Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

Item(s) unavailable for purchase

Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.

itemsitem

- Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiobook
  by ,
  
  Available:
  
  . No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Pre-order
  1 audiobook monthly
  
  + FREE 30-day trial
  
  Special Offer
  
  Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice
  
  *No commitment, cancel anytime
  
  FREE

itemsitem

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiobook
by ,

Available:
. No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Pre-order
1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Special Offer

Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice

*No commitment, cancel anytime

FREE

Recommended For You

A Pattern Language

Towns, Buildings, Construction

by Christopher Alexander ...

Series series Center for Environmental Structure Series
You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental ... Read more

$43.19 USD

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction. After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental
... Read more
Our Voices II

The DE-colonial Project

by Rebecca Kiddle, Patrick Reid Stewart, Kevin O'Brian ...

Our Voices II: the DE-colonial Project will showcase decolonizing projects which work to destable and disquiet colonial built environments. The land, towns, and cities on which we live have always been Indigenous places yet, for the most part our Indigenous value sets and identities have been disregarded or appropriated. Indigenous people continue to be gentrified out of the places to which they ... Read more

$8.69 USD

Our Voices II: the DE-colonial Project will showcase decolonizing projects which work to destable and disquiet colonial built environments. The land, towns, and cities on which we live have always been Indigenous places yet, for the most part our Indigenous value sets and identities have been disregarded or appropriated. Indigenous people continue to be gentrified out of the places to which they
... Read more
Passive Cooling of Buildings

by D. Asimakopoulos ...

Series series BEST (Buildings Energy and Solar Technology)
Energy use in buildings in the EU represents about 40% of the total annual energy consumption. With greater awareness of the need to reduce energy consumption comes a growth of interest in passive cooling, particularly as an alternative to air-conditioning. This book describes the fundamentals of passive cooling together with the principles and formulae necessary for its successful implementation. ... Read more

$70.99 USD

Energy use in buildings in the EU represents about 40% of the total annual energy consumption. With greater awareness of the need to reduce energy consumption comes a growth of interest in passive cooling, particularly as an alternative to air-conditioning. This book describes the fundamentals of passive cooling together with the principles and formulae necessary for its successful implementation.
... Read more
Multi-Unit Housing in Urban Cities

From 1800 to Present Day

by Katy Chey ...

This book investigates the development of multi-unit housing typologies that were predominant in a particular city from the 1800s to present day. It emphasises the importance of understanding the direct connection between housing and dwelling in the context of a city, and the manner in which the city is an instructional indication of how a housing typology is embodied.The case studies presented ... Read more

$68.99 USD

This book investigates the development of multi-unit housing typologies that were predominant in a particular city from the 1800s to present day. It emphasises the importance of understanding the direct connection between housing and dwelling in the context of a city, and the manner in which the city is an instructional indication of how a housing typology is embodied.The case studies presented
... Read more
Sustainable Nation

Urban Design Patterns for the Future

by Douglas Farr ...

PROSE Award Finalist 2019Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly ExcellenceAs a follow up to his widely acclaimed Sustainable Urbanism, this new book from author Douglas Farr embraces the idea that the humanitarian, population, and climate crises are three facets of one interrelated human existential challenge, one with impossibly short deadlines. The vision of ... Read more

$65.49 USD

PROSE Award Finalist 2019Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly ExcellenceAs a follow up to his widely acclaimed Sustainable Urbanism, this new book from author Douglas Farr embraces the idea that the humanitarian, population, and climate crises are three facets of one interrelated human existential challenge, one with impossibly short deadlines. The vision of
... Read more
Science and the City

The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis

by Laurie Winkless ...

Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don't, and with a growing world population, the urban jungle is only going to get busier in the coming decades. But how often do we stop to think about what makes our cities work?Cities are built using some of the most creative and revolutionary science and engineering ideas – from steel structures that scrape the sky to glass cables that ... Read more

$11.59 USD

Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don't, and with a growing world population, the urban jungle is only going to get busier in the coming decades. But how often do we stop to think about what makes our cities work?Cities are built using some of the most creative and revolutionary science and engineering ideas – from steel structures that scrape the sky to glass cables that
... Read more
築覺：閱讀香港建築（增訂版）

by 建築遊人 ...

