English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour governments up ...
In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as physical form through conventional top down processes. These frequently disregarded existing ...
This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period ...
The concept of smart cities offers a revolutionary vision of urban design for sustainability. Utilizing the intelligent application of new technologies, smart cities also ...
Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, ...
Landscapes develop and evolve through an interacting series of processes - climatic, geological, ecological and cultural - over varying periods of time. These processes ...
The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoods have been largely unsuccessful. Strategies are ...
The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. ...
This book is about the unprecedented challenges facing the world's cities as they expand and develop in response to demographic change, human aspirations and ...
Sprawl is an unsustainable pattern of growth that threatens to undermine the health of communities globally. It has been a dominant mid-to-late twentieth century ...
Discussing some of the most vexing criticism of communicative planning theory (CPT), this book goes on to suggest how theorists and planners can respond ...
1 Nuevo Ayuntamiento Santa Marta de Tormes, Salamanca Emilio Sánchez Gil, Fernando Sánchez Cuadrado y Emilio Sánchez Cuadrado 2 Centro de asistencia primaria Badalona, ...
A very personal notebook: Zvi Heckers architectural sketches from 1946 to the present, accompanied by his own texts 'I am an artist whose profession ...
This highly illustrated book looks at how Urban Splash has grown from small beginnings into one of the most respected regeneration companies in the ...
