Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement—and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement.
A bold reassessment of "e;smart cities"e; that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism-smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration-promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences.
Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to urban design, from a historical overview and basic principles to practical design concepts and strategies.
After years of neurohype and a neuroskeptic backlash, this book provides a systematic analysis of the contributions to self-understanding cognitive neuroscience (CNS) and philosophy can make.
This book is a comparative analysis of the architecture of central public spaces of capital cities in Central and Eastern Europe during the period of their authoritarian and post-authoritarian development.
Mega-events represent an important moment in the life of a city, providing a useful lens through which we may analyse their cultural, social, political and economic development.
It has become increasingly evident that effective planning for sustainable communities, environments and economies pivots on the ability of planners to see the possibilities for culture in comprehensive social, historical and environmental terms and to more fully engage with the cultural practices, processes and theorisation that comprise a social formation.
Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied architecture.
In The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space Teresa Hoskyns explores the relationship of public space to democracy by relating different theories of democracy in political philosophy to spatial theory and spatial and political practice.
An innovative look at design solutions for building lifelong neighborhoods Livable Communities for Aging Populations provides architects and designers with critical guidance on urban planning and building design that allows people to age in their own homes and communities.
This book focuses on developing a holistic sustainability assessment model for built environment that can help in identifying sustainability issues and parameters for the built environment.
Dieses Buch untersucht die Notwendigkeit innovativer Ansätze zur Administrationsdigitalisierung, indem Technologien wie KI, Blockchain und intelligente Prozesse genutzt werden, um den Erwartungen der Bürger gerecht zu werden.
The fourth book in Nadia Amoroso's Representing Landscapes series, this text focuses on traditional methods of visual representation in landscape architectural education.
First published in 1999, this book presents a fresh and diverse set of perspectives representing key directions of research and practice in the field of environmental design research.
Bringing together case studies from several European countries, this book provides an in-depth examination of the evolution of European spatial policy.
Seit mehr als 40 Jahren befasst sich der Architekt und Stadtplaner Jan Gehl damit, Plätze, Straßen, ja ganze Stadtviertel zum Wohle der Bewohner neu oder umzugestalten.
This monograph, now in its 2nd edition with 31 new chapters and significant updates, is the first book of its kind written specifically for graduate students and clinicians.
Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city's uniqueness and make it instantly recognisable.
The environmental legacy of past industrial and agricultural development can simultaneously pose serious threats to human health and impede reuse of contaminated land.
Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented.
The last twenty years have witnessed an important movement in the aspirations of public policy beyond meeting merely material goals towards a range of outcomes captured through the use of the term 'wellbeing'.
A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinkingThe vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning.
Mit Sankt Fronleichnam in Aachen und Sankt Anna in Düren hat Rudolf Schwarz die Baukunst im Abstand eines Vierteljahrhunderts um zwei sakrale Utopien bereichert.
Wir kennen die spezifischen Starken unterschiedlicher Stadte, wissen um ihre Position im Qualitats-Ranking, konnen etwas uber ihre Dichte aussagen und uber ihr Wachstum.
