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Rebuilding Cities from Medieval to Modern Times
ISBN: 9780202363714 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unique in the literature of planners, architects, and urban officials, Rebuilding Cities is a compendium and analysis of the achievements of city planning from the ""Ideal City"" of Palmanova in 1593 to the innovative achievements of planners and designers of the twentieth century. As such, it is vital reading for anyone concerned with the problem of rebuilding and revitalizing cities after disasters--either of a human or physical decimation. Rebuilding Cities covers and includes medieval nuclei to urban sprawl; physical, economic, and social factors in planning;... Unique in the literature of planners, architects, and urban officials, Rebuilding Cities is a compendium and analysis of the achievements ... |
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The Effectiveness of the Williamson Act: A Spatial Analysis
ISBN: 9783639221664 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In order to conserve farmland, voluntary differential tax assessment programs, such as California's Williamson Act, are widely utilized in the United States and elsewhere. However, despite the tax advantages offered, these programs must compete with the large sums of money that agricultural landowners stand to gain by developing their land. This temptation is exacerbated by difficulties farmers on the periphery of urban areas already face, especially friction with suburban neighbors. This monograph examines just how effective the Williamson Act has been in protecting farmland near urban areas...
In order to conserve farmland, voluntary differential tax assessment programs, such as California's Williamson Act, are widely utilized in the United ...
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Legislación, gestión y conservación del paisaje cultural alicantino
ISBN: 9783639195064 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. El recorrido por el paisaje cultural del Sur del Antiguo Reyno de Valencia, nos descubre un territorio fronterizo, donde los conceptos humanistas del urbanismo y paisajismo fueron relegados por el modelo desarrollista de postguerra. La aparicion del boom turistico en las decadas de 1960 y 1970, contribuyeron a la emergencia los intereses derivados de la apropiacion de suelo, contrariando los intereses publicos y la imagen de un paisaje mediterraneo dinamico y antropizado. En esta publicacion os presentamos el informe Anexo documental dando cuenta de la actualidad en la aplicacion de la...
El recorrido por el paisaje cultural del Sur del Antiguo Reyno de Valencia, nos descubre un territorio fronterizo, donde los conceptos humanistas del ...
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Classic Readings in Urban Planning
ISBN: 9781884829901 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new edition of "the best anthology in planning" includes 33 selections by many of the profession's most respected thinkers and eloquent writers. Returning editor Jay M. Stein chose the articles about half of them new to this edition based on suggestions from colleagues and students who used the first edition, recommendations from planning scholars, awards for writing in the field of planning, and his own review of recent planning literature. Classic Readings in Urban Planning offers an unparalleled depth of coverage and range of perspectives on traditional aspects of planning as well as...
This new edition of "the best anthology in planning" includes 33 selections by many of the profession's most respected thinkers and eloquent writers. ...
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349,00 |
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Impact Fees: Principles and Practice of Proportionate-Share Development Fees
ISBN: 9781932364552 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the only impact fee book you'll need for the next decade or longer This comprehensive reference book updates the popular, pioneering works on impact fees by introducing new methodologies, concepts, applications, and theories. The authors contend that it's time to go beyond narrowly defined impact fees to proportionate-share development fees broadly applied to publicly provided facilities and services and their operation. Impact fees are one-time charges applied to new development to generate revenue for the construction or expansion of capital facilities outside the boundaries of the...
This is the only impact fee book you'll need for the next decade or longer This comprehensive reference book updates the popular, pioneering works on...
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775,66 |
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Bangkok Streetlife
ISBN: 9783639227802 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bangkok Streetlife reflects everyday city life and Thai urbanism through the study of transformations of place in three local communities. The book begins with an exploration of both Western urban design theories and the urban morphology, and history of Bangkok. It is based in diverse methods of fieldwork with a primarily qualitative methodology. The methods included interview, participant observation and morphological mapping. Particular attention was paid to: the experience and meaning of public space; the development of social capital; current forces for urban change; and the relation of...
Bangkok Streetlife reflects everyday city life and Thai urbanism through the study of transformations of place in three local communities. The book be...
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352,54 |
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Courtyard Houses of Beijing
ISBN: 9783639996302 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This was the sixth season of Road Rules. It took place exclusively in the continent of Oceania. This season is often noted as Road Rules: Australia by fans of the show. Road Rules, MTV's second reality show, debuted on July 19, 1995. The series followed six strangers between the ages of 18 and 24 (five strangers in the first four seasons) after stripping them of their money and putting them on an RV traveling from location to location only guided by a set of clues and a mission to complete at each location. It was nominated for an Emmy Award in...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This was the sixth season of Road Rules. It took place exclusively in the continent of Oceania. This seaso...
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Planning, Risk and Property Development: Urban Regeneration in England, France and the Netherlands
ISBN: 9780415481106 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban regeneration projects are once again deployed in Europe's cities, involving a widening range of actors whilst increasingly depending on private investment. This book explores the relationships, the objectives, and the strategies of the actors engaging in these projects in cities of three advanced European economies.
Urban regeneration projects are once again deployed in Europe's cities, involving a widening range of actors whilst increasingly depending on private ...
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Housing Price Behaviour In an Emerging City
ISBN: 9783639052633 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Housing as an emerging and important sector in India has registered an enormous growth and development in terms of number and quality during the past one and a half decade. The past couple of years since the early 1990s have seen a fast transformation of the housing sector into a crucial segment of the economy mainly because of the financial liberalization process, rapid economic growth and urbanization. The acceleration in the growth of housing sector over a few years has been due to the rising demand for housing, and a surge in housing prices in the urban areas. The shortage has also led to...
