Landscape category: 1155 books
by Keith Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Development Control" is a comprehensive introductory text for students of planning and related subjects. Drawing widely on the literature - the approach and treatment are very much geared to the needs of students on courses, rather than focusing on practical and "how-to-do-it" issues....
Nature-Friendly Communities
Habitat Protection And Land Use Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Nature-Friendly Communities presents an authoritative and readable overview of the successful approaches to protecting biodiversity and natural areas in America's growing communities. Addressing the crucial issues of sprawl, open space, and political realities, Chris Duerksen and Cara Snyder explain...
Planning and Decentralization
Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2008
The first in-depth study of the impact of economic and political decentralization on planning practice in developing economies, this innovative volume, using original case study research by leading experts drawn from diverse fields of inquiry, from planning to urban studies, geography and economics,...
Planning Asian Cities
Risks and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities.
They show how globalization, and the competition...
by Ted Kitchen, Richard H. Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
With a comprehensive analysis, this book links theory, evidence and practical application to bridge gaps between planning, design and criminology. The authors investigate connections between crime prevention and development planning with an international approach, looking at initiatives in the field...
Sociable Cities
The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard’s To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 – an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard’s original, long...
Compact Cities
Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This collection of edited papers forms part of the Compact City Series, creating a companion volume to The Compact City (1996) and Achieving Sustainable Urban Form (2000) and extends the debate to developing countries. This book examines and evaluates the merits and defects of compact city approaches...
by Paul Rabbitts
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
London's royal parks are amongst its most beautiful and beloved spaces: just as much as the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and Victoria Station, the mere mention of Hyde or Regent's Park is enough to evoke the capital in all its glory for residents and tourists alike. They have a grand history...
by Leslie Adatto
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Congratulations! By choosing this book, you've taken the first step toward experiencing New York City from an entirely fresh perspective - from the rooftops. Roof Explorer's Guide: 101 New York City Rooftops is the only guide book that shows you and takes you - to a wondrous variety of New York City...
Inhabitable Infrastructures
Science fiction or urban future?
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future?, the follow up to Food City and Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, from one of the world’s leading urban design and architectural thinkers, explores the potential of climate change-related multi-use infrastructures that address the fundamental...
by Deborah Burst
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
“Literature that creates an authentic sense of place can be difficult to find. A writer who can capture the real spirit of a place is even more rare. Deborah Burst is such a writer, and her Spirits of the Bayou does justice to one of America’s most historic and hauntingly beautiful settings, South...
Heterotopia and the City
Public Space in a Postcivil Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Heterotopia, literally meaning ‘other place’, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since...
Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France brings together a wide selection of comparative essays to highlight the fundamental similarities and differences between the spatial planning in Great Britain and France: two countries that are near neighbours and yet have developed very different modes...
The Urban Experience
A People-Environment Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book provides a representative selection of the highest quality papers submitted to the IAPS 13 conference held in Manchester in 1994. The papers are concerned with current research on the experience of living in cities and are drawn from developed, developing and under-developed countries in all parts of the world.