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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Sites of Conscience: Place, Memory, and the Project of Deinstitutionalization
University of British Columbia PressCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and con...
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Rutgers Then and Now: Two Centuries of Campus Development: A Historic and Photographic Odyssey
David ListokinCurrent price €39.09Original price €45.99Rutgers University has come a long way since it was granted a royal charter in 1766. As it migrated from a parsonage in Somerville, to the New Brun...
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No Little Plans: How Government Built Americas Wealth and Infrastructure
Ian WrayCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness? Is it true, as ideologues like Friedrich Von Hayek, Milton Friedman...
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Ruined Skylines: Aesthetics, Politics and London''s Towering Cityscape
Günter GassnerCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics. Focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in Londons tall-...
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Public Space in Metropolitan Barcelona: Interventions and Conversations
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Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria
Dr Ammar AzzouzCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Domicide = the systematic and deliberate killing of home. So much architectural response to war has focused on cultural heritage, the destruction ...
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Planning for Community
Phil HeywoodCurrent price €54.14Original price €56.99Planning for Community A comprehensive exploration of community planning that integrates todays social and economic issues with policy and governan...
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Urban Screens: Situations, Practices, Concepts
Nanna VerhoeffCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book offers a discussion of the screens, installations, and media architecture that populate contemporary urban public spaces. It proposes a m...
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Rethinking the City: Reconfiguration and Fragmentation
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experien...
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Gestaltungsleitlinien Stadtraum am Beispiel Dresden
Henrike SchoperCurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99Architektur ist ein langwieriges Geschäft was heute gebaut wird, wurde schon vor Jahren geplant; was heute geplant wird, wird erst viel später geb...
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Ecological Urban Architecture: Qualitative Approaches to Sustainability
Thomas SchröpferCurrent price €62.69Original price €65.99The goal of advancing eco cities often remains confined to political or technological issues. This book establishes a focus on architectural and in...
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Barcelona: Urban Architecture and Community Since 2010
De GruyterCurrent price €62.69Original price €65.99Barcelona is a vibrant hotbed of forward-looking architecture and urban planning. The Catalan metropolis is home to more bold concepts for climate ...
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Introduction to Residential Layout
Mike BiddulphCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Introduction to Residential Layout is ideal for students and practitioners of urban design, planning, engineering, architecture and landscape seeki...
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Systems Thinking for Sustainable Crime Prevention: Planning for Risky Places
Andy NewtonCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This book offers a comprehensive overview of areas with elevated levels of crime, which we consider risky places. These can be facilities, nodes, o...
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Systems Thinking for Sustainable Crime Prevention: Planning for Risky Places
Andy NewtonCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99This book offers a comprehensive overview of areas with elevated levels of crime, which we consider risky places. These can be facilities, nodes, o...
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Transnational Buildings in Local Environments
Luciana Melchert Saguas PresasCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99By focusing on the skyscraping transnational building, this book bridges two key debates on the transformation and emerging problems besetting majo...
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The Creative City: Vision and Execution
Biljana MickovCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City, by...
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Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness: Architectural Multiculturalism in North America
Donia ZhangCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for gov...
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Design Pedagogy: Developments in Art and Design Education
Mike ToveyCurrent price €126.64Original price €148.99Design Pedagogy explains why it is vital for design students that their education helps them construct a passport to enter the professional sphere....
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Towns and Cities: Function in Form: Urban Structures, Economics and Society
Julian HartCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking a...
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Doors: History, Repair and Conservation
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors b...
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The Changing Image of Affordable Housing: Design, Gentrification and Community in Canada and Europe
Ulduz MaschaykhCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Illustrated by a range of case studies of affordable housing options in Canada, this book examines the liveability and affordability of twenty-firs...
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Building a World Heritage City: Sanaa, Yemen
Michele LamprakosCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99The conservation of old Sanaa is a major cultural heritage initiative that began in the 1980's under the auspices of UNESCO; it continues today, l...
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Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape
Philip PregillCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the ...
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The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €206.09Original price €228.99As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It...
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Spatial Design Education: New Directions for Pedagogy in Architecture and Beyond
Ashraf M. SalamaCurrent price €137.07Original price €148.99Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment o...
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Governing Urban Sustainability: Comparing Cities in the USA and Germany
Lisa PettiboneCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99In her study of the interactions between tools of urban sustainability governance in key cities, Lisa Pettibone argues that a new factor-sustainabi...
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The New Tenement: Residences in the Inner City Since 1970
Florian UrbanCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99This book examines new tenementsdense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since t...
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The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €54.14Original price €56.99Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobss legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs,...
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Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction
Tino MagerCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...
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Transcultural Architecture: The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism
Thorsten Botz-BornsteinCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic...
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Ways of Residing in Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Eli StøaCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfoldi...
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Hybrid Modernity: The Public Park in Late 20th Century China
Mary PaduaCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century Chi...
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Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes
Agnieszka Olszewska-GuizzoCurrent price €132.04Original price €138.99Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress. But do they all provide the same benefits or are some better tha...
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Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes
Agnieszka Olszewska-GuizzoCurrent price €29.44Original price €30.99Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress. But do they all provide the same benefits or are some better tha...
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Downtown Planning for Smaller and Midsized Communities
Philip WalkerCurrent price €160.54Original price €168.99For so long we were floundering and taking ad hoc measures, but the minute I understood what a downtown plan really was I said 'We need one of thos...
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Architecture and Politics in Nigeria: The Study of a Late Twentieth-Century Enlightenment-Inspired Modernism at Abuja, 19002016
Nnamdi EllehCurrent price €45.99Original price €49.99In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned ...
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The Creative City: Vision and Execution
Biljana MickovCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City, by...
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Mapping Urban Spaces: Designing the European City
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesth...
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Consensus Planning: The Relevance of Communicative Planning Theory in Duth Infrastructure Development
Johan WoltjerCurrent price €42.74Original price €44.99This title was published in 2000: This text offers a standpoint on communicative, participatory planning called consensus planning. The discussion ...
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Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €39.89Original price €41.99This book advocates an approach to lighting design that focuses on how people experience illumination. Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces cont...
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