Regional and area planning

A complete, up-to-date infrastructure planning resourceThoroughly revised to address sustainability and the latest codes and regulations, Infrastructure Planning, Engineering and Economics, Second Edition, describes the full range of skills necessary to plan, implement, upgrade, and maintain infrastructure projects in the public sector.

Making People-Friendly Towns explores the way our towns and cities, particularly their central areas, look and feel to all their users and discusses their design, maintenance and management.

From the 1890s through World War II, the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of power but in urban school districts and classrooms.

This book covers all the main aspects of government policy and practice in British inner city regeneration.

The city is the home of prosperity.

Rapid urbanization of economic zones in China has resulted in a special social phenomenon: "e;villages-in-the-city.

Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs.

Investigating Jewish spatial practices by exploring the symbol of the house in Judaism, this book examines two groups of houses: ritual objects based on the iconology of the house (ritual houses) and house metaphors (the text, community and the covenant with god as house).

The 15th Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) conference considered the issues of sustainability and environmental friendliness at the city scale.

Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis.

Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book PrizeThis cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose.

Exploring sports event management from a Caribbean, small island developing state perspective, this volume uses the events of the recently held Cricket World Cup 2007 (CWC 2007) as a launching pad for identifying best practices and the way forward.

The world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often associated with cities are far from equitably or sustainably distributed.

This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management in Southern Africa.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

Redesigning the Unremarkable is a timely and necessary reminder that the often neglected elements and spaces of our built environment - from trash bins, seats, stairways, and fences to streets, bikeways, underpasses, parking lots, and shopping centres - must be thoughtfully redesigned to enhance human and planetary health.

Constructing the Persuasive Portfolio helps you learn the art of designing a compelling and effective architectural portfolio.

This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of 'urban reinvention' in Berlin between 1989 and 2011.

A History of Design Institutes in China examines the intricate relationship between design institutes, the state, and, in later periods, the market economy through a carefully situated discussion of significant theoretical and historical issues including socialist utopia, collective and individual design, structural transformation, and architectural exportation, amongst others.

Dieser Band lässt den Leser den Planungsbetrieb des Architekten und den Lebenszyklus eines Gebäudes aus bauökonomischem Blickwinkel erfahren und ist in folgende Themenabschnitte gegliedert: A - Die Aufgaben des Architekten und sein Büro B - Der Betrieb von Gebäuden und baulichen Anlagen C - Der Erhalt von Gebäuden und baulichen Anlagen.

In the past decade construction and engineering have changed dramatically, with an explosion of innovative new approaches to construction and new methodologies.

This book presents several perspectives on the COVID-19 crisis as it impacted the United States, focusing on policies, practices, and patterns.

This book looks at the transition from New Labour's 'Spatial Planning' approach to the Coalition Government's preferred 'Localism' approach.

During the 1960s, building sites in Paris became spaces that expressed preoccupations about urban transformation, labour immigration and national identity.

Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues today.

Drawing on evidence from urban resilience initiatives around the globe, the authors make a compelling argument for a "e;resilience reset"e;, a pause and stocktake that critically examines the concepts, practices and challenges of building resilience, particularly in cities of the Global South.

Shaping Smart for Better Cities powerfully demonstrates the range of theoretical and practical challenges, opportunities and success factors involved in successfully deploying digital technologies in cities, focusing on the importance of recognizing local context and multi-layered urban relationships in designing successful urban interventions.

Women continue to be extremely under-represented in the architectural profession.

Should rural Britain be preserved from urban development, or should people be allowed to live and shop where they want?

FRONT TO BACK sees urban housing as places to live rather than individual buildings.

Over the past two decades Americans have become increasingly skeptical about the benefits of community growth and hostile to new taxes--while continuing to demand improvements in local services.

Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain.

APA's popular primer for citizens is all new!

Large-scale development is once again putting Toronto's waterfront at the leading edge of change.

First published in 1986.

This book explores the relationship between the production of new urban spaces and illiberal community-making in contemporary India.

International Exhibitions and Urbanism provides an insightful and comprehensive historical review of international exhibitions in its first half, which is then illustrated with a thorough technical analysis of the Zaragoza 2008 project in its second half.

Originally published in 1986, The High Middle Ages begins in the late twelfth century and ends, not with the arrival of the Tudor monarchs in 1485, but with the destruction of the wealth and power of the Church in the 1530s.

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jargon and derived from their existing knowledge.

Are you curious about smart cities?

Elemental Architecture presents a new and refreshing approach to sustainable architectural practice.

The Principles of Housing is an engaging and discursive introduction to the key topics within housing studies.

Large, modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature.

With a practical approach to theory, Designing the City of Reason offers new perspectives on how differing belief systems and philosophical approaches impact on city design and development, exploring how this has changed before, during and after the impact of modernism in all its rationalism.

This book takes as its starting point the need to examine critically the case for landscape reconnection.

Praise for the first edition: 'This book should be of interest to anyone interested in sustainable development, and especially sustainability indicators.

Housing is crucial to the quality of life and wellbeing for individuals and familes, but the availability of adequate or affordable housing also plays a vital role in community economic development.