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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...
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...
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World For the 21st Century
In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the...
Building Inclusive Cities: Women's Safety and the Right to the City
Building on a growing movement within developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, as well as Europe and North America, this book documents cutting edge practice and builds theory...
Farming the City - Food as a Tool for Today's Urbanization
$12.00 AUD
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...
Villa At the Edge of the Empire, The: One Hundred Ways to Read a City
A provocative and insightful exploration of rebuilding our homes, communities and cities after their devastation. A provocative and insightful exploration of rebuilding our homes, communities and cities after their devastation....
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
$15.00 AUD
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...