Planning a Pluralist City (Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies)
by Donald Appleyard
When city planners and designers are given the ideal assignment--to build a new city in the wilderness, unencumbered by an existing urban matrix--and, at the same time, the site is located in the midst of a resource-rich region that attracts a rapid influx of people who proceed to build for themselves a burgeoning boomtown of indigenous settlements, planned without planners, conflicts are almost inevitable.This book, based on the experience of Ciudad Guayana in Venezuela, demonstrates that the d...
This book substitutes rigorous and systematic analysis for the undocumented claims that have characterized the debate on "redlining"--the denial of mortgage money to poorer neighborhoods. In addition, Schafer and Ladd discuss discrimination against individuals, appraisal practices, and the likelihood of default, analyze recent policy decisions, and recommend a range of new policies. The thorough documentation that supports this analysis was obtained through an examination of individual mortgage...
This is a superbly illustrated exploration of the latest trends and innovations in creating fun, safe, and educational playgrounds. Children's playgrounds form an integral part of the modern urban landscape, providing safe spaces for children to play, learn, and interrelate with each other. But getting the mix between adventure, education, safety, and aesthetics can be challenging. Filled with full-colour photographs, illustrations, and detailed plans, "Playground Spaces" examines a number of in...
Making Prestigious Places
Making Prestigious Places investigates the spatial dimension of luxury, both as a sector involving activities, operators and investments, and as a system of values acting as a catalyst for recent urban transformations. Luxury shares a well-established connection to the city, as a place of production, consumption and self-representation, and continues to grow despite economic difficulties. This edited collection includes case studies from Europe, North and South America, Asia and the Middle East...
Views on Eighteenth Century Culture
This book provides significant new insights into the Enlightenment in Portugal and its relationships with other European cultural movements using Eugenio dos Santos (1711-1760) as a common reference point. Eugenio dos Santos was a Portuguese architect and city planner who, among other projects, was responsible for the plans to rebuild Lisbon after the earthquake of 1st November 1755. His artistic and technical training, architectural production, aesthetic preferences and some of the books in his...
Designing Gotham (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the center of American commerce and culture. With this rapid commercial growth and cultural development, New York came to epitomize a nineteenth-century metropolis. Although this important urban transformation is well documented, the critical role of select Union soldiers turned New York engineers has, until now, remained largely unexplored. In Designing Gotham, Jon Scott Logel examines the fascinating careers of...
Politique Et Configuration Du Logement En France (1900-1980) (Omn.Univ.Europ.)
by Croize-J
Restrooms are inescapably important amenities, but something of a grey zone when it comes to design. In a massive effort to make them inconspicuous, public restrooms have been standardised, buried in underground bunkers, hidden behind walls and unmarked doors. At times, it seems our embarrassment with their very existence has led to an inability to provide sound sanitation. This book presents a selection of over forty very diverse public restroom designs, in which toilets enjoy special status as...
Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, and political conflicts between agencies and institutions within British town and country planning. The focus of assessment is how British planning has been formulated since the early 1990s, and provides an in-depth and revealing assessment of both the Major and Blair governm...
Eco-Urbanism, Sustainable Human Settlements (Arquitectura y diseno + ecologia)
by Miguel Ruano
A Sustainable City Planning Methodology for 21st Century
by Sunil Babu Shrestha
Agricultural Land Use Planning and Management in Guangdong
by Christina Wong Mui
Social Practice, Spatial Forms and Sustainable Urban Regeneration
by Afm Ashraful Alam
Implications of an Integrated Rail-Property Development Model on Livability
by Ling-Chi Cheung
Urban Fringe Development Near and Within the Sensitive Natural Areas
by Cheuk-Lam Kan
Impact of Bus Franchise Mode Change in Macao on Local Residents' Transportation Mode Choice
by Tin-Hon Lam