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  • Urban Design Thinking

    A Conceptual Toolkit

    by Kim Dovey ...
    Urban Design Thinking provides a conceptual toolkit for urban design. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it shows how the design of our cities and urban spaces can be interpreted and informed through contemporary theories of urbanism, architecture and spatial analysis.Relating abstract ideas to real-world examples, and taking assemblage thinking as its critical framework, the book ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

  • Atlas of Informal Settlement

    Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design

    by Kim Dovey, Matthijs van Oostrum, Tanzil Shafique, Ishita Chatterjee, Dr Elek Pafka ...
    While often seen as unplanned or spontaneous, informal settlement is better understood as a mode of production: a co-evolution of architecture, urban design and planning that embodies informal rules and shapes urban development.The Atlas of Informal Settlement is a comparative study of the spatial logic of informal settlement based on mapping and analysing the evolution of urban form ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • Fluid City

    Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront

    by Kim Dovey ...
    Fluid City traces the transformation of the urban waterfront of Melbourne, the re-vitalization of the Yarra River waterfront, Melbourne Docklands and Port Philip Bay.As the financial and industrial centre of Australia, in the late nineteenth century, Melbourne developed a new world exuberance. Yet the twentieth century saw Melbourne suffering from a declining industrial and economic base. The city ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Becoming Places

    Urbanism / Architecture / Identity / Power

    by Kim Dovey ...
    About the practices and politics of place and identity formation – the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are – this book exposes the relations of place to power. It links everyday aspects of place experience to the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu in a very readable manner. This is a book that takes the social critique of built form another step through ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Framing Places

    Mediating Power in Built Form

    by Kim Dovey ...
    Series series Architext
    Framing Places is an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. Explored through a range of theories and case studies, this examination shows how lives are 'framed' within the clusters of rooms, buildings, streets and cities. These silent framings of everyday life also mediate ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism

    Inventraset Assemblages

    by Kim Dovey, Redento B. Recio ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Highly informalized cities of the global South are often portrayed as chaotic and out of control - this book reveals a spatial logic of informal urbanism that is central to the economic life and livelihoods of such cities. 'Inventraset' is a concept that shows how informal street vending, transport and settlement are fundamentally integrated with each other and the more formal city. Street vending ... Read more

    $57.69 CAD

  • Temporary and Tactical Urbanism

    (Re)Assembling Urban Space

    by Quentin Stevens, Kim Dovey ...
    Temporary and Tactical Urbanism examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century. Such projects range from guerrilla gardens and bike lanes to more formalised temporary beaches and swimming pools, parklets, pop-up plazas and buildings and container towns.These practices enable diverse forms of economic, social and artistic life that are usually repressed ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Mapping Urbanities

    Morphologies, Flows, Possibilities

    Edited by Kim Dovey, Elek Pafka, Mirjana Ristic ...
    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 method that opens new horizons in our exploration of complex urban environments. A primary focus is on ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

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  • Toronto

    Transformations in a City and Its Region

    by Edward Relph ...
    Series series Metropolitan Portraits
    Extending a hundred miles across south-central Ontario, Toronto is the fifth largest metropolitan area in North America, with the highest population density and the busiest expressway. At its core old Toronto consists of walkable neighborhoods and a financial district deeply connected to the global economy. Newer parts of the region have downtown centers linked by networks of arterial roads and ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Urban Transformation

    Understanding City Form and Design

    by Peter Bosselmann ...
    How do cities transform over time? And why do some cities change for the better while others deteriorate? In articulating new ways of viewing urban areas and how they develop over time, Peter Bosselmann offers a stimulating guidebook for students and professionals engaged in urban design, planning, and architecture. By looking through Bosselmann’s eyes (aided by his analysis of numerous color ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • The Art of Shaping the Metropolis

    by Pedro Ortiz ...
    A proven approach for addressing explosive metropolitan growth in an integrated and holistic manner“The book provides a basis for the contemplation of the old network paradigm of the megalopolis into the informational meshwork of the mega- or metacity of the future. The handbook’s review of the networked past is invaluable, while its projection of these networks into future plans raises very many ... Read more

    $70.29 CAD

  • Megacities

    Our Global Urban Future

    Edited by Frauke Kraas, Surinder Aggarwal, Martin Coy, Günter Mertins ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    As urbanization continues, and even accelerates, scientists estimate that by 2015 the world will have up to 60 ‘megacities’ – urban areas with more than five million inhabitants. With the irresistible economic attractions of urban centers, particularly in developing countries, making the influx of citizens unstoppable, many of humankind’s coming social, economic and political dramas will be played ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD