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City as Landscape : A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning
ISBN: 9780419204107 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text on the practical application of theories of landscape and planning presents a collection of essays, arranged thematically, in which the author takes a critical look at new approaches to current problems in both landscape/environmental design and urban planning. He shows how design in these areas is changing - or should change - in response to the influence of postmodern ideas from cultural theory.
This text on the practical application of theories of landscape and planning presents a collection of essays, arranged thematically, in which the auth...
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New Environments for Working
ISBN: 9780419209904 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The workplace is changing radically, yet the building designs and environmental systems for conventional offices fail to support the more fluid use of space and time practised by these new kinds of office work. Prepared by the team who wrote The Responsible Workplace, 1992, this book is based on a major research project undertaken by DEGW and the BRE. It identifies the key organizational changes, patterns of work, work settings and types of space layouts, and should help specifiers and users of environmental systems understand what products will be suitable for innovative ways of office...
The workplace is changing radically, yet the building designs and environmental systems for conventional offices fail to support the more fluid use of...
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559,80 |
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Decision Support Systems in Urban Planning
ISBN: 9780419210504 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban planning processes have become increasingly complex and sophisticated decision support systems can be useful aids to decision-makers in their assessment of the impact of their decisions.
Urban planning processes have become increasingly complex and sophisticated decision support systems can be useful aids to decision-makers in their as...
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The Compact City : A Sustainable Urban Form?
ISBN: 9780419213000 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a widespread consensus that progress towards sustainable development is essential. Human activity cannot continue to use resources at the present rate without jeopardizing opportunities for future generations. Cities are the main arena of human activity, but they are also the greatest consumers of natural resources. However, urban sustainability is not just about environmental concerns, it is also about economic viability, liveability and social equity. Recently, much attention has focused on the relationship between urban form and sustainability, the suggestion being that the shape...
There is a widespread consensus that progress towards sustainable development is essential. Human activity cannot continue to use resources at the pre...
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Reclaiming the City: Mixed Use Development
ISBN: 9780419213604 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study looks at the way British cities are changing. In recent years, increasing concern has been expressed about the vitality and viability of city economies and city centres. Increased car use and the out-of-town revolution have altered the way cities work; technological change continues to remove many uses traditionally found in the city.
This study looks at the way British cities are changing. In recent years, increasing concern has been expressed about the vitality and viability of ci...
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Cities on Rails: The Redevelopment of Railway Stations and Their Surroundings
ISBN: 9780419227601 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The development of railway stations and their surroundings is an emerging feature in current urban projects. Based on a series of the most inspiring contemporary European examples of station redevelopment, this book will assist planners and urban designers understand the specific and complex nature of station locations. Based on their extensive research, the authors, pioneers of studies in the field in the last few years, harness and expand the body of knowledge and present guiding principles and conditions for successful implementation of such planning projects.
The development of railway stations and their surroundings is an emerging feature in current urban projects. Based on a series of the most inspiring c...
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Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture
ISBN: 9780419227809 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings. The main body of the text traces the interplay of abstraction and empathy through the history of science, philosophy and architecture from the early Greeks through to the two early twentieth-century architects who made proportion the focus of their work: Le Corbusier and Van der Laan. The book ends with a reflection...
This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathemati...
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Dimensions of Sustainability
ISBN: 9780419236207 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can architecture become sustainable? How might buildings use natural forces and respond to the challenges of the environmental degradation and global climate change? What design concepts should architects use to make buildings consume less energy and resources? What is the role of technology in making architecture more environmentally responsible? How can construction become more ecological? What should the paradigm of architectural practice be as we enter the 21st century? An Internationa Design Symposium held in late 1996 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology set out to discover the...
How can architecture become sustainable? How might buildings use natural forces and respond to the challenges of the environmental degradation and glo...
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Transportable Environments
ISBN: 9780419242505 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transportable Environments explores aspects of the historical and theoretical basis for portable architecture and provides an insight into the wide range of functions that it is used for today, the varied forms that it takes and the concerns and ideas for its future development. Written by a team of international commentators, this volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of this specialist area and will be of interest to a wide range of professionals across the construction and design industries.
Transportable Environments explores aspects of the historical and theoretical basis for portable architecture and provides an insight into the wide ra...
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Planning by Consent : The Origins and Nature of British Development Control
ISBN: 9780419244103 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The British system of universal development control celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997. Remarkably, the system has survived more or less intact but the experience of the 1980s has left large questions unanswered about the relevance and effectiveness of the system. This book traces the history of the development control system in Britain from early modern times to the present day. It also looks at the tension between private interest and public control, and between the freedom of local authorities to decide and their accountability for decisions taken. It looks at the rights of third...
The British system of universal development control celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997. Remarkably, the system has survived more or less intact b...
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Achieving Sustainable Urban Form
ISBN: 9780419244509 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Representing a major advance in the sustainable development debate, this text moves on from theoretical discourse about sustainable urban forms to proven knowledge and good practice. It presents research which defines elements of sustainable urban form - density, size, configuration, detailed design and quality - from macro to micro scale. Case studies from Europe, the USA and Australia are used to illustrate good practice within the fields of planning, urban design and architecture.
