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  • Metropolitan Landscapes

    Towards a Shared Construction of the Resilient City of the Future

    Edited by Antonella Contin ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume covers many aspects of the Metropolitan Landscapes. Solutions are needed to meet the demand of the citizens of a renewed metropolitan region landscape. It opens up discussions about possible toolkits for strategic actions based on understanding the territory from geographical, urban, architectural, economic, environmental, and public policy perspectives. This book intends to ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Innovative Technologies in Urban Mapping

    Built Space and Mental Space

    Edited by Antonella Contin, Paolo Paolini, Rossella Salerno ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book presents a comprehensive vision of the impact of ICT on the contemporary city, heritage, public spaces and meta-cities on both urban and metropolitan scales, not only in producing innovative perspectives but also related to newly discovered scientific methods, which can be used to stimulate the emerging reciprocal relations between cities and information technologies. Using the principles ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...
    What accounts for the persistence and spread of "commoning," the irrepressible desire of people to collaborate and share to meet everyday needs? How are the more successful projects governed? And why are so many people embracing the commons as a powerful strategy for building a fair, humane and Earth-respecting social order? In more than fifty original essays, Patterns of Commoning addresses these ... Read more

    $7.00 USD

  • Omnia Sunt Communia

    On the Commons and the Transformation to Postcapitalism

    by Professor Massimo de Angelis ...
    Series series In Common
    In this weaving of radical political economy, Omnia Sunt Communia sets out the steps to postcapitalism. By conceptualising the commons not just as common goods but as a set of social systems, Massimo De Angelis shows their pervasive presence in everyday life, mapping out a strategy for total social transformation.From the micro to the macro, De Angelis unveils the commons as fields of power ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Green Braid

    Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity

    Edited by Kim Tanzer, Rafael Longoria ...
    Series series The ACSA Architectural Education Series
    This volume presents the discipline’s best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).Providing a primer on sustainability, useful to teachers and students alike, the selected essays address a broad range of issues. Combined ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Cities Alive

    by Michael Mehaffy ...
    Cities are experiencing a renaissance today, because we'e begun to understand how they really work -- and we've begun to make them work better for people.This book is a lively, readable account of two revealing figures in the history of that renaissance: the urban economist Jane Jacobs and the architect Christopher Alexander. Their key insights have shaped several generations of scholars, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Design Thinking

    A Conceptual Toolkit

    by Kim Dovey ...
    Urban Design Thinking provides a conceptual toolkit for urban design. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it shows how the design of our cities and urban spaces can be interpreted and informed through contemporary theories of urbanism, architecture and spatial analysis.Relating abstract ideas to real-world examples, and taking assemblage thinking as its critical framework, the book ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Public Places Urban Spaces

    The Dimensions of Urban Design

    by Matthew Carmona ...
    Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear and systematic guide. In this new edition the book has been extensively revised and restructured. Carmona advances the idea of urban design as a continuous process of shaping places, fashioned in turn by shifting global, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory

    Edited by Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns, Hilde Heynen ...
    "Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, experimented and have delivered a much-needed resource that upends the status-quo."- Architectural Histories, journal of the European Architectural History Network"Architectural theory interweaves interdisciplinary understandings with different practices, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Masterplanning the Adaptive City

    Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Tom Verebes ...
    Computational design has become widely accepted into mainstream architecture, but this is the first book to advocate applying it to create adaptable masterplans for rapid urban growth, urban heterogeneity, through computational urbanism. Practitioners and researchers here discuss ideas from the fields of architecture, urbanism, the natural sciences, computer science, economics, and mathematics to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Understanding Sustainable Architecture

    by Helen Bennetts, Antony Radford, Terry Williamson ...
    Understanding Sustainable Architecture is a review of the assumptions, beliefs, goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavour to design (more) sustainable buildings and other built developments.Much of the available advice and rhetoric about sustainable architecture begins from positions where important ethical, cultural and conceptual issues are simply assumed. If sustainable ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Energy and Society

    Public Opinion, Policies and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Alfredo Agustoni, Mara Maretti ...
    This book deals with a pivotal issue often marginalized by sociological analysis: the relationship between energy and society, with different contributions from several European scholars. The articles cover a series of topics concerning energy policies, risk communication, and sustainable development. The increasingly complex social organization emerging from the energy shifts of the last two ... Read more

    $3.99 USD