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Urban & Land Use Planning

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  • Shanghai Pudongby Y. Chen

    IOS Press 2007; US$ 104.00

    Shanghai's Pudong development is an example of a situation in which interaction between global and local forces took place in a location whose boundaries had been closed to the outside world for almost forty years. This work attempts to gain an understanding of the role played by global-local interaction towards shaping developments in Pundong. more...

  • Synergy in Polycentric Urban Regionsby E. Meijers

    IOS Press 2007; US$ 55.00

    In understanding and explaining the functioning of cities, contemporary urban and regional studies attribute great significance to relationships between cities. This book focuses on relationships between cities in polycentric urban regions (PURs), which are regions containing proximate but distinct cities that are rather similar in size. more...

  • What Makes a City? Planning for 'Quality of Place'by J.J. Trip

    IOS Press 2007; US$ 104.00

    Urban quality is generally considered increasingly important for urban competitiveness. This study therefore investigates the role of urban quality in large-scale urban redevelopment, which is here elaborated in terms of Richard Florida's concept of quality of place. more...

  • Standards der Zukunft - Wohnbau neu gedacht (German Edition)by Roland Burgard

    Springer 2008; US$ 39.95

    Der Wohnungsbau befindet sich durch tief greifende Veränderungen unserer Gesellschaft  im Umbruch: neues Rollenverständnis der Frau, geänderte Haushaltsstrukturen und ein wachsendes Komfortbedürfnis. Durch das Zusammentreffen vorhersehbarer demographischer, ökologischer und makroökonomischer Umwälzungen wird der Veränderungsdruck noch weiter steigen.... more...

  • Site Furnishingsby Bill Main; Gail Greet Hannah

    Wiley 2009; US$ 75.00

    Introducing the first all-in-one guide to site furniture principles, processes, and best practices Furniture matters—outdoors as well as in. Understanding the connections between site and site furniture enhances the creative opportunities for designers of outdoor spaces and increases their ability to influence the long-term success of the spaces... more...

  • Designing Sustainable Citiesby Rachel Cooper; Graeme Evans; Christopher Boyko

    Wiley 2009; US$ 110.00

    This book offers practical solutions to achieving sustainable urban design and development, and helps designers communicate these solutions effectively to planners, developers and policy makers. Addressing sustainability issues in relation to the design and planning of the urban environment is a complex, multi-disciplinary issue and solutions never... more...

  • State of the World's Cities 2008/9by Un-Habitat

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 48.95

    Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive. They are like a journey that never ends. Their evolution is determined by their ascent into greatness or their descent into decline. They are the past, the present and the future. Cities contain both order and chaos. In them reside beauty and ugliness, virtue... more...

  • Planning with Complexityby Judith E. Innes; David E. Booher

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 33.95

    Analyzing emerging practices of collaboration in planning and public policy to overcome the challenges complexity, fragmentation and uncertainty, the authors present a new theory of collaborative rationality, to help make sense of the new practices. They enquire in detail into how collaborative rationality works, the theories that inform it, and the... more...

  • Bhabha for Architectsby Felipe Hernandez

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 28.95

    The work of Homi K. Bhabha has permeated into numerous publications which use postcolonial discourse as a means to analyze architectural practices in previously colonized contexts, particularly in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East, South-East Asia and, Latin America. Bhabha's use of the concept of ?space? has made his work highly appealing to architects... more...

  • Politics, Planning and Homes in a World Cityby Duncan Bowie

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 53.95

    This is an insightful study of spatial planning and housing strategy in London, focusing on the period 2000-2008 and the Mayoralty of Ken Livingstone. Duncan Bowie presents a detailed analysis of the development of Livingstone?s policies and their consequences. Examining the theory and practice of spatial planning at a metropolitan level, Bowie... more...