Landscape category: 1155 books
The Evolution of Urban Form
Typology for Planners and Architects
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change? The author tackles this question in her comprehensive guide for planners, designers, and students concerned with how cities take shape. This book provides a fundamental understanding of how physical environments are created, changed,...
Lasting Value
Open Space Planning and Preservation Successes
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Americans are committing 'country-cide', says Rick Pruetz, FAICP, converting farms into suburban yards and channeling streams that once provided flood control, water purification, habitats, and recreational opportunities. But rather than rail against overdevelopment, this book celebrates communities...
Instruments of Land Policy
Dealing with Scarcity of Land
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations. To reinforce their position in situations of rivalrous land uses, planners can strategically use and combine different policy instruments...
The Politics of Mobility
Transport Planning, the Environment and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Transport issues are critically embedded in everyday life. For this very reason, ways of addressing such issues are almost always hugely politically contentious, as a quick glance at local and national media will testify. Such contentiousness is growing as ever increasing mobility for many in western...
Planning Against the Political
Democratic Deficits in European Territorial Governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
This book brings together a number of highly innovative and thought provoking contributions from European researchers in territorial governance-related fields such as human geography, planning studies, sociology, and management studies. The contributions share the ambition of highlighting troubling...
by Arturo Almandoz
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
In this book Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin America’s twentieth and early twenty-first century urban history within the changing relationship between industrialization and urbanization, modernization and development. This relationship began in the early twentieth century, when...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
The field of urban planning is far-reaching in breadth and depth. This is due to the complex nature of cities, regions, and development processes. The knowledge domain of planning includes social, economic, technological, environmental, and political systems that continue to evolve and expand rapidly....
One Idea, Many Plans
An American City Design Concept in Independent India
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities. Tracking the development of American "neighborhood unit" concept in independent India’s planning practice and literature—from the national level policies to on-the-ground...
by Tim Heath, Taner Oc, Steve Tiesdell
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Public Places Urban Spaces, 2e, is a thorough introduction to the principles of urban design theory and practice. Authored by experts in the fields of urban design and planning, it is designed specifically for the 2,500 postgraduate students on Urban Design courses in the UK, and 1,500 students on...
Grid/ Street/ Place
Essential Elements of Sustainable Urban Districts
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Today's urban resident is seeking a more flexible, sustainable environment-representing a unique, diverse, vibrant, and responsible way of living-as an alternative to the typical development patterns of suburban and semi-urban sprawl. Can urban design help create this type of sustainable urbanism?...
The Virtual and the Real in Planning and Urban Design
Perspectives, Practices and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The Virtual and the Real in Planning and Urban Design: Perspectives, Practices and Applicationsexplores the merging relationship between physical and virtual spaces in planning and urban design. Technological advances such as smart sensors, interactive screens, locative media and evolving computation...
Cities and Regions as Self-Organizing Systems
Models of Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
A clear methodological and philosophical introduction to complexity theory as applied to urban and regional systems is given, together with a detailed series of modelling case studies compiled over the last couple of decades. Based on the new complex systems thinking, mathematical models are developed...
Bicycle Urbanism
Reimagining Bicycle Friendly Cities
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, improving personal health, and reducing environmental impacts associated with travel. Much of the discussion surrounding cycling has focused on bicycle facility design—how...
Mapping Urbanities
Morphologies, Flows, Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
What is the capacity of mapping to reveal the forces at play in shaping urban form and space? How can mapping extend the urban imagination and therefore the possibilities for urban transformation?
With a focus on urban scales, Mapping Urbanities explores the potency of mapping as a research...