An updated and expanded new edition of an acclaimed book about how to make public transportation work better for everyoneTransportation expert Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus on the underlying geometry that all transit systems share.
The world's largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting roadways, are frequently hailed as a marvel and triumph of engineering.
In the nineteenth century, Manhattan's streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours.
Sustainable Visions: An Architect's Critique of Modern MauritiusBy Rambassun (Sandeep) SewpalIn this compelling and timely collection, acclaimed Mauritian architect Rambassun Sewpal offers a bold, critical examination of an island nation at a crossroads.
A comprehensive blueprint for fixing America s cities and towns, updated and expanded This book should be required reading in schools of urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture, and an understanding of it should be part of the licensing requirements for civil, traffic, and transportation engineers.
'In the craven world of architectural criticism Hatherley is that rarest of things: a brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies' Will SelfDuring the course of the twentieth century, communism took power in Eastern Europe and remade the city in its own image.
RECIPIENT of the Mom's Choice Award® Gold — Honoring ExcellenceFINALIST — 2026 Literary Global Children's Book Awards (Nonfiction Category) WINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award From the So You Want To Be A… Series — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Grand Prize WinnerWhat does it really take to become a surgeon — not in the movies, but in real life?
This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a "e;dream state"e; inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice's work and exploring path from Porto to the world.
RECIPIENT of the Mom's Choice Award® Gold — Honoring ExcellenceWINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award From the So You Want To Be A… Series — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Grand Prize Winner What if the person who saves someone's life twenty years from now is sitting in a classroom right now, wondering what it actually takes to become a doctor?
WINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award From the So You Want To Be A… Series — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Grand Prize Winner The pathogen is identified.
A biography of an unsung Victorian hero, Joseph Paxton was the man behind the garden design at Chatsworth and the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Hier verschmelzen Leidenschaft und Architektur zu einem Gesamtkunstwerk: 45 spektakuläre internationale Projekte zeigen, wie Automobile, Sammlungen und Wohnräume neu gedacht und inszeniert werden.
This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a "e;dream state"e; inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice's work and exploring path from Porto to the world.
WINNER — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Award (1st Place): Animals/Pets · Green Books/Environmental · STEMRECIPIENT of the Mom's Choice Award® Gold — Honoring ExcellenceWINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award WINNER — 2026 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award, Best Children's Book (Preteen) From the So You Want To Be A… Series — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Grand Prize Winner Seventy-one percent of this planet is ocean, and most of it has never been seen by human eyes.
To present at a single glance a comprehensive view of the History of English Church Architecture from the Heptarchy to the Reformation, and to do this in a manner, which, without taxing too seriously the memory of the student, may enable him to fix in his mind the limits, and the general outline of the inquiry he is about to enter upon, is the object of the present treatise.
WINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book AwardFrom the So You Want To Be A… Series — 2026 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards, Grand Prize Winner The call can come at any hour.
A SUNDAY TIMES DESIGN BOOK OF THE YEAR_________________________________________The definitive guide for harnessing the power of colour to improve your happiness, wellbeing and confidenceWouldn't you like to boost your confidence simply by slipping on 'that' yellow jumper?
Este libro examina la importancia de los viajes formativos en la arquitectura como experiencia educativa, como fuente de conocimiento y herramienta de proyecto.
Wenige Architekturen sind in Deutschland so mit Bedeutung aufgeladen wie Synagogen – darunter besonders jene, die in den ersten Jahrzehnten nach dem Holocaust errichtet wurden: Jüdische Neubauten dieser Art gelten zumindest in der BRD als Beleg für eine geleistete 'Wiedergutmachung' für die systematische Zerstörung jüdischen Lebens und jüdischer Architektur durch den Nationalsozialismus.
WINNER: Choice Reviews - Outstanding Academic Title, 2024The traditional linear supply chain is no longer fit for purpose, and organizations must redesign their supply chains to become more customer-driven, agile, resilient and sustainable.
