City and town planning: architectural aspects

This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in post-independence India.

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls wilderburbs have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of the suburbs.

This book provides an analysis of nature satisfaction, nature relatedness, and the motivations for using urban green spaces.

This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand "e;the mind-body problem"e;.

By focusing on the skyscraping transnational building, this book bridges two key debates on the transformation and emerging problems besetting major cities - globalization and ecological and sustainable building design.

With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe.

This companion to Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses shows how the principles and concepts of urban design can be applied and implemented in a range of real-world settings.

Foreword by Adrian Forty.

When considering the successful design of cities, the focus tends to be on famous examples such as Paris or Rome, with equally successful but smaller and more remote examples being ignored.

This essential provides planning-relevant information on architectural psychology concepts and empirical results on the effects of built environments on people, and provides guidance on how to optimize the relationship between people and the built environment.

Originally published in 1956, this book provides a non-technical analysis of contemporary building by on the of the world's greatest architects.

Following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, people began to discuss and visualize the ways in which the urban structure of the city could be reorganized.

1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement.

This vivid book is an inquiry into the stagnation between the development of architectural practice and the progress in urban modernization.

The book focuses on original approaches intended to support the development of biologically inspired cognitive architectures.

Design for a democratic society was a matter of urgency in bombed-out postwar Europe.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Das Stadtbild Alt-Dresdens" verfügbar.

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating.

The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urban corollary: it caused the proliferation of unplanned parts of the cities that are identified by a plethora of terminologies such as bidonville, favela, ghetto, informal settlements, and shantytown.

In this enthralling book, Ben Alderson-Day explores one of the most curious experiences known to humankind: the universal, disturbing sense that someone or something is there when we are alone - the feeling of an unseen presence.

In cities throughout the world, there is an increasingly ubiquitous presence of distinct social and spatial areas - urban villages, cultural and ethnic quarters.

The past few decades have seen universities take on a leading role in urban development, actively providing public services beyond teaching and research.

Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions.

The fourth book in Nadia Amoroso's Representing Landscapes series, this text focuses on traditional methods of visual representation in landscape architectural education.

With its celebrated World Heritage List, UNESCO steers the global heritage agenda through the definition and redefinition of what constitutes heritage and by offering the highest-level forum for heritage professionalism.

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As urban populations grow unprecedentedly, cities worldwide face pressures from rapid expansion, climate change, and social inequalities.

This volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming coastal lands, traditional societies, and national economies in new ways.

Data Visualization for Design Thinking helps you make better maps.

Water City offers practical solutions to some of the environmental challenges facing 21st-century cities as a result of climate change.

In recent decades, the development of advanced weaponry systems and the instant flow of information have redefined the notion of urban warfare as a local phenomenon with global effects in an increasingly interconnected world.

Ce livre interroge une tendance de l’architecture qui a pris un relief tout à fait remarquable à la fin du XXe siècle : celle du recours à l’architecture dite iconique associée à des starchitectes.

How do we move from defensive tactics that respond to the latest stages of capitalist urbanization, to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes and putting into practice alternative forms of urban life?

Biophilic Urbanism provides readers with the tools to create more nature-based urban environments that are climate positive, sustainable, and healthy.

Merging together the fields of urban ecology, environmental justice, and urban environmental education, Urban Ecosystem Justice promotes building fair, accessible, and mutually beneficial relationships between citizens and the soils, water, atmospheres, and biodiversity in their cities.

The relationship between public and private spheres is one of the key concerns of the modern society.

Originally published in 1988, reissued now with a new series introduction, New Directions in Environmental Participation was the third in a trilogy of books to open the series Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences.

Overcrowding, noise and air pollution, long commutes and lack of daylight can take a huge toll on the mental well-being of city-dwellers.

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934-2015).

This book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities.

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO RESIDENTIAL DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTS AND CLIENTS Written by a successful practitioner of both residential and commercial architecture, this hands-on resource enables you to transfer and expand your architectural design skills and successfully integrate single-family residential design into your professional practice.

The book analyzes and compares the architectural characteristics of four Armenian colonies from the beginning of the eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth century: Gherla/Szamosujvar, Dumbraveni/Erzsebetvaros, Gheorgheni/Gyergyoszentmiklos and Frumoasa/Csikszepviz.

The housing crisis confronts two of North America's contemporary urban challenges: affordability and the need to curtail urban sprawl through densification of existing communities.

Hailed as "e;extraordinarily learned"e; (New York Times), "e;blithe in spirit and unerring in vision,"e; (New York Magazine), and the "e;definitive record of New York's architectural heritage"e; (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky's book is an essential reference for everyone with an interest in architecture and those who simply want to know more about New York City.

This book explores urban resilience through significant, original and rigorous academic research, utilising the experiences of town planners, architects and decision makers to create a charter on resilient communities.

A practical guide to the assessment, diagnosis, and management of dementia and mild cognitive impairment for healthcare professionals.

The concept of the neoliberal city has become a key structuring analytical framework in the field of urban studies.

The amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combining fantasy architecture, new technology, ersatz danger, spectacle and consumption in a new mass experience.