Planning for Community A comprehensive exploration of community planning that integrates today s social and economic issues with policy and governance considerations In Planning for Community, distinguished regional and local planner Phil Heywood delivers an insightful examination of the accelerating impacts of social, environmental, and economic changes on community life and organization.
Planning for Community A comprehensive exploration of community planning that integrates today s social and economic issues with policy and governance considerations In Planning for Community, distinguished regional and local planner Phil Heywood delivers an insightful examination of the accelerating impacts of social, environmental, and economic changes on community life and organization.
[A] page-turning story Times Literary Supplement Eye-opening Michael Billington A detailed and highly compelling story that involves so much more than bricks and mortar.
[A] page-turning story Times Literary Supplement Eye-opening Michael Billington A detailed and highly compelling story that involves so much more than bricks and mortar.
Arguing that a gulf exists between design and construction, between conceptual thinking and the constructed building, this book explores projects and practices that span the gap by thinking through materials and processes with what Howeler calls a tectonic imagination.
Tensegrity structures are pre-stressed systems of cables and bars in which no bar is connected to the other and the structure has no continuous rigid skeleton.
Tensegrity structures are pre-stressed systems of cables and bars in which no bar is connected to the other and the structure has no continuous rigid skeleton.
The book is a poetic and philosophic meditation on Thoreau's work, highlighting a "e;Pedagogy of awakening"e;, that is, a path towards a non-dual and enlightening experience with Nature, a possible answer to the need of addressing the urgency and necessity of our troubled times.
This book provides a multi-scale reading of the spatial "e;elements"e; in which the extensive urbanity in Yangtze River Delta is constructed, and from there an imagination of a new paradigm of urbanization.
Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains contested.
The tenth edition of Hall and Greeno's leading textbook has been reviewed and updated in relation to the latest building, wiring and water regulations, new technology and new legislation.
The tenth edition of Hall and Greeno's leading textbook has been reviewed and updated in relation to the latest building, wiring and water regulations, new technology and new legislation.
Designed Landscapes is a case-by-case study of 37 significant, existing works of landscape design worldwide, largely constructed since the Renaissance.
Designed Landscapes is a case-by-case study of 37 significant, existing works of landscape design worldwide, largely constructed since the Renaissance.
This book aims to explore how sustainability transitions can be explored in current and future cities and how research and policy approaches can be applied to change urban life as we know it, hence aligning the two thematic of urban science and future science, for achieving deep decarbonization.
This book aims to explore how sustainability transitions can be explored in current and future cities and how research and policy approaches can be applied to change urban life as we know it, hence aligning the two thematic of urban science and future science, for achieving deep decarbonization.
This book aims to cover most subject areas of green infrastructure such as components, multi-functionality, and integration to build environment, contribution to urban sustainability, sustainable and smart city development, urban climate change nexus, green buildings and rating systems, economic assessment, and quantification of green infrastructure.
The book is a poetic and philosophic meditation on Thoreau's work, highlighting a "e;Pedagogy of awakening"e;, that is, a path towards a non-dual and enlightening experience with Nature, a possible answer to the need of addressing the urgency and necessity of our troubled times.
In 1277, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Gwynedd, met with Edward I of England in Aberconwy to finalise a treaty that would change the fate of both nations.
Encyclopedia of Architectural and Engineering Feats presents more than 200 achievements in architecture and structural engineering in all the inhabited continents, from prehistory to the present.
Hong Kong Public Housing provides the first comprehensive history of one of the most dramatic episodes in the global history of the modern built environment: the vast public housing programme sponsored by successive Hong Kong governments from the 1950s, in a quest to build up the territory into a lasting 'people's home'.
Architecture of the California Missions by Kurt Baer, with photographs by Hugo Rudinger, offers a deep dive into the architectural legacy of California's historic missions.
This two-volume encyclopedia covers buildings and sites of global significance from prehistoric times to the present day, providing students with an essential understanding of architectural development and its impact on human societies.
THE URBAN HOUSING HANDBOOK An insightful and revealing look at the intersection of housing and urban design In the newly revised Second Edition of The Urban Housing Handbook, Eric Firley and Victor Deupi deliver a vital design and analysis tool for housing practitioners, students, and researchers.
THE URBAN HOUSING HANDBOOK An insightful and revealing look at the intersection of housing and urban design In the newly revised Second Edition of The Urban Housing Handbook, Eric Firley and Victor Deupi deliver a vital design and analysis tool for housing practitioners, students, and researchers.
