A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction / Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein
In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide ...
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A beginner's guide to urban design and development : the ABC of quality, sustainable design / Laura B. Alvarez
Provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience ...
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Art Intervention in the City / Hadas Ophrat
This book focuses on the phenomenon of art intervention—an expression of local initiatives by artists, collectives, and ...
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Barcelona : urban architecture and community since 2010 / Sandra Hofmeister, Heide Wessely
Highlights some of the most exciting structures built in Barcelona since 2010, bringing readers on a guided tour of surprising ...
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Care and Design: Bodies, Buildings, Cities / Charlotte Bates, Rob Imrie, Kim Kullman
Connects the study of design with care, and explores how concepts of care may have relevance for the ways in which urban ...
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Changing places : the science and art of new urban planning / Charles C. Branas, John Michael MacDonald, Robert Stokes
How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livable
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Cities for people / Jan Gehl
Presents latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses ...
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City Logistics 1: New Opportunities and Challenges / Eiichi Taniguchi, Russell G. Thompson
Presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on ...
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City Logistics 2: Modeling and Planning Initiatives / Eiichi Taniguchi, Russell G. Thompson
Presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on ...
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City Logistics 3: Towards Sustainable and Liveable Cities / Eiichi Taniguchi, Russell G. Thompson
Presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on ...
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City, Climate, and Architecture : A Theory of Collective Practice / Sascha Roesler
Based on a history of climate control on urban scales, it promotes the integration of indoors and outdoors in order to reduce ...
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Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism : Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt / Sibel Bozdoğan, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides
offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming ...
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Cost Accounting for Shared IT Infrastructures
Distributed client/server architectures are the technological backbone of today’s data centres. A usage-based allocation ...
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Designing healthy and liveable cities : creating sustainable urban regeneration / Marichela Sepe
Aim of this book is, after the definition of the field of investigation concerning sustainable regeneration trough topics ...
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Designing sustainable and resilient cities : small interventions for stronger urban food-water-energy management / Alessandro Melis, Julia Catherine Brown, Claire Coulter
Explores the link between the food-water-energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to ...
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Drawing the Ground - Landscape Urbanism Today : The Work of Palmbout Urban Landscapes / Frits Palmboom
Documents some fifteen projects organized into six thematic blocks, including such extensive projects as Amsterdam Ijburg, ...
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Essential Urban Design : A Handbook for Architects, Designers and Planners / Rob Cowan
Shaping our cities, streets and public spaces, urban design informs the places we live. It is a complex multi-disciplinary ...
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Essentials of Urban Design / Mark Sheppard
Explains the fundamental concepts of urban design, providing the understanding and tools needed to achieve better design ...
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Offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the crisis of the contemporary city and the means by which this crisis ...
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Groundwater Management in Asian Cities : Technology and Policy for Sustainability
The number of city dwellers who do not have access to piped water and rely on groundwater is also increasing. In many Asian ...
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