City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects
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Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism
Barnabas CalderCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARBeginning in a tiny hermitage on the remote north Scottish coast, and ending up backstage at the National Theatre, Raw ...
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Design for Good: A New Era of Architecture for Everyone
John CaryCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99That's what we do really: we do miracles, said Anne-Marie Nyiranshimiyimana, who learned masonry in helping to build the Butaro Hospital, a project...
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The Architecture of Community
Leon KrierCurrent price €53.19Original price €55.99Leon Krier is one of the best-known - and most provocative - architects and urban theoreticians in the world. Until now, however, his ideas have ci...
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Darwin Comes to Town
Menno SchilthuizenCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of the planet is urbanized, and t...
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Henley Halebrown: De aedibus international 15
Heinz WirzCurrent price €41.79Original price €43.99Designs by Simon Henley and Gavin Hale-Brown are inspired by the dominant social structures of the location as well as its cultural and architectu...
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Resilience for All
Barbara WilsonCurrent price €29.44Original price €30.99Barbara Brown Wilson looks at community engagement methods that are less conventional, but often more effective than traditional approaches to make...
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Handbook of Biophilic City Planning & Design
Timothy BeatleyCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green r...
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Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
Angie SchmittCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash w...
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Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
Jarrett WalkerCurrent price €31.03Original price €36.50Walker is a realist, and Human Transit is a spirited guideprescriptive but with a righteous dash of polemicto what we get wrong about transit. --To...
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Remote Places, Public Spaces: The Story of Creative Works with Ten Small Communities
BirkhauserCurrent price €48.44Original price €50.99The SMOTIES network is a partnership of ten design universities, research centres, creative agencies, and national associations. Each partner selec...
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Rurality Re-imagined: Villagers, Farmers, Wanderers and Wild Things
Ben StringerCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99urality Re-imagined is divided into four loosely-themed sections: Villagers, Farmers, Wanderers, and Wild Things. Each comprises five or six divers...
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Casablanca and Chandigarh How Architects, Experts, Politicians, International Agencies, and Citizens Negotiate Modern Planning
Maristella CasciatoCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99Chandigarh Casablanca documents two different but complementary urban realities that have played a fundamental role in the imagination, the definit...
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Empathic Design: Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces
Island PressCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99How do you experience a public space? Do you feel safe? Seen? Represented? The response to these questions may differ based on factors including yo...
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Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aest...
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Urban Dystopias: Lofty Ideals to Shocking Realities
John Wiley & Sons IncCurrent price €37.04Original price €38.99Guest-edited by Marcus White and Jane Burry Cities are facing several coinciding global crises. There is the dominant existential narrative of the ...
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Responsive Environments
Alan AlcockCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places; 'Responsive Environments' - as op...
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Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Todays Housing Crisis
Daniel ParolekCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Today, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWI...
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Gentrification Down the Shore
Mary GattaCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Makris and Gatta engage in a rich ethnographic investigation of Asbury Park to better understand the connection between jobs and seasonal gentrific...
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Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
Jorge AlmazánCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50A clearly articulated manifesto for those trying to preserve Tokyos emergent properties, Emergent Tokyo helps distil lessons for other cities Benja...
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Next Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works
Hillary BrownCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99The 2007 bridge collapse in Minneapolis-St. Paul quickly became symbolic of the debilitated interstate highway system, and of what many critics see...
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Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change
Anthony GarciaCurrent price €34.68Original price €36.50Short-term, community-based projects - from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives - have become a powerful and adaptable new tool of urban activ...
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Blue Urbanism: Exploring Connections Between Cities and Oceans
Timothy BeatleyCurrent price €28.49Original price €29.99What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change...
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Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created, Bought, and Sold the Dream of Los Angeles
Paul HaddadCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visio...
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Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning
Timothy BeatleyCurrent price €39.89Original price €41.99Tim Beatley has long been a leading advocate for the greening of cities. But too often, he notes, urban greening efforts focus on everything except...
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