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  • Neighborhood

    by Emily Talen ...
    The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator. In fact, most cities claim to be compiled of neighborhoods, but this strays far from the term's original meaning - a spatial unit that people relate to. Neighborhood seeks to dispel this common misconception by integrating a complex historical record and multidisciplinary literature to produce a singular ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • What Cities Say

    A Social Interpretation of Urban Patterns and Forms

    by Emily Talen ...
    Cities come in all shapes and sizes, with different patterns and forms. Streets might be strictly gridded or curvilinear. Buildings might be tightly packed or spread out. Patterns and forms might reflect the highest aspirations, or they might simply be responses to mundane, utilitarian needs. So what do cities "say" about a society? What do patterns and forms reveal about social priorities and ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

  • City Rules

    How Regulations Affect Urban Form

    by Emily Talen ...
    City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle, our communities. Emily Talen demonstrates that regulations are a primary detriment to the creation of a desirable urban form. While many contemporary codes encourage sprawl and even urban blight, that hasn't ... Read more

    $53.89 CAD

  • Our Urban Future

    An Active Learning Guide to Sustainable Cities

    by Emily Talen, Sabina Shaikh ...
    A practical, comprehensive textbook that uses active learning techniques to teach about the challenges and opportunities associated with urban sustainability.While the problem of urban sustainability has long been a subject of great scholarly interest, there has, until now, been no single source providing a multi-disciplinary, exhaustive view of how it can be effectively taught. Filling this gap, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Planner's Pledge

    An Oath to Reform a Wayward Profession

    by Jeff Speck, Emily Talen ...
    **A manifesto and guidebook for refocusing planners on the task of building a more livable world.From the bestselling author of Walkable City and a prominent urban planning educator.**“Cities are the future of the human race,” remarked New Yorker writer David Owen, “and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work.” With the renowned planning professor Emily Talen, Speck brings that knowledge to bear in ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

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  • New Urbanism and American Planning

    The Conflict of Cultures

    by Emily Talen ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners’ quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth century. In her survey of the last hundred or so years of urbanist ideals, Emily Talen identifies four approaches to city-making, which she terms ‘cultures’: incrementalism, plan-making, planned ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Design for Social Diversity

    by Emily Talen, Sungduck Lee ...
    Series series Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
    The most successful urban communities are very often those that are the most diverse – in terms of income, age, family structure and ethnicity – and yet poor urban design and planning can stifle the very diversity that makes communities successful. Just as poor urban design can lead to sterile monoculture, successful planning can support the conditions needed for diverse communities.This new ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Urban Density Contextualized

    Design Strategies for Building Density in Cities

    by Sungduck Lee, Emily Talen ...
    Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.It systematically explores the social context of urban density, and how it plays a role in urban design and planning strategies. Cities and places have unique cultures and identities, and a wide range of considerations need to be considered in the attempt to insert more ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Streetlife

    Urban Retail Dynamics and Prospects

    Edited by Conrad Kickert, Emily Talen ...
    Our street-level economy is undergoing dramatic change. Retailers are reeling from the rise of e-commerce, rising rents, and increasing storefront vacancies, along with a cultural shift from material to experiential consumerism. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is contributing to economic upheaval as commercial corridors and the small businesses they house face sweeping closures, bankruptcy, and job ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Charter of the New Urbanism, 2nd Edition

    by Congress for the New Urbanism, Emily Talen ...
    THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPLES OF NEW URBANISM--FULLY REVISEDThe Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is the leading organization promoting walkable, mixed-use neighborhood development, sustainable communities, and healthier living conditions. Thoroughly updated to cover the latest environmental, economic, and social implications of urban design, Charter of the New Urbanism, Second Edition ... Read more

    $82.49 CAD

  • Retrofitting Sprawl

    Addressing Seventy Years of Failed Urban Form

    by Emily Talen, Julia Koschinsky, Brenda Case Scheer, Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Aviva Hopkins Brown, Rebecca Lewis, Matthew Salenger, June Williamson, David Dixon, Ellen Dunham-Jones0, Nico Larco1, Marc Schlossberg2, Dave Amos3, Gabriel Diaz Montemayor4, Nabil Kamel5, Benjamin W. Stanley6, Aaron Golub7, Milagros Zingoni8, Whitney Warman9, Christian Solorio0, Galina Tachieva1, Wesley Brown2 ...
    These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only an ongoing focus of specialized magazines like Dwell; indeed, Time magazine has cited “recycling the suburbs” as the second of “Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now.” While most conversations on sprawl tend to focus on its restriction, this book ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

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    Edited by Andreas Georgoulias, Daniel Schodek, Spiro Pollalis, Stephen Ramos ...
    You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental design, architecture, and landscape architecture review current sustainable large-scale projects, the ... Read more

    $229.48 CAD