Urban & Land Use Planning

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899558715Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

'A great storyteller . . . you would be hard pushed to find a more knowledgeable or entertaining [guide]' Icon'Such an interesting book . . . I cannot recommend it enough.' Lauren LaverneIn Dubai, a luxury apartment block is built in the shape of a giant...

With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are...

In this volume the authors tell the real stories of the planners, politicians, and everyday people who shaped contemporary Chicago, starting in 1958, early in the Richard J. Daley era. Over the ensuing decades, planning did much to develop the Loop,...

Home to more city dwellers than any other region, and the locus of many of the world's most populous metropolitan areas, Asia is moving to centre stage in popular and academic debates about planetary urban futures. Among diverse urban Asias are...

In this provocative book, journalist Peter Hetherington argues that Britain, particularly England, needs an active land policy to protect against record land price increases that threaten food security and housing provision for Britain's expanding...

The urban waterfront is widely regarded as a frontier of contemporary urban development, attracting both investment and publicity.City, Capital and Water provides a detailed account of the redevelopment of urban waterfronts in nine cities around the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787358850Author Peter BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 360g

Adapting Building for Changing Uses discusses the comprehensive refurbishment of buildings to enable them to be used for purposes different to those originally intended.For those involved in the often risky business of conversion of buildings from one...

The city of Homs, like so many places in Syria, has suffered mass destruction since the war began in 2011. So far, the architectural response to the crisis has focused on 'cultural heritage', ancient architecture, and the external displacement of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907869822Author Adrian JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

A groundbreaking work of scholarship that sheds critical new light on the urban renewal of Paris under Napoleon IIIIn the mid-nineteenth century, Napoleon III and his prefect, Georges-Eugene Haussmann, adapted Paris to the requirements of industrial...

This anthology radically resituates architecture as a support system in the service of infrastructure. A collection of 12 critical essays and creative projects explore the interaction between architectural spaces and infrastructural systems with the aim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Sidney Hillman Prize 1961.Book InformationISBN 9780679741954Author Jane JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

This book is the inspirational story of one project that shows you how you can become involved in building and running your neighbourhood. The author, co-founder of Lilac (Low Impact Living Affordable Community), along with other members of the community...

This book provides a conceptual, historical and contemporary context to the relationships between gender, religion and cities. It draws together these three components to provide an innovative view of how religion and gender interact and affect urban...

Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures.About the AuthorBishwapriya Sanyal is Ford International...

"This excellent book fills a significant gap in the literature supporting planning education by providing clear, succinct advice on the design and implementation of small-scale student research projects." - Chris Couch, Professor of Geography and...

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance - for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of economic...

Waterfront regeneration and development represents a unique opportunity to spatially and visually alter cities worldwide. However, its multi-faceted nature entails city-building with all its complexity including the full range of organizations involved...

4D Hyperlocal: A Cultural Tool Kit for the Open-source City The evolution of digital tools is revolutionising urban design, planning and community engagement. This is enabling a new 'hyperlocal' mode of design made possible by geolocation technologies...

Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology is the definitive reference on the Rural-to-Urban Transect, a compilation of the most important essays, diagrams, and images on the subject. It provides historical, practical, and theoretical insights ...

Building Cities to LAST presents the myriad issues of sustainable urbanism in a clear and concise system, and supports holistic thinking about sustainable development in urban environments by providing four broad measures of urban sustainability that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 1995, category of Archeology and Anthropology, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787358959Author Peter BishopFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 550g

Until the 1980s, Vancouver was a typical mid-sized North American city. But between Expo 86 and the Olympic Games in 2010, something extraordinary happened. This otherwise unremarkable city underwent a radical transformation that saw it emerge as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934510261Author Gareth DohertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Harvard Graduate School of DesignPublisher Harvard Graduate School of Design

Over the last century, psychoanalysis has transformed the ways in which we think about our relationships with others. Psychoanalytic concepts and methods, such as the unconscious and dream analysis, have greatly impacted on social, cultural and political...

Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions for the changes required as we move into the next millenium. Leading experts outline the changing context for land use...

Typology, volume 2 of the new series 'Christ & Gantenbein Review', presents more than 150 buildings located in Rome, New York, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires that have been analysed by the chair of Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein at the Swiss Federal...

How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462088092Author Helge MooshammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

Presenting the complexities of doing planning work, with all its attendant moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses how places are made through stories of four diverse public and private sector working environments. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791161617312Author Young Joon KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Seoul Metropolitan GovernmentPublisher Seoul Metropolitan Government

A fresh and innovative perspective on urban issues and creating sustainable cities In The 15-Minute City: A Solution for Saving Our Time and Our Planet, human city pioneer and international scientific advisor Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948765169Author Neeraj BhatiaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar PublishersWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788494752322Author Katja AssmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Dpr-BarcelonaPublisher Dpr-Barcelona

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" –...

Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and confined to residential institutions. Deinstitutionalization – the closure of these sites and integration of...

The 4-mile-long, 550-acre Hudson River Park is nearing completion and is the largest park built in Manhattan since Central Park opened more than 150 years ago. It has transformed a derelict waterfront, protected the Hudson River estuary, preserved...