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En muchos países del mundo, en zonas rurales, existe un alto porcentaje del uso de leña, para el abastecimiento como combustible de cocinas, que son instaladas sobre piedras, usadas para la preparac……続きを見る

Dans "Paris nouveau et Paris futur", Victor Fournel dresse un tableau détaillé et visionnaire de Paris au XIXe siècle, entre des perspectives urbanistiques audacieuses et des réflexions sur la moder……続きを見る

Le "Traité des Arènes construites au Pays de Liège" de L.-M.-G de Crassier est une œuvre qui se penche sur l'architecture et l'ingénierie des arènes dans la région liégeoise. À travers une prose pré……続きを見る

Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innov……続きを見る

Jerusalem's formal political borders reveal neither the dynamics of power in the city nor the underlying factors that make an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians so difficult. The lines de……続きを見る

A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practices Urban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist,……続きを見る

Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitioners Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up a……続きを見る

Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention. Crisisーwhether natural disaster, technological……続きを見る

An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis. American Urban Formーthe spaces, places, and boundaries that define city lifeーhas bee……続きを見る

L'evoluzione urbanistica, sociale, industriale e tecnologica, in atto negli ultimi anni, ha obbligato i progettisti, gli imprenditori e i soggetti pubblici, a ripensare alle logiche concettuali e op……続きを見る

Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable cit……続きを見る

Ebook Volume 3 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urb……続きを見る

A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape. “Mr. Stilgoe does not ask that we take his book outdoors with us; he believes that reading and experiencing landscapes are activities th……続きを見る

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 Afri……続きを見る

Original, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of the humanities, design, and urban studies. Urban humanities is an ……続きを見る

An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history and changing landscape of New York City. In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores h……続きを見る

Ebook Volume 1 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urb……続きを見る

A discussion of the opportunities and challenges involved mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from passenger travel. In the nineteenth century, horse transportation consumed vast amounts of land for……続きを見る

How to leave behind our unwieldy, gas-guzzling, carbon dioxide–emitting vehicles for cars that are green, smart, connected, and fun. This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era……続きを見る

How we can inventーbut not predictーthe future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more lik……続きを見る

How the decentralized, automobile-oriented, and fuel-consuming model of American suburban development might change. In the years after World War II, a distinctly American model for suburban developm……続きを見る

Ebook Volume 2 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urb……続きを見る

The transformations of the Stripーfrom the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”ーand how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild Wes……続きを見る

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China. It questions whether the fusion of internationa……続きを見る

Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change and rapid urbanisation. However, this idea has still not been fully integrated in to practice. This……続きを見る

This book presents human factors research focused on achieving and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture. It reports on advanced engineering methods for architecture and……続きを見る

Play is essential, for children but also adults. It's how we relax and revitalise ourselves, build and maintain friendships, try new things, learn and innovate. Cities have always been sites of play……続きを見る

Daoism and Environmental Philosophy explores ethics and the philosophy of nature in the Daodejing, the Zhuangzi, and related texts to elucidate their potential significance in our contemporary envir……続きを見る

The City in Transgression explores the unacknowledged, neglected, and ill-defined spaces of the built environment and their transition into places of resistance and residence by refugees, asylum see……続きを見る

Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore examines the role of the contemporary public school as an instrument of urban design. The central case study in this book, Henderson-Hopkins, is a PK-8 c……続きを見る