Urban Forest Landscapes: Integrating Multidisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 9780295974392 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The goal of urban forestry is to understand the ecological, institutional, and human issues at work in the urban landscape. Urban forestry is a comparatively new field within the academic discipline of forestry, and is closely allied to several scientific disciplines as well as the social sciences. Professionals in the field are called upon to provide scientific information and guidance, and to justify in economic, social, and environmental terms the value of the urban landscape in relation to other uses of the land and other needs of the city. The multidisciplinary approach of this... The goal of urban forestry is to understand the ecological, institutional, and human issues at work in the urban landscape. Urban forestry is a com... |
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126,12 zł |
Common Place: Neighborhood and Regional Design in Seattle
ISBN: 9780295975900 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Common Place is about how we can develop community and create convivial and sustainable places in the face of disjointed and fast-paced growth. It offers strategies for reclaiming and repairing our neighborhoods and cities, which today are increasingly dominated by fear and disintegration and the automobile. Kelbaugh looks at New Urbanism, Urban Villages, Pedestrian Pockets, and Transit-Oriented Development -- concepts which he helped pioneer. Bridging academic theory and on-the-ground practice, Common Place is an indispensable book for designers, planners, city officials,... Common Place is about how we can develop community and create convivial and sustainable places in the face of disjointed and fast-paced grow... |
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168,22 zł |
Civilizing American Cities: Writings on City Landscapes
ISBN: 9780306807657 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) designed New York City's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Chicago's South Park and Jackson Park, Montreal's Mount Royal Park, the park systems of Boston and Buffalo, and many others. But Olmsted also designed parkways and neighborhoods, reshaping cities around their parks. He thus reinvented the American urban landscape as a democratic outdoor setting that encouraged a new kind of participation in city life. Olmsted was one of the most gifted of American writers of his generation: prior to designing Central Park, he had written five important books,...
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) designed New York City's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Chicago's South Park and Jackson Park, Montreal's M...
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121,32 zł |
The City Is the People
ISBN: 9780393001747 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An approach to city planning examining the achievements and failures of the past, the opportunities and difficulties of the present, and the possibilities and prospects of the future.
An approach to city planning examining the achievements and failures of the past, the opportunities and difficulties of the present, and the possibili...
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96,11 zł |
The Architectural Pattern Book: A Tool for Building Great Neighborhoods
ISBN: 9780393731347 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documenting the revival of the traditional architectural pattern book as a means implementing urban design, this is a practical guide to developing and using pattern books. It describes techniques and working methods for contemporary development and construction processes.
Documenting the revival of the traditional architectural pattern book as a means implementing urban design, this is a practical guide to developing an...
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243,42 zł |
Architecture and Authority in Japan
ISBN: 9780415057547 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japanese architecture is one of the most inspired manifestations of Japanese civilization. This study argues that architectural styles are more than just symbols of the powers that created them. William H. Coaldrake explores the symbiotic relationship between architecture and authority throughout Japanese history, exploring key structures as active conveyors of power, and relating buildings to the political ambitions and religious beliefs of the major historical eras in Japan.
Japanese architecture is one of the most inspired manifestations of Japanese civilization. This study argues that architectural styles are more than j...
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788,53 zł |
Urban Landscapes: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415070744 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The urban landscape is a cultural asset. It is a major source of aesthetic stimulus, historical knowledge and a principal means of emotional and practical orientation. A great deal of public and private expenditure is concerned directly or indirectly with the creation and maintenance of urban landscapes; research in this area - from historical, geographic, architectural and planning perspectives - is flourishing. The time is now right to integrate this knowledge in order to understand the cyclical processes of adaptation and renewal, different disciplinary and national approaches and the...
The urban landscape is a cultural asset. It is a major source of aesthetic stimulus, historical knowledge and a principal means of emotional and pract...
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1103,94 zł |
Conservation and the City
ISBN: 9780415079488 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study of conservation and change throughout the built environment - city centres, suburbs, even villages - and how the activities of conservation interact with the planning system. It seeks to explore why, and what, change occurs, and who proposes and controls change, in areas of townscape that have been identified as worth conserving. Examining the key social, economic, and psychological ideas which support conservation, the book discusses various countries' conservation planning systems and the fundamental ideas that act as precendents to guide future practice.
This is a study of conservation and change throughout the built environment - city centres, suburbs, even villages - and how the activities of conserv...
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289,08 zł |
Housing Women
ISBN: 9780415094634 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection presents a comprehensive examination of women's relationship to housing as consumers and managers of housing services. It begins with a discussion of women's experience of housing as buyers of property and users of housing services. Income differentials, the dominance of the needs of the nuclear family in housing forms and the ways in which housing allocations policies often discriminate against women are examined in detail. Subsequent discussion looks at women as producers of housing and assesses the structures within which they have to work.
This edited collection presents a comprehensive examination of women's relationship to housing as consumers and managers of housing services. It begin...
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152,40 zł |
Town Planning Into the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780415105255 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions for the changes required as we move into the next millenium. Leading experts outline the changing context for land use and environmental policy in Britain and explain why the existing processes and profession of town planning are likely to be unable to provide satisfactory policy responses in the future. Key themes debated include:
* widening the remit of traditional town planning * giving land and buildings a community value * acting for people rather... Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions for the changes ...
