Sounding Spokane
La Ville Face Au Tourisme (Omn.Univ.Europ.)
by Navarrete Escobedo-D
Making Cities Work examines the characteristics that make cities pleasant and practical places to live and work. Featuring 30 individual case studies which focus on getting to, enjoying, and moving around a city, this beautifully illustrated book is an ideal reference for city and urban planners as well as transport planners and executives. Youa ll find: * A case study illustrating arriving in an ancient city, Venice, as well as modern examples of this from Gardemoen Airport, Oslo; TGV Stations,...
Recycling Treated Municipal Wastewater and Sludge Through Forest and Cropland
"The collected papers and discussions form a comprehensive survey of this method of treatment and disposal in North America. Many of the papers are accompanied by extensive bibliographies, enhancing the book's value as a reference volume." - Institute of Water Pollution Control
There is enormous interest in urban design and the regeneration of our urban areas, but current thinking often concentrates on the built form, forgetting the important role that open spaces play. Urban Open Spaces brings together extensive research and practical experience to prove the opportunities and benefits of different types of open space to society and individuals. Focusing on the importance of open spaces in daily urban life, the book is divided into three sections. The first section d...
Informal American City, The: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day Labor
by Vinit Mukhija and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
The suburban dream of a single-family house with a white picket fence no longer describes how most North Americans want to live. The dynamics that powered sprawl have all but disappeared. Instead, new forces are transforming real estate markets, reinforced by new ideas of what constitutes healthy and environmentally responsible living. Investment has flooded back to cities because dense, walkable, mixed-use urban environments offer choices that support diverse dreams. Auto-oriented, single-use...
Making People-Friendly Towns: Improving the Public Environment in Towns and Cities
by Francis Tibbalds
Complexity, Cognition and the City (Understanding Complex Systems)
by Juval Portugali
Complexity, Cognition and the City aims at a deeper understanding of urbanism, while invoking, on an equal footing, the contributions both the hard and soft sciences have made, and are still making, when grappling with the many issues and facets of regional planning and dynamics. In this work, the author goes beyond merely seeing the city as a self-organized, emerging pattern of some collective interaction between many stylized urban "agents" - he makes the crucial step of attributing cognition...
The Implementation of Environmental Education in elementary schools
by Jenny Radeiski
Der finnische Architekt Pekka Helin grundete bereits 1979 in Helsinki sein erstes Buro. In seiner Entwurfshaltung knupft das Buro in einer spezifisch skandinavischen Ausdrucksform sowohl an den Funktionalismus, als auch an die organische Architektur eines Aalvar Alto, Viljo Revell, Heikki Siren oder auch eines Arne Erve an. Das Material Holz spielt in dieser sehr klaren Architektur eine vordergrundige Rolle. Das Buro kreiert Bauten im Bereich Wohnen - haufig direkt am Wasser gelegen, wo die Einb...
Belowground Pipeline Networks for Utility Cables (ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice)
This manual provides a general overview of methods used in placing utility cables belowground, including formal underground conduit systems and relatively low-cost direct-buried facilities - with an emphasis on cost-effectiveness and space efficiency. ""ASCE Manual of Practice for Belowground Pipeline Networks for Utility Cables"" describes past practices, as well as more recent techniques in which individual pipes or ducts may be advantageously deployed in conjunction with direct-buried cables....
?ik?yat Abu al-Q?sim, probably written in the 11th century by the otherwise unknown al-Azd?, tells the story of a gate-crasher from Baghdad named Ab? al-Q?sim, who shows up uninvited at a party in Isfahan. Dressed as a holy man and reciting religious poetry, he soon relaxes his demeanour, and, growing intoxicated on wine, insults the other dinner guests and their Iranian hometown. Widely hailed as a narrative unique in the history of Arabic literature, ?ik?yah also reflects a much larger tradit...
What is architecture? How is it made? How is it judged? While the questions are philosophical, the answers have important ramifications for architectural practice. Lincourt develops a set of archetypes for designing a more satisfactory architecture and provides an in-depth analysis of three examples of architectural elegance: the Palais-Royal, the Fondation Rothschild Workers’ Residence in Paris and the Municipality of Outremont in Montreal. In Search of Elegance is an indispensable reference bo...
Michael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural writers in the world. In What Goes Up he charts the dehumanising regimes of mayors Bloomberg and De Blasio that created a city of glittering towers and increasing inequality. He looks at what has happened to Ground Zero, as a place of memory has been reconstructed by "staritects" and turned into malls. The city, he suggests, has to be reimagined from the street up on a human scale, to develop new ways to revitalise neighbour...