Representing a major advance in the sustainable development debate, this text moves on from theoretical discourse about sustainable urban forms to pro...
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Urban Planning in a Changing World : The Twentieth Century Experience
ISBN: 9780419246503 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban planning in today's world is inextricably linked to the processes of mass urbanization and modernization which have transformed our lives over the last hundred years. In Urban Planning in a Changing World Robert Freestone and his contributors present a series of essays which address: the history of urban planning and its diffusion during the 20th century; the key paradigms which have shaped its development; the issues of urban reform on which it has focused; the increasing involvement of planning with conservation and green issues; the concepts and concerns which are the focus of...
Urban planning in today's world is inextricably linked to the processes of mass urbanization and modernization which have transformed our lives over t...
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Compact Cities: Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780419251309 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of edited papers forms part of the Compact City Series, creating a sister volume to The Compact City (1996) and Achieving Sustainable Urban Form and extending the debate to developing countries. This text examines and evaluates the merits and defects of compact city approaches in the context of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Issues of theory, policy and practice relating to sustainability of urban forms are examined by a wide range of international academics and practitioners.
This collection of edited papers forms part of the Compact City Series, creating a sister volume to The Compact City (1996) and Achieving Sustainable ...
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Transport Investment and Economic Development
ISBN: 9780419256007 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major concern of all decision makers has been to ensure that there are clear benefits from transport investment proposals. The travel time savings are clear, but the wider economic developments have presented enormous difficulty in terms of both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence. This book reviews the history of the debate and argues that the agenda has changed. These issues are presented together with a major analytical investigation of macro economic models, evaluation in transport and micro economic approaches. The final part of the book presents a series of case studies for...
A major concern of all decision makers has been to ensure that there are clear benefits from transport investment proposals. The travel time savings a...
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The Modern City Revisited
ISBN: 9780419256403 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays seeks to define the complex issues underlying the modernist approach to urban planning. The contributors - all architects and architectural historians with a specialism in a particular area of modern planning - describe and evaluate urban developments from Europe to South America, which arose from the planning theories of architects of the modern movement. This publication should be of interest to architects, planners, and all those with a specific interest in modernism and modern planning.
This collection of essays seeks to define the complex issues underlying the modernist approach to urban planning. The contributors - all architects an...
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The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History
ISBN: 9780419258001 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities. It is the definitive account of the history of Australian cities and the crucial role which planning has played in their genesis and growth. Spanning two centuries from the very beginning until the present day, it will instantly become a standard work ' Professor Sir Peter Hall, author of Cities in Civilisation..
The Australian Metropolis provides a single-volume introduction to the development of urban planning. It fills the need for a convenient, initial resource for... The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities. It is the definitive account of the history of ...
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Australian Metropolis: A Planning History
ISBN: 9780419258100 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities. It is the definitive account of the history of Australian cities and the crucial role which planning has played in their genesis and growth. Spanning two centuries from the very beginning until the present day, it will instantly become a standard work ' Professor Sir Peter Hall, author of Cities in Civilisation..
The Australian Metropolis provides a single-volume introduction to the development of urban planning. It fills the need for a convenient, initial resource for... The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities. It is the definitive account of the history of ...
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Tourists in Historic Towns: Urban Conservation and Heritage Management
ISBN: 9780419259305 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tourists in Historic Towns examines the relationship of culture, heritage, conservation and tourism development in historic towns and urban centres, debating the impacts of tourism on historic towns and the role tourism plays in conservation and urban continuity. The main focus of the book is medium sized historic towns and historic quarters which are attractive to the tourist market, but historic quarters in large cities and smaller rural settlements are not excluded. Alongside over a hundred examples of historic towns, five historic towns are discussed as case studies: Granada,...
Tourists in Historic Towns examines the relationship of culture, heritage, conservation and tourism development in historic towns and urban c...
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The Renewable City: A Comprehensive Guide to an Urban Revolution
ISBN: 9780470019269 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite the intolerable costs of climate change and inevitably declining oil, natural gas and uranium reserves, the vast majority of cities and urban communities are planned and managed as if such existential crises did not exist. Hence the transition from fossil fuel dominated cities to an urban future marked by a radically new, renewable energy infrastructure requires entirely new tools and frames of decision-making.
This is an original guide to an entirely unprecedented urban transformation, to cities and towns powered by renewable energy. Squarely focused on action, it supports design,... Despite the intolerable costs of climate change and inevitably declining oil, natural gas and uranium reserves, the vast majority of cities and urban ...
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Property Development and Progressive Architecture: The New Alliance
ISBN: 9780470862148 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, a 'new alliance' is being forged between designers and commercial property developers who are championing progressive design, in projects as diverse as apartment blocks, houses, hotels and offices.
While some architects are taking a proactive role in property development, other firms are hammering out a new position for themselves as designer-developers. Simultaneously, property developers are starting to recognise the added value that an architect can bring to a project in terms of planning, design quality and creativity. This issue takes a truly international look at the... Today, a 'new alliance' is being forged between designers and commercial property developers who are championing progressive design, in projects as di...
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