Durante la segunda mitad del siglo xx, los principios de funcionamiento de las ciudades europeas se vieron cuestionados por fenómenos como el crecimiento en ...
L'urbanistica moderna nasce dal tentativo di correggere i mali della città industriale: con le proposte degli utopisti da un lato, con la nuova legislazione ...
Atlas: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World helps readers find their way through the practical and ethical challenges presented by globalisation and ...
Further extending Jonathan Hill's investigation of authorship, this book recognizes the weather as a creative architectural force alongside the designer and user. Although acknowledging ...
Los hispanos están transformando rápida y profundamente los Estados Unidos, tanto en términos demográficos como en sus estructuras culturales, urbanas y sociales. La salsa ...
The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an ...
One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities ...
Latinos are one of the largest and fastest growing social groups in the United States, and their increased presence is profoundly shaping the character ...
Building on a growing movement within developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, as well as Europe and North America, this book documents ...
China's cities are home to 10 percent of the world's population today. They display unprecedented dynamism under the country's surging economic power. Their remarkable ...
The New Urbanism is perhaps the most influential movement that has emerged in suburban design, planning, and development in recent decades. It proposes to ...
For many scholars, the study of community and community development is at a crossroads. Previously dynamic theories appear not to have kept pace with ...
The World's Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a ...
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 ...
Beginning with the foundations of community development, An Introduction to Community Development offers a comprehensive and practical approach to planning for communities. Road-tested in ...