「建築師不只是在圖紙上畫一道牆，而是畫了牆與牆之間的空間。建築物是有形（Tangible）、空間是無形的（Intangible），建築師需要同時考慮人類對實體與空間的需求、甚至更多無形的事情。」──建築遊人建築是一座城市的外衣，也是城市文化的容器，更隱約透露這座城市的內涵，盛載歷史也記錄變遷。城市建築的設計方式影響我們的審美觀、價值觀及生活習慣，在隨處可見的屏風樓、發水樓、蛋糕樓、粟米樓，和那些雲石水晶燈高檔會所豪華大堂之外，香港建築，還有甚麼？香港的建築有德國Bauhaus、Art and Crafts Movement、Baroque Style等的影響，也有世界級設計師Norman Foster、貝聿銘、Cesar Pelli、Terry Farrell等的作品。建築遊人以大量重新繪製的平面圖配以相片文字，解構建築在工程設計、人文生活、歷史宗教、商業都市 ... Read more

$15.90 USD

「建築師不只是在圖紙上畫一道牆，而是畫了牆與牆之間的空間。建築物是有形（Tangible）、空間是無形的（Intangible），建築師需要同時考慮人類對實體與空間的需求、甚至更多無形的事情。」──建築遊人建築是一座城市的外衣，也是城市文化的容器，更隱約透露這座城市的內涵，盛載歷史也記錄變遷。城市建築的設計方式影響我們的審美觀、價值觀及生活習慣，在隨處可見的屏風樓、發水樓、蛋糕樓、粟米樓，和那些雲石水晶燈高檔會所豪華大堂之外，香港建築，還有甚麼？香港的建築有德國Bauhaus、Art and Crafts Movement、Baroque Style等的影響，也有世界級設計師Norman Foster、貝聿銘、Cesar Pelli、Terry Farrell等的作品。建築遊人以大量重新繪製的平面圖配以相片文字，解構建築在工程設計、人文生活、歷史宗教、商業都市
... Read more
Cities for People

by Jan Gehl ...

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes ... Read more

$43.19 USD

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes
... Read more
Transnational Architecture and Urbanism

Rethinking How Cities Plan, Transform, and Learn

by Davide Ponzini ...

Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
Transnational Architecture and Urbanism combines urban planning, design, policy, and geography studies to offer place-based and project-oriented insight into relevant case studies of urban transformation in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.Since the 1990s, increasingly multinational modes of design have arisen, especially concerning prominent buildings and places. Traditional ... Read more

$60.99 USD

Transnational Architecture and Urbanism combines urban planning, design, policy, and geography studies to offer place-based and project-oriented insight into relevant case studies of urban transformation in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.Since the 1990s, increasingly multinational modes of design have arisen, especially concerning prominent buildings and places. Traditional
... Read more
Housing for Humans: A Book to Imagine, Create and Design a New Housing Model in America

by ileana schinder ...

Where are all the homes?The affordable housing crisis today can be solved through innovative residential and urban design. Family models have evolved, society has reframed the role of cities, and ongoing urban realities demand opportunities to create housing for all, from first-time homeowners to retirees.This book navigates the design process of new housing, like additional dwelling units, and ... Read more

$6.29 USD

Where are all the homes?The affordable housing crisis today can be solved through innovative residential and urban design. Family models have evolved, society has reframed the role of cities, and ongoing urban realities demand opportunities to create housing for all, from first-time homeowners to retirees.This book navigates the design process of new housing, like additional dwelling units, and
... Read more
Detroit City Is the Place to Be

The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

by Mark Binelli ...

Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists—all have been drawn to ... Read more

Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists—all have been drawn to
... Read more
Shift Change

Scenes from a Post-industrial Revolution

by Stephen Dale ...

Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban renaissance is taking shape. But who wins and who loses in the city’s not-too-distant future? Is it possible to lift a downtrodden, post-industrial city out of poverty in a way that benefits people across the social ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban renaissance is taking shape. But who wins and who loses in the city’s not-too-distant future? Is it possible to lift a downtrodden, post-industrial city out of poverty in a way that benefits people across the social
... Read more
Walkable City

How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

by Jeff Speck ...

Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth ... Read more

$11.39 USD

Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth
... Read more
101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School

by Matthew Frederick, Vikas Mehta ...

Series series 101 Things I Learned
Providing unique, accessible lessons on urban design, this title in the bestselling 101 Things I Learned® series is a perfect resource for students, recent graduates, general readers, and even seasoned professionals.Students of urban design often find themselves lost between books that are either highly academic or overly formulaic, leaving them with few tangible tools to use in their design ... Read more

$10.39 USD

Providing unique, accessible lessons on urban design, this title in the bestselling 101 Things I Learned® series is a perfect resource for students, recent graduates, general readers, and even seasoned professionals.Students of urban design often find themselves lost between books that are either highly academic or overly formulaic, leaving them with few tangible tools to use in their design
... Read more
Topothesia

Planning, Colonialism, and Places in Excess

by Ameeth Vijay ...

