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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects

Urban Gardening - Learn Step-By-Step How To Grow In Container And Everything About Balcony And Vertical Gardening. Build Your... Urban Gardening - Learn Step-By-Step How To Grow In Container And Everything About Balcony And Vertical Gardening. Build Your Own Garden In Any City Apartment (Hardcover)
Matt Mitchell
R714 R631 Discovery Miles 6 310 Save R83 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Green Space in the Community (Hardcover): Deniz Aslan, Yossapon Boonsom Green Space in the Community (Hardcover)
Deniz Aslan, Yossapon Boonsom
R1,148 R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Save R213 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Green space in the community' refers to the public space that is located in sections of residential land, often a space providing entertainment facilities and a place for the community to interact across various activities. As one of the most important components of urban green space, public green space makes a huge impact on the quality of residents' daily lives. With the rapid development of the urbanisation process, people are paying much more attention to the construction of infrastructure in their living environments, thus the construction of public green space is steadily increasing on a larger scale. The construction of green space not only helps improve the quality of residential living spaces and the level of public welfare, but these spaces also inspire residents' participation in the community.

Relational Planning - Tracing Artefacts, Agency and Practices (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Monika Kurath, Marko Marskamp, Julio... Relational Planning - Tracing Artefacts, Agency and Practices (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Monika Kurath, Marko Marskamp, Julio Paulos, Jean Ruegg
R3,637 Discovery Miles 36 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume introduces the notion of 'relational planning' through a collection of theoretical and empirical contributions that explore the making of heterogeneous associations in the planning practice. The analytical concept builds on recent approaches to complexity and materiality in planning theory by drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS) of urban issues. It frames planning as a socio-material practice taking place within the multifaceted relations between artefacts, agency and practices. By way of this triad, spatial planning is not studied as a given, linear or technical process but rather problematized as a hybrid, distributed and situational practice. The inquiries in this collection thus describe how planning practices are negotiated and enacted in and beyond formal arenas and procedures of planning, and so make visible the many sites, actors and means of spatial planning. Addressing planning topics such as ecology, preservation, participation, rebuilding and zoning, this volume takes into account the uncertain world planning is embedded in. The implications of such a perspective are considered in light of how planning is performed and how it contributes to the emergence of specific socio-material forms and interactions. This is an invaluable read for all scholars of STS, Ecology, Architecture and Urban Planning.

The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs (Hardcover): Sonia Hirt, Diane Zahm The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs (Hardcover)
Sonia Hirt, Diane Zahm
R5,428 Discovery Miles 54 280 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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; II. Jacobs, Urban Economist; II. Jacobs, Urban Sociologist; and IV. Jacobs, Urban Designer, the book evaluates the impact of Jacobs's writings and activism on the city, the professions dedicated to city-building and, more generally, on human thought. Together, the editors and contributors highlight the notion that Jacobs's influence goes beyond planning to philosophy, economics, sociology and design. They set out to answer such questions as: What explains Jacobs's lasting appeal and is it justified? Where was she right and where was she wrong? What were the most important themes she addressed? And, although Jacobs was best known for her work on cities, is it correct to say that she was a much broader thinker, a philosopher, and that the key to her lasting legacy is precisely her exceptional breadth of thought?

China Low-Carbon Healthy City, Technology Assessment and Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Weiguang Huang, Mingquan Wang, Jun... China Low-Carbon Healthy City, Technology Assessment and Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Weiguang Huang, Mingquan Wang, Jun Wang, Kun Gao, Song Li, …
R3,531 Discovery Miles 35 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is based on multidisciplinary research focusing on low-carbon healthy city planning, policy and assessment. This includes city-development strategy, energy, environment, healthy, land-use, transportation, infrastructure, information and other related subjects. This book begins with the current status and problems of low-carbon healthy city development in China. It then introduces the global experience of different regions and different policy trends, focusing on individual cases. Finally, the book opens a discussion of Chinese low-carbon healthy city development from planning and design, infrastructure and technology assessment-system perspectives. It presents a case study including the theory and methodology to support the unit city theory for low-carbon healthy cities. The book lists the ranking of China's 269 high-level cities, with economic, environmental, resource, construction, transportation and health indexes as an assessment for creating a low-carbon healthy future. The book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of building low-carbon healthy cities in China.

