City Planning category: 1330 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This book contains a collection of studies that have been conducted among older residents in Singapore. Different methods, from surveys to crowd sourcing, have been used to investigate the older adults’ lived experiences and social participation in the residential environment. The findings reveal...
by Walter Thabit
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
In response to the riots of the mid-‘60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York’s dramatic decline and...
by Ferruccio Sansa, Andrea Garibaldi, Antonio Massari
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2010
L’Italia è uno dei paesi più belli al mondo. Ha la maggiore concentrazione di beni culturali e centri storici, le più famose città d’arte. Tutto questo è la nostra ricchezza. Rischiamo di perderla, per sempre. Il PARTITO DEL CEMENTO avanza e non lo ferma più nessuno. Dal nord al sud la febbre...
Unleashing Economic Growth
Region-Based Urban Development Strategy for Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The book provides an overview of the economic, political, and social environment in Nepal and the challenges confronting the country in eliciting its economic growth potential. The book provides an insightful framework of an inclusive development strategy in the context of symbiotic relationships...
by Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
In 2016, an estimated 54.5 per cent of the world’s population lived in urban settlements. By 2030, urban areas are projected to house 60 per cent of people globally and one in every three people will live in cities with at least half a million inhabitants. Understanding the key trends in urbanization...
Studi sull’edilizia degli ordini mendicanti
Un quadro generale dell’edilizia mendicante attraverso le grandi chiese.
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Laureatasi con Ludovico Quaroni nel 1968, Gabriella Villetti ha immediatamente iniziato la sua carriera di docente universitaria presso la Facoltà di Architettura dell’Università di Roma La Sapienza, rivolgendosi a pieno tempo all’insegnamento e alla ricerca sui temi della forma, della natura...
Domestic fortress
Fear and the new home front
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life, highlighting the depth of fear as well as the desire for prestige...
Toward Self-Sufficiency
A Community for a Transition Period
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
George Hunt spent more than fifty years as a community planner and landscape architect. This included hands-on work in impoverished and low-income areas which helped him understand the dynamics that hold us back from achieving self-sufficiency. In this book, he outlines a sustainable community project...
Complex Spatial Systems
The Modelling Foundations of Urban and Regional Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
A comprehensive core text from the expert in the field introducing students to the main issues of spatial systems modelling and analysis.
Law, Engineering, and the American Right-of-Way
Imagining a More Just Street
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
This book explores the geography of the everyday roadway and contemplates how regulation and design shape our streets. People may question the hegemony of cars, but reimagining public streets is a major conceptual and technical challenge. Drawing from “new mobilities” and transport studies, Prytherch...
Women and museums 1850–1914
Modernity and the gendering of knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persistently acted to domesticate the museum, by importing domestic objects and domestic regimes of value,...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
The 2018 edition analyses tourism performance and policy trends across 49 OECD countries and partner economies. It highlights the need for coherent and comprehensive approaches to tourism policy making, and the significance of the tourism economy, with data covering domestic, inbound and outbound...
Devising Consumption
Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The book explores the vital role played by the financial service industries in enabling the poor to consume over the last hundred and fifty years. Spending requires means, but these industries offered something else as well – they offered practical marketing devices that captured, captivated and...
by Mohammad Ali Nematollahi, Samaneh Shahbazi, Nashid Nabian
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is penetrating in all sciences as a multidisciplinary approach. However, adopting the theory of AI including computer vision and computer audition to urban intellectual space, is always difficult for architecture and urban planners. This book overcomes this challenge through...