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Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History
ISBN: 9781472583451 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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170,64 zł |
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The Fractured Metropolis: Improving The New City, Restoring The Old City, Reshaping The Region
ISBN: 9780064302227 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Targeted at architects, students, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, and city and regional officials, The Fractured Metropolis provides a thorough analysis of not only cities but also the entire metropolitan region, considering how both are intrinsically linked and influence one other.
Targeted at architects, students, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, and city and regional officials, The Fractured Metropolis...
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182,37 zł |
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The Coherence of Eu Regional Policy: Contrasting Perspectives on the Structural Funds
ISBN: 9780117023574 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together a rich selection of up-to-date practical experience of EU regional policy from across Europe.
This book brings together a rich selection of up-to-date practical experience of EU regional policy from across Europe.
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177,30 zł |
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An Enlarged Europe: Regions in Competition?
ISBN: 9780117023598 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The political and economic geography of Europe is changing - the European Community is expanding its boundaries towards EFTA and is resuming a closer association with Central and Eastern European regions engaged in radical restructuring. As EC integration accelerates there is the prospect of intensified inter-regional competition. This book, divided into five parts, examines in detail the changes and the challenge for policy makers. The introduction draws out the central themes of the book, addressing EC regional performance and future indicators, the enlargement and changing map of Europe...
The political and economic geography of Europe is changing - the European Community is expanding its boundaries towards EFTA and is resuming a closer ...
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202,64 zł |
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Metropolitan Planning in Britain: A Comparative Study
ISBN: 9780117023611 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Metropolitan Planning in Britain is the first comparative analysis and assessment of metropolitan areas and their strategic planning for almost two decades. Changes in population distribution, styles of local government, business practices, and attitudes to the environment have all had an impact on cities in recent years which planners and other policy makers must take into consideration. Based on a series of research projects and the activities of a study group supported by the Regional Studies Association, the book examines in detail nine major urban areas, their specific...
Metropolitan Planning in Britain is the first comparative analysis and assessment of metropolitan areas and their strategic planning for almo...
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319,19 zł |
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Regional Development Strategies: A European Perspective
ISBN: 9780117023666 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This textbook provides a conceptual, theoretical and empirical analysis of regional development strategies within a European context.
This textbook provides a conceptual, theoretical and empirical analysis of regional development strategies within a European context.
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288,78 zł |
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The Regional Imperative: Regional Planning and Governance in Britain, Europe and the United States
ISBN: 9780117023680 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on cases and interviews in Britain, Europe and the United States, this book explains the recurrence of regional planning and of initiatives in regional governance, in a wide range of advanced industrial countries. Providing an analysis of the nature of regional planning and governance, the book traces the development of regional planning and the institutions associated with it. It also looks at the way that regions have been changing their form under pressure from economic and political developments and examines how regional planning and governance has responded, comparing experience in...
Based on cases and interviews in Britain, Europe and the United States, this book explains the recurrence of regional planning and of initiatives in r...
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288,78 zł |
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Social Exclusion in European Cities: Processes, Experiences and Responses
ISBN: 9780117023727 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across Europe concern is rising over the disintegration of social relations and the growing number of people who are being socially excluded. social Exclustoin in European Cities, the first major study of this topic, provides a definition of social exclusion and looks at both the processes which cause it and the dimensions of the problem throughout Europe. The experiences of people living in areas or neighbourhoods with low rates of social integration are considered, illuminating the human impact of exclusion where it is most visible. Finally the contributors evaluate the various...
Across Europe concern is rising over the disintegration of social relations and the growing number of people who are being socially excluded. soci...
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288,78 zł |
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Sustainable Cities
ISBN: 9780117023741 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable Cities simultaneously tackles two issues of immediate public concern which also find themselves high on the policy agenda: sustainable environmental development and urban development. The themes of the book - the bringing together of the insights of environmental science, the social sciences and management; the combination of problem analysis with practical application; and a critique of urban environmental problems concentrating on air and water pollution - are illustrated throughout with in-depth material and case studies taken from around the world and are approached...
Sustainable Cities simultaneously tackles two issues of immediate public concern which also find themselves high on the policy agenda: sustai...