City Planning in America - Between Promise and Despair (Hardcover, New): Mary Hommann City Planning in America - Between Promise and Despair (Hardcover, New)
Mary Hommann
R2,210 Discovery Miles 22 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This sure-to-be-controversial work examines the failure of city planning in America, the results of that failure as seen in the day-to-day lives of our cities, and the reasons behind that failure. Hommann contends that, although desperately needed, by and large city planning has no effect on urban development in this country where developers are supreme. For the most part, local planners must deal with a daily fiction regarding their involvement in developmental decisions, a fiction that ultimately drives many into alternate pursuits. After tracing the history of American development and planning, the author argues that greed settled this country and continues to control economic and developmental decisions, accompanied in this century by criminal conspiracy. The result is the civic deprivation that debilitates millions of Americans culturally, socially, and economically. This study will be of interest to scholars, students, and professionals in planning, urban studies, architecture, public administration, sociology, political science, housing, civil engineering, traffic engineering, transportation planning, city management, and environment; legislators, local politicians, civic leaders, lawyers dealing in public policy and land development, as well as enlightened citizens from the business world.

Sustainable Neighbourhoods in Australia - City of Sydney Urban Planning (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Raymond Charles Rauscher, Salim... Sustainable Neighbourhoods in Australia - City of Sydney Urban Planning (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Raymond Charles Rauscher, Salim Momtaz
R3,594 Discovery Miles 35 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the planning and implementation of policies to create sustainable neighborhoods, using as a case study the City of Sydney. The authors ask whether many past planning and development practices were appropriate to the ways that communities then functioned, and what lessons we have learned. The aim is to illustrate the many variations within a city and from neighborhood to neighborhood regarding renewal (rehabilitation), redevelopment (replacement) and new development. Case study examples of nine City of Sydney neighborhoods note the different histories of planning and development in each. Features of the studies include literature searches, field work (with photography), and analysis. The authors propose a set of sustainability principles which incorporate elements of the twenty seven principles of the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development Part One explores sustainable urban planning, and the importance of planning tools that enable best planning outcomes for communities and investors. Common factors in the nine case study neighborhoods are renewal, redevelopment and development pressures affecting Sydney from the 1970s to 2014. Also discussed are the differing circumstances of planning faced by authorities, developers and communities in each of the study areas. Part Two of the book is focused on the case study areas in City of Sydney East area: Woolloomooloo and Kings Cross. Part Three covers case study areas in Sydney's Inner South area: Chippendale, Redfern and Waterloo District. Part Four surveys the Inner West suburb of Erskineville. Part Five looks at the City West area, including the Haymarket District and the Pyrmont and Ultimo District. Part Six concentrates on the North West area suburb of Glebe. Part Seven of the book looks at the growth area of South Sydney District, which includes the suburbs of Beaconsfield, Zetland and the new localities of Victoria Park and Green Square. The authors recount lessons learned and outline directions of planning for sustainable neighborhoods. Finally, the authors challenge readers to apply the lessons of these case studies to further advances in sustainable urban planning.

