Urban & Land Use Planning

Cycling advocates envisage a future in which bikes are a widespread daily form of transportation. While many global cities are seeing the number of bike commuters increase, this future is still far away; at times, urban cycling seems to be fighting for...

A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks. In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space...

This book uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means, how it can be implemented, and how it is manifested in or driven by urban interventions that hinge on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462088924Author Sanne Van Den BreemerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

How can collaborative methods of planning and design act as tools to develop insurgent urbanism? Juliana Soares Gomes Canedo analyses practices that arise from the protagonism of marginalized communities and the accumulative knowledge of academic and...

Global sustainability is impacted by several major issues, including climate change, resource depletion, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Climate change results in extreme weather events, while overreliance on fossil fuels and water scarcity depletes...

This book investigates multi-disciplinary approaches to addressing the health of disadvantaged communities through equitable community development systems (CDSs).The core concepts underlying the book are three dimensions of support infrastructure...

Globalization, as it is conceptualized in the early twenty-first century, is undergoing significant transformations. While we continue to live in a globalized world where markets, technologies, and cultures remain deeply interconnected, we are also...

The long-awaited collection by one of architecture's most exciting voices.Michael Sorkin is widely hailed as one of the best architecture critics writing today. Iconoclastic and often controversial, he is a witty, entertaining, yet ultimately serious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462080515Author Stefan BendiksFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Few books have influenced the field of architecture more than American Building: The Environmental Forces That Shape It. Originally published in 1947, it has emerged as a classic work on the relationships among buildings, their inhabitants, and the...

How can humanity sustain itself and thrive on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the climate crisis deepens and as right-wing populism and high levels of inequality prevent action. Planning for Sustainability presents a...

Concentrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory reflects on the first decade of the international Concentrico festival of design and architecture in the city of Logrono, Spain, and some 150 projects and designs commissioned for it. The festival's aim is to...

The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook gathers the best sustainability practices and latest research from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, development, ecology, and environmental engineering and presents them in a graphically...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807016152Author Max PodemskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

Around the world concerns about cost, efficiency, and safety - employee, product, process and consumer -- have led to changes in the way food plants are planned, constructed and evaluated. From initiation of major capital requests to legal design...

The aim of this book is to construct a framework of understanding for those coming to the field of recreational land management from a non-land management discipline. About the AuthorW. Seabrooke Professor of Land Economy, Department of Land and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039213696Author Thomas PanagopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783844319552Author Bernard Otoki MoirongoFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic...

East Asia today is a hotbed of urban expansion. Cities such as Singapore, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai are expanding at a prodigious rate, and this ongoing process of expansion and modernization is bringing rapid and widespread change to...

Migration is no longer a movement from the rural to the urban, but rather from city to city or from the city to the metropolis in our swiftly urbanising world. Urban Movements and Their Impact on Spatial Transformation uses new paradigms to explain why...

This book examines the city and its rapid growth, as well as the sustainability issues it poses, in several ways. First, there is a critical approach to development, as expressed by the concept of sustainable development. The city, as a complex system,...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836601429Author Michael BisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Diplom.dePublisher Diplom.deWeight(grams) 308g

Gentrification is extensively discussed in the media, where coverage can describe changing neighbourhoods and analyse the causes and consequences of such change. The media are also arenas in which the voices of those who advocate or resist gentrification...

With more than half of the world's population living in cities, informal settlements, or slums, continue to expand. This book explores the informality-urban design nexus, and asks why formal urban designers and planners have remained largely reluctant to...

Familiar multiples like Boots, Burton, Marks & Spencer and Woolworths - plus a host of smaller chains - forged the character of Britain's high streets in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Multiple retailing was a supremely successful phenomenon, loved by...

There is little doubt that urban planning has historically failed women. To liberate the profession from patriarchal influences, it is necessary to revisit the preconceptions that shaped early efforts to design new cities or improve existing ones. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551304Author Lars MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge" is an academic journal in, on, and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution, and transmission of architectural knowledge. It explores methods genuine to the discipline and...

This book offers a historical analysis of landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies to emphasize the international and global scale of issues concerning waste disposal and park redevelopments...

A deep exploration on how questions of time and its organisation affect planning practice, this book is aimed at public and private planning practitioners, national and local politicians and policy makers involved in planning, academics and students...

In the demonology of the contemporary city, is there anything more toxic than the expressway? Dividing neighbourhoods, depressing land values, concentrating atmospheric pollutants, the mammoth infrastructure of the expressway is now increasingly...

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Cities are typically thought of as permanent. Structures, streets, infrastructure, and other features of the built environment, even if they are periodically replaced, are intended to endure. But temporary, flexible spaces and uses are essential to how...

The book tells the story of the proliferation of gated communities and the privatisation of public life and public space in Mexico over the last three decades. Drawing on research from Lomas de Angelopolis in Puebla, one of the largest gated communities...

The last two decades have seen a marked growth in comparative research within the field of housing studies. This reflects the increasing globalisation of housing finance and therefore the interconnectedness of housing markets, growing interest among...

Cities are typically thought of as permanent. Structures, streets, infrastructure, and other features of the built environment, even if they are periodically replaced, are intended to endure. But temporary, flexible spaces and uses are essential to how...

Spatial borders as sites of meaningful adjacencies and exchange.Borders between countries, neighbourhoods, people, beliefs, and policies are proliferating and expanding despite what self-proclaimed progressive societies wish or choose to believe. For a...

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest's influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of "forest thinking" for more sustainable and...