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  • The Birth of a Building
    Ben Stevens
    SummaryWe spend most of our lives in buildings and see new ones being created around us all the time. But the number of people and disciplines involved in a building's creation make it hard to understand the process as a whole. The Birth of a Building is an introduction to those aspects of finance, law, urban planning, architecture, engineering, construction, and real estat...
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    17,20 €

  • The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes
    A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, 'The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes' addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones. ...
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    57,32 €

  • Islands, Identity and the Literary Imagination
    Elizabeth McMahon
    Australia is the planet’s sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how shifting understandings of the island continent shed new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity. ...
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    57,18 €

  • Resolutions and Reasons
    Sue Chadwick
    This book is intended to be a helpful guide to all aspects of the planning decision-making process, from dealing with the ‘tilted balance’ in practice to wider concerns such as consultation, advising committees and dealing with human rights and equalities issues.ABOUT THE AUTHORDr Sue Chadwick is a Strategic Planning Advisor with Pinsent Masons and Chair of the Housing Project ...
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    58,26 €

  • The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States
    Mattijs van Maasakkers
    The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States provides an in-depth analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. It explains why very few of these markets have succeeded even after close to twenty years of scholarly enthusiasm, federal funding and concerted efforts by NGOs, government agencies and busi...
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    54,70 €

  • Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan
    Simon Gunn / Susan C. Townsend
    Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading ’motor cities’, Nagoya and Birmingham, as their principal subjects, Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend show how cars changed the spatial form and individual experience of the modern ci...
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    173,77 €

  • Designing for Health & Wellbeing
    Rapid urbanization represents major threats and challenges to personal and public health. The World Health Organisation identifies the ‘urban health threat’ as three-fold: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases; and violence and injury from, amongst other things, road traffic. Within this tripartite structure of health issues in the built environment, there are multiple...
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    74,90 €

  • Common spaces of urban emancipation
    Stavros Stavrides
    This is an exciting book, which explores the cultural meaning and politics of common spaces in conjunction with ideas connected with neighbourhood and community, justice and resistance, in order to trace elements of a different emancipating future. ...
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    145,12 €

  • Common spaces of urban emancipation
    Stavros Stavrides
    This is an exciting book, which explores the cultural meaning and politics of common spaces in conjunction with ideas connected with neighbourhood and community, justice and resistance, in order to trace elements of a different emancipating future. ...
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    35,76 €

  • Handbook of Research on Digital Research Methods and Architectural Tools in Urban Planning and Design
    The efficient usage, investigation, and promotion of new methods, tools, and technologies within the field of architecture, particularly in urban planning and design, is becoming more critical as innovation holds the key to cities becoming smarter and ultimately more sustainable. In response to this need, strategies that can potentially yield more realistic results are continua...
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    338,96 €

  • An Account Of The Bell Rock Light-House
    Robert Stevenson
    This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the sa...
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    34,82 €

  • The Right to the Smart City
    Globally, Smart Cities initiatives are pursued which reproduce the interests of capital and neoliberal government, rather than wider public good. This book explores smart urbanism and ’the right to the city’, examining citizenship, social justice, commoning, civic participation, and co-creation to imagine a different kind of Smart City. ...
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    142,83 €

  • Planning Obligations Demystified
    Bob Mc Geady / Meyric Lewis
    Planning obligations and section 106 agreements have become much more prevalent in the development industry. With cutbacks in public expenditure local authorities are increasingly looking to fund infrastructure and other types of expenditure through the planning system. In this book we look at the requirements for a valid section 106 agreement and the underlying policy context....
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    97,30 €

  • Land Use Politics in Florida Communities
    Robyne Turner
    Abstract:A study of local reaction - political, neighborhood, and civic, to growth management regulations and comprehensive local planning in Florida. The rapid growth in urban places created steep political and civic divisions for and against development. Low-income neighborhoods on the periphery of commercial development and gentrification were most at risk to lose their terr...
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    86,10 €

  • Land Use Politics in Florida Communities
    Robyne Turner
    Abstract:A study of local reaction - political, neighborhood, and civic, to growth management regulations and comprehensive local planning in Florida. The rapid growth in urban places created steep political and civic divisions for and against development. Low-income neighborhoods on the periphery of commercial development and gentrification were most at risk to lose their terr...
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    116,60 €

  • Learning Cities, Town Planning, and the Creation of Livelihoods
    Idowu Biao
    As both a physical living space and emotional environment, cities impact human beings in a number of ways. These ways include but are not limited to the kinds of relationship that may exist among the varying categories of inhabitants of the city, the organization of and accessibility to leaning resources and facilities, the types and rates of migration impacting the city, the s...
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    282,03 €

  • Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making
    Davide Geneletti
    The book provides an introduction to key concepts of multicriteria analysis, and a series of case studies that illustrate its application to a variety of environmental decision-making problems, ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental impact assessment of tourism infrastructures. ...
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    114,89 €

  • Measure of People and Space Interactions in the Built Environment
    This book is an edited collection of seven chapters on the theme of ‘people and space interactions in different settings’. Using a variety of problems, it showcases a rich set of solutions to the global challenges of functional, sustainable and responsive habitats in both urban and rural environments. The book deals with cultural landscapes, sustainable housing settings, the en...
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    36,18 €

  • Sports Grounds and Buildings - Making, Management Maintenance and Equipment
    F. A. M. Webster / FAMWebster
    This vintage book contains a complete guide to planning, constructing, and maintaining various types of sports grounds and related buildings by F. A. M. Webster. Frederick Annesley Michael Webster (1886 - 1949) was a British athletics coach and author, and soldier active during World War One. He wrote profusely on the subject of athletics, with his best known book being 'Athlet...
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    27,53 €

  • Designing for Health & Wellbeing
    Rapid urbanization represents major threats and challenges to personal and public health. The World Health Organisation identifies the ‘urban health threat’ as three-fold: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases; and violence and injury from, amongst other things, road traffic. Within this tripartite structure of health issues in the built environment, there are multiple...
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    85,07 €

  • Captain Gray’s Houses
    Robert Shepherd
    The fascinating story of the eighteenth-century houses of Sion Row, Twickenham. In telling the story of these houses and their occupants, a remarkable social history is revealed. ...
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    88,25 €

  • Learning Cities, Town Planning, and the Creation of Livelihoods
    Idowu Biao
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    216,17 €

  • Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis
    Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis investigates the states of urban planning, architectural design, sustainability, landscape architecture, and engineering, and examines their correlation with social attitudes and dispositions that can impact on socio-cultural and political engagement internationally in conditions of crisis. The theme of the book emphasizes the need to ack...
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    138,86 €

  • Avenida de Mayo
    Justo SOLSONA
    Esta publicación significa para quienes trabajamos en ella, la concreción en ideas, investigaciones, relevamientos, propuestas y dibujos, de un pensamiento continuado e ininterrumpido acerca de la Avenida de Mayo.Un pensamiento arquitectónico que esperamos se sume a tantas otras opciones, proyectos y normativas que intentan destrabar las condiciones de 'suspenso urbano' en que ...
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    34,32 €

  • Industrial and Urban Growth Policies at the Sub-National, National, and Global Levels
    Recent global shifts in population have led to the fast urbanization of Africa. For Africa and the developing world, choosing the right policy strategies, processes, and tools are essential to turning urban centers into engines of industry and economic prosperity. Industrial and Urban Growth Policies at the Sub-National, National, and Global Levels is a pivotal reference source...
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    269,34 €

  • A Systems Approach to Modeling the Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus, Volume II
    Bernard Amadei
    This two-volume book describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources. Over the next 50 years, rapid population, urbanization, and economic growth worldwide will create unprecedented demands for water, energy, land, and food (WELF) resources. The discussion on how to meet hum...
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    56,73 €

  • Greening the City
    The modern city is not only pavement and concrete. Parks, gardens, trees, and other plants are an integral part of the urban environment. Often the focal points of social movements and political interests, green spaces represent far more than simply an effort to balance the man-made with the natural. A city's history with--and approach to--its parks and gardens reveals much...
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    39,81 €

  • A Systems Approach to Modeling the Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus, Volume I
    Bernard Amadei
    This two-volume set describes a flexible and adaptive system-based methodology and associated guidelines for the management and allocation of community-based WELF resources. Over the next 50 years, rapid population, urbanization, and economic growth worldwide will create unprecedented demands for water, energy, land, and food (WELF) resources. The discussion on how to meet huma...
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    56,79 €

  • Para el salón
    Agudelo Natalia / Lleras Silvia / Natalia Lucía Agudelo Álvarez / Silvia Lleras
    Desde que el término pensamiento de diseño comenzó a tener auge entre diseñadores y no diseñadores, se ha avanzado mucho en la especificación de las metodologías y herramientas para acompañar este proceso. En respuesta a las necesidades de los estudiantes de diseño, este libro es una guía que integra recursos sobre los tipos de herramientas más comunes en los procesos de diseño...
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    25,16 €

  • Gardens of the Gilded Age
    M Doell
    Houses and gardens created in America between 1860 and 1917 were 'modern' manifestations of nineteenth century art, science, and industry, conveying cultural values in their form, function, style, and materials. Now Increasing public interest in the restoration of nineteenth-century properties has provoked curiosity about their physical surroundings.While many buildings from th...
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    38,99 €