City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Le logement en Égypte
Essai critique
Language: French
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Cet ouvrage, le seul existant sur le problème du logement en Egypte, est à la fois un essai critique et un témoignage vécu des enjeux et des conflits qui se sont noués autour de ce problème entre 1984 et 1986. Pour qui s'intéresse à l'habitat et au mieux-être des hommes, ignorer Milad Hanna...
Municipal Dreams
The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A narrative history of council housing—from slums to the Grenfell Tower
Urgent, timely and compelling, Municipal Dreams brilliantly brings the national story of housing to life.
In this landmark reappraisal of council housing, historian John Boughton presents an alternative history...
by HowExpert
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
About the Expert:
Michael Cole has been actively engaged in the local political arena both in the foreground and behind the scenes in South East Texas for over twenty years. Familiar with all level of running for government from local elections to state and federal elections, Mr. Cole has been a candidate...
by Lund, Brian
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The 3rd edition of this bestselling textbook has been completely revised to address the range of socio-economic factors that have influenced UK housing policy in the years since the previous edition was published. The issues explored include the austerity agenda, the impact of the Coalition government’s...
Environmental Problem-Solving A Video-Enhanced Self-Instructional e-Book from MIT
An Overview of the Tools of Environmental Policy-Making and Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
The book is divided into four sections: The first section focuses on how certain environmental problems can only be solved through active government effort to implement policies that effectively take science and politics into account. This section introduces readers to foundational concepts, including...
Resilience and Opportunity
Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Commentary and analysis typically focused on what went wrong in the post-disaster emergency response. This forward-looking book, however, presents a more cautiously optimistic view about the region's ability to bounce back after multiple...
Applied Geography
A World Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Applied Geography, A World Perspective reviews progress in applied geography in different regions of the world. It does this through the eyes of an international panel of highly regarded academic practitioners. The book offers new prospects on the use of established approaches and explores exciting...
by Rémy Bourdillon, Pierre-Yves Cezard, Nicolas Charette
Language: French
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Un dossier sur le thème des régénérescences spirituelles, urbaines ou environnementales qui vous propose des réflexions et éclairages variés sur le thème des nouveaux départs, des résiliences, des régénérations personnelles ou collectives.
Hollow Land
Israel's Architecture of Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupation
This new edition of the classic work on the politics of architecture—and the architecture of politics—appears on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, which expanded Israel’s domination over...
Towards an Articulated Phenomenological Interpretation of Architecture
Phenomenal Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
This book sheds light on the contemporary status of phenomenological discourse in architecture and investigates its current scholastic as well as practical position. Starting with a concise introduction to the philosophical grounds of phenomenology from the points of view of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty...
by Jorge Atiles, Mira Ahn, Akin S. Akinyemi
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent...
Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities
Strategies for Engagement, Readiness and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Drawing on research from the New England Climate Adaptation Project, “Managing Climate Risks for Coastal Communities” introduces a framework for building local capacity to respond to climate change. The authors maintain that local climate adaptation efforts require collective commitments to risk...
Housing Policy at a Crossroads
The Why, How, and Who of Assistance Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Since Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, American housing policy has focused on building homes for the poor. But seventy-five years of federal housing projects have not significantly ameliorated crime, decreased unemployment, or improved health; recent reforms have failed to revitalize low-income neighborhoods...
Architectural System Structures
Integrating Design Complexity in Industrialised Construction
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book proposes a system structure in architectural design that conceptualises a systemic level in architecture and construction that lies between general construction techniques and specific architectural results. In order to make such a system structure operational, the elaboration of a model...