Smart Cities and Smart Spaces - Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, VOL 3 (Hardcover): Information Reso... Smart Cities and Smart Spaces - Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, VOL 3 (Hardcover)
Information Reso Management Association
R10,227 Discovery Miles 102 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Model Development Plan - New Strategies and Perspectives (Hardcover, New): David H. Lempert, Kim McCarty, Craig Mitchell A Model Development Plan - New Strategies and Perspectives (Hardcover, New)
David H. Lempert, Kim McCarty, Craig Mitchell
R2,798 Discovery Miles 27 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Here is a comprehensive development plan written as if vital communities, indigenous peoples, women, and the environment really mattered. This alternative type of development planning goes beyond statistics to incorporate the interests of the people that live in the community. As an experiment in development education and planning, one of the authors led a group of the country's leading undergraduates into the field in Ecuador to complete an empirically based study and to prepare an alternative set of recommendations and models. A clearly written book that offers new insights for developmental specialists as well as educators and students in international development, anthropology, economics, public policy, planning, and Latin American studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Smart Cities in the Mediterranean - Coping with Sustainability Objectives in Small and Medium-sized Cities and Island... Smart Cities in the Mediterranean - Coping with Sustainability Objectives in Small and Medium-sized Cities and Island Communities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Anastasia Stratigea, Elias Kyriakides, Chrysses Nicolaides
R4,042 R3,760 Discovery Miles 37 600 Save R282 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives within a rapidly changing social, economic, environmental and technological setting, it explores a variety of planning challenges faced by contemporary cities and the power of smart city developments in terms of providing innovative tools, approaches, methodologies and technologies to help cities cope with these challenges. Key issues addressed include smart city (e-) planning and (e-)participation; smart data management to facilitate decision-making processes in cities and insular communities on a variety of topics; smart and sustainable management aspects of climate change, water scarcity, mobility, energy, infrastructure, tourism, blue growth, risk assessment; etc. The book presents current and potential pathways and applications for the evolution of smart cities and communities, taking into consideration the unique problems and opportunities emanating from their specific geographical location. The case study examples mainly concern small and medium-sized cities and communities as well as insular areas in the Mediterranean region, while also incorporating lessons learned from other parts of the world. Their focus is on the specific opportunities and threats emerging in these urban and insular environments, which are characterized by their role as globally known tourist destinations, their coastal or port character, and unique cultural resources, as well as the high rated vulnerability in very many sustainability respects (social, economic, biodiversity, urbanization, migration, poverty, etc.) to be found in the Mediterranean region at large

Smart Cities and Smart Spaces - Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Vol 2 (Hardcover): Management Association... Smart Cities and Smart Spaces - Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Vol 2 (Hardcover)
Management Association Information Reso Management Association
R10,221 Discovery Miles 102 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines - A Retrospective on Women Street Vendors and their Spaces (Hardcover): Mary... Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines - A Retrospective on Women Street Vendors and their Spaces (Hardcover)
Mary Anne Alabanza Akers
R4,464 Discovery Miles 44 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a retrospective view of women street vendors and their urban environments in Baguio City, designed by American architect and planner Daniel Burnham in the early twentieth century, and established by the American imperial government as a place for healing and well-being. Based on a transdisciplinary multi-method study of street vendors, the author offers a unique perspective as a researcher of the place, to ultimately ask how marginalized women authenticate and democratize prime urban spaces for their livelihoods. This book provides a portal to another way of seeing and understanding streets and people, covering spatial units at multiple scales, design imperialism and its impact on health, and resilience strategies for challenging realities. Blending subjects of architecture, planning, and health, this book is an ideal read for those interested in fields of urban planning and design, public health, landscape architecture, geography, and social sciences.

Road Work - A New Highway Pricing and Investment Policy (Paperback): Kenneth A. Small, Clifford Winston, Carol A Evans Road Work - A New Highway Pricing and Investment Policy (Paperback)
Kenneth A. Small, Clifford Winston, Carol A Evans
R579 Discovery Miles 5 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"America's interstate highway system is deteriorating, and traffic congestion in most urban centers is worsening. Because of the many strong and conflicting interests, policy discussions about the road system are also in gridlock. The only consensus that seems to have emerged is that public spending must be increased. Improving our highway system and its financing will not be easy. Road Work proposes a comprehensive highway pricing and investment policy to meet the goals of efficiency, equity, and financial stability. In this study, Kenneth A. Small, Clifford Winston, and Carol A. Evans base their policy on two economic principles: efficient pricing to regulate demand for highway services and efficient investment to minimize the total public and private costs of providing them. Policy recommendations include a set of pavement-wear taxes for heavy trucks, a set of congestion taxes for all vehicles, and a program of optimal investments in road durability. Their proposals should be especially attractive to policymakers because they can be implemented with current technology, offer little threat to the major interest group, and in the long run will reduce the strain on state and local governments' highway budgets. "

