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An introduction to the
principles of urban
design theory and
practice. It enables the
students and lecturers to
practically apply
principles of urban
design to their projects.
It focuses on sustainable
design and practice. It
is suitable for those on
urban design courses and
for professionals who
want to update and
refresh their knowledge.
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First published at the
end of 2004, this book
effectively anticipated
current concerns about
climate change. It most
significantly outlined
the central role of
cities in contributing to
energy consumption, as
well as their future
vulnerability,
particularly with the
onset of the current rate
of sea-level rises.
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A directory that compares
more than 60 graduate and
undergraduate programs in
the United States and
abroad according to their
degrees and
specialisations offered,
program descriptions,
cost and financial aid
available, credit hours
required, number of
students, job placement
assistance, faculty
specialties and
backgrounds.
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Many of today's
communities face an
unprecedented struggle to
adapt and maintain their
environmental, economic,
and social well-being in
an era beleaguered by
fiscal constraints,
uncertainty about energy
prices and supplies,
rapid demographic shifts,
and accelerated climate
impacts.
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Identifies key theorists,
practitioners, places
and philosophies and
provides a solid
theoretical context which
introduces the concept of
urban fractals. This
title presents a series
of design and planning
tools for achieving
Sustainable Human
Ecological Development
(SHED).
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Offers a comprehensive
introduction to the
policies, theory and
practice of planning in
the USA. Discussing land
use, urban planning and
environmental protection
policies, this book
explains the nature of
the planning process and
the way in which policy
issues are identified,
defined and approached.
It features many case
studies and
illustrations.
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A how-to-guide for
developing resorts - such
as hotels, timeshares,
and second-home,
retirement, and planned
communities. It provides
a look at the challenges
faced and lessons learned
by actual practitioners
in the industry. It
includes photos and site
plans.
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Reveals how to develop an
environmentally
sustainable office
building in a
cost-effective way. This
book explains the nuts
and bolts of site
planning, design,
sustainable construction,
facilities management,
financing and leasing,
and government policies
and trends.
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China is undergoing a
process of unprecedented
urbanisation, with
cities often being built
from scratch in just
three to five years. It
is projected that 400 new
cities will be built over
the next 20 years with
newly urbanised
populations of over 240
million.
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Presenting examples of
projects that meet the
requirements of 'smart
growth', this book
offers step-by-step
instructions and explains
the strategies that have
worked in other cities.
It features case studies
that include projects
involving infill
redevelopment,
brownfields,
conservation design,
town centres, and
transit neighbourhoods.
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Cities have a huge impact
on the local climate and
require vast quantities
of energy to keep them
functioning. The urban
environment has a big
impact on the performance
and needs of buildings.
The size and mechanism of
these interactions is
poorly understood and
strategies to mitigate
them are rarely
implemented. This book
addresses these issues.
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The Smartcity is an
innovative response to
problems resulting from
the expansion of cities.
Addressing a possible
resurgence in the
symbiotic relationship of
humans with the city,
this title guides the
reader in how Smartcity
practices could be used
in contemporary society.
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Bridging the gap between
climatology research and
applied urban design,
this title provides
architects and urban
design professionals with
an understanding of how
the structure of the
built environment at
various scales affects
microclimatic conditions
in the space between
buildings.
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How do cities transform
over time? And why do
some cities change for
the better while others
deteriorate? This book
articulates ways of
viewing urban areas and
how they develop over
time. It is organized
around seven
'activities': comparing,
observing, transforming,
measuring, defining,
modeling, and
interpreting.
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Describes how the
retailisation of public
domains affects our
everyday life and our use
of the built environment.
Taking an architectural
and territorial
perspective on this
issue, this title looks
specifically at how
retail and consumption
spaces have changed and
territorialised urban
life in different ways.
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Demonstrates that
successful urban public
spaces are an essential
part of a sustainable
built environment. Taking
a multidisciplinary
approach, this book
draws on research, and
the literature and theory
of environmental
psychology and urban
design, to advance our
understanding of what
makes effective public
spaces.
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Examines trends in
transportation and road
networks in the United
States and abroad. This
resource details how to
finance their
construction and
maintenance with both
public and private funds,
the effect of these
investments on the
environment, and ways
countries across the
globe have built these
systems.
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The special issue gathers
a range of creative and
provocative contributions
to examine the urban
impact of trauma. These
contributions go beyond
architecture's agency as
a reflex action in
disaster response to
probe the wider
disciplinary and
practical questions of
design in the aftermath.
