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Parents and Children in the Inner City by Harriett Wilson 9780415417808
$77.22This book was first published in 1978.Book InformationISBN 9780415417808Author Harriett WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 499g -
Planning and Profit in the Urban Economy by T. A. Broadbent 9780415417662
$81.06This book was first published in 1977.Book InformationISBN 9780415417662Author T. A. BroadbentFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 522g -
City, Region and Regionalism: A geographical contribution to human ecology by Robert E. Dickinson 9780415860451
RRP: $61.91$53.93This book was first published in 1947.Book InformationISBN 9780415860451Author Robert E. DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 590g -
Enabling the City: Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Encounters in Research and Practice by Josefine Fokdal 9780367277406
RRP: $174.15$151.29Enabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level, striking a balance between enthusiastic support for such... -
Change the World City by City: A Change Maker's Guide to Fast Forward Sustainability by Leen Gorissen 9789401453578
RRP: $38.64$25.00New initiatives, ideas and products change the way we relate to one another and to our environment, as well as the way we define and fulfil our needs. They create opportunities for experimenting and learning, which can help our societies transition... -
House Plans for Challenging Sites by Anna Minguet 9788417557027
RRP: $25.79$24.65House Plans for Challenging Sites features more than 350 floor plans, sections, sketches, and elevations, as well as construction details of 35 housing projects which represent a true challenge for architects, either because of their topography or the... -
Metropolis: Resources: The City in Climate Change by IBA Hamburg 9783939633914
RRP: $33.54$31.31Half of mankind lives in cities, a tendency that has been on the increase for centuries. City dwellers use the greater part of our energy and yet also produce the most pollutants, thus having far-reaching consequences for world climate. Climate change... -
Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas by Kristien Ring 9783939633501
RRP: $15.48$15.25In "Learning from Las Vegas" Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown focused on the glamour of the Las Vegas Strip, analysing the city for its postmodernist qualities while ignoring the Mojave desert immediately beyond. Exploring the city at the... -
Signs of the City: Metropolis Speaking by Stefan Horn 9783868590142
RRP: $36.12$32.71This book documents a project investigating new ways of seeing and contextualising the city. The project encompasses Barcelona, Berlin, London and Sofia. The big city is a sea of signs: we are surrounded by an exciting, pictographic labyrinth, whether in... -
Historical versus Modern: Identity through Imitation? by Barbara Engel 9783868594980
RRP: $33.54$30.53All around the world, new city districts are being realized that draw on historical typologies and form languages. In inner cities, new buildings in a historical style are increasingly replacing established existing buildings, in order to bring back... -
Planning the Impossible: Urban Development and Spatial Strategies in the Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Region by Eirini Kasioumi 9783035621518
RRP: $56.12$50.45In urban regions, airport areas are inevitable. They are key infrastructure elements that involve important commercial and spatial factors. Taking the example of Charles de Gaulle airport (CDG) in Paris, the author analyzes the planning parameters... -
LA+ Tyranny by Tatum L. Hands 9781943532063
RRP: $22.58$15.79From the first utopian impulse of Plato's Republic to today's global border controls and public space surveillance systems, there has always been a tyrannical aspect to the organisation of society and the regulation of its spaces. Tyranny takes many... -
When Urbanization Comes to Ground: CAZA + SUBRA by Carlos Arnaiz 9781940743912
$30.34When Urbanization Comes To Ground is a collaborative research project between the Brooklyn-based architecture studio, CAZA, and think tank, SURBA, an urban research collective spearheaded by Carlos Arnaiz and Peter Rowe. Drawing upon case studies... -
Swimming to Suburbia and Other Essays by Craig Hodgetts 9781940743745
RRP: $23.16$15.63Widely known for his award-winning design work, the Los Angeles-based architect Craig Hodgetts has distinguished himself as one of the key voices of his generation through trenchant commentary and visionary speculation on architecture and design. This... -
Seeking Savannah by Peter Cookson Smith 9781940743714
RRP: $27.74$18.40A disparate but exuberant group of scholars are brought together in Savannah by an eminent professor to explore and debate the history and characteristics of the city and its implications for a twenty-first century urbanism. This narrative represents a... -
Houses for Aging Socially: Developing Third Place Ecologies by University of Arkansas Community Design Center 9781939621825
RRP: $30.32$19.96By 2030, 79 million baby boomers will have turned 65 at a rate of 10,000 per day. While more than 85 per cent will age in place, a tsunami of challenges and opportunities will compel this cohort to embrace more cooperative structures of living, given... -
Conway Urban Watershed Framework Plan by University of Arkansas Community Design Center 9781939621818
RRP: $24.50$16.45More than half of America's waterbodies are unsafe for swimming, fishing, and as sources of drinking. Why? Because of unsustainable city building and poor farming practice. Beyond water quality problems, dysfunctional streams cause flooding and erosion... -
Urban Hallucinations by Julie Eizenberg 9781939621443
RRP: $22.58$15.27In Urban Hallucinations, architects Koning Eizenberg take on the idyll of local and neighbourhood through the design of recent projects in the Los Angeles region. They bring a fresh eye to placemaking and community building in an urban area that is... -
LA+ Simulation by Tatum L. Hands 9781939621405
RRP: $22.58$15.27Our epoch has been dubbed the Anthropocene Era to mark the significance of human activities as the greatest force of environmental change. The distinctions between biology/technology, organic/synthetic, and natural/artificial are increasingly impossible... -
Chandigarh Re-Think by Manu Sobti 9781939621368
RRP: $32.24$21.65CHANDIGARH RETHINK captures the rich, ongoing discourse on radically transforming urbanities within the Global South with specific reference to India's social, historical, economic and cultural repositioning. It examines urban edge figures and their... -
