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by Dale M. Carlisle
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
How To Build Your Own GreenHouse
Don't Be A Conventional Greenhouse Dreamer! Come Out Of The Mould, Build Your Own And Let Your Greenhouse Give A Better Yield Than Any Other In Town! Discover How You Can Start Your Own Greenhouse With Healthier Plants… Anytime Of The Year!
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Now Urbanism
The Future City is Here
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary...
Conservation and Planning
Changing Values in Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Conserving historic buildings continues to excite and inflame opinion. The means of protecting such buildings and areas are well established but frequently suffer a lack of wider understanding.
Conservation and Planning takes a detailed look at the way these processes have evolved and their...
by Esther Charlesworth
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
This series of essays outlines a number of case studies from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia and provides first hand accounts of the experiences that planners, architects and politicians have had in reshaping cities. These insights provide a pragmatic assessment of the challenges and constraints...
51 Tips for Greenhouse Gardening
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Do you love gardening? Thinking about getting a greenhouse?
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Greenhouses can be a very fulfilling investment. This ebook is designed to give you some great ideas about how to start an awesome greenhouse garden. ...
Lessons in Post-War Reconstruction
Case Studies from Lebanon in the Aftermath of the 2006 War
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
After the ceasefire, a group of architects and planners from the American University of Beirut formed the Reconstruction Unit to help in the recovery process and in rebuilding the lives of those affected by the 2006 war in Lebanon .
Here, a series of case studies documenting the work of the...
Land Use and the Constitution
Principles for Planning Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
This practical handbook explains eight constitutional principles and applies them to real-world planning situations. These statements of principles reflect consensus opinions, but the book also discusses points of dissent. It includes detailed summaries of more than fifty U.S. Supreme Court cases...
Investigating Town Planning
Changing Perspectives and Agendas
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Following on from Introducing Town Planning andImplementing Town Planning, this third volume in the series examines the scope and nature of modern town planning in greater depth. It investigates the theories and preoccupations which inform the current planning agenda, compares this with earlier objectives,...
by Robert H. Freilich, Michael M. Shultz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
A major revision of a classic planning text. This book contains a complete model subdivision ordinance for city and county governments as well as more than 100 pages of legal commentary. The model regulations are generally compatible with all state statutes and work in urban, suburban, and rural settings....
Temporary Cities
Resisting Transience in Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Are Arab Gulf cities, the likes of Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Doha, on their way to extinction? Is their fate obsolescence? Or, are they the model for our urban future? Can a city whose very existence is predicated on an imported labour force who build and operate these gleaming urban centres remain a viable...
by Stefanie Dühr, Claire Colomb, Vincent Nadin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
There is a strong international dimension to spatial planning. European integration strengthens interconnections, development and decision-making across national and regional borders. EU policies in areas such as environment, transport, agriculture or regional policy have far-reaching effects on spatial...
Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities
Art, Performances, Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities brings together scientific reflections on the relations of art and urban mobilities and artistic research on the topic. The editors open the book by setting out the concept grounded in the exhibition curated by Aslak Aamot Kjærulff and refers to earlier work...
Loose Fit City
The Contribution of Bottom-Up Architecture to Urban Design and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Drawn from a lifetime’s experience of shared city-making from the bottom up, within rapidly expanding urban metabolisms in Delhi, Mumbai, Agra, Kathmandu, West Africa and London, Loose Fit City is about the ways in which city residents can learn through making to engage with the dynamic process...
Planning and Conflict
Critical Perspectives on Contentious Urban Developments
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Planning and Conflict discusses the reasons for conflicts around urban developments and analyzes their shape in contemporary cities. It offers an interdisciplinary framework for scholars to engage with the issue of planning conflicts, focusing on both empirical and theoretical inquiry.
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