City and town planning: architectural aspects Books

Conserving historic buildings continues to excite and inflame opinion. The means of protecting such buildings and areas are well established but frequently suffer a lack of wider understanding. Conservation and Planning takes a detailed look at the way...

Sustainable Urbanism in China explores the notion of "Sustainable Urbanism" by considering the role sustainable neighborhood planning plays in the larger picture of sustainable urbanism and suggests innovations and best practices that are either...

This book provides the reader with an understanding of the impact that different morphologies, construction materials and green coverage solutions have on the urban microclimate, thus affecting the comfort conditions of urban inhabitants and the energy...

Through illustrated case studies and conceptual re-framings, this volume showcases ongoing transformations in public space, and its relationship to the public realm more broadly in the world's most populous urban megaregion-the Greater Bay Area of...

Housing dominates consumer assets and spending, forming an important part of social policy, and being a large enough market to impact the macroeconomy. This Handbook tackles these themes, along with other critical issues such as intergenerational housing...

The planning of urban and rural areas requires thinking about where people will live, work, play, study, shop and how they will get about the place, and to devise strategies for long time periods. Town Planning: The Basics provides a general introduction...

This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations. It conceptualises affordability in rural housing along a spectrum that is interlaced with...

Buildings are for People: Human Ecological Design offers a new approach to the process of conceiving architectural design, one that considers the interactions of the built environment with people and the natural environment. The book exposes our visceral...

The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design explores contemporary research, policy, and practice that highlight critical aspects of strategy-making, planning, and designing for contemporary regions-including city-regions, bioregions, delta regions, and...

The quality of life of millions of people living in cities could be improved if the form of the city were to evolve in a manner appropriate to its climatic context. Climatically responsive urban design is vital to any notion of sustainability: it enables...

Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities explores the relative prosperity of midsize Canadian urban areas (population 50,000 to 400,000) over the past two decades. Communities throughout North America have strived...

Das Buch ""Das Weltgebaude: Ein Nutzliches Und Unterhaltendes Lesebuch"" wurde im Jahr 1834 von Johann Gottfried Sommer verfasst. Es handelt sich hierbei um ein n�����tzliches und unterhaltsames Lesebuch, das sich mit dem Thema Weltgebaude...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Das Buch ""Das Rathaus in N�����rnberg"" von Ernst Mummenhoff aus dem Jahr 1891 ist eine detaillierte Beschreibung des historischen Rathauses in N�����rnberg. Das Werk umfasst eine umfassende Darstellung der Geschichte, Architektur und Kunstwerke des...

Das Buch ""Das R������mische Forum: Als Mittelpunkt Des �����ffentlichen Lebens (1893)"" von Ernst Schulze beschreibt das antike r������mische Forum als den zentralen Ort des ������ffentlichen Lebens in der r������mischen Gesellschaft. Der Autor gibt...

Das Buch ""Das R������mische Afrika"" von Adolf Schulten wurde 1899 ver������ffentlicht. Es ist ein historisches Werk, das sich mit der r������mischen Herrschaft in Afrika befasst. Der Autor beschreibt die Geschichte, die Kultur und die Gesellschaft des...

Das Buch ""Das R������mische K������ln: Nebst einem Plane der R������mischen Stadt mit Einzeichnung der bemerkenswertesten Funde"" wurde im Jahr 1885 von Carl Johann von Veith ver������ffentlicht. Es beschreibt die Geschichte der r������mischen Stadt...

Das Buch ""Das Museum f�����r Nordische Alterth�����mer in Kopenhagen (1880)"" von C. Engelhardt beschreibt das Museum f�����r Nordische Altert�����mer in Kopenhagen, das 1807 gegr�����ndet wurde und eine der wichtigsten Sammlungen nordischer Kultur und...

Das Buch ""Das Kaiserliche Stadium auf dem Palatin"" (1888) von Joseph Sturm beschreibt das antike r������mische Stadion auf dem Palatin-H�����gel. Der Autor gibt einen detaillierten Einblick in die Geschichte und Architektur des Stadions, das einst von...

Das Buch ""Das Herzogthum Salzburg In Seiner Gegenwartigen Gestalt"" von Johann Baptist Dippere aus dem Jahr 1836 ist eine umfassende Beschreibung des Herzogtums Salzburg zu dieser Zeit. Der Autor beschreibt die geografischen Merkmale des Gebiets, die...

Dieses Buch ist eine umfassende Einführung in die Gestaltung von Städtegrundrissen. Es enthält viele praktische Anleitungen, Tipps und Tricks für Planer und Architekten sowie ansprechende Illustrationen.This work has been selected by scholars as being...

