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by Jeffrey W. Cody
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
The export of American architecture began in the nineteenth century as a disjointed set of personal adventures and commercial initiatives. It continues today alongside the transfer of other aspects of American life and culture to most regions of the world. Jeffrey Cody explains how, why and where...
Holding Their Ground
Secure Land Tenure for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Security of land tenure for the urban poor is now a major problem for developing cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This book presents and analyzes the main conclusions of a comparative research programme on land tenure issues. It looks at how solutions can be found and implemented to respond...
Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events
Citizenship, Democracy and Public Space in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires...
Green City
People, Nature, and Urban Places
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Green City: People, Nature, and Urban Places looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into cities. In each of these locations, Soderstrom examines how people have tried to make a connection...
Staging the New Berlin
Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance and physical transformation of the city following the Fall of the Wall,...
Connecting Places, Connecting People
A Paradigm for Urban Living in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and transport networks to create environmentally friendly, economically sound, and socially just communities? How can we meet the challenges of growing pollution, depleting fossil fuels, rising gasoline prices, traffic congestion, traffic fatalities,...
by Dr Barry John Simpson, B. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book is about how local public transport can be made a less unacceptable alternative to the private car than it is now. It is intended for officials, politicians and others interested in the land use/local transport conundrum. It is also valuable to town planners, those working for passenger...
Transforming Barcelona
The Renewal of a European Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held up as a model of urban planning and economic regeneration amongst built environment professionals. The redesign of square parks and streets throughout...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Latinos are one of the largest and fastest growing social groups in the United States, and their increased presence is profoundly shaping the character of urban, suburban, and rural places. This is a response to these developments and is the first book written for readers seeking to learn about, engage...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This is the third book in the series offering a new selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning...
Insurgencies and Revolutions
Reflections on John Friedmann’s Contributions to Planning Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Over the past six or more decades, John Friedmann has been an insurgent force in the field of urban and regional planning, transforming it from its traditional state-centered concern for establishing social and spatial order into a radical domain of collaborative action between state and civil society...
Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning
Comparative Case Studies of European City-Regions
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning explores the relationship between metropolitan decision-making and strategies to co-ordinate spatial policy. This relationship is examined across 20 cities of Europe and the similarities and differences analysed.
Cities are having to formulate their urban...
DIY Gardening Projects: 35 Awesome Gardening Hacks to Better Your Garden
Landscaping & Homesteading
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Have you ever seen your neighbor’s garden and wondered how in the world do they do it? Do you look at magazines and see all these gardening ideas and wish to put them into motion? That is the situation in which I was in. I wanted to garden so badly, to grow something with my own hands, and to see...