Regional and area planning

Written to complement civil engineers' technical knowledge, this book explains the sociocultural contextual knowledge that civil engineers need if they are to be effective in their professions.

Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area.

Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities.

Book Award Finalist for Urban Design Group Awards 2020 Lighting has the power to illuminate and enhance our experience within the built environment.

Smart Cities are fascinating, but they also have a dark side that little is said or written about.

Drawing from empirical analyses, case studies, and a synthesis of best practices, this book explores how innovation manifests itself in rural places and how it contributes to entrepreneurial development and resilience.

Third in the series, this book addresses the social implications of architectural and interpersonal environments for older people.

Contemporary Urban Planning, 12e provides students with an unvarnished and in depth introduction to the historic, economic, political, legal, ideological, and environmental factors affecting urban planning today.

This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India in terms of the physical, economic, social, political, and environmental aspects of urban geography, and focuses upon the inherent processes that impact its transformation.

This book is an evaluation of the effectiveness of housing enforcement and tenant protection in England's private rented sector using policy analysis to evaluate regulatory provisions and local authority guidance to identify the advantages and limitations of existing policies.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression.

Learn to draft and sew your own customized clothes that fit you perfectly and make you feel fantastic.

A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.

German federal states and municipalities have engaged in decentralised development co-operation (DDC) since the 1950s.

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on 'territory' and 'landscape'.

The years between 1776 and 1851 are of profound importance for the social and urban historian.

Illustrated by critical analyses of significant buildings, including examples by such eminent architects as Adler and Sullivan, Erich Mendelsohn, and Louis Kahn, this book examines collaboration in the architectural design process over a period ranging from the mid-19th century to the late 1960s.

This book provides unique perspectives into newly changed political and socioeconomic urban landscapes due to COVID-19 in diverse cities and aims to provide ways to improve the resilience of cities using a global perspective, especially in a post-pandemic era.

Interdisciplinary contributors from across Europe and the USA join together in this book to provide a timely overview of the latest theories and policies related to transport networks.

Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades.

This book presents a case study of one of Latin America's most important and symbolic spaces, the Zocalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic events and corresponding morphological changes in the urban environment.

In this multi-authored book, senior practitioners and researchers offer an international overview of landscape character approaches for those working in research, policy and practice relating to landscape.

The go-to guide for sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional levelFully revised and updated, Toward Sustainable Communities is the definitive guide to the why, the what, and most importantly, the how of creating resilient, healthy, equitable, and prosperous places.

Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness.

An examination of how post-9/11 security concerns have transformed the public view and governance of infrastructure.

This introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an understanding of agricultural and agribusiness law.

When Lyon's population experienced significant growth in the eighteenth century, architect Jean-Antoine Morand made a radical proposal: France's second city would expand across the river Rhone, making him rich in the process.

This book gives a broad coverage of modern restoration and the management needed after restoration.

The concept of governance has evolved into one of the most important but also controversial concepts in urban politics.

Violence and insecurity are among the most important issues facing communities in the 21st century.

This book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsider urban walking and urban spaces in ways which extend into the digital sphere of online dialogue and screen sharing.

This book tells you everything you need to know about international construction: the companies, their markets, the types of projects they build, how they compete and operate and how it affects us all.

This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of ecological wisdom (EW).

As the ongoing Flint water crisis marks its tenth anniversary, Chariton reveals shocking new evidence of the major government cover-up that resulted in the poisoning of Flint-and shatters what you think you know about what caused the water crisis.

This book examines sanitation and toilet access across rural India, focusing on psychological, socio-cultural, infrastructural, and normative barriers to the initiative of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM).

Walking Cities: London (second edition) brings together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers and philosophers to consider how a city walk informs and triggers new processes of making, thinking, researching and communicating.

This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europe's large cities.

This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global climate change and inequity.

The Arab World is perceived to be a region rampant with constructed and ambiguous national identities, overwhelming wealth and poverty, religious diversity, and recently the Arab uprisings, a bottom-up revolution shaking the foundations of pre-established, long-standing hierarchies.

Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation.

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.

Remarkably, more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and the numbers grow daily as people abandon rural areas.

City-making is an art, not a formula.

Cities and city regions are undergoing rapid transformation.

This book provides a comprehensive framework for analysing, comparing and promoting territorial governance in policy relevant research.

During the twentieth century, an increasingly diverse range of buildings and spaces was used for theatre.

Seaport gateways and the corridors which connect them to widely dispersed hinterlands are of vital and essential importance to international trade and the world economy.