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Urban design as a form of
place making has become a
significant area of
academic endeavour, of
public policy, and
professional practice.
Suitable for students and
practitioners of urban
design, this collection
of essays introduces the
6 dimensions of urban
design, including
crucial definitions and
various understandings of
the subject.
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The retail environment
has evolved rapidly in
the past few decades,
with the retailing
industry and its
placement and design of
"brick-and-mortar"
locations changing with
evolving demographics,
shopping behavior,
transportation options
and a desire in recent
years for more unique
shopping environments.
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Through Paris, New York
City, Toronto, North
Vancouver, and
Singapore, this title
presents an examination
that depicts how the
architectural evolutions
of major cities have
changed the lives of
their ordinary citizens -
in both positive and
negative ways.
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Drawing from the author's
experience as mayor,
this title describes the
plight of first-tier
suburbs and reveals how
they have been left
behind as the spotlight
has focused on downtown
revitalisation and growth
in outlying areas. It
helps you learn how these
areas are turning around
and becoming vibrant
attractive areas to live,
work, and play.
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Examines through multiple
lenses eight topics
related to the
contemporary urban
domain. This title seeks
to demystify the
structure and historical
development of the
contemporary city. It is
suitable for those
examining the city from
either the professional
design or cultural
studies standpoint.
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Suitable for architects,
planners, urban
designers, and
developers, this
comprehensive guidebook
illustrates how suburbs
can be redesigned and
redeveloped. It shows how
development in suburbs
can absorb growth and
evolve in relation to
changed demographic,
technological, and
economic conditions.
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Addresses the design
needs of older people in
the outdoor environment.
This book provides the
six design principles for
streets for life and
their many individual
components. It features
illustrations and maps.
It is intended for
professionals and
researchers from a number
of disciplines including
urban designers,
planners and
gerontologists.
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Drawing from the author's
experience as mayor,
this title describes the
plight of first-tier
suburbs and reveals how
they have been left
behind as the spotlight
has focused on downtown
revitalisation and growth
in outlying areas. It
helps you learn how these
areas are turning around
and becoming vibrant
attractive areas to live,
work, and play.
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Architects and designers
face unprecedented
challenges from today's
environmental and
ecological problems. This
book takes a positive
perspective by featuring
fully realized design
solutions from some of
the world's most
innovative architects and
engineers.
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Talks about re-building
cities and towns based on
ecological principles for
the long term
sustainability, cultural
vitality and health of
the Earth's biosphere.
This book describes the
place of the city in
evolution, nature and
history. It focuses on
the question of
accessibility and
transportation, and
outlines design
principles for the
ecocity.
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Presents a starting point
for debate upon what
steps can be taken to
reduce hazards from
water, while
additionally using
planning and risk
analysis to identify
possible methods for
increasing the resilience
of the city against water
shortages or surpluses.
This book draws together
information on
population, water
studies and spatial
planning.
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Asmara, the capital of
the small East African
country of Eritrea, has
one of the highest
concentrations of
Modernist architecture
anywhere in the world.
This building-by-building
survey chronicles the
colonial past and
survival of a city that
has evocatively been
described as "the Miami
of Africa".
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This book provides clear
direction for urban
designers, urban
planners, and architects
to design cities and
developments that are
sustainable and reduce
environmental harms. The
text includes background
on sustainability,
standards for sustainable
urbanism, and case
studies of exemplars of
sustainable urban
design..
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Features 26 planned
communities. Following an
introduction that
describes how planned
communities have evolved,
this book reveals an
inside look at the
concept, the plan
elements, the design,
and how the master plan
reflects the vision for
traditional and various
urbanist communities.
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Applies advanced thinking
from child development
and child psychology to
find fresh design
solutions, challenging
the established notions
of play provision.
Covering key
sociological, public
policy, environmental
and design issues, this
book provides designers
with an exploration of
and guide to, designing
from a 'child's eye' view
of the world.
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This work compares
hundreds of streets
around the world to
determine the design and
other elements that make
some of them "great". It
contains plans,
cross-sections, maps of
individual streets and a
set of one-square-mile
maps of the street plans
of 50 cities around the
world.
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Covers a range of issues
that should be considered
by those engaging in the
planning and design of a
new residential scheme.
This book includes
analysis of commercial
viability, the
importance of place
making, environmental
sustainability and
designing accessibility.
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Contains the information
needed to accurately
estimate parking
requirements for a
mixed-use centre.
Suitable for government
planners, developers,
and architects, this
book helps to determine
how many parking spaces
are needed for a new
development based on the
types of tenants it
attracts.
