ilość książek w kategorii: 7252
Barrio Urbanism: Chicanos, Planning and American Cities
ISBN: 9780415945424 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This, the first book on Latinos in America from an urban planning/policy perspective, covers the last century, and includes a substantial historical overview the subject. The authors trace the movement of Latinos (primarily Chicanos) into American cities from Mexico and then describe the problems facing them in those cities. They then show how the planning profession and developers consistently failed to meet their needs due to both poverty and racism. Attention is also paid to the most pressing concerns in Latino barrios during recent times, including environmental degradation and justice,...
This, the first book on Latinos in America from an urban planning/policy perspective, covers the last century, and includes a substantial historical o...
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200,64 zł |
Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era
ISBN: 9780415947411 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until we face the issues of decay and isolation at the local level, any attempts to revitalize downtown or restore family values are sure to fail. Making a Place for Community is a vivid blueprint for rebuilding the heart of American life - its towns and cities.
Until we face the issues of decay and isolation at the local level, any attempts to revitalize downtown or restore family values are sure to fail. Mak...
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200,64 zł |
Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America
ISBN: 9780415948746 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regulating Place looks at how design standards have shaped the built environment of urban America. Tracing the history behind the evolution of building codes, the contributors examine the increasing influence of regulatory codes over urban design and planning during the past century. From the environment to housing to public space, the volume considers the positive and negative effects of regulation on American cities - particularly the merits of flexible approaches relative to more rigid, technocratic methods. Regulating Place also questions what sort of criteria should be used to measure...
Regulating Place looks at how design standards have shaped the built environment of urban America. Tracing the history behind the evolution of buildin...
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652,27 zł |
Regulating Place : Standards and the Shaping of Urban America
ISBN: 9780415948753 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regulating Place looks at how design standards have shaped the built environment of urban America. Tracing the history behind the evolution of building codes, the contributors examine the increasing influence of regulatory codes over urban design and planning during the past century. From the environment to housing to public space, the volume considers the positive and negative effects of regulation on American cities - particularly the merits of flexible approaches relative to more rigid, technocratic methods. Regulating Place also questions what sort of criteria should be used to measure...
Regulating Place looks at how design standards have shaped the built environment of urban America. Tracing the history behind the evolution of buildin...
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215,70 zł |
Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth Century Urbanism
ISBN: 9780415953108 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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727,52 zł |
Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth Century Urbanism
ISBN: 9780415953115 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Visions of the City" is a dramatic history of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes. The author critically examines influential utopian approaches to urbanism in western Europe associated with such figures as Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier, uncovering the political interests, desires and anxieties that lay behind their ideal cities. He also investigates avant-garde perspectives from the time that challenged these conceptions of...
"Visions of the City" is a dramatic history of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of livin...
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311,03 zł |
Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims
ISBN: 9780415960793 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice. Contributors from locations across the globe-including Uganda, Darfur, China, Afghanistan, South Africa, New Orleans, and Chicago-describe grassroots projects in which communities use narrative as a way of exploring what a more just society might look like and what civic engagement means. These compelling accounts of resistance, hope, and vision showcase the power of the storytelling form to generate... Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used... |
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878,05 zł |
Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims
ISBN: 9780415960809 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice. Contributors from locations across the globea "including Uganda, Darfur, China, Afghanistan, South Africa, New Orleans, and Chicagoa "describe grassroots projects in which communities use narrative as a way of exploring what a more just society might look like and what civic engagement means. These compelling accounts of resistance, hope, and vision showcase the power of the storytelling form to... Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used... |
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215,70 zł |
Selling Places: The Marketing and Promotion of Towns and Cities 1850-2000
ISBN: 9780419206101 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selling Places explores the fascinating development of the place marketing and promotion over the last 150 years, drawing on examples from Northern America, Britain and continental Europe. The processes involved and the promotional imagery employed are meticulously presented and richly illustrated.
Selling Places explores the fascinating development of the place marketing and promotion over the last 150 years, drawing on examples from No...
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903,14 zł |
Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form and Function
ISBN: 9780419220503 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The editors and contributors to this volume demonstrate how suburbs and the meaning of suburbanism change both with time and geographical location.
Here the disciplines of history, geography and sociology, together with subdisciplines as diverse as gender studies, art history and urban morphology, are brought together to reveal the nature of suburbia from the nineteenth century to the present day. The editors and contributors to this volume demonstrate how suburbs and the meaning of suburbanism change both with time and geographical location. |
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903,14 zł |
Politics and Preservation : A policy history of the built heritage 1882-1996
ISBN: 9780419223900 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text traces the policy history of urban conservation and its relationship to the town planning process and both are set in their political context. Part One deals with the origins of conservation and its cultural background; Part Two deals with the post-war legislation and the increasing scope of conservation; Part Three deals with churches and their separate control system; and Part Four brings the story up to the present time. Issues such as sustainable conservation and the latest government policy are addressed in the conclusion. This book should aid current practice and help to...
This text traces the policy history of urban conservation and its relationship to the town planning process and both are set in their political contex...
