Materials for Architects and Builders provides a clear and concise introduction to the broad range of materials used within the construction industry and covers ...
Contemporary cartography faces a threefold, simultaneous set of pressures. First, it is clear that a restricted circle of specialists no longer holds a monopoly ...
The world faces a 'perfect storm' of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource degradation and social, economic and cultural change. ...
Bikers and hikers. Sex workers and social conservatives. Agencies and activists. The people involved in planning for a site-or a community-can be like the ...
The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory ...
Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design ...
George Taylor's Town Planning for Australia was the first dedicated book on the subject of urban planning published in Australia. Journalistic and ideological in ...
This book explores the relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas emissions in China, providing new insights for policy, urban planning and management. Drawing ...
This book is an investigation of the cultural phenomenon of branding and its transformational effects on the contemporary spatial - and urban - reality. ...
Cities have led the way to combat climate change by planning and implementing climate mitigation and adaptation policies. These local efforts go beyond national ...
Heritage Planning: Principles and Process provides a comprehensive overview of heritage planning as an area of professional practice. The book first addresses the context ...
The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development, and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities. Cultural industries include new ...
This book is about building the urban 'shared intelligence' - the synergy city - the capacity for thinking ahead, with creative innovation, turning problems ...