Smart Cities and Smart Spaces - Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, VOL 1 (Hardcover): Information Reso... Smart Cities and Smart Spaces - Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, VOL 1 (Hardcover)
Information Reso Management Association
R10,211 Discovery Miles 102 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Acculturating the Shopping Centre (Paperback): Janina Gosseye, Tom Avermaete Acculturating the Shopping Centre (Paperback)
Janina Gosseye, Tom Avermaete
R1,369 Discovery Miles 13 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves across national and cultural borders in the slipstream of neo-liberal globalization, or should instead be understood as a geographically and temporally bound expression of negotiations between mall developers (representatives of a global logic of capitalist accumulation) on the one hand, and local actors (architects/governments/citizens) on the other. It explores how the shopping centre adapts to new cultural contexts, and questions whether this commercial type has the capacity to disrupt or even amend the conditions that it encounters. Including more than 50 illustrations, this book considers the evolving architecture of shopping centres. It would be beneficial to academics and students across a number of areas such as architecture, urban design, cultural geography and sociology.

Ecopolis - Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate (Hardcover, 2009 ed.): Paul F. Downton Ecopolis - Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)
Paul F. Downton
R8,430 Discovery Miles 84 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From 2008, for the first time in human history, half of the world s population now live in cities. Yet despite a wealth of literature on green architecture and planning, there is to date no single book which draws together theory from the full range of disciplines - from architecture, planning and ecology - which we must come to grips with if we are to design future cities which are genuinely sustainable.

Paul Downton s Ecopolis takes a major step along this path. It highlights the urgent need to understand the role of cities as both agents of change and means of survival, at a time when climate change has finally grabbed world attention, and it provides a framework for designing cities that integrates knowledge - both academic and practical - from a range of relevant disciplines.

Identifying key theorists, practitioners, places and philosophies, the book provides a solid theoretical context which introduces the concept of urban fractals, and goes on to present a series of design and planning tools for achieving Sustainable Human Ecological Development (SHED). Combining knowledge from diverse fields to present a synthesis of urban ecology, the book will provide a valuable resource for students, researchers and practitioners in architecture, construction, planning, geography and the traditional life sciences."

Urban Landscape Perspectives (Hardcover): Giovanni Maciocco Urban Landscape Perspectives (Hardcover)
Giovanni Maciocco
R2,867 Discovery Miles 28 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Urban Landscape Perspectives explores how landscape terminology can be usefully brought into the urban debate. The articles are by scholars who have a particular interest in and experience of the city project at various operative scales. They include theoretical reflections on the landscape as an eminently project-like figure. The book describes new methods and approaches dealing with the contemporary environment, whether it is from the point of view of the city or the landscape.

Microcomputer Applications in City Planning and Management (Hardcover): Richard F. Anderson, Steven I. Gordon Microcomputer Applications in City Planning and Management (Hardcover)
Richard F. Anderson, Steven I. Gordon
R2,806 Discovery Miles 28 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Effective use of microcomputers can greatly aid professional city planners and managers in the exacting duties they perform. Microcomputers are a low-cost, high-powered means of mechanizing both routine and sophisticated analytical operations. This text demonstrates how to incorporate microcomputer technology in a range of city planning problems and situations. The authors link a variety of methods and applications to concrete examples and exercises. Their hands-on approach is designed specifically for professional planners and managers in both the public and private sectors. It covers everything from inserting a floppy disk into the processing unit to producing typed copy of results from predictive modeling and forecasting future trends.

The study begins with a basic introduction to the technical jargon associated with PCs and an explanation of the Input-Process-Output cycles. A series of chapters follow, explaining specific software packages and their functions and operations. Specific applications using spreadsheets, graphics, and database management schemes are extremely useful. Further chapters introduce graphics and database systems. The book's learn-by-example format will prove extremely useful to time-pressed practitioners and students in city planning and management, as well as students preparing to enter the field.

