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Real Estate Issues eBook Series

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  • Urban Regeneration and Social Sustainability

    Best Practice from European Cities

    by Andrea Colantonio, Tim Dixon ...
    Series series Real Estate Issues
    Urban regeneration is a key focus for public policy throughout Europe. This book examines social sustainability and analyses its meaning. The authors offer a comprehensive European perspective to identify best practices in sustainable urban regeneration in five major cities in Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, and the UK. This authoritative overview of the scholarly literature makes the book ... Read more

    $137.99 CAD

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  • Demystifying Your Business Strategy

    by David Lei, John Slocum ...
    While scores of strategic management books have been written, many books fail to take into consideration the influences that shape and constrain managers’ ability to formulate and execute well-thought out strategies. Demystifying Your Business Strategy acknowledges and harnesses those influences, providing practitioners with a helpful new approach to developing and maintaining a competitive ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Insurgent Public Space

    Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities

    Edited by Jeffrey Hou ...
    Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012.In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Mobility Patterns and Urban Structure

    by Paulo Pinho, Cecília Silva ...
    Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a consensual perspective on this complex matter. To help build agreement on the factors influencing travel behaviour, this book discusses the influence of alternative urban structures on sustainable mobility. Bringing together two existing and complementary ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning

    Comparative Case Studies of European City-Regions

    Edited by Anton Kreukels, Willem Salet, Andy Thornley ...
    Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning explores the relationship between metropolitan decision-making and strategies to co-ordinate spatial policy. This relationship is examined across 20 cities of Europe and the similarities and differences analysed.Cities are having to formulate their urban policies in a very complex and turbulent environment. They are faced with numerous new pressures and ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Learning from Bogotá

    Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space

    by Rachel Berney ...
    Once known as a “drug capital” and associated with kidnappings, violence, and excess, Bogotá, Colombia, has undergone a transformation that some have termed “the miracle of Bogotá.” Beginning in the late 1980s, the city emerged from a long period of political and social instability to become an unexpected model of urban development through the redesign and revitalization of the public realm—parks, ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Theorizing The Southeast Asian City As Text: Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, And Interpretative Experiences

    by Robbie B H Goh, Brenda S A Yeoh ...
    Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities. It focuses on the ways in which urban spatial forms are textual experiences, subject to interpretative strategies and the influence of other discourses. In ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Design in the Borderlands

    Edited by Eleni Kalantidou, Tony Fry ...
    This book makes a significant contribution to advancing post-geographic understandings of physical and virtual boundaries. It brings together the emergent theory of ‘border thinking’ with innovative thinking on design, and explores the recent discourse on decoloniality and globalism. From a variety of viewpoints, the topics engaged show how design was historically embedded in the structures of ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • The University and Urban Revival

    Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets

    by Judith Rodin ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address the problems in their own backyards. Others attempted to develop better community relations, though changes were hard to sustain.Spurred ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Writing Urbanism

    A Design Reader

    Edited by Douglas Kelbaugh, Kit McCullough ...
    Series series The ACSA Architectural Education Series
    Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour.Distinguished by its broad scope and comprehensiveness on the subject of urban design, this new collection combines selected essays from both practitioners and academia.Writing Urbanism is the ideal volume for both students, architects and urban designers. ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • The Regional Imperative

    Regional Planning and Governance in Britain, Europe and the United States

    by Urlan A. Wannop ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Based on cases and interviews in Britain, Europe and the United States, this book explains the recurrence of regional planning and of initiatives in regional governance, in a wide range of advanced industrial countries. Providing an analysis of the nature of regional planning and governance, the book traces the development of regional planning and the institutions associated with it. It also looks ... Read more

    $129.99 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