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1025,08 zł |
Town Planning Into the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780415105262 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions for the changes required as we move into the next millenium. Leading experts outline the changing context for land use and environmental policy in Britain and explain why the existing processes and profession of town planning are likely to be unable to provide satisfactory policy responses in the future. Key themes debated include:
* widening the remit of traditional town planning * giving land and buildings a community value * acting for people rather... Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions for the changes ...
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310,10 zł |
Architecture and Authority in Japan
ISBN: 9780415106016 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japanese architecture is one of the most inspired manifestations of Japanese civilization. This study argues that architectural styles are more than just symbols of the powers that created them. William H. Coaldrake explores the symbiotic relationship between architecture and authority throughout Japanese history, exploring key structures as active conveyors of power, and relating buildings to the political ambitions and religious beliefs of the major historical eras in Japan.
Japanese architecture is one of the most inspired manifestations of Japanese civilization. This study argues that architectural styles are more than j...
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262,78 zł |
Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places
ISBN: 9780415119030 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Telecommunications and the City provides the first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management.
Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and a wide body of recent research, the book addresses key academic and policy debates about technological change and the future of cities with a fresh perspective. Through this approach, the complex and crucial transformations underway in cities in which telecommunications have central importance are mapped out and illustrated. Key areas where telecommunications... Telecommunications and the City provides the first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of...
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310,10 zł |
The Words Between the Spaces : Buildings and Language
ISBN: 9780415143455 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production, and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, architectural criticism, teaching and scholarly material, and the media all produce their characteristic texts. The authors use texts about such projects as Berlin's new Reichstag, Scotland's new Parliament, and the Auschwitz concentration camp museum to clarify the interaction between texts, design,...
Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that...
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762,24 zł |
Spaces of Global Cultures : Architecture, Urbanism, Identity
ISBN: 9780415196192 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to combine global and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the built environment, and to illustrate these with concrete examples, "Spaces of Global Cultures "argues for a more historical, differentiated and interdisciplinary understanding of globalization: one that places material space and the built environment at the center and calls for innovative concepts to address new contemporary conditions.
The first book to combine global and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the built environment, and to illustrate these with concrete examples, "Sp...
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762,24 zł |
Spaces of Global Cultures : Architecture, Urbanism, Identity
ISBN: 9780415196208 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book draws on architectural, urban and built environment writings and evidence in various cities across the world to examine existing theories of globalisation and develop new ones. King examines the processes of globalisation and how these are developed and architecturally inscribed in various world regions. Addressing readers in architecture, geography, sociology as well as urban, cultural and postcolonial studies, Spaces of Global Cultures asks what globalization is doing to architectural and urban form .
This book draws on architectural, urban and built environment writings and evidence in various cities across the world to examine existing theories of...
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378,44 zł |
European Transport Policy and Sustainable Mobility
ISBN: 9780415231893 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a fully edited text arising from a major European Commission research project - Policy Scenarios for Sustainable Mobility (POSSUM). New material has also been commissioned to produce a valuable publication for all those concerned with transport and in particular for those involved with decision making and policy analysis. The book sets European transport policy in context and includes forces of change, transport trends, policy responses and impacts on sustainable development. The authors examine the prospects for bringing about change and how different policies might help to achieve...
This is a fully edited text arising from a major European Commission research project - Policy Scenarios for Sustainable Mobility (POSSUM). New materi...
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762,24 zł |
Planning for a Sustainable Future
ISBN: 9780415234085 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable Development is now firmly on the planning agenda and is an issue neither practitioner nor academic can afford to ignore. Planning for a Sustainable Future provides a multi-disciplinary overview of sustainability issues in the land use context, focusing on principles and their application, the legal, political and policy context and the implication of sustainable development thinking for housing, urban design and property development as well as waste and transport. The book concludes by considering how sustainable and unsustainable impacts alike can be measured and...
Sustainable Development is now firmly on the planning agenda and is an issue neither practitioner nor academic can afford to ignore. Planning for ...
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194,45 zł |
European Transport Policy and Sustainable Mobility
ISBN: 9780415234092 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a fully edited text arising from a major European Commission research project - Policy Scenarios for Sustainable Mobility (POSSUM). New material has also been commissioned to produce a valuable publication for all those concerned with transport and in particular for those involved with decision making and policy analysis. The book sets European transport policy in context and includes forces of change, transport trends, policy responses and impacts on sustainable development. The authors examine the prospects for bringing about change and how different policies might help to achieve...
This is a fully edited text arising from a major European Commission research project - Policy Scenarios for Sustainable Mobility (POSSUM). New materi...
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289,08 zł |
Planning in Postmodern Times
ISBN: 9780415234221 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Postmodern social theory has provided significant insights into our understanding of society and its components. Key thinkers including Foucault, Baudrillard and Lyotard have challenged existing ideas about power and rationality in society. This book analyses planning from a postmodern perspective and explores alternative conceptions based on a combination of postmodern thinking and other fields of social theory. In doing so, it exposes some of the limits of postmodern social theory while providing an alternative conception of planning in the twenty-first century.
This title will appeal to... Postmodern social theory has provided significant insights into our understanding of society and its components. Key thinkers including Foucault, Baud...
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972,51 zł |