Author: Paris, Chris Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Ownership of multiple homes has become increasingly popular throughout the Western world, with the UK and Ireland seeing a particular surge in recent years. Paris addresses the reasons why, and the ef...
Author: Kossak, Florrian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as interme...
Author: Neufville, Richard de / Odoni, Amedeo Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: * The new standard on airport systems planning,design, and management* Provides solutions to the most pressing airport concerns: expansion, traffic, environment, additions, etc.* Full coverage of comp...
Author: Phillips, Rhonda Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Comprehensive and practical, this textbook enables students to connect academic study and professional know-how, and demonstrates how to best plan the rebuilding, revitalization and development of com...
Author: Psarra, Sophia Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Conceptual ordering, spatial and social narrative are fundamental to the ways in which buildings are shaped, used and perceived. This intriguing book explores the ways in which these three dimensions ...
Author: Arnold, Dana Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The main focus is on bringing together fresh empirical research and animating it with theoretica...
Author: Woodson, R. Dodge Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Help the Environment While Increasing Sales Bestselling author R. Dodge Woodson brings the growing number of options available for developing land without doing harm to natural areas. In this compr...
Author: Woodson, R. Dodge Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Help the Environment While Increasing Sales Bestselling author R. Dodge Woodson brings the growing number of options available for developing land without doing harm to natural areas. In this compr...
Author: Campbell, Tim Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise is focussed on global talent and knowledge economies and not on lear...
Author: Campbell, Tim Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise is focussed on global talent and knowledge economies and not on lear...
Author: Hernandez, Felipe Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The work of Homi K. Bhabha has permeated into numerous publications which use postcolonial discourse as a means to analyze architectural practices in previously colonized contexts, particularly in Afr...
Author: Findley, Lisa Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Building Change" provides a vision of a revitalized role for architecture as a critical cultural and spatial practice. It discusses the dynamic between power and building and lays out the spatial str...
Description: The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new ...
Description: The Fifth Edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the best classic and contemporary writings on the city. It contains fifty-seven selections including seventeen new selections by E...
Description: Since its foundation the European Union has gradually developed policies that are aimed at achieving increased economic and social cohesion. This book examines the coming of age of the most recent of ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Counseling Troubled Boys provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. It supplies cas...
Author: Ots, Enn Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Existentialism; Urbanism; Aporia; Deontic; Tabula Rasa; Hyperspace; Heterotopia; Metareality; Structuralism... Navigating the way through the barrage of unique terminology used in architectural theory...
Author: Walters, David Publisher: Architectural Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For over 50 years, evident in cookie-cutter houses, wide, treeless, sidewalk-free roadways, mindlessly curving culde sacs and a streetscape of garage doors, urban growth, also known as urban sprawl ha...
Author: Cooper, Rachel / Evans, Graeme / Boyko, Christopher Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers practical solutions to achieving sustainable urban design and development, and helps designers communicate these solutions effectively to planners, developers and policy makers.Addres...
Description: This 4th volume of some of the best, award-winning writing from around the world's planning schools promotes further discussion and thought. The international authors address a broad spectrum of plann...
Author: Akerman, Jonas / Banister, David / Dreborg, Karl Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It is now widely accepted that transport is becoming increasingly unsustainable and that strong policy intervention is required to reduce both the growth in transport demand and the environmental cost...
Author: Akerman, Jonas / Banister, David / Dreborg, Karl Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: It is now widely accepted that transport is becoming increasingly unsustainable and that strong policy intervention is required to reduce both the growth in transport demand and the environmental cost...
Author: Dovey, Kim Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Framing Places" investigates how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. The author contends that the nature of architecture and urban design l...
Author: Abbott, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the c...
Author: Abbott, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the c...
Author: Ball, Jane Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Social housing appears to offer a solution for the housing of poor and disadvantaged people. The French "right to housing" offers poor and disadvantaged citizens priority in social housing allocation,...
Author: Ball, Jane Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Social housing appears to offer a solution for the housing of poor and disadvantaged people. The French "right to housing" offers poor and disadvantaged citizens priority in social housing allocation,...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In his 1959 essay "Philadelphia in the Year 2009," Edmund Bacon described a city remade, modernized in time to host the 1976 Bicentennial celebration and Philadelphia World's Fair. Imagining Philadelp...
Author: Friedmann, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays tells a coherent and compelling story about how the evolution of thinking about planning over several decades has helped to shape i...
Author: N/A Publisher: IGI Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Interactive architecture is already a reality and an emerging phenomenon that will soon be part of our everyday environments. Interactive Textures for Architecture and Landscaping: Digital Elements a...
Author: The Dewberry Companies / Dewberry, Sidney / Champagne, Philip C. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Successfully navigate the confusing maze of land developmentIf you're looking for cutting-edge blockbuster coverage of the land development process, the search ends here! Written by one of the nation'...
Author: Syms, Paul Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Development of brownfield land can address shortfalls in the availability of land for housing and other buildings, but these sites present a range of problems that must be overcome in any successful d...
Author: Shelton, Barrie Publisher: Taylor & Francis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This timely publication is the first exposition of the Japanese city. It covers the form, character and organization of the buildings and spaces in Japanese cities and particularly the relationships b...
Author: Taniguchi, Eiichi Publisher: Elsevier Science Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Urban freight transport has become an important issue in urban planning. There are many challenges and problems relating to increasing levels of traffic congestion, environmental impacts and energy co...
Author: Hornstein, Shelley Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book addresses the relationship between memory and place and asks how architecture captures and triggers memory. It examines how architecture exists as a physical entity and how it registers as a...
Description: The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architects, publishers, designers) and knowled...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architects, publishers, designers) and knowled...
Author: Liang, Samuel Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city's colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of...
Description: This is the first full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events since 1896. With specially commissioned and original essays written by a team of distinguished a...
Author: Irazábal, Clara Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America's cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there, revealing contemporary definitio...
Description: An interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on the world stage in the twenty-first century....
Author: Gaffikin, Frank / Morrissey, Mike Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more dec...
Description: Scarrett's book provides a practical guide for those involved in the business of property management from basic accounting and day to day systems, to landlord and tenant relationships, maintenance and...
Author: Padovan, Richard Publisher: Taylor & Francis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This handbook provides the student, practising architect or interested layman with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture.
