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  • DIY City

    The Collective Power of Small Actions

    de Hank Dittmar ...
    Some utopian plans have shaped our cities —from England’s New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L’Enfant plan for Washington, DC. But these grand plans are the exception, and seldom turn out as envisioned by the utopian planner. Inviting city neighborhoods are more often works of improvisation on a small scale. This type of bottom-up development gives cities both ... Leer más

    $24.49 USD

  • My Kind of City

    Collected Essays of Hank Dittmar

    de Hank Dittmar ...
    "Hank lived by the credo 'first listen, then design.'"—Scott Bernstein, Founder and Chief Strategy + Innovation Officer, Center for Neighborhood TechnologyHank Dittmar was a globally recognized urban planner, advocate, and policy advisor. He wrote extensively on a wide range of topics, including architectural criticism, community planning, and transportation policy over his long and storied career ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The New Transit Town

    Best Practices In Transit-Oriented Development

    Edición de Hank Dittmar, Gloria Ohland ...
    Transit-oriented development (TOD) seeks to maximize access to mass transit and nonmotorized transportation with centrally located rail or bus stations surrounded by relatively high-density commercial and residential development. New Urbanists and smart growth proponents have embraced the concept and interest in TOD is growing, both in the United States and around the world.New Transit Town brings ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

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  • City Rules

    How Regulations Affect Urban Form

    de Emily Talen ...
    City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle, our communities. Emily Talen demonstrates that regulations are a primary detriment to the creation of a desirable urban form. While many contemporary codes encourage sprawl and even urban blight, that hasn't ... Leer más

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  • Public Housing Myths

    Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

    Edición de Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, Lawrence J. Vale ...
    Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Urban Ecological Design

    A Process for Regenerative Places

    de Danilo Palazzo, Frederick R. Steiner ...
    This trailblazing book outlines an interdisciplinary "process model" for urban design that has been developed and tested over time. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city precinct or public space, but to describe useful steps to approach the transformation of urban spaces. Urban Ecological Design illustrates the different stages in which the process is organized, using theories, ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • Food and Urbanism

    The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future

    de Susan Parham ...
    Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and designing cities. Without incorporating food into the design process – how it is grown, transported, and bought, cooked, eaten and disposed of – it ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Urban Transformation

    Understanding City Form and Design

    de Peter Bosselmann ...
    How do cities transform over time? And why do some cities change for the better while others deteriorate? In articulating new ways of viewing urban areas and how they develop over time, Peter Bosselmann offers a stimulating guidebook for students and professionals engaged in urban design, planning, and architecture. By looking through Bosselmann’s eyes (aided by his analysis of numerous color ... Leer más

    $46.79 USD

  • Housing Policy and the Dynamics of Housing Delivery in Nigeria: Lagos State as Case Study

    de Lanre Towry-Coker ...
    This book examines issues such as the problem of inadequate quality housing, evolution of slums and squatter settlements, problem of land and funding for housing, urban poverty, educational factors and the specific demographic characteristics of Lagos urban residents. Also, there is a re-examination of the contribution of the National Housing Programmes and Policies to housing delivery in Lagos. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Planning Urban Places

    Self-Organising Places with People in Mind

    de Mary Ganis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Urban change is often difficult because we are dealing with people’s elusive notions of place and perception, time and change. Urban design and planning in a changing urban context so that it remains relevant for people is elusive because the idea of place is embedded in memory and identity – but whose memory and whose identity? This book seeks to understand the urban change dynamic so that the ... Leer más

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  • Design for Good

    A New Era of Architecture for Everyone

    de John Cary ...
    "I can't recommend John Cary's book, Design for Good, highly enough. His argument...is clear and revolutionary." —Melinda Gates“That’s what we do really: we do miracles,” said Anne-Marie Nyiranshimiyimana, who learned masonry in helping to build the Butaro Hospital, a project designed for and with the people of Rwanda using local materials. This, and other projects designed with dignity, show the ... Leer más

    $53.29 USD

  • Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility

    Global Report on Human Settlements 2013

    de Un-Habitat ...
    Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city roads and highways all over the world. The prescribed solution to transport problems in most cities has thus been to build more infrastructures for cars, with a limited number of cities improving public transport systems in a sustainable manner. ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD