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“viviana andreescu”

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  • Back to the Future

    New Urbanism and the Rise of Neotraditionalism in Urban Planning

    by Karl Besel, Viviana Andreescu ...
    Back to the Future explores new urbanism and urban revitalization within the context of public policy trends such as regional governance and the role of nonprofits. The purpose of this book is to provide students and professionals alike with a context for examining the beginnings of new urbanism, as well as to illustrate how this movement has become a nationwide trend in response to changing ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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    by Trevor Yorke ...
    Here is a compact and useful guide, filled with detailed and original drawings, to help put a date to the variety of period buildings we see around us. It covers an immense range of structures and styles from 1500 to 1950. In addition, there is a glossary of architectural terms and a historical time chart. The book will prove an invaluable companion whether visiting grand houses open to the public ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time Frames

    Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage

    Edited by Ugo Carughi, Massimo Visone ...
    Time Frames provides a reconnaissance on the conservation rules and current protection policies of more than 100 countries, with particular attention to the emerging nations and twentieth-century architecture. The contributions illustrate the critical issues related to architectural listings, with a brief history of national approaches, a linkography and a short bibliography. The book also ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness

    Architectural Multiculturalism in North America

    by Donia Zhang ...
    Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for governments to include happiness as a criterion to their policies. The Healthy Cities or Happy Cities movement has been endorsed by the WHO since 1986, and a Healthy House or Happy Home is a critical constituent of a healthy city or a happy city. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Architecture and the Forest Aesthetic

    A New Look at Design and Resilient Urbanism

    by Jana VanderGoot ...
    Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented. This book re-imagines architecture and urbanism by allowing the forest to be a prominent consideration in the language of design, thus recognizing the forest as essential rather than just ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Engaged Urbanism

    Cities and Methodologies

    Edited by Prof. Ben Campkin, Ger Duijzings ...
    Engaged Urbanism showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities. Its authors offer succinct, candid and carefully illustrated commentaries on the trials and successes of risk-taking research, revealing how they collaborate across fields of expertise, inventing or adapting methods to suit bespoke situations. Featuring novel uses and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture

    Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience

    by Jiat-Hwee Chang ...
    Series series Architext
    A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth century British colonial architectural knowledge and practices. It uncovers how systematic knowledge and practices on building and environmental technologies in the tropics were linked to military technologies, medical theories and sanitary practices, and were manifested in colonial building types such ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Urban Apparatus

    Mediapolitics and the City

    by Reinhold Martin ...
    Urbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and today’s city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. He argues that understanding the city as infrastructure reveals urbanization to be a way of imparting functional, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Practice of Modernism

    Modern Architects and Urban Transformation, 1954–1972

    by John R. Gold ...
    In this sequel to his widely-acclaimed book The Experience of Modernism (1997), John Gold continues his detailed enquiry into the Modern Movement's involvement in urban planning and city design.Making extensive use of information gained from hours of in-depth interviews with architects of the time, this new book examines the complex relationship between vision and subsequent practice in the saga ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Planning and Transformation

    Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience

    by Philip Harrison, Alison Todes, Vanessa Watson ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Planning and Transformation provides a comprehensive view of planning under political transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers in an international and a local audience.In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South Africa, planners believed they would be able to successfully promote a vision of integrated, equitable and sustainable ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Community Architect

    The Life and Vision of Clarence S. Stein

    by Kristin E. Larsen ...
    Clarence S. Stein (1882–1975) was an architect, housing visionary, regionalist, policymaker, and colleague of some of the most influential public figures of the early to mid-twentieth century, including Lewis Mumford and Benton MacKaye. Kristin E. Larsen's biography of Stein comprehensively examines his built and unbuilt projects and his intellectual legacy as a proponent of the "garden city" for ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Cairo Contested

    Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity

    Edited by Diane Singerman ...
    This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but do not stop the public's role in the remaking of their city. What happens to a city where neo ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus