Student communities are without doubt a strategic resource for urban development and students are the citizens and the high-skilled working class of tomorrow.
Growing student numbers, increased student expectations, new approaches to learning, and fast-paced technological advances all contribute to the need for universities to take a more strategic approach to their buildings, including formal and informal learning spaces.
A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and restrictive covenants.
The principal barrier to the introduction of more sustainable disposal methods has previously been thought to be the lack of both available knowledge and an awareness of the benefits and ease of these systems.
Affordable Housing Preservation in Washington, DC uses the case of Washington, DC to examine the past, present, and future of subsidized and unsubsidized affordable housing through the lenses of history, governance, and affordable housing policy and planning.
The book explores how unused and under-used urban spaces - from grass verges, roundabouts, green spaces - have been made more visually interesting and more productive, by informal (and usually illegal) groups known as "e;guerrilla gardeners"e;.
Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event.
This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations.
En estas paginas se desvela la realidad de las victimas del conflicto armado en Mocoa, un municipio donde el 50 % de la poblacion se encuentra en esta condicion.
We all want cities, where more than half of the world's population currently live, to be just, successful, clean, fair, green, sustainable, safe, healthy and affordable.
Esta publicación reúne las tesis defendidas en la jornada celebrada en el 2015 entre la Universitat de Valencia y el colectivo de institutos de estudios comarcales y municipales, centrada en un tema clave y de actualidad cómo es el análisis y debate en torno a los resultados de las elecciones locales de 2015 y sus repercusiones territoriales en la escala local valenciana.
In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
A lo largo del siglo XX, las ciudades latinoamericanas experimentaron un vertiginoso proceso de urbanización, acompañado por una débil institucionalidad pública.
El trabajo versa sobre la necesidad de entender, analizar y valorar la Construcción Social del Hábitat como una herramienta fundamental a la hora de construir un orden urbano basado en la inclusión, en la apropiación responsable de la ciudad, y en el derecho a la diferencia que, desde el planteamiento topo (lugar) - fílico (afectivo) que acompaña estas páginas, preyace en los postulados de toda auténtica gobernabilidad democrática.
Durante años, el principal objetivo de las investigaciones urbanas en España consistió en estudiar las raíces del intenso proceso urbanizador asociado a la burbuja inmobiliaria.
El presente texto está basado principalmente en el análisis de dos encuestas llevadas a cabo por la Unidad de Gestión de la Red Rural Nacional (RRN) durante la primera mitad de 2018.
As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "e;authentic"e; urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops.
As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "e;authentic"e; urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops.
This book is aimed at the majority of us who live in terraced houses, high rise flats, town houses and semi-detached properties with a small garden and often nowhere to grow but the patio.
