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  • Site Design for Multifamily Housing

    Creating Livable, Connected Neighborhoods

    de Nico Larco, Kristin Kelsey, Amanda Stocker West ...
    The United States is over eighty percent urbanized, yet over half of the population still lives in suburban settings, characterized by low-density, automobile-dependent development with separated land uses. These disconnected and isolated models of development have been linked to increased greenhouse-gas emissions and reduced quality of life, health, and social connections. In Site Design for ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

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  • The Creative City

    A Toolkit for Urban Innovators

    de Charles Landry ...
    The Creative City is a clarion call for imaginative action in developing and running urban life. It shows how to think, plan and act creatively in addressing urban issues, with remarkable examples of innovation and regeneration from around the world. This revised edition of Charles Landry's highly influential text has been updated with a new, extensive overview. ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • If Venice Dies

    de Salvatore Settis ...
    Traducido por André Naffis-Sahely ...
    "This powerful book of cultural criticism" by the renowned art historian "shines a harsh light on" a historic city's destruction in the name of profit ( The Washington Post).What is Venice worth? To whom do its irreplaceable treasures belong? This eloquent book by art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about urban stewardship and cultural patrimony at ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Green Cities of Europe

    Global Lessons on Green Urbanism

    de Lucie Laurian, Dale Medearis, Wulf Daseking, Michaela Bruel, Maria Jaakkola, Marta Moretti, Camilla Ween, Luis A. Orive, Rebeca D. Lema ...
    In the absence of federal leadership, states and localities are stepping forward to address critical problems like climate change, urban sprawl, and polluted water and air. Making a city fundamentally sustainable is a daunting task, but fortunately, there are dynamic, innovative models outside U.S. borders. Green Cities of Europe draws on the world's best examples of sustainability to show how ... Leer más

    $33.89 USD

  • Understanding Cairo

    The Logic of a City Out of Control

    de David Sims ...
    This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Option of Urbanism

    Investing in a New American Dream

    de Christopher B. Leinberger ...
    Americans are voting with their feet to abandon strip malls and suburban sprawl, embracing instead a new type of community where they can live, work, shop, and play within easy walking distance. In The Option of Urbanism visionary developer and strategist Christopher B. Leinberger explains why government policies have tilted the playing field toward one form of development over the last sixty ... Leer más

    $22.39 USD

  • Planning for Sustainability

    Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities

    de Stephen Wheeler ...
    How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases.Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of planning for more sustainable and livable communities. The text explores topics such as how more compact and walkable ... Leer más

    $115.99 USD

  • Urban Geography

    A Global Perspective

    de Michael Pacione ...
    Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance – for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of economic production, distribution and exchange; in the structuring of social reproduction and cultural life; and in the allocation and exercise of power. ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • The Peri-Urban Interface

    Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

    Edición de Duncan McGregor, David Simon, Donald Thompson ...
    Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Lost in the Transit Desert

    Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form

    de Diane Jones Allen ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to address this are lacking. This absence of public transit creates barriers to viable employment and accessibility to cultural networks, and ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 6

    The Right to the City

    Edición de Christopher Silver, Robert Freestone, Christophe Demaziere ...
    Series series Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning
    The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning.This 6th volume incorporates essays that explore the salient issue commonly referred to as "The ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Urban Planning And The Development Process

    de David Adams ...
    This text is about the very essence of urban planning in a market economy. It is concerned with people - landowners, developers, investors, politicians and ordinary members of the public - who produce change in towns and cities as they relate to each other and react to development Pressure. Whether Such Change Occurs Slowly And Is Almost Unnoticed, Or happens rapidly and is highly disruptive, a ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD