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On ASIAN STREETS and PUBLIC SPACE
The rapid urbanization of the Asian continent and transformation of its cityscapes have incited many professionals and scholars to pay urgent attention to the study of Asian streets and public...
Villages in the City: A Guide to South China's Informal Settlements
Countless Chinese villages have been engulfed by modern cities. They no longer consist of picturesque farms and feng shui groves, but of high-rise buildings so close to each other that...
Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age
The need for effective public transport is greater than ever in the 21st century. With countries like China and India moving towards mass-automobility, we face the prospects of an environmental...
Shaping Melbourne's Future?: Town Planning, the State and Civil
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Land use planning policy receives much public attention: we are constantly reading about the funding for infrastructure, the revitalisation of commercial centres, the rapid rate of urban decay, gentrification of...
The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One
After decades studying creatures great and small, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson had an epiphany: Darwin's theory won't fully prove itself until it improves the quality of human life in...
The Faces of Contemporary Cities
The story of Permasteelisa, an Italian company behind the facades of some of the most famous buildings in the world. The great global cities of the Western, Middle Eastern, and...
Sustainability and Change in Rural Australia
By addressing themes such as social and economic change, government policy and gender relations, this volume tackles the thematic complexities of sustainability. At the heart of this discussion lies a...
Wild Cities: Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle
'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT, Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today the majority of the world's...
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence The "closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted" (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Under a White Sky ) story of climate migration in...
Wild Cities: Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle
'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT, Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today the majority of the world's...
The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of
A fascinating journey through Europe's old towns, exploring why we treasure them-but also what they hide about a continent's fraught history Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle...
Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City
A long-time Austinite and journalist's exploration of the profound movements that have shaped Austin, Texas-charting the shifts within its vibrant music scene, the impact of rapid urbanization, and the challenges...
London: A Guide to Recent Architecture
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This is the sixth edition of one of the most popular architecture books of the last decade. Each edition has followed the architectural evolution of London, documenting changes that express...
Wild Cities: Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle
'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT, Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today the majority of the world's...
Tetromino City: A Geometric Jigsaw Puzzle
A JIGSAW WITH A TWIST. In this new series of geometrically shaped puzzles, traditional jigsaw pieces go out the window! A TOTALLY DIFFERENT PUZZLING CHALLENGE. Using the seven basic geometric...
Community Profiling: A Practical Guide
The new edition of this popular book has been substantially revised and provides a practical step-by-step guide to community profiling, invaluable for students and practitioners involved in community-based research. The...
Humanise: A Maker's Guide to Building Our World
In this manifesto for change, one of the world's preeminent designers explores how buildings and cities around the world lost their soul - and what we can do about it...
Institutions and the City: The Role of Architecture
Institutions - the state, the church, the army, the judiciary, the university, the bank, etc.- organise social relations. As social structures, they regulate societies according to various practices, rites and...
Fortress London: Why we need to save the country from its capital
A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today. 'Intelligently written and powerfully argued.' Paul Mason 'Witty, scathing, and entertaining.' Danny Dorling Journalist Sam Bright...
Country Parks
The country park idea originated in the United Kingdom, and its purpose is widely considered to be quite a separate and unique function to parks in general. The purpose of...
Paths, Tracks and Trails: Designing for Pedestrians and Cyclists
A must-have publication for landscape architects, urban design professionals, town planners, students and educators in the urban design fields.Walking and cycling are becoming a fashionable lifestyle both as a low-impact...
Sponge City: Water Resource Management
The term "Sponge City" refers to the idea of a city where its urban underground water system operates like a sponge to absorb, store, leak and purify rainwater, and release...
Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than
The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now And why are the results so badOur...