Two Towns in Germany - Commerce and the Urban Transformation (Hardcover): Norbert Dannhaeuser Two Towns in Germany - Commerce and the Urban Transformation (Hardcover)
Norbert Dannhaeuser
R2,803 Discovery Miles 28 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Many forces threaten the viability of town centers. One of them is trade concentration in which family businesses are replaced by large, vertically integrated retail enterprises. Town centers, once locations of a rich variety of street stores in the hands of a local and independent merchant community, are being supplanted by monolithic and decentralized commercial zones. This process is documented in contemporary Germany for two towns, one grounded in a market economy and the other, until recently, socialistically based. In both cases, trade concentration is a prevailing force-- a pattern that is not only found in post-industrialized nations, but also in developing countries in Latin America and Asia and is indicative of an emerging global culture.

Environmental Impact Review and Housing - Process Lessons from the California Experience (Hardcover): Jeffery Gale Environmental Impact Review and Housing - Process Lessons from the California Experience (Hardcover)
Jeffery Gale
R2,787 Discovery Miles 27 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient computing, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Design (Hardcover): Shinichi Konomi,... Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient computing, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Design (Hardcover)
Shinichi Konomi, George Roussos
R5,743 Discovery Miles 57 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years, the presence of ubiquitous computing has increasingly integrated into the lives of people in modern society. As these technologies become more pervasive, new opportunities open for making citizens' environments more comfortable, convenient, and efficient. Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient Computing, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Design is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on the interaction between people and computing systems in contemporary society, showcasing how ubiquitous computing influences and shapes urban environments. Highlighting the impacts of these emerging technologies from an interdisciplinary perspective, this book is ideally designed for professionals, researchers, academicians, and practitioners interested in the influential state of pervasive computing within urban contexts.

Smart City - How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Renata Paola... Smart City - How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Renata Paola Dameri, Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux
R2,890 Discovery Miles 28 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the various aspects for the development of smart cities from a European perspective. It presents both theoretical concepts as well as empirical studies and cases of smart city programs and their capacity to create value for citizens. The contributions in this book are a result of an increasing interest for this topic, supported by both national governments and international institutions. The book offers a large panorama of the most important aspects of smart cities evolution and implementation. It compares European best practices and analyzes how smart projects and programs in cities could help to improve the quality of life in the urban space and to promote cultural and economic development.

The Pocket Guide to Oxford - A souvenir guidebook to the -architecture, history, and principal attractions of Oxford... The Pocket Guide to Oxford - A souvenir guidebook to the -architecture, history, and principal attractions of Oxford (Paperback, 8th New edition)
Philip Atkins, Michael Johnson
R300 R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Save R20 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Geometry of Urban Layouts - A Global Comparative Study (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Mahbub Rashid The Geometry of Urban Layouts - A Global Comparative Study (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Mahbub Rashid
R4,376 R3,806 Discovery Miles 38 060 Save R570 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries-all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps. The book also presents analytic studies using metric geometrical, topological (or network), and fractal measures of these maps. These analytic studies identify ordinaries, extremes, similarities, and differences in these maps; investigate the scaling properties of these maps; and develop precise descriptive categories, types and indicators for multidimensional comparative studies of these maps. The findings of these studies indicate that many geometric relations of the urban layouts of downtown areas follow regular patterns; that despite social, economic, and cultural differences among cities, the geometric measures of downtown areas in cities of developed and developing countries do not show significant differences; and that the geometric possibilities of urban layouts are vastly greater than those that have been realized so far in our cities.

Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory (Paperback): Robert A. Beauregard Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory (Paperback)
Robert A. Beauregard
R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. In this original approach to the world of planning theory, Robert A. Beauregard cuts across the many different ways to think about planning by organizing them around four core tasks: knowing, engaging, prescribing, and executing. In doing so, Beauregard explores how a basic concern with the relationship between knowledge and action has evolved into a complex discussion of democracy, inclusion, and justice. Key features include: a cross-national approach to the topic a unique overview of key concepts centred on the profession of urban and regional planning coverage of historical planning theory as well as recent developments in the field an accessible writing style suitable for both those studying urban and regional planning, as well as practicing planners.

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