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“bret c keast”

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  • Community Character

    Principles for Design and Planning

    by Lane H. Kendig, Bret C. Keast ...
    Community Character provides a design-oriented system for planning and zoning communities but accounts for how people who participate in a community live, work, and shop there. The relationships that Lane Kendig defines here reflect the complexity of the interaction of the built environment with its social and economic uses, taking into account the diverse desires of municipalities and citizens. ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

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    Peri-urban Development and the Shanghai Master Plan 1999-2020

    by Jinghuan He ...
    Shanghai, like the other big cities along China’s coastline, has witnessed extraordinary growth in its economy and population with industrial development and rural-to-urban migration generating extensive urban expansion. Shanghai’s GDP growth rate has been over 10 per cent for more than 15 years. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 23.47 million, which is double its size in 1979. The urban ... Read more

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  • Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning

    by Wenche Dramstad, James D. Olson, Richard T.T. Forman ...
    Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning.This volume fills that need. It is a concise handbook that ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Reinventing Brantford

    A University Comes Downtown

    by Leo Groarke ...
    Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker’s AwardOne hundred years ago, the City of Brantford advertised itself as the most important manufacturing centre in Canada. During the century that followed, its industrial economy boomed, faltered, and finally collapsed. By the end of the twentieth century, Brantford was known for unemployment, hard luck, and the infamy of having "the worst downtown in Canada." ... Read more

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  • Geodesign by Integrating Design and Geospatial Sciences

    Edited by Eduardo Dias, Henk J. Scholten, Danbi J. Lee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In Europe, the emerging discipline of geodesign was earmarked by the first Geodesign Summit held in 2013 at the GeoFort, the Netherlands. Here researchers and practitioners from 28 different countries gathered to exchange ideas on how to merge the spatial sciences and design worlds. This book brings together experiences from this international group of spatial planners, architects, landscape ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Research Design in Urban Planning

    A Student′s Guide

    by Stuart Farthing ...
    "This excellent book fills a significant gap in the literature supporting planning education by providing clear, succinct advice on the design and implementation of small-scale student research projects."- Chris Couch, Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool"A perfect text for supervisors to give students so that they plan their research projects carefully rather than leap ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • The Future of the Suburban City

    Lessons from Sustaining Phoenix

    by Grady Gammage, Jr. ...
    There exists a category of American cities in which the line between suburban and urban is almost impossible to locate. These suburban cities arose in the last half of twentieth-century America, based largely on the success of the single-family home, shopping centers, and the automobile. The low-density, auto-centric development of suburban cities, which are largely in the arid West, presents ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Urban Squares : spatio-temporal studies of design and everyday life in the Öresund region

    Edited by Mattias Kärrholm ...
    Urban Squares suggests a specific and fresh take on agorology – the study of urban squares. The approach is one of recording everyday life and focusing on different ways to describe and investigate the public life and space of urban squares. The book comprises four empirical case studies of squares focusing especially on the urban material culture and spatio-temporal changes of these squares. The ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Inhabitable Infrastructures

    Science fiction or urban future?

    by CJ Lim ...
    Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future?, the follow up to Food City and Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, from one of the world’s leading urban design and architectural thinkers, explores the potential of climate change-related multi-use infrastructures that address the fundamental human requirements to protect, to provide and to participate. The stimulus for the infrastructures ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Cartographies of Place

    Navigating the Urban

    by Michael Darroch, Janine Marchessault ...
    Series series Culture of Cities
    Media are incorporated into our physical environments more dramatically than ever before - literally opening up new spaces of interactivity and connection that transform the experience of being in the city. Public gatherings and movement, even the capabilities of democratic ideology, have been redefined. Urban Screens, mobile media, new digital mappings, and ambient and pervasive media have all ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Architectural Body

    by Madeline Gins, Shusaku Arakawa ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one anotherThis revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry. Together, they have created an experimental and widely admired body of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Healthy Urban Planning

    by Hugh Barton, Catherine Tsourou ...
    Healthy Urban Planning aims to refocus urban planners on the implications of their work for human health and well-being. If many of the problems faced in cities are to be resolved, improving health will be the fundamental goal of urban planners. Poor housing, poverty, stress, pollution, and lack of access to jobs, goods and services all impact upon health. This book provides practical advice on ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD