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  • Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient Computing, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Design
    In recent years, the presence of ubiquitous computing has increasingly integrated into the lives of people in modern society. As these technologies become more pervasive, new opportunities open for making citizens’ environments more comfortable, convenient, and efficient. Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient Computing, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Design is a pivotal r...
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    287,47 €

  • Fundamentals of Planning Cities for Healthy Living
    Alexandra Pollock / Avi Friedman
    The proposed book illustrates the decline of community planning for healthy living and outlines measures that can be reintroduced to foster active lifestyles. ...
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    50,34 €

  • NEW HARMONY
    Jaime Correa
    A counterproposal and revision of the ideas of social-utopian Charles Fourier. This colorful project proposes an alternate system of floating phalanxes and phalansteries for the South Florida region in response to the current period of uncertain climate conditions. More than just a project of urban design and architecture, this counterproposal is a conceptual art intervention b...
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    27,79 €

  • L’Osservatorio Sassi per la Gestione del sito UNESCO di Matera. Il progetto per l’avvio e il metodo.
    Angela Colonna
    Nel 2013 il sito UNESCO materano de 'i Sassi e il parco delle Chiese rupestri' si è dotato del suo primo Piano di Gestione, a vent’anni dall’iscrizione nella Lista del Patrimonio Mondiale. Il Piano di Gestione si è andato definendo lungo un percorso articolato e partecipato, e la sua struttura è il risultato di sintesi degli apporti di tutte le fasi del percorso. Il processo pa...
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    24,80 €

  • West Swindon
    Angela Atkinson / Frances Bevan / Roger Ogle
    West Swindon is a series of linked suburban centres planned and built from the 1980s to the west of the Wiltshire former railway town. But its story stretches back much further than most people realise. Way before the St. John family hunted on what is now Lydiard Park, Romans lived, made bricks - and died here. Should you think of West Swindon as nothing more than a soulless, t...
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    22,53 €

  • Urban Greening Techniques
    Chun Liang Tan
    What is the best way to design with greenery? What are the benefits of selecting one species of tree over another, and placing it at Point A instead of Point B? Will it cost more than the benefits it provides? If you have ever asked these questions, this book is for you.Greenery is an integral part of the sustainable planning and design ethos. Besides beautifying the environmen...
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    119,93 €

  • Urban Greening Techniques
    Chun Liang Tan
    What is the best way to design with greenery? What are the benefits of selecting one species of tree over another, and placing it at Point A instead of Point B? Will it cost more than the benefits it provides? If you have ever asked these questions, this book is for you.Greenery is an integral part of the sustainable planning and design ethos. Besides beautifying the environmen...
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    59,80 €

  • A History of Prestonfield - Edinburgh Local History
    Brian Bourner
    This booklet is an exercise in local history. It is an attempt to bring together and describe the broad sweep of social and political history relating to a small area in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, called Prestonfield. It is illustrated with a number of photographs and extracts from a number of maps. ...
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    16,92 €

  • For Palestine
    Ian Parker
    'I am not afraid to look.' - Tom Hurndall, 2003.On the eve of the invasion of Iraq in February 2003, Tom Hurndall, a photography student at Manchester Metropolitan University, travelled from Manchester to the Middle East to witness the horrors in Iraq and then later in Palestine. Tom was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier on 11 April 2003 whilst attempting to rescue two chi...
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    55,89 €

  • Harmony, Florida
    Anthony James Catanese
    Harmony, Florida is a very special place. It is a new town built upon the principles of New Urbanism and living with nature and wildlife. It could become a model for new place-making and conservation of endangered lands. It is not only a planning and architectural success; it is also an ecological ideal.This book tells how it was done. It started with a vision supported by scie...
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    12,01 €

  • Harmony, Florida
    Anthony James Catanese
    Harmony, Florida is a very special place. It is a new town built upon the principles of New Urbanism and living with nature and wildlife. It could become a model for new place-making and conservation of endangered lands. It is not only a planning and architectural success; it is also an ecological ideal.This book tells how it was done. It started with a vision supported by scie...
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    30,15 €

  • Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City
    Amanda Shoaf Vincent
    Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City is the first cultural history of major new parks developed in Paris in the late twentieth century, as part of the city’s program of adaptive reuse of industrial spaces. Thanks to laws that gave the city more political autonomy, Paris’s local government launched a campaign of park creation in the late 1970s that continued to the turn of...
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    92,40 €

  • The Complex City
    Caroline Donnellan
    ’The Complex City: Social and Built Approaches and Methods’ explores different ways of understanding the city. The social city approach proceeds from the ground-up, it focuses on human interactions shaped by economic and environmental processes. The built city method looks through a top-down lens, examining policy and planning for buildings and infrastructure, including utiliti...
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    61,69 €

  • School Journey as a Third Place
    Zoe Moody
    Journeys to school are important time and space transitions between homes and schools for children worldwide. This book provides insights into children’s experiences of this essential aspect of their lives and schooling experience. From an interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective, leading international scholars focus on how children from very different contexts travel be...
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    160,22 €

