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  • 'One Planet' Cities

    Sustaining Humanity within Planetary Limits

    by David Thorpe ...
    This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system.With four out of five people predicted to be urban dwellers by 2080, ‘One Planet’ Cities proposes a pathway to genuine sustainability for cities and neighbourhoods, using an approach based on contraction and convergence. ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • (Re)bâtir la confiance au nord du 55e parallèle

    Après des décennies d’indifférence, les questions de l’habitat et de l’urbanisme dans le Nunavik suscitent l’intérêt d’une nouvelle génération d’architectes. Dans ces lieux où presque tout reste à inventer, les défis techniques ne manquent pas. Les bases d’une relation de confiance, par contre, font crument défaut. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • (Re)Generating Inclusive Cities

    Poverty and Planning in Urban North America

    As suburban expansion declines, cities have become essential economic, cultural and social hubs of global connectivity. This book is about urban revitalization across North America, in cities including San Francisco, Toronto, Boston, Vancouver, New York and Seattle. Infrastructure projects including the High Line and Big Dig are explored alongside urban neighborhood creation and regeneration ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • (Re)Stitch Tampa

    Riverfront-Designing the Post-War Coastal American City through Ecologies

    (Re)stitch Tampa, an international design ideas competition, challenged designers to consider innovative design ideas and strategies, employing connective urban landscapes and ecological infrastructure as an underlying framework for the post-war coastal city. The competition brief posited that this framework might operate as a catalyst for the economic redevelopment, as well as the landscape and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • (Ri)progettare le città

    Le città sono lo specchio dei nostri tempi: caotiche, inquinate, poco attraenti.Ma qual è la città? Come si evolveranno nel prossimo futuro? Come potranno cambiare per vincere le difficili sfide dei prossimi decenni?Il testo descrive i criteri di base per l'analisi del territorio urbano e propone una serie di linee guida per le misure da applicare al progetto per la necessaria trasformazione delle ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • (Sub)Urban Sexscapes

    Geographies and Regulation of the Sex Industry

    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    (Sub)Urban Sexscapes brings together a collection of theoretically-informed and empirically rich case studies from internationally renowned and emerging scholars highlighting the contemporary and historical geographies and regulation of the commercial sex industry. Contributions in this edited volume examine the spatial and regulatory contours of the sex industry from a range of disciplinary ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • (Un)Believing in Modern Society

    Religion, Spirituality, and Religious-Secular Competition

    This landmark study in the sociology of religion sheds new light on the question of what has happened to religion and spirituality since the 1960s in modern societies. Exposing several analytical weaknesses of today's sociology of religion, (Un)Believing in Modern Society presents a new theory of religious-secular competition and a new typology of ways of being religious/secular. The authors draw ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • 100 parole per salvare il suolo

    Piccolo dizionario urbanistico-italiano

    by Paolo Pileri ...
    Series series Saggio
    L’urbanistica è una lingua straniera: 100 parole “tradotte” in italiano per imparare a leggere le trasformazioni del suolo contenute nelle leggi e nei piani. E dire “sì” alla tutela del suolo e al riutilizzo di quel che già esiste. Perché “i cittadini hanno il diritto (e il dovere) di capire ogni parola scritta nelle leggi e nei piani urbanistici“.Un aiuto per imparare a leggere, “tradurre” in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School

    Series series 101 Things I Learned
    Providing unique, accessible lessons on urban design, this title in the bestselling 101 Things I Learned® series is a perfect resource for students, recent graduates, general readers, and even seasoned professionals.Students of urban design often find themselves lost between books that are either highly academic or overly formulaic, leaving them with few tangible tools to use in their design ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 11 progetti per i Municipi Roma XV e Roma XVI

    La forza dell'ovest

    Il tema centrale della pubblicazione è il rapporto tra piano generale e piano locale, tra assetto della città nella sua unità ed assetto dei singoli territori e parti componenti, sostenendo la necessità di una maggiore e più creativa attenzione al territorio locale dei municipi di Roma per valorizzarne la diversità di risorse, ruoli funzionali ed assetti insediativi, contro la tendenza ad un unico ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • 19S.10 lineamientos de política pública postsismo para Ciudad de México

