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  • Writing Spaces

    Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960–2000

    by C. Greig Crysler ...
    Series series Architext
    Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment disciplines. The book will be a key resource for courses on critical theory in architecture, urban studies and geography, at both the graduate and advanced undergraduate level. ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory

    Edited by Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns, Hilde Heynen ...
    "Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, experimented and have delivered a much-needed resource that upends the status-quo."- Architectural Histories, journal of the European Architectural History Network"Architectural theory interweaves interdisciplinary understandings with different practices, ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Urban Reinventions

    San Francisco’s Treasure Island

    by Lynne Horiuchi, Tanu Sankalia, Professor Javier Arbona, Professor C. Greig Crysler, Professor Lindsey Dillon, Professor Mark L. Gillem, Professor Lisa D. Schrenk, Professor Andrew M. Shanken, Professor John Stehlin0, Professor Richard A. Walker1 ...
    When it was built in 1937, Treasure Island was considered to be one of the largest man-made islands in the world. Located in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the 400-acre island was constructed out of dredged bay mud in a remarkable feat of Depression-era civil engineering by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Its alluring name is an allusion to the fabled remnants of the California Gold Rush found ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Driverless Cars: On a Road to Nowhere

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    Driverless cars are the future. That is what the tech giants, the auto industry and even the government want us to think. Almost daily there are media stories about how we will soon all be able to rip up our driving licences, sit in the back seat and let the car take us around. But is this really going to happen? Christian Wolmar has dug behind the hype and found a very different story. We are ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice

    Pattern and Process

    by Monica G. Turner, Robert H. Gardner ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This work provides in-depth analysis of the origins of landscape ecology and its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial pattern with a variety of ecological processes. The text covers the quantitative approaches that are applied widely in landscape studies, with emphasis on their appropriate use and interpretation.The field ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Fair Shared Cities

    The Impact of Gender Planning in Europe

    by Marion Roberts ...
    Bringing together a diverse team of leading scholars and professionals, this book offers a variety of insights into ongoing gender mainstreaming policies in Europe with a focus on urban/spatial planning. Gender mainstreaming was first legislated for in the European Union with the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1999 and, although many interesting developments have occurred throughout the decade that ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China

    by Nicholas Jewell ...
    China’s rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architectural forms that brand the regeneration of its increasingly globalized urban centres. Despite the sizeable body of literature that has accompanied China’s modernization, the essence and trajectory of its contemporary cityscape remains difficult to grasp ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Radical Solutions to the Housing Supply Crisis

    by Duncan Bowie ...
    As housing supply in England reaches crisis point, Duncan Bowie provides a critical review of housing policy under successive UK governments. From Blair’s New Labour and Cameron’s Coalition government to the 2016 Housing and Planning Act, Bowie demonstrates how successive governments have failed to provide adequate, affordable housing, leading to a chronic lack of provision.Exploring the inter ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Junkspace with Running Room

    by Rem Koolhaas, Hal Foster ...
    Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is updated here and twinned with Running ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Infrastructures of Consumption

    Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries

    by Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells, Bas Van Vliet ...
    For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations have challenged this model. This book examines the ongoing environmental restructuring of ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Rural Community Libraries in Africa: Challenges and Impacts

    by Valeda F. Dent, Geoff Goodman, Michael Kevane ...
    Around the word, in developed as well as developing countries, libraries play an important role in the dissemination of knowledge. The availability of information resources can often mean the difference between poverty and prosperity, particularly in underdeveloped African communities. Rural Community Libraries in Africa: Challenges and Impacts investigates the relationship between local libraries ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

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  • Cities and Design

    by Paul L. Knox ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at every scale and design professions have grown in size and importance, reflecting distinctive geographies and locating disproportionately in cities most intimately connected with ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD