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Young People and Housing
Transitions, Trajectories and Generational Fractures
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Young People and Housing brings together new research exploring the economic, social, and cultural challenges that face young people in search of permanent housing. Featuring international case studies from Asia, Europe, and Australia, Young People and Housing is a collection of groundbreaking work...
The Planning Game
An Information Economics Approach to Understanding Urban and Environmental Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Trading information is an essential aspect of the negotiations that underpin planning practice across the globe. In this book, Alex Lord uses information economics to outline a way of thinking about these negotiations that places the strategies that actors in the planning game use at the heart of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2006
Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the dynamic role of the housing system during a period of unprecedented social and economic change in one of...
by Donald Shoup
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Free Parking. Easy to read and often entertaining, the book showed that city parking policies subsidize cars, encourage sprawl, degrade urban design, prohibit...
by Yasser Elsheshtawy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city’s urban development.
With...
The Evolving Arab City
Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in studies of urbanisation.
This collection reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the...
The Skycourt and Skygarden
Greening the urban habitat
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Population increases, advances in technology and the continued trend towards inner-city migration have transformed the traditional city of spaces into the modern city of objects. This has necessitated alternative spatial and technological solutions to replenish those environments that were once so...
Topographies of Memories
A New Poetics of Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This book explores new approaches towards developing memorial and heritage sites, moving beyond the critique of existing practices that have been the traditional focus of studies of commemoration. Offering understandings of the effects of conflict on memories of place, as manifested in everyday lives...
Planning Middle Eastern Cities
An Urban Kaleidoscope
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Middle Eastern cities cannot be lumped together as a single group. Rather they make up the urban kaleidoscope of the title, as the diversity of the six cities included here shows. They range from cities rich in tradition (Cairo, Tunis, and Baghdad), to neglected cities (Algiers and Sana'a), to newly...
Systemic Architecture
Operating Manual for the Self-Organizing City
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design. It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational design...
Eco-Urbanity
Towards Well-Mannered Built Environments
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
There is need for change in our currently unsustainable cities. Carefully outlining paths towards better, sustainable ways of urban living, this book proposes a radical change in the ways we conceive and live our urban environments.
Bringing together diverse cultural and disciplinary views...
by Gehan Selim
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The Emerging Politics of (Re) making Cairo's Old Quarters examines postcolonial planning practices that aimed to modernise Cairo’s urban spaces. The author examines the expanding field of postcolonial urbanism by linking the state’s political ideologies and systems of governance with methods of...
Social Capital at the Community Level
An Applied Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In Social Capital at the Community Level, John Halstead and Steven Deller examine social capital formation beyond the individual level through a variety of disciplines: planning, economics, regional development, sociology, as well as non-traditional approaches like engineering and built environmental...
Framing Strategic Urban Projects
Learning from current experiences in European urban regions
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Presenting the findings of extensive research into the development of planning tools and strategies since the early 1970s, this book addresses key issues in urban development/governance and brings together a range of different national experiences.
Helpfully divided into three sections,...