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  • Brooklyn

    The Once and Future City

    An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades—celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella unearths ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Intelligent Cities

    Innovation, Knowledge Systems and Digital Spaces

    At the turn of the century some cities and regions in Europe, Japan and the USA, displayed an exceptional capacity to incubate and develop new knowledge and innovations. The favourable environment for research, technology and innovation created in these areas was not immediately obvious, yet it was of great significance for a development based on knowledge, learning, and innovation. Intelligent ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Secret Architecture Of Our Nation's Capital

    The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C.

    by David Ovason ...
    Today, there are more than twenty complete zodiacs in Washington, D.C., each one pointing to an extraordinary mystery. David Ovason, who has studied these astrological devices for ten years, now reveals why they have been placed in such abundance in the center of our nation's capital and explains their interconnections. His richly illustrated text tells the story of how Washington, from its ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Local and Regional Development

    Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; concerns about economic, social and ecological sustainability, climate change and resource shortages; new multi ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Sicurezza e urbanistica

    L’integrazione della sicurezza stradale nel governo urbano

    La prevenzione degli incidenti stradali in città si realizza attraverso norme tecniche e competenze progettuali. Ogni volta che si tratta di progettare o riqualificare una rete stradale o di disegnare un nuovo quartiere, esistono più possibilità, basate su approcci concettuali diversi che si rifanno a due principi opposti: la segregazione dei modi di trasporto o l’integrazione dei diversi modi nel ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Vignola, Della Porta, Maderno

    Trasformazioni urbane di Velletri tra XVI e XVII secolo

    by Simona Zani ...
    Collana Presenze diretta da Sandro Benedetti La profonda trasformazione urbanistica di Velletri avvenuta tra il XVI ed il XVII secolo esprime in pienezza lo sviluppo in provincia delle correnti artistiche che caratterizzavano la capitale, espressione della volontà e delle esigenze delle famiglie più importanti dell’epoca. In questo panorama complesso spiccano le personalità degli architetti che ne ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • L'immagine della città

    by Kevin Lynch ...
    La ricerca di Lynch è stata per quasi mezzo secolo ed è tuttora punto di riferimento di buona parte della progettazione urbana, tanto pubblica che privata, negli usa. Lo stesso si può dire per numerosi studi recenti in campi diversi come la geografia, l'antropologia, la psicologia. Le riflessioni sulla necessità di inventare una diversa e più complessa cartografia per riuscire a dar conto dei ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Loose Space

    Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life

    Edited by Karen Franck, Quentin Stevens ...
    In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. Loose Space explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space to meet their own needs and desires. Familiar or unexpected, spontaneous or planned, momentary or long-lasting, the activities that make urban ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Paratransit in African Cities

    Operations, Regulation and Reform

    Public transport systems in contemporary Sub-Saharan African cities are heavily reliant upon paratransit services. These services are defined as informal transportation which operates between the public and individual private spheres.  In Africa paratransit is characterized by low quality of vehicles and chaotic management but it also provides cheap, accessible and flexible transport solutions for ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Interior Urbanism

    Architecture, John Portman and Downtown America

    Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being 'inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and claims that they can destroy the quality of a city's authentic life 'on the outside'.Interior Urbanism ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • 城中一座島:築堤逐水、徵土爭權,社子島開發與臺灣的都市計畫

    Series Book 49 - 春山之聲
    外界看來破敗、待開發的社子島,有著你所不知道的面貌豐富文化、聚落人情、河岸水路、小農耕作從社子島開發案思考:臺灣需要什麼樣的都市計畫?社子島是臺北市一方特殊的區域。南面淡水河,遠眺蘆洲;北面基隆河,對望關渡,這裡曾是大臺北地區重要的蔬菜產地,一條主幹道通往臺北市中心。社子島掛著首都的門牌,但又如都市的異地,保有農田、水道、船屋、工廠、宮廟與低矮失修的房屋。對許多人來說,社子島一直是既熟悉又陌生的地方。位於兩河間沙洲,社子島被劃作不宜高強度開發的「洪泛區」,一九七○年以來的「禁限建」政策,使居民無法自由修繕或增改建房屋,愈發破落的建築,激起的是更積極的改變呼聲,然而「發展」在每個人心中有不同的樣貌。五十年來輪番上任的政治人物提出各種開發計畫,從「色情專業區」、「海上遊樂區」、「河濱之春」、「臺北曼哈頓」到「生態社子島」計畫,無一不是將這片首都僅餘超過三百公頃的土地極盡經濟利用 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Through Time and the City