    La presente obra tiene como objetivo plantear, desde una perspectiva académica multidisciplinaria, los efectos y retos derivados del sismo del 19 de septiembre de 2017 en Ciudad de México, así como generar una agenda estratégica de recomendaciones que sean de utilidad tanto para las autoridades como para la ciudadanía. Para ello, nos hemos guiado a partir de los comendatarios y las recomendaciones ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 24-Hour Cities

    Real Investment Performance, Not Just Promises

    by Hugh F. Kelly ...
    Winner of the Gold Award in the Tenth Annual Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Competition24 Hour Cities is the very first full length book about America’s cities that never sleep. Over the last fifty years, the nation’s top live-work-play cities have proven themselves more than just vibrant urban environments for the elite. They are attracting a cross-section of the population from across the U.S. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • 50 Years of Community Development Vol I

    A History of its Evolution and Application in North America

    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues pertinent to both research and practice of community development.The evolution of community development as ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • 50 Years of Community Development Vol II

    A History of its Evolution and Application in North America

    Series Book 2 - Community Development Research and Practice Series
    This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues pertinent to both research and practice of community development.The evolution of community development as ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • [UN]Precedented Pyongyang

    by Dongwoo Yim ...
    Despite the notorious fact of it being one of the most veiled countries in modern history, North Korea recently has started to get engaged with the rest of the world, and now we can easily witness various socio-economic changes of the nation which was seen in the 1990s in other post-socialist countries. And as the capital of the nation, Pyongyang has already entered into fast transformation stage ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Beginner's Guide to Urban Design and Development

    The ABC of Quality, Sustainable Design

    This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to those who have worked for many years in industry, illustrating key principles that will secure higher quality, more sustainable design in accessible, jargon-free language.The author explains the design process in a straightforward way, exploring the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • A Better Way to Zone

    Ten Principles to Create More Livable Cities

    Nearly all large American cities rely on zoning to regulate land use. According to Donald L. Elliott, however, zoning often discourages the very development that bigger cities need and want. In fact, Elliott thinks that zoning has become so complex that it is often dysfunctional and in desperate need of an overhaul. A Better Way to Zone explains precisely what has gone wrong and how it can be ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation

    Uniting Design, Economics, and Policy

    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 changing climate. A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation identifies a bold new research and policy agenda and provides implementable options for coastal ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Burglar's Guide to the City

    by Geoff Manaugh ...
    Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again.At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: how any building transforms when seen through the eyes of someone ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Carbon Primer for the Built Environment

    by Simon Foxell ...
    In a world increasingly concerned about the impact of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere on global climate, the A Carbon Primer for the Built Environment will provide an understanding of the science and the public policy and regulation intended to tackle climate change. It will spell out the essential information needed for navigating through the growing regulatory maze ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A cidade dos ricos e a cidade dos pobres

    Nas culturas ocidentais, a cidade é imaginada como um espaço de integração social e cultural. Um lugar seguro, protegido da violência, da natureza e dos homens, produtor de novas identidades, centro privilegiado de inovação técnica e científica, cultural e institucional. Na cidade do Ocidente, os ricos e os pobres sempre se encontraram e continuam a se encontrar, mas se tornam também cada vez mais ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A City Beautiful Dream: The 1912 Vision for Colorado Springs

    Series series Regional History Series
    The year 1912 was an important milestone for Colorado Springs. Still a young city of only 40 years, the easy-going Little London began the journey to become a metropolitan presence on Colorado’s Front Range. The city of Colorado Springs faced choices that would patently impact its future. The numerous trains created unsightly air pollution, the extremely wide streets presented challenges for ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A City Is Not a Computer

    Other Urban Intelligences

    Series Book 2 - Places Books
    A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A City Reframed

    Managing Warsaw in the 1990's

    Management of big cities is a relatively unresearched area, as compared to city planning and city governance. A study of Warsaw city management reveals the transformation process typically found in European countries in political and economic transition. In A City Reframed, Czarniawska conceptualises city management as an "action-net" under transformation, where three types of action are in focus: ... Read more

    $52.99 USD