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Functionalism Revisited
Architectural Theory and Practice and the Behavioral Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
A range of current approaches to architecture are neglected in our contemporary writings on design philosophies. This book argues that the model of 'function' and the concept of a 'functional building' that we have inherited from the twentieth-century Modernists is limited in scope and detracts from...
From an Ancient Road to a Cultural Route
Conservation and Management of the Road between Milas and Labraunda
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The main subject of the study is revealing “cultural routes”, by the evaluation of ancient roads which have cultural accumulation on and around them. Considering the unique character of cultural routes, their formation as a consequence of cultural accumulation in a region is the main objective...
Transforming Cities with Transit
Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
'Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. As one of the most promising strategies for advancing environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness, and socially inclusive development in fast-growing...
by Gail Dexter Lord, Ngaire Blankenberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Museum planners Gail Lord and Ngaire Blankenberg demonstrate how museums and cities are using their soft power to address some of the most important issues of our time.Soft power is the exercise of influence through attraction, persuasion, and agenda-setting rather than military or economic coercion.Thirteen...
Design for Transport
A User-Centred Approach to Vehicle Design and Travel
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The central premise of Design for Transport is that the designer's role is to approach design for transport from the point of view of the user. People have a collection of wants and needs and a significant proportion of them are to do with their requirements for mobility. The authors show how creative...
Paradise Plundered
Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing voter distrust with government, a demand for services but not taxes to pay for them, a sharp...
Cluster-Based Industrial Development
A Comparative Study of Asia and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
This book examines how to promote industrial development in low-income countries. It considers the role of traders in the evolution of a cluster, the role of managerial human capital, the effect of the 'China shock', and the role of industrial policies focused on international knowledge transfer in supporting the upgrading of clusters.
by Juan R. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Read This Guide To Business Trip, Travel Costs, Staying Healthy, Short Notice Travels, Jet Lag, Foreign Shores and More!
Industrial Tourism
Opportunities for City and Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Industrial tourism presents opportunities, both in terms of income and as a tool of management, for individual firms who open their doors - and consequently their local regions - to the public. But how can these opportunities be organised in a way that enables both the city and the enterprise to take...
Local and Global
The Management of Cities in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing...
Gated Communities
Social Sustainability in Contemporary and Historical Gated Developments
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Gated Communities provides a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens through which to view the historical vernacular background of this now global phenomenon. The book presents a collection of new writing on the issue...
Farmland Preservation
Land for Future Generations
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
As land is lost to urban sprawl and other non-farm activity, our ability to produce food is diminished and options for future food production are limited. Farmland preservation speaks to the need to preserve the agricultural land base for future generations. The need for protection is driven by uncertainty...
by Lorene Edwards Forkner
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
There is nothing more regionally specific than vegetable gardening. What to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are unique decisions based on climate, weather, and first and last frost.
The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening: Pacific Northwest is a growing guide that truly understands...
Planning for Coexistence?
Recognizing Indigenous rights through land-use planning in Canada and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Planning is becoming one of the key battlegrounds for Indigenous people to negotiate meaningful articulation of their sovereign territorial and political rights, reigniting the essential tension that lies at the heart of Indigenous-settler relations. But what actually happens in the planning contact...