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903,14 zł |
Cities in the Pacific Rim
ISBN: 9780419242802 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The cities of the Pacific Rim are in one of the most dynamic spheres of the global economy. In the twenty first century the focus of global affairs is destined to shift from the West to the East. These cities offer a wide range of different responses to the demands that rapid growth puts on planning and infrastructure: from the laxity that has lead to the urban sprawl of Bangkok to the regulation that is characteristic of Singapore.
This book considers the interactive relationships between the operation of the planning system and the role and performance of property development and real... The cities of the Pacific Rim are in one of the most dynamic spheres of the global economy. In the twenty first century the focus of global affairs is...
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903,14 zł |
Computer Aided Policy Making
ISBN: 9780419244806 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The imperfections of traditional approaches to policymaking - the analytical tradition and the design tradition - are increasingly evident as society becomes more complex. Ray Wyatt argues that the software route offers policymakers a better alternative. The software considered is exclusively analytical, addressing the pivotal act of policymaking: deciding what to do in the future. Wyatt has created two books in one, while the main text describes the types of software package available (chapters 2 to 4) with a detailed examination of four particular packages (chapters 6 to 8), throughout the...
The imperfections of traditional approaches to policymaking - the analytical tradition and the design tradition - are increasingly evident as society ...
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265,87 zł |
Placemaking: The Art and Practice of Building Communities
ISBN: 9780471110262 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Placemaking is the way in which all human beings transform the places they find themselves into the places where they live."
In this groundbreaking new book, landscape architect Lynda H. Schneekloth and architect and planner Robert G. Shibley challenge the most fundamental assumptions about the ways human beings transform the places in which they live. A call to action for a more inclusive, democratic approach to the design of human spaces, the authors use stories from their own practice to cast a new light on the relationship between communities, design professionals, and the... "Placemaking is the way in which all human beings transform the places they find themselves into the places where they live."
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380,01 zł |
Saving the Neighborhood: You Can Fight Developers and Win!
ISBN: 9780471144205 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the development debate rages on, it has been the better-organized, better-financed developer who has been winning out over neighborhood homeowners.
As the development debate rages on, it has been the better-organized, better-financed developer who has been winning out over neighborhood homeowners....
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168,96 zł |
Monitoring Land Supply with Geographic Information Systems: Theory, Practice, and Parcel-Based Approaches
ISBN: 9780471371632 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Monitoring Land Supply with Geographic Information Systems Theory, Practice, and Parcel-Based Approaches
Monitoring the supply of buildable land and its capacity to accommodate growth within urbanizing regions is an increasingly important component of urban planning and growth management. Recent developments in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have opened up new opportunities for local and regional government to monitor land supply and capacity. Based on a study sponsored by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, this book reviews the state of the art in land monitoring, particularly as... Monitoring Land Supply with Geographic Information Systems Theory, Practice, and Parcel-Based Approaches
Monitoring the supply of buildable land an... |
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728,58 zł |
Introduction to Planning Practice
ISBN: 9780471985228 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introduction to town--and--country planning combines theory, procedures, and practice with detailed, real--world case studies. Both national and local perspectives in the United Kingdom are presented, clearly demonstrating how planning policies are mediated by local concerns in real situations.
This introduction to town--and--country planning combines theory, procedures, and practice with detailed, real--world case studies. Both national and ...
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226,84 zł |
New York: The Politics of Urban Regional Development
ISBN: 9780520045514 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the fourth in the Franklin K. Lane series on the governance of major metropolitan regions. The series is sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies and the Institute of International Studies, University of California in Berkeley. Readers of these volumes and other relevant literature will no doubt agree with the authors of this book that similar patterns are found in New York, London, Toronto, Stockholm, and indeed in "every other major metropolitan region in the United States and in other advanced industrial societies." The presence of such common factors and trends,...
This volume is the fourth in the Franklin K. Lane series on the governance of major metropolitan regions. The series is sponsored by the Institute of ...
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192,29 zł |
Great Planning Disasters
ISBN: 9780520046078 / Angielski / Miękka / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this "pathology of planning," Peter Hall briskly recounts the histories of five great planning disasters and two near-disasters and analyzes the decisions of the professional bureaucrats, community activists, and politicians involved in the planning process. He draws on an eclectic body of theory from political science, economics, ethics, and long-range future forecasting to suggest ways to forestall such grand mistakes in the future. For this edition, Hall has added a special introduction in which he reflects further on the sequels to these cautionary tales and on the moral planners and...
In this "pathology of planning," Peter Hall briskly recounts the histories of five great planning disasters and two near-disasters and analyzes the de...
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203,93 zł |
Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World
ISBN: 9780520082885 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The momentous changes which are transforming American life call for a new exploration of the economic and cultural landscape. In this book Sharon Zukin links our ever-expanding need to consume with two fundamental shifts: places of production have given way to spaces for services and paperwork, and the competitive edge has moved from industrial to cultural capital. From the steel mills of the Rust Belt, to the sterile malls of suburbia, to the gentrified urban centers of our largest cities, the "creative destruction" of our economy--a process by which a way of life is both lost and...
The momentous changes which are transforming American life call for a new exploration of the economic and cultural landscape. In this book Sharon Zuki...
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142,60 zł |