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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...
A Language of Contemporary Architecture: An Index of Topology and
As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary...
A History of European Housing in Australia
This collection of essays is the first systematic attempt to explain the social, administrative, technical and cultural history of 'European' housing in Australia. Written by a collaborative team of scholars...
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...
Australian Heartlands: Making space for hope in the suburbs
Australia is one of the world's most urbanised nations, belying our image as a country of hard-living outback heroes and laid back sea-changers. Our future welfare is closely tied to...
English Garden Cities: An introduction
The Garden City Movement provided a radical new model for the design and layout of housing at the turn of the nineteenth century and set standards for the twentieth century...
Landscapes of London: The City, the Country, and the Suburbs,
The idea of a "Greater London" emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the city's suburbs. In Landscapes of London , Elizabeth McKellar traces this growth back to...
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...
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
What really makes a good place to live? Journeying around the world from Copenhagen to Bogota, Charles Montgomery shows that living in densely-populated cities can actually make us healthier, saner...
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...
Urban Transformation
Invaluable guide to transforming the way we think about designing sustainable, transit-orientated cities- Comprehensive and informative case studies of successful Transit Orientated Developments from around the world: Detailed and illustrative...
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...
Farming the City - Food as a Tool for Today's Urbanization
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The Farming the City project began in November 2010 as an initiative of the Amsterdam-based organization CITIES, bringing city dwellers and urban farmers together to explore inspirational ways of producing,...
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....
Lucky City
Ballarat was not a typical goldfield. The lava flows that created the fertile Western District of Victoria helped to bury the original streams and reefs so that there was little...
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...
Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea
Although modernisation in Korea started more than a century later than in the West, it has worked as a prominent ideology throughout the past century-in particular it has brought radical...
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...