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288,78 zł |
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Unemployment and Social Exclusion: Landscapes of Labour Inequality and Social Exclusion
ISBN: 9780117023758 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Persistent high employment and growing labour market inequality have become entrenched features of many European countries. This edited collection of papers focuses on the regional and local dimensions of these problems across the European union as a whole and, more particularly, in the UK. In the addressing the contemporary landscape of unemployment, social exclusion and public policy the contributors highlight several key themes, including:
How the process of unemployment and social exclusion have an important local level operation. The increasing gender dimension and counts of... Persistent high employment and growing labour market inequality have become entrenched features of many European countries. This edited collection of ...
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136,76 zł |
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From the Ground Up: Observations on Contemporary Architecture, Housing, Highway Building, and Civic Design
ISBN: 9780156340199 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of twenty-six essays from the New Yorker's "Sky Line" column.
A collection of twenty-six essays from the New Yorker's "Sky Line" column.
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92,86 zł |
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Energy Planning in Selected European Regions - Methods for Evaluating the Potential of Renewable Energy Sources
ISBN: 9783866449510 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given their potentially positive impact on climate protection and the preservation of fossil resources, alternative energy sources have become increasingly important for the energy supply over the past years. However, the questions arises what economic and ecological impacts and potential conflicts over land use resources are associated with the promotion of renewable energy production. Using the examples of three selected European Regions in Poland, France and German, the dissertation discusses these questions and examines the potential and consequences of an intensified usage of renewable...
Given their potentially positive impact on climate protection and the preservation of fossil resources, alternative energy sources have become increas...
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576,17 zł |
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Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt
ISBN: 9780226239163 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Architecture for the Poor' describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers to tailor his designs to their needs. He taught them how to work with the bricks, supervised the erection of the buildings, and encouraged the revival of such ancient crafts as claustra (lattice designs...
'Architecture for the Poor' describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern an...
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158,42 zł |
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Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment
ISBN: 9780252063992 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discrimination by Design is a fascinating account of the complex social processes and power struggles involved in building and controlling space. Leslie Kanes Weisman offers a new framework for understanding the spatial dimensions of gender and race as well as class. She traces the social and architectural histories of the skyscraper, maternity hospital, department store, shopping mall, nuclear family dream house, and public housing high rise. Her vivid prose is based on exhaustive research and documents how each setting, along with public parks and streets, embodies and transmits the...
Discrimination by Design is a fascinating account of the complex social processes and power struggles involved in building and controlling space. Lesl...
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105,57 zł |
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Hypothetical City Workbook III: Exercises and GIS Data to Accompany Urban Land Use Planning, Fifth Edition [With CDROM]
ISBN: 9780252073465 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This workbook is designed to guide the user through the formulation of the components of a future land use plan. It provides hands-on experience with the application of GIS technology for land analysis at various scales; guides the user through the process of working with factual land use, population and socio-economic data; as well as assessing land use policies to formulate alternative land use plans and designs. The workbook also includes a special CD containing GIS data files. New to this edition are many additional illustrative images, GIS exercise instructions written for ArcGIS with...
This workbook is designed to guide the user through the formulation of the components of a future land use plan. It provides hands-on experience with ...
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168,02 zł |
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The Sound Pattern of English
ISBN: 9780262530972 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since this classic work in phonology was published in 1968, there has been no other book that gives as broad a view of the subject, combining generally applicable theoretical contributions with analysis of the details of a single language. The theoretical issues raised in The Sound Pattern of English continue to be critical to current phonology, and in many instances the solutions proposed by Chomsky and Halle have yet to be improved upon.Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle are Institute Professors of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. Since this classic work in phonology was published in 1968, there has been no other book that gives as broad a view of the subject, combining gener... |
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360,86 zł |
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Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities
ISBN: 9780262560597 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pioneering observers of the urban landscape Bernard Frieden and Lynne Sagalyn delve into the inner workings of the exciting new public entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships that have revitalized the downtowns of such cities as Boston, San Diego, Seattle, St. Paul, and Pasadena.Both authors are in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. Bernard J. Frieden recently completed a term as Chairman of the MIT Faculty and is Ford Professor of Urban Development. Lynne B. Sagalyn is Associate Professor of Planning and Real Estate Development. Pioneering observers of the urban landscape Bernard Frieden and Lynne Sagalyn delve into the inner workings of the exciting new public entrepreneur... |
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213,13 zł |
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The Image of the City
ISBN: 9780262620017 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion -- imageability -- and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorabl... |
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145,53 zł |
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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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131,70 zł |
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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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182,43 zł |