Der dänische Architekt Jan Gehl, einer der weltweit wohl bekanntesten Stadtplaner, erläutert in seinem Buch Leben zwischen Häusern die fundamentale Bedeutung sensibler Raumplanung für ein gutes Zusammenleben in unseren Städten.
This edited volume draws attention to the interlinked yet understudied relationship between the role of cities in dealing with international displacement and forced migration and the influence of forced migration in stimulating spatial, societal, and institutional transformations in and of cities.
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.
Analysing the evolution of Lahore's social organization, culture and ideologies since Pakistan's independence in 1947, this book explores how social and cultural changes affect the social economy, spatial structure and the urban environment.
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.
This edited volume draws attention to the interlinked yet understudied relationship between the role of cities in dealing with international displacement and forced migration and the influence of forced migration in stimulating spatial, societal, and institutional transformations in and of cities.
Analysing the evolution of Lahore's social organization, culture and ideologies since Pakistan's independence in 1947, this book explores how social and cultural changes affect the social economy, spatial structure and the urban environment.
The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time when humans have the power to impact the Earth system.
This book presents a systematic analysis of challenges in the field of Geographical Information Systems and Science, geographical analysis, and regional science for Ontario, one of the fastest-changing provinces in Canada and one of North America's largest economic hubs.
This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities.
This book presents a systematic analysis of challenges in the field of Geographical Information Systems and Science, geographical analysis, and regional science for Ontario, one of the fastest-changing provinces in Canada and one of North America's largest economic hubs.
A comprehensive consolidation of data for the world, this book gives a short precis of each nation, each nation's history, its topography and a chronology of the development of geodetic surveying and coordinate systems for that specific nation.
A comprehensive consolidation of data for the world, this book gives a short precis of each nation, each nation's history, its topography and a chronology of the development of geodetic surveying and coordinate systems for that specific nation.
In Waste Works, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana's planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life.
Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, the second in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.
This book examines the growing trend for housing models that shrink private living space and seeks to understand the implications of these shrinking domestic worlds.
This book examines the growing trend for housing models that shrink private living space and seeks to understand the implications of these shrinking domestic worlds.
Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived Emplacement is a compilation of seventeen previously published articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost researchers in environmental, architectural, and place phenomenology.
To ensure a fair criminal trial, effective sentencing advocacy is needed in every stage of prosecution, from investigation through plea, trial and sentencing hearings.
In Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality: Volume 2 Tom Woolley uses new research to continue to advocate for limiting the use of hazardous materials in construction and raise awareness of the links between pollutants found in building materials, poor indoor air quality and health problems.
"Stadtluft macht frei" – dieses mittelalterliche Rechtssprichwort,das den in die Stadt gekommenen LeibeigenenFreiheit versprach, bestimmt auch in der Neuzeit die Hoffnungauf mehr Freiheit in den Städten.
"Frankfurter Straßennamen erzählen", was Frankfurter schon immer über ihre Straßen wissen wollten "Kegelbahn", "Katzenpforte" und "Klappergasse" – was steckt hinter manchen Frankfurter Straßennamen?
Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state institutions and informal economies.
Adam writes like nobody else, his fierce poetic power as inescapable as the doom that waits for his charactershis touch is that of a master in the making.
