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  • Rural by Design

    Planning for Town and Country

    by Randall Arendt ...
    For America’s rural and suburban areas, new challenges demand new solutions. Author Randall Arendt meets them in an entirely new edition of Rural by Design.When this planning classic first appeared 20 years ago, it showed how creative, practical land-use planning can preserve open space and keep community character intact. The second edition shifts the focus toward infilling neighborhoods, ... Read more

    $242.99 CAD

  • Conservation Design for Subdivisions

    A Practical Guide To Creating Open Space Networks

    by Randall G. Arendt ...
    In most communities, land use regulations are based on a limited model that allows for only one end result: the production of more and more suburbia, composed of endless subdivisions and shopping centers, that ultimately covers every bit of countryside with "improvements." Fortunately, sensible alternatives to this approach do exist, and methods of developing land while at the same time conserving ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Envisioning Better Communities

    Seeing More Options, Making Wiser Choices

    by Randall Arendt ...
    The author's work has shaped a generation of planners, designers, and landscape architects. In this book, the author brings his insights to a broader public, with a profusely illustrated demonstration of how local officials, planning commissioners, and everyday citizens can work to make their communities more attractive, more habitable, and more sustainable. Despite the widespread acceptance of ... Read more

    $317.99 CAD

  • Growing Greener

    Putting Conservation Into Local Plans And Ordinances

    by Randall G. Arendt ...
    Growing Greener is an illustrated workbook that presents a new look at designing subdivisions while preserving green space and creating open space networks. Randall Arendt explains how to design residential developments that maximize land conservation without reducing overall building density, thus avoiding the political and legal problems often associated with "down-zoning."The author offers a ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

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    A comparative study of Kaohsiung, Tainan and Rotterdam

    by Pei-Wen Lu ...
    Spatial planning is increasingly being considered as an important mechanism in coping with flood risk due to climate change. One of the reasons for this is that engineering approaches are increasingly expensive and cannot provide complete certainty of protection against climate-related floods. The thesis examines whether and how spatial planning is used in urban areas to promote resilience to ... Read more

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  • Housing, Urban Renewal and Socio-Spatial Integration

    A Study on Rehabilitating the Former Socialistic Public Housing Areas in Beijing

    by Xiaoxi Hui ...
    This issue of A+BE addresses two critical urban issues China faces today: housing and urban renewal. In the recent two decades, the Chinese urban housing stock underwent a significant, if not extreme, transformation. From 1949 to 1998, the urban housing stock in China largely depended on the public sector, and a large amount of public housing areas were developed under the socialistic public ... Read more

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  • Wrestling with Moses

    How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

    by Anthony Flint ...
    The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But consummate power broker Robert Moses, the father of many of New York’s most monumental ... Read more

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  • Biophilic Cities

    Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning

    by Timothy Beatley ...
    Tim Beatley has long been a leader in advocating for the "greening" of cities. But too often, he notes, urban greening efforts focus on everything except nature, emphasizing such elements as public transit, renewable energy production, and energy efficient building systems. While these are important aspects of reimagining urban living, they are not enough, says Beatley. We must remember that human ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Just City

    by Susan S. Fainstein ...
    "The just city is one in which equity, democracy, and diversity are important considerations. This is in contrast with the city as growth machine. Fainstein examines three cities: New York, London, and Amsterdam. She provides a history of post–World War II planning and then focuses on fairly recent cases of development in each. Her goals, though modest, are important if growing inequality in urban ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Tactical Urbanism

    Short-term Action for Long-term Change

    by Mike Lydon, Anthony Garcia ...
    In the twenty-first century, cities worldwide must respond to a growing and diverse population, ever-shifting economic conditions, new technologies, and a changing climate. Short-term, community-based projects—from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives—have become a powerful and adaptable new tool of urban activists, planners, and policy-makers seeking to drive lasting improvements in their ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Beyond Smart Cities

    How Cities Network, Learn and Innovate

    by Tim Campbell ...
    The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise is focussed on global talent and knowledge economies and not on learning and innovation. But to really achieve smart cities – that is to create the conditions of continuous learning and innovation – this book argues that there is a need to understand what is below the ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Urban Design Reader

    by Steve Tiesdell, Matthew Carmona ...
    Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the authors of the best ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD