Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today....Loe edasi...
Solar Powered Urbanization for a Sustainable Future presents a comprehensive and integrated approach to utilizing solar energy as a key solution for reducing grid dependency and pollution while fostering self-sufficient and cleaner urban centers....Loe edasi...
This book highlights innovative planning strategies for liveability and wellbeing of communities supported by lessons from notable international case studies, addressing varied issues including accommodating elderly populations, designing walkable c...Loe edasi...
This book explores how communities worldwide are rethinking the relationship between mobility, place, and belonging. It traces how walkable environments support environmental goals while fostering social connection and cultural vitality, demonstrati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jan-2026, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780429329463)
This book critically examines the methodology of visual perception of urban places. Based on systematic study of different parameters derived from investigative research and on empirical analysis of Kolkata as a case, it discusses generic issues of...Loe edasi...
Spatial Justice: The Basics offers a concise and accessible introduction to spatial justice as both a theoretical framework and a practical agenda for urban transformation. It examines how urban space is produced, contested, and governed, and how it...Loe edasi...
This groundbreaking study examines courtyard architecture across Paris, Florence, Siena, Granada, and Yazd to reveal how the deliberate creation of emptinessthe bounded voidfunctions as architectures primary generative principle....Loe edasi...
Mapping has evolved beyond navigation into a method for interpreting spatial, ephemeral, and sociopolitical dimensions of contemporary life. This volume explores how cartographic practices are being reimagined across disciplines to understand and re...Loe edasi...
New York City: The Basics offers an accessible look at the dynamic and diverse hub of New York City. Written in a clear, engaging style, the book discusses geographic, historic, demographic, socioeconomic, housing, and governmental aspects in the Bi...Loe edasi...
This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts. It is key reading for development, planning and infrastructure courses as well as professionals and researchers involved in international d...Loe edasi...
Energy Efficiency Applications in Buildings presents an investigation into the energy use and measures to improve the energy efficiency of existing building stock in the UK....Loe edasi...
This book aims to illustrate the value of design in a systematic and scientific manner, to reap the full benefits of design. The authors aim to address the challenges in the quantification and evaluation of the value of design....Loe edasi...
In this translation and editing of the four books by Mohammad Fawaz, Director of Lebanons Directorate General of Urbanism from 1974 to 1993, Christine Mady provides a unique insight into the development and urban planning of Lebanon and its capital...Loe edasi...
This book explores how urban sustainability is negotiated and enacted through planning practices, narratives, and institutional change. It does so through the case of Aalborg, to illustrate transitions that are shaped by urgency, legitimation and im...Loe edasi...
Vacant Land Regeneration provides readers with a comprehensive and transformative understanding of vacant land regeneration. Through the lens of influential research, groundbreaking case studies, and future trends, the book equips readers with the k...Loe edasi...
This book reconceptualizes tall buildings as civic agents that deliver spatial legibility, cultural significance, and vibrant social interaction by embedding placemaking at the heart of vertical development. It articulates ten pragmatic planning and...Loe edasi...
This second edition provides a systematic review of nature-based solutions and their potential to address current environmental challenges. It will interest policymakers, practitioners and researchers involved in nature-based solutions, sustainable...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Dec-2025, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003600466)
This book examines the concept of smart cities in the context of the UNs sustainable development goals, through three Mediterranean port cities....Loe edasi...
This pioneering book invites readers on a compelling journey into Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its groundbreaking convergence with AI of Things (AIoT), introducing GAIoT as a transformative frontier in urban computing and intelligence...Loe edasi...
This book argues that the creation of Smart Cities requires a long-term and holistic approach towards financing strategies. It systematizes the issues related to Smart City financing and develops a financing model that considers a lasting, systemati...Loe edasi...
Seamlessly combining architecture with cognitive science and neuroscience, environmental and evolutionary psychology, and social theory and anthropology, in clear, direct and engaging prose, this book will be essential reading for all architecture s...Loe edasi...
This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice, building on and extending the pioneering work of Michael Gunder. It stands as both a scholarly tribute to Gunders intellectual legacy an...Loe edasi...
This book explores how privately owned public spaces (POPS) are presented today as desirable additions to urban redevelopment projects, regardless of their inherently divisive social impact, usually delivered through, amongst other factors, carefull...Loe edasi...
This book shows that ideologies, understood as political beliefs that underpin everyday life, are never simply written into space but that their meaning is made and re-made, negotiated and contested, and sometimes cunningly subverted in and through...Loe edasi...
The book Modelling Social Housing delves into the intricate relationship between everyday social life and the architectural landscapes of social housing across European cities....Loe edasi...
