Infrastructure Planning and Finance is a non-technical guide to the engineering, planning, and financing of major infrastucture projects in the United States, providing both ...
Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world's people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, ...
This book investigates the ways in which city regions view themselves as single entities, how they are governed, what is meant by 'governance', why ...
Convergence is based on the thermodynamic premise that architecture should maximize its ecological and architectural power. No matter how paradoxical it might initially seem, ...
This fully updated edition of the successful book The Design of Lighting, provides the lighting knowledge needed by the architect in practice, the interior ...
Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink ...
A great deal of research and literature has been produced on repairing concrete structures but very little aimed at conserving the character or appearance ...
In this thoughtful, hopeful and truly illuminating book, Aseem Inam combines a profound critique of urban design theory with a thorough examination of an ...
Better Public Transit Systems is a complete primer for performance and investment analysis of public transportation. Whether you're planning a major new public transit ...
In a groundbreaking longitudinal study, researches studied seven similar social housing neighbourhoods in Ireland to determine what factors affected their liveability. In this collection ...
European cities are changing rapidly in part due to the process of de-industrialization, European integration and economic globalization. Within those cities public spaces are ...
Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city ...
All landscapes are complex systems which are continually changing as a result of relatively simple interactions. This condition of adaption and evolution is called ...
This book addresses how economic spaces dynamically change within the context of the global knowledge-based economy. Specifically, it centers the discussion on integrated views ...
The last two decades have seen a marked growth in comparative research within the field of housing studies. This reflects the increasing globalisation of ...
Contemporary cities in the Iberian Peninsula have gone through a period of dramatic changes during the last decade. A period of upward economic indicators ...