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A guide that features a
collection of period
photos of Brussels. It
also features photos of
Brussels's loveliest
interiors, including
works by renowned Art
Nouveau architect Victor
Horta, the minimal home
designed by Vincent van
Duysen, the classic
antique-filled apartment
by Axel Vervoordt, and
the work of various
interior designers.
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Explores a wide range of
Michael Van Valkenburgh
Associates (MVVA)
projects, focusing on
the firm's trend toward
sites requiring complex
technological solutions.
This title also explores
the process through which
the firm researches such
issues and how solutions
are embedded in the final
aesthetics and spatial
structure of the sites.
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How can we put the
pulsing heart of
conviviality back into
our cities? How can we
make sure of creating
cities of diversity for
the new millennium -
places of cultural vigour
and physical beauty that
are also sustainable in
economic and
environmental terms? This
Schumacher Briefing shows
the way forward.
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Looks at how social
reformers, planners and
architects in the early
twentieth century tried
to remake the European
city in the image of a
sunlit, ordered utopia.
This title focuses on the
planning of the spaces -
the parks, public
squares, open-air
museums, promenades,
public pools and other
public leisure
facilities.
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Suitable for students of
urban and regional
planning, this text
gives an historical
overview of the
developments and changes
in the theory and
practice of planning,
throughout the 20th
century. It looks at the
insights of the great
figures who influenced
the early planning
movement, leading up to
the creation of the
post-war planning
machine.
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The garden suburb has its
origins in London, and,
contrary to wide-spread
belief, its earliest
phase took place not at
the beginning of the
twentieth century, with
the much discussed
garden-city movement,
but one century earlier.
This book provides an
account of the Eyre
Estate.
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Presents a holistic
approach to the aesthetic
renewal of our cities and
towns. This title
stresses that visual
quality control is
especially important in
the case of new
construction, where
aesthetic planning must
be based on a clear
description of the city
structure.
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Providing an accessible
presentation of the
research in sustainable
urban planning and
design, this book
illustrates the
sustainable plans and
schemes to show how they
stand up against the
latest research; and,
offers architects, urban
designers and planners a
view of how urban forms
can become more
sustainable in the
future.
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Talking about British
planning, this book
provides an explanation
of planning processes
including, the
institutions involved,
tools, systems,
policies and changes to
land use. It incorporates
the changes to planning
introduced by the 2004
Planning and Compulsory
Purchase Act, and the
government's mission to
change the culture of
planning.
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Addressing one of the
trends in real estate -
the development of town
centres and urban
villages with mixed uses
in pedestrian-friendly
settings - this book
helps navigate through
the design and
development issues and
reveal how to make
various elements work
together.
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By the end of the 21st
Century it is thought
that three-quarters of
the world's population
will be urban. This book
addresses that making
these cities healthy,
vibrant and sustainable
is an exceptional
challenge. It sets out
some of the basic
principles of the design
of our cities and,
illustrates how these
ideas can be put into
practice.
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Aims to present and cast
light on the essential
features of the city as a
Gesamtkunstwerk and to
identify important
criteria for future
urban-development
decisions. This book
provides readers
interested in urban
development with a set of
facts and strategies. It
follows the narrative
approach taken by
Anglo-Saxon historians.
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Talks about the practical
design of communities and
housing in which people
can enjoy a good quality
of life, free from crime
and fear of crime. This
book shows how, through
integrating simple crime
prevention principles in
the design process, it
is possible, almost
without notice, to make
residential environments
much safer.
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The 'green building
revolution' is a
worldwide movement for
energy-efficient,
environmentally aware
architecture and design.
Europe has been in the
forefront of green
building technology. This
title provides an
overview of these ideas
and applications. It is
suitable for those
interested in the
developments in this
field.
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Comprehensive data tables
slice and dice
information on income and
expenses for all types,
sizes, and ages of
shopping centres and
their tenants. This book
helps government
officials in
understanding potential
tax benefits and also
helps developers,
owners, and investors
that seek benchmarks.
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Suitable for urban
designers, architects,
and students, this book
presents contemporary
urban design paradigms
and principles,
processes, and design
tools for various project
types and scales, such
as downtowns,
neighborhoods, Main
Street revitalization,
waterfronts, and college
campuses.
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An explanation of how and
why cities took the shape
they did. It focuses on a
number of themes -
organic patterns, the
grid, the city as
diagram, the grand
manner and the skyline -
and interprets the hidden
order of urban patterns.
