Urban & Land Use Planning

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959050173Author Regina BittnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944669694Author Roberto GigliottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 162mm...

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...

Asian Alleyways: An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization critically explores "Global Asia" and the metropolization process, specifically from its alleyways, which are understood as ordinary neighbourhood landscapes providing the setting for...

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 9789462082304Author Paul GroenendijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789889865375Author Peter Cookson SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MCCM LtdPublisher MCCM LtdWeight(grams) 595g

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?...

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 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037786147Author Hiromi HosoyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Lars Muller PublishersPublisher Birkhauser Verlag AG

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...

The Plazas of New Mexico documents the rich heritage of New Mexico's plazas and the everyday life and community celebrations that help sustain them. It traces three distinct design traditions -- the Native American center place with kiva and terraced...

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...

A growing part of the public is concerned about cities being designed and governed in a responsible way. In the contemporary information society, however, the democratic obligation of the citizens to inform themselves thoroughly, so that they can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942483380Author Clinton E. BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Buffalo Heritage PressPublisher Buffalo Heritage Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462086319Author Menno Van Der VeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

Does wellness make business sense as a development objective? How have developers pursued this objective? What has the market response been? And how have developers measured their success? Building for Wellness: the Business Case highlights 13 projects...

The Case for Open Space explores the benefits of private sector involvement in creating, maintaining, operating, and programming parks and open space—ranging from enhanced returns on investment for developers that include open space in their projects to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558443525Author Diego Alfonso ErbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublisher Lincoln Institute of Land...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789462086159Author Peter MoertenboeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi...

Public and private, traffic and open space, planned and spontaneous - our idea of a city is characterised by opposites. However, the contributors to this bilingual book show that these poles can also be consciously connected. The urban building blocks...

This book traces the emergence of the South Indian city of Kanchi as a major royal capital and multireligious pilgrimage destination during the era of the Pallava and Chola dynasties (circa seventh through thirteenth centuries). It presents the...

City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world-from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms-yet most seem to have a poor understanding of the materiality of the world in which they're...

The rapid changes currently taking place in our urban, political and institutional environments have shifted spatial practice to centre stage both in civic life and academic research. Social networking, political projects, cross-border movements,...

This volume investigates one of the most significant shifts in contemporary urban research: the shift from an object- to an action-related perspective on the city. Outlining a critical urban theory from an improvisational perspective, the book shows why...

In Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday life as residences, exhibition spaces, shops, offices, and as leisure space. As nodes of public dialogue, they serve as platforms for...

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781857281798Author Ray HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 363g

Design interventions for the reuse of existing structures must face the question of the past and the extent to which it should be included in the design for the future. This is the point of departure of Int AR, a yearly publication on current issues in...

Tens of millions of Americans are at risk from sea level rise, increased tidal flooding, and intensifying storms. The design and policy decisions that have shaped coastal areas are in desperate need of updates to help communities better adapt to a...

This book examines the different roles of architects in rural post-disaster housing and their impact on the degree of success of the projects from villagers' perspective. It is based around the building process of three case studies affected by the...

In summer 2012, Architects Group Krokodil, a group of Zurich-based architects from various firms with a special interest in urban planning, published the book Glatt! Manifest fur eine Stadt im Werden. This manifesto for a bold vision of future urban...

As the tide of globalization grows in sway and influence, are the built environments of the world's cities at risk of homogenization? Here, leading scholars evaluate the challenges of architecture and urban planning in Muslim societies, investigating the...