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  • Urban Regeneration After Catastrophe

    7 Turning Points in the History of City Planning

    by Mary Ganis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    This book examines how catastrophes—natural, technological, ideological, biological and socioeconomic—transform urban design and planning, potentially creating "turning points" in a city's development trajectory.Through historical case studies, the book traces urban responses to catastrophe: the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake that accelerated European Enlightenment; Haussmann's Paris redesign addressing ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Planning Urban Places

    Self-Organising Places with People in Mind

    by Mary Ganis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Urban change is often difficult because we are dealing with people’s elusive notions of place and perception, time and change. Urban design and planning in a changing urban context so that it remains relevant for people is elusive because the idea of place is embedded in memory and identity – but whose memory and whose identity? This book seeks to understand the urban change dynamic so that the ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Creative Autonomy, Copyright and Popular Music in Nigeria

    by Mary W. Gani ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book provides an in-depth analysis of the unique structure of the Nigerian popular music industry. It explores the dissonance between copyright’s thematic support for creative autonomy and the practical ways in which the law allows singer-songwriters’ (performing authors') creative autonomy to be subverted in their contractual relationships with record labels. The book establishes the concept ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    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

  • Welcome to the Urban Revolution

    How Cities Are Changing The World

    by Jeb Brugmann ...
    In Welcome to the Urban Revolution, internationally recognized urbanist Jeb Brugmann turns traditional thinking about globalization on its head to show that the city isn't a backdrop to global change; it is a central driver of change—political, economic, social, and environmental. This powerful reappraisal of the global role of cities brilliantly synthesizes urban studies, economics, and sociology ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Smart Cities

    Governing, Modelling and Analysing the Transition

    Edited by Mark Deakin ...
    Smart city development has emerged a major issue over the past 5 years. Since the launch of IBM’s Smart Planet and CISCO’s Smart Cities and Communities programmes, their potential to deliver on global sustainable development targets have captured the public’s attention. However, despite this growing interest in the development of smart cities, little has as yet been published that either sets out ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • More Urban Less Poor

    An Introduction to Urban Development and Management

    by Goran Tannerfeldt, Per Ljung ...
    A world more urban...The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment....but less poorUnplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Architect's Portable Handbook: First-Step Rules of Thumb for Building Design 4/e

    by John Patten ("Pat") Guthrie ...
    The Essentials of Building Design--at Your Fingertips!Fully updated with the 2009 IBC International Building Code, this practical guide delivers the key data you need in every step of an architectural project--from initial planning and estimating through design and completion. The Architect's Portable Handbook, Fourth Edition, provides the latest code and cost information, along with a wealth of ... Read more

    $90.29 CAD

  • Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites

    Edited by Samer Bagaeen, Celia Clark ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites is the first book to analyze a profound land use change happening all over the world: the search for sustainable futures for property formerly dedicated to national defense now becoming redundant, disposed of and redeveloped. The new military necessity for rapid flexible response requires quite different physical resources from the massive fixed ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Ventilating Cities

    Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living

    by Shinsuke Kato, Kyosuke Hiyama ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The majority of the world’s population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the urban heat island effect, a known urban climate problem. This book discusses how to evaluate the urban wind environment, including ventilation ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning

    Spatial Governance in a Fragmented Nation

    Edited by Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Philip Allmendinger ...
    This book provides a multi-disciplinary study of territory, identity and space in a devolved UK, through the lens of spatial planning. It draws together leading internationally renowned researchers from a variety of disciplines to address the implications of devolution upon spatial planning and the rescaling of UK politics. Each contributor offers a different perspective on the core issues in ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Explorations in Urban Design

    An Urban Design Research Primer

    by Matthew Carmona ...
    Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances an interdisciplinary and innovative approach, which is of direct importance to understanding the urban forms, conditions, practices and processes. It enthuses and inspires users who are grappling with urban design research problems, but who need inspiration to move from ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD