City and town planning: architectural aspects

This is the first book to address the design needs of older people in the outdoor environment.

Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it.

Die Sehnsucht nach allgemeingültigen Gestaltungsprinzipien tritt seit den Zeiten der Aufklärung in unterschiedlichen Formen in der Architekturtheorie auf.

The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos.

This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people.

Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society.

In the era of the Anthropocene, site matters are more pressing than ever.

Das seit 1970 als Handbuch für Architekten und Bauingenieure etablierte Standardwerk STÄDTEBAU erscheint jetzt in der auf den neuesten Stand gebrachten Fassung in seiner 5.

First published in 1984, this book addresses key questions about the pattern of urban development in Southern Europe and the mechanisms employed to control and regulate this development in individual countries.

Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making under uncertainty.

This book unravels China's new megaregional structure, new megaregional planning and development, new megaregional governance, and new regional planning system.

This book is an unusual attempt to study urban regeneration.

Shaping Terrain shows how the physical landscape and local ecology have influenced human settlement and built form in Latin America since pre-Columbian times.

Sound and listening are intrinsically linked to how we experience and engage with places and communities.

Winner of the International Labor History Association (ILHA) 2023 Book of the Year Award for labor historyFor more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers fighting to make cities livable and democratic.

Civic Spaces and Desire presents an original and critical appraisal of civic spaces for a novel theoretical intersection of architecture and human geography.

'Urban Design: Health and the Therapeutic Environment' demonstrates how urban design and planning impact on public health and sustainable development.

What do you communicate when you draw an industrial landscape using charcoal; what about a hyper-realistic PhotoShop collage method?

Cognitive neuroscience, once a specialized area of psychology and biology, has enjoyed increased worldwide legitimacy in the last thirty years not only in psychiatry and mental health, but also in fields as diverse as education, economics, marketing, and law.

The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains workWe see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that?

As cities evolve and resources shift with time, spaces within those cities are often left fallow and abandoned.

Urban Regeneration - A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change explores and offers guidance on the complex process of how to transform cities, continuing the unfinished project of the seminal 1999 text Towards an Urban Renaissance.

This book combines theory and practice with typical cases study.

This state-of-the-art book brings together the full range of issues that can inform care for patients experiencing the effects of concussion.

The papers included in this volume highlight research and practice in child and adolescent mental health from around the world.

Calibrating Coastal Resilience presents a conceptual reimagining of place in the era of climate change.

Placing theme parks from the United States, Europe and Asia in a comparative, multidisciplinary framework, this fascinating book argues that these fantasy environments are an extreme example of the totalization of public space.

Over the past fifty years, local government in Europe has been confronted with escalating scales of production, population migration and market pressures.

Les micro-espaces de la santé incitent à renouveler l’approche géographique de l’habitat.

There have been five different settings that at one time or another have contained the dead body of Mustafa Kemal AtatArk, organizer of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and first president of the Republic of Turkey.

Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by soundWhat is the meaning of a bird's song, a baboon's bark, an owl's hoot, or a dolphin's clicks?

Space, place and territory are concepts that lie at the core of geography and urban planning, environmental studies and sociology.

Dreams + Disillusions explores the plethora of ideas and ideologies that have shaped and reshaped cities in profound ways.

Le mouvement de métropolisation, engagé en France dans les années 1960, et fortement accentué sous l’effet de la loi de réforme des collectivités territoriales de 2010 par la création des métropoles et des pôles métropolitains, puis amplifié par la loi MAPTAM, suscite nombre d’interrogations et figure aujourd’hui au centre du débat public.

The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanization investigates the mutual relationship between the struggle for political inclusion and processes of informal urbanization in different socio-political and cultural settings.

The first choice among land development engineers, this edition is newly updated and expanded.

Taking on the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development.

Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick.

Windows Upon Planning History delves into a wide range of perspectives on urbanism from Europe, Australia and the USA to investigate the effects of changing perceptions and different ways of seeing cities and urban regions.

Cities and Their Vital Systems asks basic questions about the longevity, utility, and nature of urban infrastructures; analyzes how they grow, interact, and change; and asks how, when, and at what cost they should be replaced.

The problem of creating affordable, adequate housing for a growing population is not a new one.

The form and layout of a built environment has a significant influence on crime by creating opportunities for it and, in turn, shaping community crime patterns.

A major new theory of why human intelligence has not evolved in other speciesThe Human Evolutionary Transition offers a unified view of the evolution of intelligence, presenting a bold and provocative new account of how animals and humans have followed two powerful yet very different evolutionary paths to intelligence.

Global Sustainable Communities Handbook is a guide for understanding and complying with the various international codes, methods, and legal hurtles surrounding the creation of sustainable communities all over the world.