Urban & Land Use Planning

The 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,...

Many 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...

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 9780774819237Author Wayne J. CaldwellFormat HardbackPage 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...

Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City offers a unique and thorough analysis of three major cities and their individual paths toward sustainable development. Dr. Steven A. Moore investigates the exemplary cities of Austin, Texas, Curitiba, Brazil,...

While 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...

As 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...

Richard 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095312Author Francesca MiazzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095275Author Adelita Husni-BeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

In 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 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788496954410Author Freddy MassadFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ActarD IncPublisher ActarD IncWeight(grams) 1230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492861477Author Josep Antoni AcebilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ActarD IncPublisher ActarD Inc

Berlin is a city that continues to fascinate. It has a tormented history, is the capital of two reconciled Germanies, is an increasingly popular tourist destination, and has affordable living and workspaces for young people, artists, and other creative...

Too 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 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...

This 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...

Nearly 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,...

Includes 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...

Winner, 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...

Public 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...

Drawing 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 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788832080728Author Davide PonziniFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint ListLabPublisher ListLab

The 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...

Apologies 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788832080988Author Michele MorgantiFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint ListLabPublisher ListLab

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...

Extended 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...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788487881510Author AMBFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Area Metropolitana de BarcelonaPublisher Area Metropolitana de Barcelona

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262515009Author Randolph T. Hester Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1633gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Certain cities-most famously New York, London, and Tokyo-have been identified as "global cities," whose function in the world economy transcends national borders. Without the same fanfare, formerly peripheral and secondary cities have been growing in...