Planning Wild Cities. Human-Nature Relationships in the Urban Age, Paperback - Wendy Steele

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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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. Did you hear? Charles Darwin has invited Siddhartha Gautama to hike the Appalachian Trail through the Great Smoky Mountains. What stories will they...

This award-winning book by a Harvard landscape architect proves how important it is to understand the natural settings of cities--their air, water,...

Reducere. Clinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair takes an in-depth look at how the Internet and the digital revolution are profoundly changing childho...

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...

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

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Reducere. This book explores the role universities have to play in fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the heart of "sustainable developm...

Underground City explores how new ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space and how these innovations...

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

Andres Lozano (whose work has appeared in }McSweeney's{) illustrates this die-cut look at the evidence of history beneath the surface in the citysc...

From Australia to North America, we need to rethink how our cities resist environmental change in the age of climate catastropheIllustrations: 3 Ta...

What does it mean to be a part of-rather than apart from-nature? This book is about how we interact with wildlife and the ways in which this can ma...

This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a 'good' life under urban condition? W...

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...

DescriptionWhat is green infrastructure? Why should we develop it? Who uses it? And what socioeconomic and ecological value does it provide? This u...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is the result of two historic events that took place in Quito, Ecuador during October 2016. The first was the Gospel and the F...

With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to us...

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Publisher: Lexington BooksNumber of pages: 370Collection: Comparative Urban StudiesPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 238 x 159 x 33Cover type: Hard...

As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabil...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Shareable"Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons" showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model pol...

Reducere. Chantell Ilbury and Clem Sunter provide a crisp and entertaining analysis of the mind of a fox and identify the two questions you should ask before...

Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across spr...

Reducere. This interdisciplinary introduction to urban theory explains how the concepts that help us understand the contemporary urban experience have develo...

From exploring secret gardens, parks, farmers markets and city farms, to discovering the best spots for urban bee-keeping, foraging, open-air swimm...

Reducere. In Nest City, Beth Sanders argues that our linear ways of thinking about, organizing and planning our cities do not meet the true nature of cities ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Wendy-O MatikDon't let the title fool you. this IS a serious, thoughtful (and thought-provoking) comprehensive introduction...

This book is a story about a personal search for the 'natural' and for living 'in nature'. The author is an ethnobotanist who has studied foraging ...

How can industrial production be reintegrated into the urban fabric in a post-digital world Research from Harvard's Graduate School of Design addre...

This book explores cities and intra-regional relational dynamics to challenge common representations of urban development 'success' and 'failure'. ...

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This book draws on a wide range of conceptual and empirical materials to identify and examine planning and policy approaches that move beyond the i...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Cristina MaximIllustration(s): 27 Line drawings, black and white; 44 Halftones, black and white; 16 Table...

Reducere. This book is a collection of teachings and experiences from a Native traditional healer. Wendy shares her people's history and her own personal exp...

The term "secular" inspires thinking about disenchantment, periodization, modernity, and subjectivity. The essays in Sacred and Secular Transaction...

Reducere. PBS s successful animated show "Wild Kratts" joins the adventures of zoologists Chris and Martin Kratt as they travel to animal habitats around the...

Venturing out of the laboratory into the wild, it becomes untenable to locate memory strictly in the head. Instead, memory appears as a materially ...

Reducere. What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built enviro...