Architecture : Urban & Land Use Planning

This important work provides a clear analysis of the nature of many of today's design problems, identifying their causes in history and suggesting a basis for co-ordinated solutions. more...

Price: $84.00

A book describing the political economy of urban change which explores the future of the city and the implications of social disorder and injustice. more...

Price: $59.95

This book offers a detailed record of one of the world's oldest environmental pressure groups, raising questions about the capacity of pressure groups to influence policy. more...

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The Reinvented City reflects on externity, the principal feature of a reinvented city. Three fundamental trends of the city are investigated, "discomposed," "generic" and "segregated" phenomena with the loss of the city as a space of social interaction and communication. The interpretative categories of externity are the intermediate spaces, the counterspaces, the void, the edge, the territory and the environment, places on which to base the future city project. Important questions are posed: What is the true public sphere in contemporary societies? What is the contemporary public space corresponding to it? In what way can the city project construct contemporary public space? more...

Price: $149.00

The role of the built environment on global warming is seen to be of increasing relevance. This insightful volume presents strategies for designing and managing buildings and communities in the context of global warming. more...

Price: $90.00