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Modern Architectural Theoryby Harry Mallgrave
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 43.00Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theorem, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave contextualizes architectural discourse within its social and political atmosphere. more...
Retrofitting Suburbiaby Ellen Dunham-Jones; June Williamson
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011; US$ 49.95Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and academics to development in urban cores and new neighborhoods on the periphery of cities, there has been little attention to the redesign and redevelopment of existing suburbs. The authors, both architects and noted experts on the subject, show how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological,... more...
Services and Metropolitan Developmentby Peter W. Daniels
Routledge 1991; US$ 238.00Explores 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$ 210.00Explores 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$ 150.00Examines 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$ 61.95In 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$ 67.95The 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...
Guide to Highway Law for Architects, Engineers, Surveyorsby R.A. O'Hara
Spon Press 1991; US$ 230.00This book provides practical guidance from the maintenance and improvements of highways to activities related to construction work on or near highways. more...
Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Designby Tom Turner
Routledge 1998; US$ 61.95Part of a series of books on environmental planning, this comprehensive text focuses on environmental impact assessment and design. more...
High-Tech Fantasiesby Doreen Massey; David Wield
Routledge 1991; US$ 68.00The first comprehensive survey and criticism of the economic effectiveness and social impact of science parks. We need to rethink the relation between society, science and space to provide the basis for a socially progressive science. more...