This is the first book to address the design needs of older people in the outdoor environment. It provides information on design principles essential to built environment professionals who want to provide for all users of urban space and who wish to...

This book makes a significant contribution to advancing post-geographic understandings of physical and virtual boundaries. It brings together the emergent theory of 'border thinking' with innovative thinking on design, and explores the recent discourse...

In all developed countries, a minority of the population suffers from deprivation. This book explores the forms of this contemporary economic and social disadvantage and in particular, its social and spatial causes.

Based on the author's extensive research in the field, this book analyzes regional policy for the whole of Europe. Comparing East and West, it offers a new model of regional policy and gives an overview of the direction that it may take in Europe as a...

Explores the role of gender in the visioning of the ideal city in the 19th and 20th centuries, informed by contemporary feminist concern with the way the legacy of patriarchal designs hamper women's urban experiences.Interrogating canonical texts and...

Insurgent Play: Social worlds of urban disruption explores play as a transgressive expression that counters the existing urban order (neoliberal, authoritarian, militarised). Insurgent play is disruptive, yet through disruption it brings social worlds...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Bevölkerungsgeographie, Stadt- u. Raumplanung, Note: 1,7, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Human Sciences), Veranstaltung: Main, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

The Embrace of Buildings provides an overview of the key factors, topics, and issues in Anglo-American urbanism: the origins and development of the suburban ideal, the role of federal policies and spending priorities in shaping the built environment, the...

Dive into the heart of Australia's suburban landscape with 'Suburban Futures.' In this groundbreaking collection of essays, we challenge prevailing misconceptions surrounding suburbia, shedding light on its integral role in shaping our cities and...

In the past decades, protecting the urban environment in the face of environmentalism and environmental rights has become crucial to saving the planet from the dangers of the rapid urban development of new cities and societies. Air temperature is one of...

This book elucidates the concepts and innovative models around prospective developments with respect to urban studies and related transformation. It strives to provide a fair idea about this discipline and to help develop a better understanding of the...

This book deals with the field of urban planning and development. It also talks about the architectural advances in relation to the same. Urban planning refers to the process related with optimum utilization of land and other resources available on earth...

The objective of this book is to give a general view of the different areas of urban development and its applications. It includes some of the vital pieces of work being conducted across the world on various topics related to this field. Urban...

Land is a limited resource and as the world population is rising consistently, judicious use of this resource is of prime importance. Land-use requires changing the already existing natural environmental setting into fields, pastures, buildings, road...

Cities are becoming the wealth producing centers of national economies. Increasing the operational efficiency of the city will bring a competitive edge to the whole system. Yet, many city subsystems cannot work together, creating significant problems and...

Ecological and technological (eco-tech) planning provides a possible response to the essential issues of sustainability and rehabilitation in rapidly growing urban spaces. Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities...

""Abriss der Geschichte der Baustile Teil 1-3: Die Baustile des Altertums; Die Baustile des Mittelalters; Die Baustile der Neuzeit"" ist ein Buch von Wilhelm L�����bke aus dem Jahr 1867. Es bietet einen umfassenden �����berblick �����ber die...

Le livre ""Etudes Archeologiques, Historiques Et Statistiques Sur Arles (1838)"" de Jean Julien Estrangin est une �����uvre qui traite de l'histoire, de l'arch�����ologie et de la statistique de la ville d'Arles. L'auteur y d�����crit en d�����tail les...

The City of Encounters is a book written by Horace Hazeltine and published in 1908. The book is a travelogue that chronicles the author's journey through various cities and towns in Europe. Hazeltine's writing style is descriptive and vivid, allowing...

Palms is a botanical book published in 1887, written by Anna Hanson Dorsey. The book is a comprehensive guide to the various species of palms, including their physical characteristics, distribution, and uses. It features detailed illustrations and...

""Notes On The Ecclesiastical And Monumental Architectures And Sculpture Of The Middle Ages In Bristol"" is a book written by George Pryce and published in 1850. The book is a detailed study of the medieval architecture and sculpture found in Bristol,...

Clarke County, Georgia And The City Of Athens (1893) is a historical account of the county and city located in the state of Georgia, United States. Written by Charles Morton Strahan, the book provides a detailed description of the region's history, from...

A Historical Survey Of The Ecclesiastical Antiquities Of France: With A View To Illustrate The Rise And Progress Of Gothic Architecture In Europe is a book written by George Downing Whittington in 1811. The book is a comprehensive study of the...