Instant Cities by Herbert Wright 9781906155346
RRP: $45.15$41.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906155346Author Herbert WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Black Dog Publishing LtdPublisher Black Dog PressWeight(grams) 1361gDimensions(mm)... -
Introduction To The Economics Of Water Resources: An International Perspective by Stephen Merrett 9781857286373
RRP: $76.10$65.89First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781857286373Author Stephen MerrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 363g -
Convivial Urban Spaces: Creating Effective Public Places by Henry Shaftoe 9781844073887
RRP: $174.15$151.81Despite developments in urban design during the last few decades, architects, urban planners and designers often continue to produce areas of bland, commercially led urban fabric that deliver the basic functional requirements of shelter, work and leisure... -
Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective by Paul Watt 9781838679330
RRP: $58.04$49.02This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing estates - as developed either by governments (public housing) or not-for-profit agencies - became a prominent feature of... -
Creating Cities/Building Cities: Architecture and Urban Competitiveness by Daniele Ietri 9781786431608
$122.05For the past 150 years, architecture has been a significant tool in the hands of city planners and leaders. In Creating Cities/Building Cities, Peter Karl Kresl and Daniele Ietri illustrate how these planners and leaders have utilized architecture to... -
Building Together: Case Studies in Participatory Planning and Community Building by Roger Katan 9781613320488
$109.29With case studies of neighborhood developments from North and South America, Europe, and Africa that span more than forty years. this book offers a seminal treatise on the community based design practices of participatory planning an advocacy... -
Start-Up City: Inspiring Private and Public Entrepreneurship, Getting Projects Done, and Having Fun by Gabe Klein 9781610916905
RRP: $28.37$23.93There has been a revolution in urban transportation over the past five years, set off by start-ups across the US and internationally. Sleek, legible mobility platforms are connecting people to cars, trains, buses, and bikes as never before, opening up a... -
Planning Atlanta by Harley F. Etienne 9781611901269
RRP: $49.01$43.58More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil War's devastation to the 1996 Olympic boom to the current housing crisis, the city's history is a cycle of rise and fall, ruin and resurgence. In Planning... -
After Great Disasters: An In-Depth Analysis of How Six Countries Managed Community Recovery by Laurie A Johnson 9781558443310
RRP: $38.70$35.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558443310Author Laurie A JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublisher Lincoln Institute of Land... -
Istanbul, Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity by Ipek Tureli 9781409422112
RRP: $174.15$151.29Urban theory traditionally links modernity to the city, to the historical emergence of certain forms of subjectivity and the rise of important developments in culture, arts and architecture. This is often in response to technological, economic and... -
Community Planning: Integrating social and physical environments by Phil Heywood 9781405198875
RRP: $68.31$59.86This key planning textbook on designing healthy and sustainable communities informs planners about community life and the processes of planning and equips them with the essential knowledge and skills they need to organise change and improve the quality... -
Confronting Suburbanization: Urban Decentralization in Postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe by Kiril Stanilov 9781405185486
RRP: $77.40$67.53This 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... -
Urban Regeneration and Social Sustainability: Best Practice from European Cities by Andrea Colantonio 9781405194198
RRP: $127.65$111.11Urban regeneration is a key focus for public policy throughout Europe. This book examines social sustainability and analyses its meaning and significance - an area of research which has, until now, been comparatively neglected. The authors offer a... -
Making Competitive Cities by Sako Musterd 9781405194150
RRP: $136.68$118.77The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architects, publishers, designers) and knowledge-intensive industries (ICT, R&D, finance, law)... -
Turning a Town Around: A Proactive Approach to Urban Design by Anthony Hall 9781405170239
RRP: $107.01$93.03Today's trend towards the renewal of cities, sociable places, higher standards of architecture and sustainable city centre living is the business of urban design. In Britain, effective urban design is now at the forefront of government policy. ... -
Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance by Robert Riddell 9781405102902
RRP: $56.70$50.08"Sustainable Urban Planning" introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability. This timely text reflects a growing recognition that cities, where the majority of humans... -
Le Corbusier's Chandigarh Revisited: Preservation as Future Modernism by Vikramaditya Prakash 9781032447254
RRP: $47.72$41.96- Author is known as an international authority on the subject. - Based on original archival research, the book provides a fresh perspective by situating the city in both historical and cultural context. - Will appeal to a range of disciplines, from... -
Planning for Community by Phil Heywood 9781394175710
RRP: $58.05$50.93Planning for Community A comprehensive exploration of community planning that integrates today’s social and economic issues with policy and governance considerations In Planning for Community, distinguished regional and local planner Phil Heywood... -
Naming Rights, Place Branding, and the Cultural Landscapes of Neoliberal Urbanism by Reuben Rose-Redwood 9780367756260
RRP: $51.59$45.23In recent decades, urban policymakers have increasingly embraced the selling of naming rights as a means of generating revenue to construct and maintain urban infrastructure. The contemporary practice of toponymic commodification has its roots in the... -
Spatial Implications and Planning Criteria for High-Speed Rail Cities and Regions by José Maria de Ureña 9780367673611
RRP: $51.59$45.23Spatial Implications and Planning Criteria for High-speed Rail Cities and Regions evaluates the varied experiences that HSR systems have brought about to different station-cities and their regional territories around the world, with an eye towards better...