    Notes on Rome

    Through Time and the City: Notes on Rome offers a new approach to exploring cities. Using Rome as a guide, the book follows familiar sites, geographies, and characters in search of their role within a larger narrative that includes the environmental processes required to generate enough space and material for the city, the emergent ecologies to which its buildings play host, and the social ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Visioni e politiche del territorio

    La dimensione contemporanea dell’urbano, la perdita di limiti e il dilagare disordinato e pulviscolare nelle campagne ha ragioni molteplici e profonde, di natura culturale come economica. Se sotto il profilo antropologico il rimescolamento dei ruoli e delle sfere relazionali ha prodotto atopia e un difficile, conflittuale, riposizionamento identitario, sul versante economico le implicazioni della ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeking A Better Urban Future

    Series series Ips-nathan Lecture Series
    Dr Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of the Housing and Development Board (2010-Present) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 5th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book contains edited versions of the three IPS-Nathan Lectures she gave between March and April 2018, and highlights of her dialogue with the audience.Climate change, an ageing population, anti-globalisation sentiments the world ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Keskustelupuisto - Conversation Park

    Peli yhteisestä maaperästä

    Keskustelupuisto - Conversation Park describes a unique artistic experiment of transforming an abandoned plot of land into a public park in the Finnish town of Rauma. In 2019 thirty residents between the ages of 6 and 89 became players in a two-year-long "Public Space Game". Their mission was to turn 30 different personal visions into an attractive urban park in 6 game moves. The park was opened ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Switzerland

    Deep Urbanism for an Age of Disruption

    Switzerland is a conceptual dream that has been realized in part due to geographical and historical circumstances, but first and foremost by conscious and robust design efforts. The country's journey in search of identity unfolds in this essay as a consistent quest for reconciliation of traditional dichotomies between rural and urban, state and community, culture and nature. In this context, an ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La producción del espacio

    Translated by Emilio Martínez ...
    Series series Ensayo
    Entre una gran diversidad de materias, Henry Lefebvre se ocupó particularmente de los problemas de la urbanización y el territorio, presentando a la ciudad como el corazón de la insurrección estética contra lo cotidiano. La producción del espacio, incisiva y clarividente, es su principal obra filosófica, y estudiosos de muchos ámbitos diferentes llevaban años esperando su traducción. En ella, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Las sin tierra: rompiendo el mito de la musa andaluza

    Las sin tierra, rompiendo el mito de la musa andaluza, ofrece un análisis íntimo de las vidas cotidianas de las trabajadoras del campo en un sector determinado, la producción de frutos rojos en la provincia de Huelva. Su trabajo es indispensable para comprender no solo qué papel juega Andalucía en el sistema mundo, sino cómo las trayectorias de personas esenciales para el sostén de la vida, han ... Read more

    $5.98 USD

  • Confessions of a Recovering Engineer

    Transportation for a Strong Town

    Discover insider secrets of how America’s transportation system is designed, funded, and built – and how to make it work for your communityIn Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn Jr. delivers an accessible and engaging exploration of America’s transportation system, laying bare the reasons why it no ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Breaking Point

    The Future of Australian Cities

    by Peter Seamer ...
    The way we plan and build cities in Australia needs to change.Australia’s population is growing: it is projected to increase by 11.8 million between 2017 and 2046 – the equivalent of adding a city the size of Canberra every year for the next thirty years. Most of this growth will occur in the major cities, and already its effects are being felt: inner-city property prices are skyrocketing, and the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Sustainability Assessment

    Criteria and Processes

    Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • La construcción social del hábitat

    Como estrategia de integración social, sustentabilidad urbana y seguridad ciudadana

    Series Book 1 - Urbanismo
    El trabajo versa sobre la necesidad de entender, analizar y valorar la Construcción Social del Hábitat como una herramienta fundamental a la hora de construir un orden urbano basado en la inclusión, en la apropiación responsable de la ciudad, y en el derecho a la diferencia que, desde el planteamiento topo (lugar) - fílico (afectivo) que acompaña estas páginas, preyace en los postulados de toda ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tropical Utopia Khartoum

    British Colony 1898-1910

    An ideal city to be rebuilt from scratch where two rivers flow into one another to give birth to the great Nile. An elite team of designers. The progressive utopia of urban planners and doctors between the 19th and 20th centuries, coming to grips with the demographic explosion and with the white man’s civilizing mission. These are a few of the elements that come into play in the British ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where We Want to Live

    Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities

    by Ryan Gravel ...
    **Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment****A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017**After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health and productivity), divided neighborhoods, and a non-walkable life. Urban designer Ryan Gravel makes a case for how we ... Read more

    $11.99 USD