  • NO in the USA
    MARCELO LARA / MERCEDES ARTURO
    NO in the USA is a photo essay that will change the way you see public signage forever. Observed through the eyes of a foreigner, this book offers a refreshing and playful perspective on the symbols and messages that surround us. From the comical to the thought-provoking, NO in the USA is a must-read for anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of American culture and so...
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    33,38 €

  • Smart City 2.0
    Almost a century since the idea of creating more humane - more human-centric - cities was brought to the fore, how far has mankind progressed towards creating a true 'city with a heart'? How far off are we, and what can we do to close the gap?The first generation of smart cities showed the limits of top-down planning, in which cities contracted out design and implementation to ...
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    182,09 €

  • The Art of Building Cities
    Camillo Sitte / Charles T. Stewart
    Camillo Sitte (1843-1903) was a noted Austrian architect, painter and theoretician who exercised great influence on the development of urban planning in Europe and the United States. The publication at Vienna in May 1889 of 'Der Stadtebau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsatzen' ('The Art of Building Cities') began a new era in Germanic city planning. Sitte strongly criticized t...
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    9,80 €

  • Urban Management
    Willie Tan
    This book is about the management of cities amid the major challenges to fast growing cities as well as the struggling ones. It discusses trends in urbanization, urban challenges, the urban management approach, theories of the state and urban management, building capacity, urban planning, local economic development, housing, urban service delivery, public utilities, social serv...
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    117,82 €

  • Urban Management
    Willie Tan
    This book is about the management of cities amid the major challenges to fast growing cities as well as the struggling ones. It discusses trends in urbanization, urban challenges, the urban management approach, theories of the state and urban management, building capacity, urban planning, local economic development, housing, urban service delivery, public utilities, social serv...
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    69,99 €

  • Malaga entre calles y sueños
    ANGEL PEREZ MORA
    Sin ocultar su pasión por lo urbano, el arquitecto, como un ciudadano mas nos invita desde la simple lectura de unos textos a recorrer la ciudad desde en principio, simples paseos, para que descubramos por nuestros medios lo que de belleza, en particular la ciudad de Málaga, nos esconde. Con una doble intención, de una parte ese hecho nos lanza a desarrollar la propia mirada so...
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    11,29 €

  • Visual Pollution
    Khydija Wakil / Raheel Nawaz
    Visual Pollution: Concepts, Practices and Management Framework offers the first substantial cutting-edge exploration of visual pollution in urban settlements, uncovering the conceptualisation, geography-specific visual pollutants, methods of visual pollution assessment and management frameworks. ...
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    87,88 €

  • Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
    James Nguyen H Spencer / James Nguyen H. Spencer
    This book examines how four communities in the rapidly developing cities of Southeast Asia have creatively solved growing environmental problems. It’s description of how community-level collaboration in Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia provide new ways for thinking about how marginalized people can co-create their own equitable and efficient infrastructure. ...
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    180,30 €

  • Fundamentals of Planning Cities for Healthy Living
    Alexandra Pollock / Avi Friedman
    The proposed book illustrates the decline of community planning for healthy living and outlines measures that can be reintroduced to foster active lifestyles. ...
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    180,41 €

  • 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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    39,06 €

  • If I Ruled The World Winnipeg
    Grant Hall
    This book is about a city’s current state versus its potential state. It examines the dynamic beginningsthat gave the city an exciting promise for the future and how that promise evaporated through the20th century.The premise is that the author falls asleep in the forward of the book and wakes up in the epilogue,only to realize that all of the grand ideas discussed in the 16 ch...
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    42,47 €

  • ¿Desborde urbano?
    Orejuela Gaudy / Teresa Pérez de Murzi
    En este documento se presentan las dinámicas de ocupación de la zona norte de Guayaquil, como un modesto aporte al conocimiento del modelo de expansión que está experimentando esta urbe ecuatoriana. La expresión desborde urbano es utilizada para dibujar el proceso que tiene lugar en un territorio en plena transformación, de carácter periférico. Allí se rebasa el límite de lo pr...
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    48,54 €

  • If I Ruled The World Winnipeg
    Grant Hall
    This book is about a city’s current state versus its potential state. It examines the dynamic beginningsthat gave the city an exciting promise for the future and how that promise evaporated through the20th century.The premise is that the author falls asleep in the forward of the book and wakes up in the epilogue,only to realize that all of the grand ideas discussed in the 16 ch...
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    56,38 €

  • Sustainable Development and Planning XII
    Juan J. Casares
    Planners, environmentalists, architects, engineers, policymakers and economists have to work together to ensure that planning and development can meet our present needs without compromising the ability of future generations. This collaboration was the aim of the 12th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning, from which the papers in this volume originate...
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    342,38 €

  • Barcelona, City of Comics
    Benjamin Fraser
    Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe’s most notable global cities. ...
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    40,02 €

  • Remapping Urban Heat Island Atlases in Regenerative Cities
    In the past decades, protecting the urban environment in the face of environmentalism and environmental rights has become crucial to saving the planet from the dangers of the rapid urban development of new cities and societies. Air temperature is one of the factors influenced by climate change and contemporary city morphology that lacks compact city features. Contemporary citie...
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    248,68 €