Cities of Tomorrow. An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880, Paperback - Peter Hall

Peter Hall s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social a...

Reducere. Garden Cities of To-morrow Ebenezer Howard Garden Cities of To-morrow is a book by the British urban planner Ebenezer Howard. When it was published...

Reducere. From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind ...

Reducere. Ebenezer Howard's iconic "Garden Cities of To-Morrow, " published in 1902, spawned an international movement for the creation of Garden Cities in t...

Outlines the essential elements of a biophilic city, and provides examples and stories about cities that have successfully integrated biophilic ele...

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Postmodern, postcolonial, and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world ...

Planning Australia: An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning - Susan Thompson, Paul Maginn

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmo...

Reducere. Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen schol...

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Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process...

This book searches for an understanding of the historiography of planning in a European dimension. Scholars from Eastern and Western, Southern and ...

Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West Africa...

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Pluralism is among the most vital intellectual movements of the modern era. This book provides the first history of twentieth-century pluralist thi...

Engineering Rules is a riveting global history of the people, processes, and organizations that created and maintain this nearly invisible infrastr...

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history ...

This expansive study analyzes how discourses on emotion serve to create and maintain White supremacy and racism, providing a new understanding of t...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Stephen ChanNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 25Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. Book of the YearHow did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to include over two billion followers? W...

A short, accessible guide for planning students embarking on a dissertation, taking them from choosing a question right through to analysing results.

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges of planning wild cities in a climate of change and will be of particular interest to ...

Publisher: De GruyterAuthor(s): Stephan AndersIllustration(s): Ca. 270 Abb.Number of pages: 280Collection: DETAIL SpecialPublication date: 2019Dime...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1880 and 1920, emigration from Sweden to Chicago soared, and the city itself grew remarkably. During this time, the Swedish popu...

This book critically analyses the existing condition of cities in developing countries with special reference to planning and infrastructure networ...

A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutionsPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Enzo TraversoNumber of page...

DescriptionPrivate, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been crit...

Reducere. When one encounters a metaphor in the Humanities, the interpretation of that metaphor is dominated by either cognitive linguistics or post-Kantian ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 110 Line drawings, color; 156 Halftones, color; 2 Tables, color; 21 Tables, black and white; 266 Il...

An economic history of modern Europe, suitable for course use, which sets European events within the wider context of world economic progress and a...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Layla (Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, UK) McCayIllustration(s): 62 colour illusNumber of...

How to Read Towns & Cities is a pocket-sized primer to understanding the forces that have shaped the world's cities. It takes a practical, highly v...

DescriptionHackers, cyber-criminals, Dark Web users, and techno-terrorists beware This book should make you think twice about attempting to do your...

Throughout the ages of sail and steam, migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban-maritime world in terms of the built envi...

Open Design refers to a stakeholder-oriented approach in Architecture, Urban Planning, and Project Management, as developed by the Chair of Compute...

Reducere. As the most significant eighteenth-century estate assembled in the British American colonies still in existence, Drayton Hall is an icon of America...

Reducere. What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives ...

Reducere. Sir Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) was a prominent British urban planner. He travelled to America from England at the age of 21, moved to Nebraska, an...

Reducere. In this accessible new study, Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite being an agricultu...

The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III: Europe 1880 - 1940 - Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker, Christian

DescriptionThis book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planni...

Reducere. The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social science discipline in the U.S....

With contributions from academics across the globe, this book showcases how you can use data analysis for better and more effective urban planning ...

Urban experts consider the future of night-time economies' governance during the pandemic and beyond in this scholarly and accessible guide. They u...

Shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. This title examines ...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Matthew WizinskyIllustration(s): 23 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimen...

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Intellectuals since the Industrial Revolution have been obsessed with whether, when, and why capitalism will collapse. This riveting account of two...