Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Urban & Land Use Planning

In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre's reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global urbanization. Lefebvre's massive body of work has generated two main schools of thought: one that is political economic, and another that is more culturally oriented and poststructuralist in tone. Space,...

As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a different urban aesthetic and create new experiential milieus. Urban regeneration processes generate radical physical, social and cultural changes in neighbourhoods that demand new conceptual frameworks to address their impact upon daily urban life.

Sensing Cities investigates the reconfiguration of contemporary public space and life through the prism of the senses. The book explores how the increased stylization of cityscapes requires an understanding of public life as a spatial-sensuous encounter. Degen...

This new book explores how the professions responsible for enhancing the built environment's sustainability seek to deliver this new agenda, offering multi-perspective case studies and discussion to argue for a rethinking of the role of urban development professional.

Showing how sustainability is rapidly becoming the norm for practitioners, the authors consider new types of professional knowledge, relationships between planning systems and property development, links between public and private sector organisations, ideas about long term responsibilities and new working practices...

Cities tend to become more crowded, the high rise buildings taller, the traffic nodes more complex. The volume of hazardous cargo passing increases with the growth of economy and the expansion of technology. As we have seen in the recent past, cities can become too easily a focus of terror. To counter these trends measures have to be taken. This book presents an overview of threats and measures based on a NATO advanced research workshop meant to make an inventory of items on which, for making progress research will be worthwhile to perform. The spectrum of subjects is broad. It covers...

Get Proven Solutions to the Unique Problems of Construction Management in Urban Environments

Filled with hands-on advice from two seasoned project management experts, Urban Construction Project Management provides a wealth of proven solutions to the common problems of construction management in urban environments. The book includes cutting-edge information about working on small sites, public safety, the permit process, coordinating with utility companies, dealing with adjacent properties, and many other topics.

This indispensable construction management tool uses...

Die Integration der haustechnischen Anlagen ist ein wichtiger Aspekt bei der Planung des Architekten. Die Konzeptionierung von Versorgungsstrangen und Kreislaufen im Gebaude erfordert ein Verstandnis fur die Zusammenhange der Ver- und Entsorgung mit dem Element Wasser.
Hierbei geht es vor allem um die Zusammenhange der einzelnen Kreislaufelemente von der Versorgung mit Trinkwasser, den Verbrauchern im Haus und der Entsorgung von Abwasser bis hin zur Wiedernutzbarmachung von Abwassern. Das Thema der Wassereinsparung bildet dabei einen ubergeordneten Rahmen.

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