Regional and area planning

An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the future of cities Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity.

Landscape and Agency explores how landscape, as an idea, a visual medium and a design practice, is organized, appropriated and framed in the transformation of places, from the local to the global.

The concept of community, in all its diverse definitions and manifestations, provides a unique approach to learn more about how groups of individuals and organizations are addressing the challenges posed by climate change.

This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years.

The Power of Culture in City Planning focuses on human diversity, strengths, needs, and ways of living together in geographic communities.

In recent decades, globalization has transformed rural societies and economies across the world.

Public Consultation and Community Involvement in Planning is the definitive introduction to public consultation for developers, students and planners.

This volume discusses the patterns and trends of urbanization in West Bengal - one of the most urbanized states of India in the early part of the 20th Century.

Providing comprehensive information for closing material loops and reducing carbon impacts of site construction, this ground-breaking book is an essential resource for landscape architects and engineers to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century.

Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit.

During the final months of his life, Walt Disney was consumed with the world-wide problems of cities.

Collective Intelligence for Smart Cities begins with an overview of the fundamental issues and concepts of smart cities.

This volume presents a kaleidoscopic view of the norms and forms of contemporary city life, focusing especially on the processes of social capital (de)formation in the urban milieu.

This book examines "e;new tenements"e;-dense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since the 1970s and came with a new positive view on urban living.

This book was first published in 1983.

'This book re-addresses the concepts of neighbourhood and community in a refreshing and challenging way.

In this book, Barrett and Greene present evolving theories of performance management, the practices necessary for a good performance-based government, and the pitfalls that can easily be encountered along the way-andhow to avoid them.

Originally published in 1987, Regenerating the Inner City looks at the changes to Glasgow's East End and how industrial closures and slum clearance projects have caused people to leave.

Focusing on the strategic position of towns in rural development, this book explores how they act as hotspots for knowledge creation, diffusion for vital business life and innovation, and social networks and community bonds.

A basal reinforced piled embankment consists of a reinforced embankment on a pile foundation.

This book opens up a critical dimension of energy transition taking in account multidimensional challenges on economic, social and environmental fields.

Studies of pedestrian behaviour have recently gained a lot of attention in a variety of disciplines, including urban planning, transportation, civil engineering, computer science/artificial intelligence and applied physics.

Written for use in undergraduate and postgraduate planning courses and for those involved in all aspects of the planning process, this comprehensive textbook focuses on environmental impact assessment and design and in particular their impact on planning for the landscape.

Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself.

In the coming decades, the bulk of Africa's anticipated urban population growth will take place in smaller cities.

This book explores how conflicts around access to water shape cities, citizenship and infrastructures by tracing how water is commodified and controlled by the Public Enterprises of Medellin (EPM), one of the most successful publicly owned utility companies in the global South.

Originally published in 1986.

This book explores the planning and architectural histories of the cities across Central and Southeastern Europe transformed into the cultural and political capitals of the new nationstates created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

South East Queensland has been one of the fastest growing regions of Australia, both in terms of its rapidly growing population and an ever-expanding built environment.

This volume explores new opportunities to reshape local economies in rural areas during the next decade by exploring successful efforts already underway.

Titel: Grüne Oasen in der Stadt: Die transformative Kraft von Dach- und FassadenbegrünungBeschreibung:Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt der Dach- und Fassadenbegrünung und erfahren Sie, wie grüne Oasen in der Stadt die Lebensqualität verbessern, die Umwelt schützen und architektonische Innovationen vorantreiben.

Geodesign, Urban Digital Twins, and Futures explores systems, processes, and novel technologies for planning, mapping, and designing our built environment.

From citrus trees to spring breakers, Transforming the Irvine Ranch tells the story of Orange County's metamorphosis from 93,000 acres of farmland into an iconic Southern California landscape of beaches and modernist architecture.

This book concerns the study of open-air accommodation facilities.

We hear the term "e;sustainability"e; everywhere today.

This Element examines the modern city as a propertied space, defining real estate as a technology possession.

Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making under uncertainty.

Multi-owned properties make up an ever-increasing proportion of commercial, tourist and residential development, in both urban and rural landscapes around the world.

While it is widely recognized that architects and their architecture play a key role in constructing a sense of place, the inherent nexus between an architectural ideology and the production of national space and place has so far been neglected.

"e;Localism"e; has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods.

Originally published in 1963, this book was the first to survey the rural transport problem as a whole, and it includes the results of extensive research in an important but until then neglected field.

Sustainability has become the key challenge for urban planners, housing and infrastructure policy makers.

A context of aging populations and urbanization has sparked a global movement to make urban spaces age-friendly.