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  • Sustainable Development and Planning VIby C. A. BREBBIA

    WIT Press 2013; US$ 712.00

    This book contains the proceedings of the sixth conferences on the topic of sustainable regional development organized by the Wessex Institute of Technology. First held in 2003, the conference facilitates communication between all scientists specialising in the wide range of subjects included within sustainable development and planning. These include... more...

  • Pedestrian- and Transit-Oriented Designby Reid Ewing; Keith Bartholomew

    Urban Land Institute 2013; US$ 59.99

    Explaining how to design spaces for pedestrians while also accommodating transit needs, this book is an excellent reference for students, public sector planners and officials, and private sector designers and developers seeking to make places more pedestrian- and transit-friendly. Written by a noted expert on pedestrian design and planning, this handbook... more...

  • Cities and Natureby Lisa Benton-Short; John Rennie Short

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 51.99

    Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated with in-depth examination of... more...

  • Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning V5by Michael Hibbard; Robert Freestone; Tore Øivin Sager

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 165.00

    Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 5 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning. The topics they address include the effects of globalization... more...

  • Interrogating Feminist Understandings of the Urbanby Linda Peake; Martina Rieker

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 53.95

    In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of women and the neoliberal urban. In a world in which the majority of the population now live in... more...

  • A Guide to Port Sunlight Villageby Edward Hubbard; Michael Shippobottom

    Liverpool University Press 2005; US$ 14.95

    The model industrial village of Port Sunlight was founded by the soap manufacturer W. H. Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) in 1888 for the factory workers of his firm of Lever Brothers. The village was acclaimed from the first as exemplifying the best in English town planning and house design, and greatly influenced subsequent industrial villages such... more...

  • Syntax der Landschaft: Die Landschaftsarchitektur von Peter Latz und Partner (German Edition)by Udo Weilacher

    Springer 2008; US$ 99.00

    Der Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, das Plateau de Kirchberg in Luxemburg, der Parco Dora in Turin und zahlreiche andere Realisierungen von Peter Latz und Partner stehen für einen zeitgemäßen, intelligenten Umgang mit alternativen Umwelttechnologien und dem regenerativen Umbau ganzer Industrielandschaften. In den landschaftsarchitektonischen Entwürfen... more...

  • Urban Design: Health and the Therapeutic Environmentby Paola Signoretta; Kate McMahon Moughtin; J.C. Moughtin

    Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 51.95

    'Urban Design: Health and the Therapeutic Environment' demonstrates how urban design and planning impact on public health and sustainable development. Moughtin et al. explore the concept of what makes a physically and psychologically ?healthy? environment in the context of the paramount need for new homes where living standards are not compromised,... more...

  • The Placemaker's Guide to Building Communityby Nabeel Hamdi

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 34.95

    From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context. Drawing on four decades of practical and teaching experience, the author offers... more...

  • Sustainable Infrastructureby S. Bry Sarte

    Wiley 2010; US$ 85.00

    As more factors, perspectives, and metrics are incorporated into the planning and building process, the roles of engineers and designers are increasingly being fused together. Sustainable Infrastructure explores this trend with in-depth look at sustainable engineering practices in an urban design as it involves watershed master-planning, green building,... more...