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Drawing on a unique archive spanning the lifetime of twenty council estate projects in the UK and using hundreds of resident voices, this book reveals the secrets of council housing’s failures and s……続きを見る

From Idea to Site explores how to improve the working practices of landscape architects and therefore the quality of the design and management of our external environment. Based around the life of a……続きを見る

‘Sustainable’ urban planning, policy and design professes to solve sustainability problems, but often depletes and degrades ever more resources and ecosystems and concentrates wealth and concretize ……続きを見る

Marta Llorente lleva la mirada allí donde se desliza la luz " a partir de la experiencia de habitar el mundo, el paisaje, y en especial la arquitectura". Dice la autora: "he seguido el camino que r……続きを見る

Ethical Design Intelligence: The Virtuous Designer explores the deep significance of philosophy and ethics to the practice of design. It offers designers from disciplines such as architecture, urban……続きを見る

An examination of Berlin's turbulent history through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. In Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss takes a novel perspective on Berlin's turbulent twentieth-cent……続きを見る

New Life in Public Squares investigates the evolution of the public square within the urban form and its meaning to a city’s image. It explores what is driving investment in the creation of new or r……続きを見る

This book critically assesses the complex urban issues, planning challenges and development opportunities of rapidly growing cities, using Addis Ababa as a case study. Just like other developing cit……続きを見る

Often misunderstood, the New Towns story is a fascinating one of anarchists, artists, visionaries, and the promise of a new beginning for millions of people. New Towns: The Rise Fall and Rebirth off……続きを見る

In most planning practice and research, planners work with quantitative data. By summarizing, analyzing, and presenting data, planners create stories and narratives that explain various planning iss……続きを見る

In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are experts in their field. T……続きを見る

This book takes a behavioural approach to examine six important housing questions: tenure decision, gentrification, place attachment, housing bubbles, housing wealth, and residential satisfaction. U……続きを見る

This book gathers essays that introduce the ideological advances in the philosophy of engineering and technology in contemporary China. It particularly focuses on China’s distinctive concepts and me……続きを見る

O acelerado processo de urbanização, apesar de muitos benefícios para a sociedade, tem permitido que os interesses econômicos na maioria das cidades brasileiras e a falta de considerações ambientais……続きを見る

Originally published in 1978. Josef Konvitz provides a broad comparative study of European port cities since the Renaissance by examining how they were built and rebuilt in the context of urban indu……続きを見る

Small-scale urban greening projects are changing the urban landscape, shifting our experience and understanding of greenspaces in our cities. This book argues that including power dynamics, symbolis……続きを見る

In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company s……続きを見る

Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global exper……続きを見る

Mega-events have long been used by cities as a strategy to secure global recognition and attract future economic investment. However, while cultural mega-events like the European Capital of Culture ……続きを見る

Nel dibattito istituzionale italiano ed europeo il corridoio è prevalentemente inteso come un asse infrastrutturale, uno strumento per trasportare valore e informazione da un luogo all’altro e per s……続きを見る

Che fine ha fatto la città? Che cosa dobbiamo intendere quando diciamo ‘urbano’? La letteratura internazionale ci propone nuove definizioni e interpretazioni che rimandano a un superamento sostanzia……続きを見る

La riconfigurazione dello spazio è al centro dei processi urbani, politici ed economici contemporanei, in Europa così come su scala globale. Le città, le regioni, i processi di integrazione europea ……続きを見る

Il concetto di metabolismo urbano, proposto da Wolman a metà degli anni Sessanta, è oggi al centro di un dibattito multidisciplinare. Da un lato esso invita a cogliere il carattere circolatorio, int……続きを見る

I grandi eventi sono divenuti, per le città che aspirano a ricoprire posizioni di rilievo nello scenario politico ed economico globale, uno strumento routinario di politica urbana. Pur simili – quan……続きを見る

Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides fundamental knowledge and hands-on techniques about research, such as research topics and key journals in the planning field, advic……続きを見る

The effects of the rapidly expanding human population on the environment and the planet's future is a matter of increasing concern and lively debate. This timely collection of essays discusses some ……続きを見る

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing. However, urban manufacturing is often invisible and poorly understood in terms of urban design, architecture, ……続きを見る

By the 1970s, 42nd Street in New York was widely perceived to be unsafe, a neighborhood thought to be populated largely by drug dealers, porn shops, and muggers. But in 1979, civic leaders developed……続きを見る

A invenção e reinvenção do parque público paulistano identifica, analisa e discute o que foi a produção da Prefeitura de São Paulo no provimento de parques públicos da cidade. No ano de 2019, a capi……続きを見る

This book answers the question of how to design a sharing system that can promote sustained, meaningful, and socially constructive sharing practices in today’s cities. To do so, it constructs a fram……続きを見る