Photographs depict a
global mosaic of
citybuilding.
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Analyses English planning
tradition before 1800.
This title surveys
English planning theory
or, by the author's
description, the theory
of the picturesque. It
presents a meditation on
how this tradition and
this theory shaped
architecture and urban
planning in England in
the 19th century and,
potentially, the 20th as
well.
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Modern-day London abounds
with a multitude of
gardens, enclosed by
railings and surrounded
by houses, which attest
to the English love of
nature. This title delves
into the history,
evolution, and social
implications of squares,
which have been an
important element in the
planning and expansion of
London since the early
17th century.
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A reference on urban
planning and design. This
book contains more than
1, 400 informative
illustrations and
includes rules of thumb
for designing and
evaluating any land-use
scheme - from street
plantings to new
subdivisions. It provides
specification and
information for various
types of plans,
environmental factors and
hazards, and more.
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A guide to producing
graphics for urban design
projects and planning. It
demonstrates how urban
regeneration has inspired
a growth and mixture of
graphic techniques for
communicating a projects
vision. It also includes
methods for producing
hand-rendered or
computer-generated
visuals and details the
planning process.
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Revealing how to gain a
competitive edge by
identifying fresh market
niches and designing and
developing housing for
them, this book explains
how changing
demographics,
lifestyles, and
preferences are turning
the old predictable
housing models upside
down, and what it takes
to attract these market
segments.
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Shaped by encrusted
layers of development
spanning millennia, the
southern Italian city of
Matera is the ultimate
palimpsest. Known as the
Sassi, the majority of
the ancient city is
composed of thousands of
structures carved into a
limestone cliff and
clinging to its walls.
This book analyses the
contemporary effects of
preservation on the city.
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Plymouth is the foremost
English example of
post-war reconstruction
on the grand scale, laid
out to the designs of the
most influential urban
planner of the day, Sir
Patrick Abercrombie. This
book explains the
circumstances which led
to the development of
Abercrombie's Plan for
Plymouth (1943) and shows
how the Plan was
implemented in 1945-62.
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Explores ways of
involving people in the
design of their
environments. This work
considers the theoretical
and conceptual frameworks
within which architecture
and urbanism have sought
to challenge entrenched
boundaries of control,
focusing on the
architectural history
since the post-war
period.
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Public space is a
frequent theme in writing
about cities. This book
explores the concept of
'loose spaces', physical
areas that are used in
different ways. After
introducing the concept
of 'looseness', it also
explores the idea in four
sections: appropriation,
tension, resistance and
discovery.
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Exploring the ins and
outs of purchasing,
leasing, and renting
property in Japan, this
book details Japan's real
estate industry and
foreign investment,
appraisal, zoning
ordinances and
restrictions, leasing,
negotiating for
acquisition of property,
recording property
rights, taxes,
financing, and investing
in commercial properties.
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In 1961, Jane Jacobs'
book "The Death and Life
of Great American
Cities", revolutionized
the fields of city
planning and city
architecture. Jacobs
perceived that the new
structures being built to
replace the aging housing
of older cities were
often far worse. This
book reveals the story of
how Jacobs changed the
way the world thought
forever.
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Offers a
behind-the-scenes look
into The Woodlands, an
innovative town that was
built from the ground up
near Houston, Texas.
This title presents the
story of the people who
were instrumental in
developing it and the
experiences and
challenges they had in
creating a better
hometown.
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Live-Work Planning and
Design is the only
comprehensive guide to
the design and planning
of live-work spaces for
architects, designers,
and urban planners.
Readers will learn from
built examples of
live-work, both new
construction and
renovation, in a variety
of locations.
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Demonstrates how urban
design and planning
impact on public health
and sustainable
development. This work
helps you explore the
concept of what makes a
physically and
psychologically 'healthy'
environment in the
context of the paramount
need for new homes where
living standards are not
compromised, in
increasingly crowded
cities.
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Containing colour
photographs and
illustrations, this
handbook covers the some
of the best practices,
techniques, and trends.
It explains the
development process
step-by-step and includes
14 case study examples of
construction, adaptive
use, airport-related
development, and mixed
office and industrial
facilities.
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Confronts and questions
architecture's and
academia's inability to
confidently and
comprehensively describe,
conceptualise, theorise
and ultimately project
fresh ideas for the
profession in relation to
the city. This title
provides a potent
alternative for
projective cities:
Typological Urbanism.
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Showcases 21 development
projects in the Americas,
Europe, the Middle
East, and Asia Pacific.
