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“mike morrissey”

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  • Planning in Divided Cities

    by Frank Gaffikin, Mike Morrissey ...
    Series series
    Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more decentralised ‘community planning’ approach.The book examines urban planning and policy in the context of deeply contested space, where place identity and cultural affinities are reshaping cities. Throughout ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

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  • 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

  • The Seventh at St. Andrews

    How Scotsman David McLay Kidd and His Ragtag Band Built theFirst New Course onGolf's Holy Soil in Nearly a Century

    by Scott Gummer ...
    An acclaimed Scottish golf course architect who had to go to America to make his name lands the most coveted commission in all of golf: to design the first new course in almost a century for the town of St. Andrews, the game’s ancestral home.David McLay Kidd became a wunderkind golf course architect before he was thirty years old, thanks to his universally lauded design at Bandon Dunes on the ... Read more

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  • The Housing Bomb

    Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society

    by M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Peterson, Jianguo Liu ...
    How our thirst for more and larger houses is undermining society and what we can do about it.Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don’t multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading environmental researchers M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Communities

    Creating a Durable Local Economy

    by Rhonda Phillips, Bruce Seifer, Ed Antczak ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    With a foreword written by Senator Bernie SandersWhat is a durable economy? It is one that not only survives but thrives. How is it created, and what does it take to sustain over time? Sustainable Communities provides insight and answers to these questions.Citing Burlington, Vermont's remarkable rise to award-winning status, this book explores the balance of community planning, social enterprise ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The City Crown by Bruno Taut

    by Matthew Mindrup, Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut’s early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Written under the influence of World War I, Taut developed The City Crown to promote a utopian urban concept where people would live in a garden city of ’apolitical socialism’ and peaceful collaboration around a single purpose-free crystalline structure ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Making People-Friendly Towns

    Improving the Public Environment in Towns and Cities

    Edited by Francis Tibbalds ...
    Making People-Friendly Towns explores the way our towns and cities, particularly their central areas, look and feel to all their users and discusses their design, maintenance and management. Francis Tibbalds provides a new philosophical approach to the problem, suggesting that places as a whole matter much more than the individual components that make up the urban environment such as buildings, ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • The Making of a World City

    London 1991 to 2021

    by Greg Clark ...
    After two decades of evolution and transformation, London had become one of the most open and cosmopolitan cities in the world. The success of the 2012 Olympics set a high water-mark in the visible success of the city, while its influence and soft power increased in the global systems of trade, capital, culture, knowledge, and communications.The Making of a World City: London 1991 - 2021 sets out ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Syntax of Cities

    by Peter F. Smith ...
    This book was first published in 1977. In bringing together psychology and urban design there is always the risk of alienating specialists in both fields. The psychologist may resent the failure to observe the strict rigour of his subject, whilst the urban designer may be put off by such rigour as exists. In such a book as this, it is only possible briefly to refer to the research that has ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Architecture, Power and National Identity

    by Lawrence Vale ...
    The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to ... Read more

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  • Technologies and Innovations for Development

    Scientific Cooperation for a Sustainable Future

    Edited by Alexandre Schmid, Gabriela Tejada, Eileen Hazboun, Jean-Claude Bolay ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Technological innovation – combined with scientific research – has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies. At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations that are adapted to the social, environmental, cultural and economic conditions of receiving countries, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Unfinished Places: The Politics of (Re)making Cairo’s Old Quarters

    by Gehan Selim ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    The Emerging Politics of (Re) making Cairo's Old Quarters examines postcolonial planning practices that aimed to modernise Cairo’s urban spaces. The author examines the expanding field of postcolonial urbanism by linking the state’s political ideologies and systems of governance with methods of spatial representations that aimed to transform the urban realm in Cairo. Adopting an interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD