Urban & Land Use Planning

If your doorstep were a trailhead, how would you experience your city? With this newfound freedom, you might head in a new direction, walk to a restaurant in an area you’ve never explored, begin to savour your daily walk to work, or set out with a...

The headlines about cities celebrate their resurgence, with empty nesters and Millennials alike investing in our urban areas, moving away from car dependence, and demanding walkable, transit-oriented neighbourhoods. But, in reality, these changes are...

For five thousand years, human settlements were nearly always compact places. Everything a person needed on a regular basis lay within walking distance, But then the great project of the twentieth century, sorting people, businesses, and activities into...

Suburbs deserve a better, more resilient future. June Williamson shows that suburbs aren't destined to remain filled with strip malls and excess parking lots; they can be reinvigorated through inventive design. Drawing on award-winning design ideas for...

The September 11 terrorist attacks targeted, in Osama bin Laden's words, "America's icons of military and economic power." In "The Architecture of Aftermath", Terry Smith argues that it was no accident that these targets were buildings: architecture has...

Dissatisfied with the world we live in, we have been longing since time immemorial for two opposing topoi: the peaceful garden -- a carefree paradise -- the New City -- a harmonious community. Utopia has long been sought after by urban architects since...

Structures of Coastal Resilience presents new strategies for creative and collaborative approaches to coastal planning for climate change. In the face of sea level rise and an increased risk of flooding from storm surge, we must become less dependent on...

English edition with Greek abstracts / Englische Ausgabe mit griechischen Abstracts Taking Action brings into focus the sustainable design of urban transformation and the preparation of densely-structured urban spaces for future challenges. How can...

The Cleveland area is rightly famed for its Emerald Necklace, an almost continuous corridor of parklands, largely assembled during the first half of the twentieth century, that encircles the central city. Less appreciated is the recent revitalization of...

Media are incorporated into our physical environments more dramatically than ever before - literally opening up new spaces of interactivity and connection that transform the experience of being in the city. Public gatherings and movement, even the...

In the United States, people of color are disproportionally more likely to live in environments with poor air quality, in close proximity to toxic waste, and in locations more vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events. In many vulnerable...

The suburban dream of a single-family house with a white picket fence no longer describes how most North Americans want to live. The dynamics that powered sprawl have all but disappeared. Instead, new forces are transforming real estate markets,...

Green infrastructure is becoming a priority for cities, counties, and states across the world. Recognition of the need to manage natural assets, trees, soils, water, and habitats, as part of our green infrastructure is vital to creating livable places...

There exists a category of America n cities in which the line between suburban and urban is almost impossible to locate. These suburban cities arose in the last half of twentieth-century America, based largely on the success of the single-family home,...

The intersection between geography and law is a critical yet often overlooked element of land-use decisions, with a widespread impact on how societies use the land, water, and biodiversity around them. Land Use and Society, Third Edition is a clear and...

We all have a natural nesting instinct - we know what makes a good place. And a consensus has developed among urban planners and designers about the essential components of healthy, prosperous communities. So why aren't these ideals being put into...

Design professors detail a new ecodesign framework that integrates urban design with environmental conservation to make cities more desirable, low-carbon, transit-oriented communities. Jonathan Barnett and Larry Beasley seek to demonstrate that a...

The 2007 bridge collapse in Minneapolis-St. Paul quickly became symbolic of the debilitated interstate highway system, and of what many critics see as America's disinvestment in its infrastructure. The extreme vulnerability of single-purpose, ageing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493246140Author David DoogheFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ValizPublisher ValizWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462087422Author Carola HeinFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572336315Author Anna AndrzejewskiFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789056626167Author Slavoj ZizekFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

In the American city, property rights involve not one but numerous stakeholders, some connected to the parcel by title and others through less formal arrangements, whether political, economic, or cultural. Negotiations between these stakeholders over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462084803Author N Hanakata, K ChristiaanseFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

MGM Resorts International's CityCenter is the largest privately financed building project in the United States to date; its development brought together star architects and major interior design firms and landscape architects. The design and concurrent...

How are changing conditions in society likely to affect Germany's built environment? What are the catalysts for transformation in its cities and regions? Speculations Transformations is devoted to the social and spatial transformations that Germany will...

Urban highways are unique windows from which to grasp a city s identity. They can however be responsible for the fragmentation of cities and the degradation of their adjacent living environments. As many urban highways are aging, concerns about their...

Book & CD. When visitors to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., walk through the Skylab of 1967-73 they experience the vehicles interior space but learn nothing about the industrial design of the spacecraft nor the designers who...

This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813947495Author Gabriel A. ArboledaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams)...

Following on from the 2017 House 1 project, a public architectural intervention in Zurich, ALICE's teaching programme and the All About Space series enter the realm of urban and suburban space. The series' latest volume Beyond the Object: The Imagination...

What does it mean to be a resilient city in the age of a changing climate and growing inequity? As urban populations grow, how do we create efficient transportation systems, access to healthy green space, and lower-carbon buildings for all citizens?...

Internationally acclaimed architect, Avi Friedman recounts the genesis and development of his innovative project, the Grow Home. Like the auto industry's approach to the economy car, Friedman's Grow Home gives people what they need in a house at an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874203578Author Urban Land InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Urban Land Institute,U.S.Publisher Urban Land Institute,U.S.Weight(grams) 384g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816528950Author Tim SullivanFormat PaperbackImprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390252633Author Sadan JhaFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury Academic IndiaWeight(grams) 135g

The City Makers of Nairobi re-examines the history of the urban development of Nairobi in the colonial period. Although Nairobi was a colonial construct with lasting negative repercussions, the African population’s impact on its history and development...

This thought-provoking book exhorts planners to establish community development programs that achieve greater social and economic equity. Some of the 13 chapters urge planners to incorporate community equity concerns into traditional planning areas such...

This book presents the meticulous case studies of three individual houses from different eras, which serve to depict the social, political, and cultural effects that domestic architecture and interior design had on the upper class, the city of Boston,...

In America's car-dominated landscape, public transit has long played second fiddle, but rising gasoline prices and the global warming crisis point to a need for alternative means of transportation. Darrin Nordahl sets the stage for these efforts by...