City Planning category: 1330 books
by Johanne Sloan
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining representing and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.
by A.E.J. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Provides an international history of urban development, from its origins to the industrial revolution. This well established book maintains the high standard of information found in the previous two editions, describing the physical results of some 5000 years of urban activity. It explains and develops...
by Christine V. Marr, Sharon Foster Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
The story of Inman Park, Atlanta�s first planned suburb, is one closely tied with transportation ingenuity, trade, and the progressive determination of its citizens. Situated two miles east of downtown Atlanta, Inman Park was farmland when the Civil War ravaged its rolling hills. In the 1890s, Inman...
by Albena Yaneva, Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos. Cosmos embraces everything, including the multifarious natural and material entities that make humans act. The book examines cosmopolitics in its relation to design practice....
Explorations in Urban Design
An Urban Design Research Primer
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances an interdisciplinary and innovative approach, which is of direct importance to understanding the urban forms, conditions, practices and processes. It enthuses and inspires...
The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew
Twentieth Century Architecture, Pioneer Modernism and the Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its...
by Daniel Hinchcliffe, Judith Rugg
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
This second volume of the series 'Advances in Art & Urban Futures' brings together contributions from artists, sociologists, architects and cultural theorists in addressing the recoveries and reclamations being made within urban and rural landscapes as a result of the fallout of redevelopment...
Public Policymaking in Hong Kong
Civic Engagement and State-Society Relations in a Semi-Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Why and how has civic engagement emerged in the policy process of Hong Kong as an Asian semi-democratic state? This book attempts to answer this question through examining six cases that straddle diverse policy domains. It identifies three explanatory factors, namely, the profile of a policy domain,...
by John A. Flannery, Karen M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The ability to adapt to a changing environment has ensured the continued survival of the human race into the 21st century. The challenges to be faced in this century are now well documented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The effects of drought, melting polar ice and...
Landscape Perspectives
The Holistic Nature of Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured...
The One-Way Street of Integration
Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Edward G. Goetz doesn’t see the solution...
Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia
Progress, Challenges, and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book is a unique, transdisciplinary summary of the state of the art of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Indonesia. It provides a comprehensive overview of disaster risk governance across all levels and multiple actors including diverse perspectives from practitioners and researchers on the challenges...
Environmental Problem Solving
Psychosocial Barriers to Adaptive Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Human influences create both environmental problems and barriers to effective policy aimed at addressing those problems. In effect, environmental managers manage people as much as they manage the environment. Therefore, they must gain an understanding of the psychological and sociopolitical dimensions...
Image, Text, Architecture
The Utopics of the Architectural Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the modern and contemporary architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors. It covers examples as diverse as an article by British artist Paul Nash in The...