This examination
highlights a range of
project types and sizes,
from housing and
commercial to mixed-use
development and
communities, both
for-profit and
non-profit.
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Transition is a condition
that creates
opportunities for
architecture and
urbanism. This book reads
the city as an open work,
dynamic but coherent,
in which architecture
plays an active role in
the formation of both
urban practices and the
city itself.
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In 2050, over three
quarters of the world's
population will live in
cities. This follow-up to
Phaidon's successful The
Endless City is a close
look at the issues that
affect cities, and thus
human life across the
globe in the twenty-first
century. Based on a
series of conferences
held by the London School
of Economics.
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The 'green building
revolution' is a
worldwide movement for
energy-efficient,
environmentally aware
architecture and design.
Europe has been in the
forefront of green
building technology. This
title provides an
overview of these ideas
and applications. It is
suitable for those
interested in the
developments in this
field.
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* Authored by Daniel and
Karen Parolek, who are
recognized as leaders in
New Urbanism and as
founding members of the
board of directors of the
Form-Based Codes
Institute. * Includes
about 200 drawings
illustrating form-based
codes, making the
concept easy to
understand for all
audiences.
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Compact living is
sustainable living.
High-density cities can
support closer amenities,
encourage reduced trip
lengths and the use of
public transport and
therefore reduce
transport energy costs
and carbon emissions.
This title examines these
environmental and social
issues, and argues that
high-density cities are a
sustainable solution.
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Describes the visual and
mental models by which
urban environment has
been recognized,
depicted and planned.
This analysis draws from
geography, critical
theory, architecture,
literature and painting
to identify these "maps"
of the city - as a work
of art, as panorama and
as spectacle.
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Presents a universal
history of the elements
of cities: streets,
public spaces, urban
divisions, and the
borders of city and
countryside. A companion
volume to "The City
Shaped" which dealt with
cities as complete
entities, this book
follows the evolution of
their components.
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Contains essays which
outline a number of case
studies from Europe,
North America, Australia
and Asia and provides
first hand accounts of
the experiences that
planners, architects and
politicians have had in
reshaping cities. This
book provides insights in
the assessment of the
challenges and
constraints posed by
changing patterns of
urban growth.
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Latin American cities
have always been
characterized by a strong
tension between what is
vaguely described as
their formal and informal
dimensions. However, the
terms formal and informal
refer not only to the
physical aspect of cities
but also to their entire
socio-political fabric.
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Using verifiable figures
and drawing on
professional experience,
this argument for the
'dividend' generated from
high-quality,
pre-investment design
investigates the benefits
and impact of good design
upon various facets of an
urban area - the
community, businesses,
employees, the general
public, city officials,
and the developer.
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Describes the design and
development of 14 denser
than typical projects
that range from
single-family
subdivisions to downtown
high-rise apartments,
illustrating urbanism,
transit-oriented
development,
mixed-income and
mixed-use housing types,
urban infill, and
adaptive use.
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Offering insight into the
ways the nation's
metropolitan areas
change, this book
explores the land use
issues that affect
quality of life. It makes
recommendations for
reducing sprawl and
dependence on cars,
encouraging
sustainability,
investing in
infrastructure, and
addressing other issues
such as workforce housing
availability, and
shopping.
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Modern urban societies
have become fragmented
environments consisting
of individuals. This book
features theoretical
accounts and case studies
that address whether
making public spaces more
accessible can restore
the social fabric of the
city, highlighting key
projects across the
world.
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Presents the results of
research campaign of ETH
Studio Basel in the
former Yugoslavian and
now Serbian capital,
investigating the city's
development from the
times the international
embargo against the
Milosevic-regime since
the Yugoslavian wars of
separation of the 1990s.
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Consolidates and develops
the extant knowledge of
urban tourism precincts
into a research driven
contemporary work. This
book examines the
foundational literature
but, more importantly,
engages with aspects of
precinct development such
as the psychological and
socio-cultural dimensions
of the precinct
experience.
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More than half the
world's population lives
in cities and most of
these cities are in Asia.
Here are the challenges
including population
explosion, pollution,
destruction of
eco-systems, water
shortages, sanitation,
and inhuman social
environments. This book
contains solutions
provided by architects,
designers and planners.
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Examines how critical
urban studies deals with
the dramatically
restructured megacities -
postmetropolises - that
have emerged over the
last half of the
20th-century all over the
world. The book may be
seen, in part, as a
sequel and an extension
to the arguments put
foward in "Thirdspace".
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