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A Carbon Primer for the Built Environment
ISBN: 9780415705578 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world increasingly concerned about the impact of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere on global climate, the A Carbon Primer for the Built Environment will provide an understanding of the science and the public policy and regulation intended to tackle climate change. It will spell out the essential information needed for navigating through the growing regulatory maze with confidence. The book will:
In a world increasingly concerned about the impact of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere on global climate, the A Carbon P... |
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937,45 zł |
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Socially Restorative Urbanism: The Theory, Process and Practice of Experiemics
ISBN: 9780415596022 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The need for a human-orientated approach to urbanism is well understood, and yet all too often this dimension remains lacking in urban design. In this book the authors argue for and develop socially restorative urbanism - a new conceptual framework laying the foundations for innovative ways of thinking about the relationship between the urban spatial structure and social processes to re-introduce a more explicit people-centred element into urban place-making and its adaptation. Focusing on this interplay between humans and the built environment, two new concepts are developed: the...
The need for a human-orientated approach to urbanism is well understood, and yet all too often this dimension remains lacking in urban design. In this...
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937,45 zł |
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EGLR 2008 Volume 3
ISBN: 9780728205444 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The Estates Gazette Law Reports' are a useful reference for property law practitioners and students researching and advising on all aspects of landlord and tenant, valuation, professional negligence, conveyancing, real property, leasehold enfranchisement and compensation.
'The Estates Gazette Law Reports' are a useful reference for property law practitioners and students researching and advising on all aspects of landlo...
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937,45 zł |
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Urban Design Reader
ISBN: 9781138168831 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the authors of the best selling Public Places Urban Spaces, this indispensable guide includes all the crucial definitions and various understandings of the subject, as well as a practical look at how to implement urban design...
Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a rang...
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937,45 zł |
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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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962,79 zł |
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Urban Avant-Gardes : Art, Architecture and Change
ISBN: 9780415266871 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can art or architecture change the world? Is it possible, despite successive failures, to think of a new cultural avant-garde today? What would this mean? Urban Avant-Gardes and Social Transformation attempts to contribute to debate on these questions, by looking back to past avant-gardes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by examining the theoretical and critical terrain around avant-garde cultural interventions, and by profiling a range of contemporary cases of radical cultural practices. The first section spans the late 19th to the mid 20th centuries, exploring the avant-gardes...
Can art or architecture change the world? Is it possible, despite successive failures, to think of a new cultural avant-garde today? What would this m...
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962,79 zł |
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Cities and Cultures
ISBN: 9780415354424 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies in which different kinds of culture - the arts, cultural institutions and heritage, distinctive ways of life - are seen to be differently used in or affected by the development of particular cities. The book does not mask the complexity of this, but explains it in ways accessible for undergraduates. The book begins with... Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn sha... |
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962,79 zł |
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The Environments of Architecture : Environmental Design in Context
ISBN: 9780415360883 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This well-illustrated 'think piece' provides a much needed and topical philosophical introduction to the place of environmental design in architecture. Written by highly respected authors, this is an excellent guide for practitioners, students and academics. This well-illustrated 'think piece' provides a much needed and topical philosophical introduction to the place of environmental design in architect... |
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962,79 zł |
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Transport Policy and Planning in Great Britain
ISBN: 9780415469869 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transport in the twenty-first century represents a significant challenge at the global and the local scale. This title disentangles this modern issue in five parts, offering insights into: the nature of transport, the evolution of policy and planning, policy instruments, planning procedures, and the contemporary agenda.
Transport in the twenty-first century represents a significant challenge at the global and the local scale. This title disentangles this modern issue ...
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962,79 zł |
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The Earthscan Reader in Rural-Urban Linkages
ISBN: 9781844073153 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With accelerating urbanization and growing inter-dependence of rural and urban dwellers on the markets and resources they each offer, rural urban linkages have become a very important focus in recent years for research and policy relating to local and national economic development, poverty reduction and governance. The emergence of new livelihoods based on diversified income sources and mobility reflects profound social, cultural and economic transformations, and new forms of resource allocation and use. This volume collects the key contributions in the field, covering the conceptual...
With accelerating urbanization and growing inter-dependence of rural and urban dwellers on the markets and resources they each offer, rural urban link...