Housing as an emerging and important sector in India has registered an enormous growth and development in terms of number and quality during the past ...
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Envisioning Better Communities: Seeing More Options, Making Wiser Choices
ISBN: 9781932364811 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Randall Arendt's work has shaped a generation of planners, designers, and landscape architects. In Envisioning Better Communities, he brings his insights to a broader public, with a profusely illustrated demonstration of how local officials, planning commissioners, and everyday citizens can work to make their communities more attractive, more habitable, and more sustainable. Despite the widespread acceptance of good design and planning principles throughout the professions, too many of our towns and rural areas remain needlessly ugly and inefficient. In side by side comparisons of similar...
Randall Arendt's work has shaped a generation of planners, designers, and landscape architects. In Envisioning Better Communities, he brings his insig...
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702,94 |
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Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans
ISBN: 9781932364804 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The recovery process has been slow and frustrating, in part because New Orleans was so unprepared for the physical challenges of such a disaster, but also because it lacked sufficient planning mechanisms to manage community reconstruction in a viable way. New Orleans has had to rebuild its buildings and institutions, but it has also had to create a community planning structure that is seen as both equitable and effective, while also addressing the concerns and demands of state, federal, nonprofit, and private-sector stakeholders.
The recovery process has been slow and frustrating, in part because New Orleans was so unprepared for the physical challenges of such a disaster, but ...
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What Americans Build and Why: Psychological Perspectives
ISBN: 9780521734356 / Angielski / Miękka / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What Americans Build and Why examines five areas of Americans built environment: houses, healthcare facilities, schools, workplaces, and shopping environments. Synthesizing information from both academic journals and the popular press, the book looks at the relationships of size and scale to the way Americans live their lives and how their way of life is fundamentally shaped by the highway system, cheap land, and incentives. This book is timely because although Americans say they crave community, they continue to construct buildings, such as McMansions and big box stores, that make creating...
What Americans Build and Why examines five areas of Americans built environment: houses, healthcare facilities, schools, workplaces, and shopping envi...
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176,40 |
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Making Competitive Cities
ISBN: 9781405194150 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architects, publishers, designers) and knowledge-intensive industries (ICT, R&D, finance, law). It provides significant new knowledge to the theoretical and practical understanding of the conditions necessary to stimulate -creative knowledge- cities.
The editors compare the socio-economic developments, experiences and strategies in 13 urban regions across Europe: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Birmingham, Budapest, Dublin, Helsinki, Leipzig,... The book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business servic...
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Downtown Planning for Smaller and Midsized Communities
ISBN: 9781932364675 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "For so long we were floundering and taking ad hoc measures, but the minute I understood what a downtown plan really was I said 'We need one of those ' As it turned out, it was the most fantastic vehicle I've ever seen," said Susan Moffat-Thomas of New Bern, North Carolina. Her hometown got a much-needed shot in the arm from a good downtown plan. Does yours need a similar boost? Philip L. Walker, an experienced downtown-planning consultant, offers practical tips for preserving a sense of place, improving fiscal efficiency, and enhancing quality of life in Downtown Planning for Smaller and...
"For so long we were floundering and taking ad hoc measures, but the minute I understood what a downtown plan really was I said 'We need one of those ...
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436,25 |
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Grid/Street/Place: Essential Elements of Sustainable Urban Districts
ISBN: 9781932364729 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's urban resident is seeking a more flexible, sustainable environment representing a unique, diverse, vibrant, and responsible way of living as an alternative to the typical development patterns of suburban and semi-urban sprawl. Can urban design help create this type of sustainable urbanism? Grid / Street / Place presents a unique approach to understanding urban design through scientific, empirical research. The authors examined more than 100 successful projects throughout North America to identify differences and commonalities, and they discovered universal elements that characterize...
Today's urban resident is seeking a more flexible, sustainable environment representing a unique, diverse, vibrant, and responsible way of living as a...
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Urban Threshold
ISBN: 9783639186598 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The character of an urban void is defined by the built surrounding. It determines the appearance and the function of the enclosed space. This particular approach to model urban form distinguishes three major zones of this urban phenomenon: 1. Core, 2. Transition Zone, 3. Surrounding. The transition zone contains the capacity to determine the prospective character of the framed void. It offers the possibility to intervene in the existing urban form not by filling but by emptying it. The void experiences a transformation from a neglected urban object to a clearly identified urban subject. This...
The character of an urban void is defined by the built surrounding. It determines the appearance and the function of the enclosed space. This particul...
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The Fundamentalist City? : Religiosity and the Remaking of Urban Space
ISBN: 9780415779357 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundamentalisms are produced, represented, and practiced in the city.
The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundam...
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872,61 |
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Cities for People
ISBN: 9781597265737 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use--or could use--the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as...
For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use...
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230,94 |
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The Social Environmental Analysis of Qualitative Values in Suburbs
ISBN: 9783639229073 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The early stages of development of an exciting new urban form an area: suburbs. They combined the amenities of the city with the low density of the countryside a place that brought together the best of worlds. Although, suburbanization has been viewed as the solution to the cause of urban problems, the process was redefined as a problem itself. Here, the questions to be posed within the framework of this book is, "how far people living in suburbian mass housing are satisfied with their social environment?" This book offers an analyse qualitative values of social environment of suburban...
The early stages of development of an exciting new urban form an area: suburbs. They combined the amenities of the city with the low density of the co...
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263,29 |
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Examining the Cost-Effectiveness of Market-Based Policies
ISBN: 9783639026849 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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