Bracket 2 examines physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks. In an era of declared crises'economic, ...
Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobs's legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs, Urban Philosopher; ...
Este libro contiene una reflexión sobre el habitar que vincula un conjunto de conceptos teóricos con una variedad de terrenos de investigación sobre los ...
Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to ...
En esta obra sobre la expansión de la ciudad, Breugmann, adoptando una perspectiva histórica, demuestra que la dispersión urbana no es un fenómeno reciente, ...
This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe ...
Richard Peet, profesor en la Facultad de Geografía de la Clark University (Worcester, Ma., USA), ha desempeñado un papel muy destacado en el pensamiento ...
En este ensayo se recogen los artículos que el reconocido y premiado autor ha publicado en la prensa económica nacional (fundamentalmente en Cinco Días) ...
Marbella, Córdoba o Barcelona no son iguales. Evidentemente, su tamaño, morfología urbana, diversidad étnica o su composición social las diferencian. Pero ¿por qué son ...
Los hispanos están transformando rápida y profundamente los Estados Unidos, tanto en términos demográficos como en sus estructuras culturales, urbanas y sociales. La salsa ...
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 New Urbanism is perhaps the most influential movement that has emerged in suburban design, planning, and development in recent decades. It proposes to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for American cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure ...