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962,79 zł |
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Transcultural Cities: Border-Crossing and Placemaking
ISBN: 9780415631419 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transcultural Cities uses a unique framework of transcultural placemaking, cross disciplinary inquiry and international focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art, environmental psychology, geography, political science, and social work. The book not only addresses and theorizes on intercultural exchanges but also the cultural transformation that takes place in urban spaces. In doing so, it views cultures not in isolation from each other in today s... Transcultural Cities uses a unique framework of transcultural placemaking, cross disciplinary inquiry and international focus to examine a collecti... |
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962,79 zł |
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Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present
ISBN: 9780415534871 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will find have dealt with diverse but surprisingly familiar economic issues. Told through case studies, the narrative begins in the mid-nineteenth century and ends with 2011, with introductions by Editor Peggy Deamer to pull the main themes together so that you can see how other architects in different times and in...
Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand ne...
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962,79 zł |
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Australian Environmental Planning: Challenges and Future Prospects
ISBN: 9781138000704 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Australians from all walks of life have begun to realise the nation s cities cannot sustain profligate growth indefinitely. Dwindling water supplies, failing food bowls, increased energy costs, more severe bushfires, severe storms, flooding, coastal erosion, rising transport expenses, housing shortages and environmental pollution are now daily news headlines. Australia s cities may have reached their ecological limits: a new model for planning the places we live is needed. Understanding the natural cycles of the city is just as important to planning our cities as knowledge of local... Australians from all walks of life have begun to realise the nation s cities cannot sustain profligate growth indefinitely. Dwindling water supplie... |
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962,79 zł |
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The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change: Design and Improvisation in Development Practice
ISBN: 9780415838559 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities. It gives guidance on how practice can make space for big and lasting change and for new opportunities to be discovered. It points to ways of building synergy and negotiating our way in the social and political spaces 'in between' conventional and often competing ideals - public and private interests, top down and bottom up, formal and informal, the global agendas which outsiders promote and the local needs of insiders, for example. It offers guidance on process, designed to...
This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities. It gives guidance on how prac...
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962,79 zł |
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Design Governance: The Cabe Experiment
ISBN: 9781138812147 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Design Governance focuses on how we design the built environment where most of us live, work, and play and the role of government in that process. To do so, it draws on the experience of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), a decade-long, globally unique experiment in the governance of design. This book theorises design governance as an arm and aspiration of the state; tells the story of CABE, warts and all, and what came before and after; unpacks CABE s informal toolbox: its methods and processes of design governance; and reflects on... Design Governance focuses on how we design the built environment where most of us live, work, and play and the role of gov... |
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962,79 zł |
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Designing Cities with Children and Young People: Beyond Playgrounds and Skate Parks
ISBN: 9781138890817 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designing Cities with Children and Young People focuses on promoting better outcomes in the built environment for children and young people in urban environments. This book aims to cultivate champions for children and young people among urban development professionals, to ensure their rights and needs are fully acknowledged and accommodated. It presents an interdisciplinary, cross-sectorial discussion which spans the entire process of developing the built environment--from concept to construction. The content moves from how we think about children in the built environment, what we... Designing Cities with Children and Young People focuses on promoting better outcomes in the built environment for children and young peopl... |
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962,79 zł |
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Urban Waterfront Promenades
ISBN: 9781138824195 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some cities have long-treasured waterfront promenades, many cities have recently built ones, and others have plans to create them as opportunities arise. Beyond connecting people with urban water bodies, waterfront promenades offer many social and ecological benefits. They are places for social gathering, for physical activity, for relief from the stresses of urban life, and where the unique transition from water to land eco-systems can be nurtured and celebrated. The best are inclusive places, welcoming and accessible to diverse users. This book explores urban waterfront promenades... Some cities have long-treasured waterfront promenades, many cities have recently built ones, and others have plans to create them as opportunities ... |
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962,79 zł |
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Emerging Urbanity: Global Urban Projects in the Asia Pacific Rim
ISBN: 9781138410855 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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962,79 zł |
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Low Car(bon) Communities: Inspiring Car-Free and Car-Lite Urban Futures
ISBN: 9781138458246 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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962,79 zł |
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Reinventing an Urban Vernacular: Developing Sustainable Housing Prototypes for Cities Based on Traditional Strategies
ISBN: 9781138474062 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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962,79 zł |