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  • 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

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  • Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China

    de Nicholas Jewell ...
    China’s rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architectural forms that brand the regeneration of its increasingly globalized urban centres. Despite the sizeable body of literature that has accompanied China’s modernization, the essence and trajectory of its contemporary cityscape remains difficult to grasp ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • All Over the Map

    Writing on Buildings and Cities

    de Michael Sorkin ...
    Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as “unique in America––brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny.” All Over the Map confirms all of these superlatives as Sorkin assaults “the national security city, with its architecture of manufactured fear.” ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Junkspace with Running Room

    de Rem Koolhaas, Hal Foster ...
    Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is updated here and twinned with Running ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Back to the Future

    New Urbanism and the Rise of Neotraditionalism in Urban Planning

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Potsdamer Platz

    The Reshaping of Berlin

    de Quazi Mahtab Zaman, Malgorzata Nowobilska ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically addresses the challenging tasks of restoring Potsdamer Platz from a state of disintegration to a condition worthy of a world-class ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness

    Architectural Multiculturalism in North America

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture

    Praxis Reloaded

    de Gevork Hartoonian ...
    Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced architecture to a commodified object, its aesthetic qualities tapping into the current pervasive desire for the spectacular. These developments have changed the ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Transcultural Architecture

    The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism

    de Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ...
    Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures. This book shifts the focus from Critical Regionalism towards a broader concept of 'Transcultural Architecture' and defines Critical Regionalism as a subgroup of the latter. One of the benefits that this change of ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels after 1968

    de Isabelle Doucet ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    What makes a city? What makes architecture? And, what is to be included in the discussions of architecture and the city? Attempting to answer such ambitious questions, this book starts from a city’s specificity and complexity. In response to recent debates in architectural theory around the agency and locus of critical action, this book tests the potential of criticality through-practice. Rather ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Writing Urbanism

    A Design Reader

    Edición de 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. ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Architecture of Resistance

    Cultivating Moments of Possibility within the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict

    de Yara Sharif ...
    Series series Design Research in Architecture
    Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. It takes Palestine as the key ground of spatial exploration, looking at the spaces between people, boundary lines, documents and maps in a search for the meaning of architecture of resistance. Stemming from the need for an ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD