This book explores how urban spaces encompass, shape and reconfigure the emotional landscapes and socio-cultural specters of their inhabitants. It highlights the arenas in which various politics and strategies of emotional relations are represente...Loe edasi...
This book explores how urban spaces encompass, shape and reconfigure the emotional landscapes and socio-cultural spectres of their inhabitants. This book explores how urban spaces encompass, shape and reconfigure the emotional land...Loe edasi...
Planning law is one of the most rapidly moving legal areas, with major structural changes to the planning system occurring in recent years. Despite attempts at simplification, it remains one of the most complex fields for both students and practition...Loe edasi...
This book introduces planners to AI, outlining essential concepts, terminologies, and methodologies. It shows how planners can effectively use AI in their daily practices, engage constructively with technical specialists, and critically assess the...Loe edasi...
This book introduces planners to AI, outlining essential concepts, terminologies, and methodologies. It shows how planners can effectively use AI in their daily practices, engage constructively with technical specialists, and critically assess the...Loe edasi...
The book analyses contemporary art spaces both in terms of production and consumption in Hongkong and Singapore, which all rose in the last decade. It is about embedding these places in the respective urban context as well as the spatial design of t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774871907)
The right to the city – the freedom for all to occupy, govern, change, and enjoy the city and access its resources – is fundamental to genuinely inclusive democracy. Claiming the Right to the City critically explores attempts to redefi...Loe edasi...
The book highlights research on transportation as services in Africa and provides theoretical underpinning for future studies on transport service management. . It recognises that transport service provision in Africa needs to be contextualised am...Loe edasi...
The book brings together rural scholars from the Global North and the Global South, who have contributed chapters based on their own contexts. The book aims to provide a general picture of how rural communities are responding to challenges in a gl...Loe edasi...
Everyday Life and Urban Studies revisits the ordinary routines that shape urban life during the crises-ridden last century and early new millennium. Vast parts of Henri Lefebvre’s intellectual work on everyday life however remain underappre...Loe edasi...
Everyday Life and Urban Studies revisits the ordinary routines that shape urban life during the crises-ridden last century and early new millennium. Vast parts of Henri Lefebvre’s intellectual work on everyday life however remain underappre...Loe edasi...
Cities in the Metaverse offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between urban environments and digital realms. The book examines:· The size and shape of cities in the Metaverse· Spatial computing...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between urban environments and digital realms. It is essential reading for urban planners, geographers, economists, technologists, policymakers, and anyone interested in the future o...Loe edasi...
Exploring the transformation and challenges facing urban commerce in the twenty-first century, this book analyzes the retail apocalypse, the decline of shopping malls, commercial gentrification, the evolution of brick-and-mortar stores and tourist...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9781621909774)
From 1849 to the early 1980s, fewer than one hundred highly educated, White, European and American men created what became todays US federal historic preservation policy. Jeremy C. Wells argues that the orthodox historic preservation doctrine that...Loe edasi...
The eighth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. The City Re...Loe edasi...
The eighth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. ...Loe edasi...
This book is an inspiring exploration of Sólheimar Ecovillage in Iceland, a pioneering community that embodies sustainability, social responsibility, and inclusivity. It will have a broad audience of architects, designers, occupational therapists, m...Loe edasi...
This book is an inspiring exploration of Sólheimar Ecovillage in Iceland, a pioneering community that embodies sustainability, social responsibility, and inclusivity. It will have a broad audience of architects, designers, occupational therapists, m...Loe edasi...
Fabio Angeoletto, Piotr Tryjanowski, Mark D. E. Fellowes
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031708664)
This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators for new ideas and technologies, creating the possibility for socially and environmentally sensitive...Loe edasi...
The book brings together rural scholars from the Global North and the Global South, who have contributed chapters based on their own contexts. The book aims to provide a general picture of how rural communities are responding to challenges in a gl...Loe edasi...
Offers an explosive account of the arson wave that hit the Bronx and other American cities in the 1970s--and its legacy today. Offers an explosive account of the arson wave that hit the Bronx and other American cities in the 1970s—and its leg...Loe edasi...
This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the UrbanPromo International Conference on “Designing in disorder - Designing disorder. Reorganizing Urban Fragility” held from 5 to 8 November 2024 at Florence in Italy. It highlights the issue of la...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031952913)
This book explores the concept of a nature-positive built environment highlighting its importance for both human and planetary health. It promotes a cross-disciplinary dialogue and provides a critical perspective to those interested in the search...Loe edasi...
This book provides a concise reference guide on many of the early cities of the Muslim Arabs that emerged between the seventh century AD, and the early 11th century AD. Kamila Ashour traces the evolution of these cities in historical texts unti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: RIBA Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781915722409)
The future of cities is female...As cities around the world face mounting crises - climate change, traffic congestion and growing inequity - the need for bold, people-first solutions has never been greater. Enter the women leading the charg...Loe edasi...
This gripping narrative study examines the ways in which disease and public health have shaped the urban and rural landscapes of Italy, through intriguing case studies from across the country and its history....Loe edasi...
This book, by an architect and a sociologist, addresses the disconnect between the design of the built environment and social life and lays out a pathway for interdisciplinary engagement.Through this scholarly collaboration, the authors cre...Loe edasi...
This book, by an architect and a sociologist, addresses the disconnect between the design of the built environment and social life and lays out a pathway for interdisciplinary engagement. Through this scholarly collaboration, the authors create a ne...Loe edasi...
Jeffrey Raven, Anna Hürlimann, Mattia Federico Leone, Sanjukkta Bhaduri, Christian Braneon, David Corbett, David Driskell, Ursula Eicker, John E. Fernandez, Jing Gan...
Sari: Elements in Climate Change and Cities
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009643917)
Embedding climate resilient development principles in planning, urban design, and architecture means ensuring that transformation of the built environment helps achieve carbon neutrality, effective adaptation, and well-being for people and nature. Pl...Loe edasi...
Jeffrey Raven, Anna Hürlimann, Mattia Federico Leone, Sanjukkta Bhaduri, Christian Braneon, David Corbett, David Driskell, Ursula Eicker, John E. Fernandez, Jing Gan...
Reflects the scientific, technical, operational, and social dimensions of forward-looking research and action in the fields of planning, urban design, and architecture. It is a manifesto for the transformation of cities in response to climate change....Loe edasi...
This supports undergraduate courses in civil and environmental engineering and urban planning. It is broad and inclusive, and takes a modular approach, where each theme is discussed comprehensively from the macro to the micro level; to deliver sus...Loe edasi...
This supports undergraduate courses in civil and environmental engineering and urban planning. It is broad and inclusive, and takes a modular approach, where each theme is discussed comprehensively from the macro to the micro level; to deliver sus...Loe edasi...
Insurgent Urbanisms are often seen as spontaneous, grassroots responses to the inequities embedded in urban policies, projects, and systems, operating entirely outside the structures of government. But are they truly autonomous? In Insurgent Ur...Loe edasi...
Insurgent Urbanisms are often seen as spontaneous, grassroots responses to the inequities embedded in urban policies, projects, and systems, operating entirely outside the structures of government. But are they truly autonomous? In Insurgent Ur...Loe edasi...
In recent years, unprecedented demographic aging has placed considerable strain on outdated healthcare systems, exacerbating existing challenges and creating new ones. Geriatric care, in particular, necessitates a multidisciplinary approach involv...Loe edasi...
Offering a big picture view of disaster risk in cities, this book uses rich case studies and both technical and socioeconomic insights to demonstrate the role of urbanization in disaster risk. It will benefit students, researchers, and practitione...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009633550)
Offering a big picture view of disaster risk in cities, this book uses rich case studies and both technical and socioeconomic insights to demonstrate the role of urbanization in disaster risk. It will benefit students, researchers, and practitione...Loe edasi...
The 8th edition of the longstanding and reputable textbook The Income Approach to Property Valuation elevates its practicality, broadens its international appeal, and cements its market leading status by incorporating the latest...Loe edasi...
The 8th edition of the longstanding and reputable textbook The Income Approach to Property Valuation elevates its practicality, broadens its international appeal, and cements its market leading status by incorporating the latest...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Island Press, ISBN-13: 9781642833652)
In the nineteenth century, Manhattan’s streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube underneath...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031983818)
Megaprojects are not merely transformative, but rather inherently disruptive. They are incompatible with any approach to urban sustainability that prioritizes the well-being of urbanites and the boundaries of the Earth system. In fact, megaprojects...Loe edasi...
Ratchada Arpornsilp, Bowen Gu, Orlando Woods, Caixia Mao, Patrick Bond, Simone Veglio, Evelina Gambino, Xiaofeng Liu, Hannes Langguth, Ksenija Hanacek...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529240634)
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly called the New Silk Road, is a huge infrastructure project currently revitalising or creating new trading routes and large developments across the globe. It is estimated to cost up to US8 trillion...Loe edasi...
This book brings together researchers, academics, policy makers and designers with the objective of developing a focused vision that enhances innovation through design and industry for a better future. Readers will gain an interdisciplinary persp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781800379039)
This important book sheds light on the opportunities and complexities involved in the transition to net zero cities. Drawing on the framework of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Peter Newman outlines how citie...Loe edasi...
This important book sheds light on the opportunities and complexities involved in the transition to net zero cities. Drawing on the framework of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Peter Newman outlines how citie...Loe edasi...