This book examines the complex interplay between state-of-the-art telecommunications, smart city initiatives, and the Internet of Things (IoT), analyzing the security challenges and opportunities that emerge as the world ventures into this technolog...Loe edasi...
This book explores how cities worldwide, especially in China, can build resilience against disasters and presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating and strengthening urban safety and sustainability....Loe edasi...
Musasizi, Arunachalam and Forbes-Mewett take a sociological approach to explore the complexities of cultural proximity and how it intersects with situational factors such as social, economic and historical events to influence refugee-host relations...Loe edasi...
An Introduction to Urban Renewal (1982) critically reviews policies focusing on the renewal of decaying inner urban areas and examines future prospects within a historical perspective. The work draws together views from the fields of planning, housi...Loe edasi...
This book explores the architecture of the Baltic States, a region still relatively unexplored in architectural literature. Nevertheless, this collection of essays provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the urban architectural environment...Loe edasi...
The Non-Post-Socialist City examines contemporary urban policies through case studies of six cities in four states across the CEE/FSU region....Loe edasi...
The Politics of Late Urban Entrepreneurialism provides a critical examination of how innovation district transformation in Barcelona has led to periodic crisis and an overproduction of commercial real estate alongside a chronic housing shortage, gen...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1978, this study critically appraises the nature, extent and economic rationale for government intervention in the private and public housing sectors, and explores the effects of policies through fiscal and social instruments...Loe edasi...
A continual problem in modern societies is how housing of a good standard can be provided for all those who need it. Some countries, and some local areas within any one country, have clearly succeeded better than others. Originally published in 1985...Loe edasi...
First published in 1945, this book is a discussion of housing policy between 1919 and 1939. During these years the local authorities built over a million houses. This was perhaps the outstanding peace time experiment in state intervention in the pro...Loe edasi...
First published in 1982, this book represents an attempt by scholars from a number of disciplines to bring a common social-psychological perspective to bear on the study of the house and its relation to the self and the nature of the social order. I...Loe edasi...
City, Public Space, and Body offers a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how bodies experience, shape, and are shaped by urban life, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1976, this book sets out, by careful examination of the complexities of the British housing system, to improve understanding and to discuss the implications for policy in the differing roles played by central and local govern...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1987, public rented housing in Britain had undergone many changes in the decade before, which had been accelerated by the policies of the Conservative government since 1979. The book surveys the current state of public housin...Loe edasi...
First published in 1993, this book filled a gap in the literature on housing in the developing world. For many years, self-help settlement and the owner-occupier had commanded the attention of governments and researchers, leaving huge numbers of ten...Loe edasi...
First published in 1935, the original blurb reads: ... All slums will definitely be cleared away, never to recur in future generations. ... In eighty years Great Britain will be demolished and rebuilt, except historical and other special public buil...Loe edasi...
First published in 1994, this book explores the birth, growth and decline of public housing in Britain, weighing up its merits and weaknesses. It traces the development of a state housing policy and looks closely at council housing as a lived experi...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1990, this title asks, what has been the role of the state vis-à-vis housing policy in developing countries over the last few years? This book attempts an analysis of comparative housing policy the study of how, why, and to...Loe edasi...
Vinay Kandpal, Manoj Kumar Nallapaneni, Deep Chandra
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Nov-2025, Kirjastus: Apple Academic Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9781998511419)
Studies how smart technologies impact the restructuring of urban areas and industrial sectors. Explores the use of a number of advanced technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and big data analytics to devel...Loe edasi...
This book provides an in-depth discussion of spatial governance and planning systems in Latin America, exploring the influence of the influences of the public and private sectors and informal institutions. It features analysis and comparison from ca...Loe edasi...
This handbook aims to increase attention to small and medium sized cities and explore the unique challenges they face, as well as provide practical recommendations for built environment practitioners to understand and respond to these challenges in...Loe edasi...
First published in 1971, Experiments in Recreation Research examines critically the techniques of assessment, measurement, and projection for use in studies of the supply and demand aspects of sport and recreation. The merit of the book lies in its...Loe edasi...
First published in 1970, Recreation Research and Planning brings together some of the pioneering work done in Britain in response to the problems that have arisen from the growth of mass recreation since 1955. It will be particularly useful for stud...Loe edasi...
How Good Are Parklets? traces the parklets history, from its invention in 2005 as an experiment that tactically reclaimed street space for broader public use, to its surge in popularity worldwide after the COVID-19 pandemic for outdoor dining, commu...Loe edasi...
