City and town planning: architectural aspects

Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing.

Dieses Buch prasentiert die aktuellen stadtebaulichen und architektonischen Entwicklungen in Fernost.

Drawing on detailed design, construction and financial histories of six prominent Performing Arts buildings with budgets ranging from AGBP3.

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores cultural shifts that result from gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of racially and economically marginalized groups are appropriated or erased by the introduction luxury real estate and retail branding.

First published in 1990, this title presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney, who served for many years as President of both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the International Union of Architects.

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Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, is a former colony of the British Empire which today prides itself in being a multicultural society par excellence.

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

This volume of three books presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on the application of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems).

Bei jedem stadtebaulichen Entwurf, bei jedem Eingriff in die raumliche Struktur offentlicher stadtischer Raume stellt sich die Frage nach der Komposition und den raumlichen Qualitaten von Platzen.

In den Ost-Berliner Ortsteilen Pankow und Grünau entstanden ab April 1949 auf Anregung der Sowjetischen Militäradministration drei Siedlungen mit insgesamt 93 Häusern, in denen hervorragende Persönlichkeiten der sogenannten Intelligenz in der SBZ/DDR untergebracht wurden.

Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City is the first cultural history of major new parks developed in Paris in the late twentieth century, as part of the city's program of adaptive reuse of industrial spaces.

Social design-the practice of designing for poverty relief-is one of the most popular fields in contemporary architecture.

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Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and economic and social development.

It is increasingly important to define what constitutes the unique character of our neighbourhoods, in order to identify what we value and should protect, to pinpoint areas for improvement and places which could be enhanced through sensitive change.

'Nature' and the 'city' have most often functioned as opposites within Western culture, a dichotomy that has been reinforced (and sometimes challenged) by religious images.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book illustrates how and why cities are comprised by a mosaic of vulnerable human and ecological communities.

Design High-Performance Alternative Energy Systems for BuildingsA comprehensive reference for architects and engineers, this GreenSource book provides practical design and installation guidelines for some of the most commercially viable alternative energy technologies.

This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings.

How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design in both student and professional examples.

In recent years, the rapid pace of tall building construction has fostered a certain kind of placelessness, with many new tall buildings being built out of scale, context and place.

The Architecture Portfolio Guidebook shows you how to make portfolios for both academic and professional needs to provide reviewers exactly what they are looking for.

Dans les dernières années, des actes de vandalisme « antigentrification » visant des petits commerces ont considérablement tendu le débat public montréalais, désormais polarisé entre les tenants d’une revitalisation des quartiers en déclin et une mouvance critique cherchant à attirer l’attention sur les inégalités de classes dans l’appropriation de l’espace urbain.

Second homes have become an increasingly important component of both tourism and housing studies.

This book offers an overview of India's emerging digital economy and the resulting challenges and opportunities for urban workplaces.

In his international bestseller The Power of Habit, Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Duhigg explained why we do what we do.

The design of urban environments is complex and involves diverse needs, organisations, professions, authorities, and communities.

Urbanisation and climate change are among the major challenges for sustainable development in Africa.

How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livableThe design of every aspect of the urban landscape-from streets and sidewalks to green spaces, mass transit, and housing-fundamentally influences the health and safety of the communities who live there.

In the past two decades economic bubbles inflated and architectural spending around the globe reached fever pitch.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

By 2025, China will have built fifteen new 'supercities' each with 25 million inhabitants.

Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands.

Design Pedagogy explains why it is vital for design students that their education helps them construct a 'passport' to enter the professional sphere.

GNSS can detect the seismic atmospheric-ionospheric variations, which can be used to investigate the seismo-atmospheric disturbance characteristics and provide insights on the earthquake.

This book offers a controversial reanalysis of the rise and dominance of managerialist approaches to development.

Received the Environmental Design Research Association's 2014 Place Book AwardShortlisted for the UDG Francis Tibbalds Book Award 2014Good cities are places of social encounter.

This book focuses on the ways in which military installations and small cities can implement and integrate triple net planning and energy, water, and waste sustainability strategies into broad installation operational management, arrive at the best decision, create policy and communicate effectively to stakeholders.

Das Lehr- und Grundlagenbuch „Städtebauliches Entwerfen“ gibt angehenden Architekten, Stadt- und Landschaftsplanern Hilfestellung bei der Bearbeitung von städtebaulichen Projekten und Entwürfen.

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

Some thirty years ago the small Metropolitan County of Grotton found itself bathed in the bright glare of publicity as The Grotton Papers lifted the lid on the inner workings of the six planning departments of this hitherto little remarked corner of England.

The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world.

This book demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in integrated, climate-optimised urban development.