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  • Slow Cities

    Conquering our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability

    de Paul Tranter, Rodney Tolley ...
    Slow Cities: Conquering Our Speed Addiction for Health and Sustainability demonstrates, counterintuitively, that reducing the speed of travel within cities saves time for residents and creates more sustainable, liveable, prosperous and healthy environments. This book examines the ways individuals and societies became dependent on transport modes that required investment in speed. Using research ... Leer más

    $112.99 USD

  • Children and their Urban Environment

    Changing Worlds

    de Claire Freeman, Paul Tranter ...
    In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked. Children and their Urban Environment examines these impacts in detail, looking at the key activities, spaces and experiences children have and how these can be managed to ensure that children benefit from change.The authors highlight the importance of planners, architects and housing ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Reflective Practitioner

    How Professionals Think In Action

    de Donald A. Schon ...
    A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions -- engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning -- to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald Schon maintains, know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work, they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

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  • Generation Rent

    Rethinking New Zealand’s Priorities

    de Shamubeel Eaqub, Selena Eaqub ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    House prices may boom or bust but the long-term trend is clear: for more New Zealanders than ever, home ownership is out of reach. Incomes simply have not kept pace with skyrocketing property prices. ‘Generation Rent’ calls into question priorities at the heart of New Zealand’s identity.In this BWB Text, Shamubeel and Selena Eaqub investigate how we ended up here, and what can be done to ensure ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • 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

  • Are Trams Socialist?

    Why Britain Has No Transport Policy

    de Christian Wolmar ...
    Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Sharing Cities

    A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities

    de Duncan McLaren, Julian Agyeman ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    How cities can build on the “sharing economy” and smart technology to deliver a “sharing paradigm” that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability.The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing—of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Nincompoopolis

    The Follies of Boris Johnson

    de Douglas Murphy ...
    In a world where the built environment seems ever more shaped by invisible market forces, where modern architecture can seem to dissolve into a generic void, sometimes it takes a very special person to make a difference.Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was Mayor of London from 2008 until 2016, during which time he took a remarkably keen interest in the built environment, commissioning, guiding, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

    de Timothy Crowe, Lawrence J. Fennelly ...
    Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, 3e is a vital book for anyone involved in architectural design, space management, and urban planning. The concepts presented in this book explain the link between design and human behavior. Understanding this link can enable a planner to use natural environmental factors to minimize loss and crime and to maximize productivity. This practical guide ... Leer más

    $85.49 USD

  • Shapers of Urban Form

    Explorations in Morphological Agency

    Edición de Peter Larkham, Michael Conzen ...
    People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned new scholarship on the forces, people, and institutions that have shaped cities from the Middle Ages to the present day.Larkham and Conzen collect new essays in "urban morphology," the people-centered predecessor to contemporary theories of top-down urban ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities

    Creating New Urban Landscapes in Asia

    de Lily Kong, Ching Chia-ho, Chou Tsu-Lung ...
    This book is a welcome and timely analysis of how global economic and financial powerhouses in Asia also aim to become global cultural cities. It critically examines the tension between top-down policies implemented by strong states to boost urban culture, which are typically focused on the hardware of iconic venues, museums, and opera houses mostly designed by famous western architects, and the ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Designing High-Density Cities

    For Social and Environmental Sustainability

    Edición de Edward Ng ...
    Compact living is sustainable living. High-density cities can support closer amenities, encourage reduced trip lengths and the use of public transport and therefore reduce transport energy costs and carbon emissions. High-density planning also helps to control the spread of urban suburbs into open lands, improves efficiency in urban infrastructure and services, and results in environmental ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD