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Doing it Differently: Urban Trends
Doing it Differently looks at a range of creative and innovative solutions to the challenges of urban living Creativity in all its forms is essential to the healthy evolution of...
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...
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...
Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We
The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class and executed through state-sponsored economic discrimination, which is hard to see because it is much more subtle than...
Vortex Cities to Sustainable Cities: Australia's Urban Challenge
Vortex Cities to Sustainable Cities will stimulate debate among many Australians about the kind of future we want for our country. It will engage planners and politicians, academics and activists,...
Episodic Urbanism: The RMIT Urban Spaces Project 19962015
Episodic Urbanism is a book about the transformation of two city blocks in the heart of Melbourne, Australia. It tells the story of how Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design...
London: A Guide to Recent Architecture
$12.00 AUD
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...
Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers
Vertical is a brilliant re-imagining of the world we live in. Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map. In Vertical Stephen...
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...
Cities
This work is an exploration of the nature of the city from its beginnings to contemporary Cairo, the largest city the world has known. "Cities" explores the city's "raison d'etre",...
Monitoring Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Practice in Flowing Waters
Monitoring Ecological Impacts provides the tools needed by professional ecologists, scientists, engineers, planners and managers to design assessment programs that can reliably monitor, detect and allow management of human impacts...
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...
City Spaces: Art and Design
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An introduction to the possibilities of city spaces, comprising a series of essays and projects by artists, architects, landscape architects and theorists, showing the potential for a more exciting and...
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...
Surburban Backlash: The Battle for the World's Most Liveable City
As their neighbourhoods are blitzed by indiscriminate development bewildered suburbanites ask: How did we end up in this mess? With historical insight and characteristic candour Miles Lewis shows how planners...
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
From Beijing to Boston, cities are deploying smart technology-sensors embedded in streets and subways, Wi-Fi broadcast airports and green spaces-to address the basic challenges faced by massive, interconnected metropolitan centers....
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...
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 is a...
The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America's Coasts
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This century has seen the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history--but who bears the brunt of these monster storms? Consider this: Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made...