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  • Inclusive Urban Design: Streets For Lifeby Elizabeth Burton; Lynne Mitchell

    Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 48.95

    This is the first book to address the design needs of older people in the outdoor environment. It provides information on design principles essential to built environment professionals who want to provide for all users of urban space and who wish to achieve sustainability in their designs. Part one examines the changing experiences of people in the outdoor environment as they age and discusses existing outdoor environments and the aspects and features that help or hinder older people from using and enjoying them. Part two presents the six design principles for 'streets for life' and their many individual components. Using photographs and line drawings, a range of design features are presented at all scales of the outdoor environment from street... more...

  • The Planting Design Handbookby Nick Robinson

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 59.95

    First published in 1992, Nick Robinson’s Planting Design Handbook has since become widely used as a definitive text on landscape architecture courses throughout the world. This second edition still provides a complete examination of both the principles and the practice of design with plants, for public, institutional and private landscapes, but is fully revised and updated, taking account of developments in professional practice and reflecting a variety of media which are currently used. The layout of the book is clearer and more spacious, with colour illustrations. While retaining the beautiful drawings of Jia-Hua Wu, it includes an international range of new photographs and professional drawings, including examples of CAD and other digital... more...

  • Triumph of the Cityby Edward Glaeser

    Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 9.99

    A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities. America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in both cultural and economic terms) places to live. He travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Using intrepid reportage, keen analysis, and cogent argument, Glaeser makes an urgent, eloquent case for the city's importance and splendor, offering inspiring proof that the city... more...

  • Key Thinkers on Space and Placeby Phil Hubbard; Rob Kitchin

    Sage Publications Ltd. 2010; US$ 62.00

    In this new edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place , editors Phil Hubbard and Rob Kitchin provide us with a fully revised and updated text that highlights the work of over 65 key thinkers on space and place. Unique in its concept, the book is a comprehensive guide to the life and work of some of the key thinkers particularly influential in the current 'spatial turn' in the social sciences. Providing a synoptic overview of different ideas about the role of space and place in contemporary social, cultural, political and economic life, each portrait comprises: biographical information and theoretical context. an explication of their contribution to spatial thinking. an overview of key advances and controversies. guidance to further... more...

  • Cultural Planningby Graeme Evans

    Routledge 2001; US$ 71.95

    Cultural Planning is the first book on the planning of the arts and culture and the interaction between the state arts policy, the cultural economy and town and city planning. more...

  • Services and Metropolitan Developmentby Peter W. Daniels

    Routledge 1991; US$ 246.00

    Explores the processes guiding both the development and the spatial impacts of services on the urban system and individual areas and describes the internationalisation of services and the effects of re-structuring on urban systems. more...

  • Housing Policy in the 1990sby Johnston Birchall

    Routledge 1992; US$ 210.00

    Explores the deluge of Conservative legislation in the late 1980s which aimed to restructure post-war housing policy and examines what its effects will be during this decade and into the next century. more...

  • Housebuilding in Britain's Countrysideby Mark Shucksmith

    Routledge 1990; US$ 150.00

    Examines the controversial issue of whether looser planning controls are necessary in order to provide affordable housing or whether we should protect the countryside from urban encroachment. more...

  • Land and the Cityby Philip Kivell

    Routledge 1992; US$ 65.95

    In the rapidly changing sphere of urban development, land is shown to provide the basic morphological structure of the city, but also the source of economic and social power and the key to planning through examples from around the world more...

  • Telecommunications and the Cityby Steve Graham; Simon Marvin

    Routledge 1995; US$ 71.95

    The first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management. Includes case studies from Europe, Japan and North America. more...