRP: £32.00£27.15This timely handbook brings together the fields of planning, disaster response, and hazards management to provide a field-tested process on how to make communities disaster-resilient. How can we plan and design stronger communities? Communities struck by... -
Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030 by Arthur C. Nelson 9781610910330
RRP: £33.00£27.95Nearly half the buildings that will be standing in 2030 do not exist today. That means we have a tremendous opportunity to reinvent our urban areas, making them more sustainable and livable for future generations. But for this vision to become reality,... -
Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods: Design for Environment and Community by Cynthia L. Girling 9781559633376
RRP: £45.00£37.63Includes farsighted and practical advice to create successful green neighborhoods. Cities are growing at unprecedented rates. Most continue to sprawl into the countryside. Some are only now adopting policies that attempt to control air pollution from... -
Eugenics in the Garden: Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity by Fabiola Lopez-Duran 9781477314951
RRP: £81.00£70.81Winner, Robert Motherwell Book Award, Outstanding Book on Modernism in the Arts, The Dedalus Foundation, 2019 As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that... -
The Design of Protest: Choreographing Political Demonstrations in Public Space by Tali Hatuka 9781477315767
RRP: £49.00£42.97Public protests are a vital tool for asserting grievances and creating temporary, yet tangible, communities as the world becomes more democratic and urban in the twenty-first century. While the political and social aspects of protest have been... -
The Fall and Rise of Social Housing: 100 Years on 20 Estates by Becky Tunstall 9781447351351
RRP: £79.99£61.26Drawing on a unique archive spanning the lifetime of twenty council estate projects in the UK and using hundreds of resident voices, this book reveals the secrets of council housing's failures and successes, and the reasons for them. Bringing to light... -
Nature-Based Design in Landscape Architecture by Bruce Sharky 9781032550671
RRP: £135.00£118.28Nature-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... -
Seeing Through Gulf Cities: Urbanization in and from the Arab Peninsula: 2023 by Davide Ponzini 9788832080728
RRP: £32.00£26.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788832080728Author Davide PonziniFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint ListLabPublisher ListLab -
Olmsted's Elmwood: The Rise, Decline and Renewal of Buffalo's Parkway Neighborhood, A Model for America's Cities by Clinton E. Brown 9781942483373
RRP: £34.95£17.54The fascinating story of the historic Elmwood District is told for the first time, from the arrival on the Niagara Frontier of Joseph Ellicott, through the role played by Fredrick Law Olmsted’s parks and parkways, and into the decline and renewal during... -
Areas at Risk - Concept and Methods for Urban Flood Risk Assessment: A Case Study of Santiago de Chile by Annemarie Muller 9783515100922
RRP: £70.00£67.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515100922Author Annemarie MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden... -
Ground Level-Scape: Mass-housing adaptive design strategies in Italy. Ideas for Tor Bella Monaca: 2023 by Michele Morganti 9788832080988
RRP: £29.00£23.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788832080988Author Michele MorgantiFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint ListLabPublisher ListLab -
Imparting City: Methods and Tools for Collaborative Planning by Tanja Siems 9783035624120
RRP: £41.50£33.62Collective 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... -
Extended Urbanisation: Tracing Planetary Struggles by Christian Schmid 9783035622973
RRP: £41.50£33.37Extended methods of analysis for urbanisation processes illustrated in eight world regions. Urbanisation processes are unfolding far beyond the realm of agglomerations, profoundly transforming agrarian areas, rain forests, deserts and oceans... -
Crossing Paths Crossing Perspectives: Urban Studies in British Columbia and Quebec by Meg Holden 9782766300822
RRP: £34.00£29.89This collection of urban studies research and interpretation crosses the country from Quebec to B.C., comparing trends and perspectives over the past decade and across and beyond disciplines. Core questions of research, policy and practice facing... -
Design for London: Experiments in Urban Thinking by Peter Bishop 9781787358966
RRP: £45.00£39.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787358966Author Peter BishopFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 720g