Reclaimed, reused and virtually indestructible: The gestalten bestseller Container Atlas comes in a long awaited updated edition.In recent years container architecture has become an ...
Overheating in buildings is commonplace. This book describes how we can keep cool without conventional air-conditioning: improving comfort and productivity while reducing energy costs ...
This book provides a conceptual, historical and contemporary context to the relationships between gender, religion and cities. It draws together these three components to ...
This book carries out an in-depth investigation of a neighborhood planning process that engages critically with the issues surrounding articulation of local concerns in ...
Based in the Netherlands, OKRA Landscape Architects have already been active for a quarter century. Both at home and abroad, they have proven themselves ...
Population ageing and urbanisation are global trends. Changing demographics in cities create new challenges for housing design and urban planning, as more people with ...
Landscape as Territory is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called 'Urban Age,' understanding the notion of ...
Desde finales del siglo XIX, con la creación del primer departamento de sociología en la Universidad de Chicago, dio comienzo una larga tradición de ...
Históricamente, las leyes urbanísticas españolas solían tacharse de leyes de ensanche al destinar la mayor parte de su técnicas jurídico-urbanísticas al desarrollo de los ...
La ciudad está en nosotros tanto como nosotros en ella. Las visiones que ofrece este volumen se construyen sobre la materia literaria y lingüística ...
La navegación de recreo y los puertos deportivos constituyen un importante motor económico vinculado al ocio y al turismo. Efectivamente, la creciente presencia de ...
Es cada vez más urgente encontrar soluciones a la crisis ambiental. Aun cuando confiamos en los inventos para solucionar los problemas que generan el ...
Urban design is a process of establishing a structural order within human settlements; responding to dynamic emergent meanings and functions in a constant state ...
The Regional Plan Association has produced four comprehensive regional plans for the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut metropolitan region since its foundation in ...