SHORTLISTED, 2024 MSA FIRST BOOK PRIZETopothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of British colonialism and liberalism through a particular understanding of place. The book focuses on town planning from the late nineteenth century to the present day, showing how the contemporary geography of Britain—sharply unequal and marked by racial ... Read more

$35.09 USD

SHORTLISTED, 2024 MSA FIRST BOOK PRIZETopothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of British colonialism and liberalism through a particular understanding of place. The book focuses on town planning from the late nineteenth century to the present day, showing how the contemporary geography of Britain—sharply unequal and marked by racial
... Read more
Who Owns England?

How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

by Guy Shrubsole ...

‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane‘Absolutely brilliant…You cannot read this book and defend the establishment’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest is PoliticsWho owns England?Behind this simple question lies this country’s oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England’s elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how to open up our countryside once ... Read more

$11.09 USD

‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane‘Absolutely brilliant…You cannot read this book and defend the establishment’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest is PoliticsWho owns England?Behind this simple question lies this country’s oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England’s elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how to open up our countryside once
... Read more
Construir y habitar

Ética para la ciudad

Translated by Marco Aurelio Galmarini Rodríguez ...

by Richard Sennett ...

Cómo deberían ser las ciudades del futuro? ¿Cómo ha evolucionado su planificación a lo largo de la historia? ¿Cómo afecta a nuestra vida el entorno urbano en el que vivimos? ¿Qué valores urbanísticos se deberían potenciar? ¿Qué lastres se deberían desterrar?Repensar la ciudad es el objetivo último de este libro, que hace un recorrido por su evolución partiendo de los dos ámbitos en los que trabaja ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Cómo deberían ser las ciudades del futuro? ¿Cómo ha evolucionado su planificación a lo largo de la historia? ¿Cómo afecta a nuestra vida el entorno urbano en el que vivimos? ¿Qué valores urbanísticos se deberían potenciar? ¿Qué lastres se deberían desterrar?Repensar la ciudad es el objetivo último de este libro, que hace un recorrido por su evolución partiendo de los dos ámbitos en los que trabaja
... Read more
Borrowed Spaces

Life Between the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong: Penguin Specials

by Christopher DeWolf ...

Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
Where have all the fishballs gone? From a journalist deeply attuned to the subtleties of Hong Kong life comes Borrowed Spaces, a chronicle of the ways in which the grassroots citizens of Hong Kong reshape their city to make up for the shortcomings of their bureaucratic government. Mango trees sprouting on roundabouts, fishball stalls and neon signs: these are just some of the Hong Kong icons that ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Where have all the fishballs gone? From a journalist deeply attuned to the subtleties of Hong Kong life comes Borrowed Spaces, a chronicle of the ways in which the grassroots citizens of Hong Kong reshape their city to make up for the shortcomings of their bureaucratic government. Mango trees sprouting on roundabouts, fishball stalls and neon signs: these are just some of the Hong Kong icons that
... Read more
The Place Economy - Volume 3

Celebrating the value in placemaking: Real community benefits. Real profits.

by Andrew Hoyne ...

As a project undertaken before, during and in the aftermath of a global pandemic, The Place Economy Volume 3 represents an increased appreciation of our need as humans for place and community. Spanning 80-plus stories, featuring the work of more than 100 global experts, you will find a celebration of the people, places and ideas that make cities great, alongside close examination of the barriers ... Read more

$81.99 USD

As a project undertaken before, during and in the aftermath of a global pandemic, The Place Economy Volume 3 represents an increased appreciation of our need as humans for place and community. Spanning 80-plus stories, featuring the work of more than 100 global experts, you will find a celebration of the people, places and ideas that make cities great, alongside close examination of the barriers
... Read more
Green Oslo

Visions, Planning and Discourse

by Per Gunnar Røe ...

As urban regions face the demand to decrease fossil fuel dependency, many cities in the developing world are undertaking initiatives designed to create a greener city by aiming for a more sustainable form of urban development and, to do so, they need to evaluate existing modes of transportation and patterns of land use. Focusing on Oslo, an early leader in urban environmental policy making and a ... Read more

$76.99 USD

As urban regions face the demand to decrease fossil fuel dependency, many cities in the developing world are undertaking initiatives designed to create a greener city by aiming for a more sustainable form of urban development and, to do so, they need to evaluate existing modes of transportation and patterns of land use. Focusing on Oslo, an early leader in urban environmental policy making and a
... Read more
Waterfront Manhattan

From Henry Hudson to the High Line

by Kurt C. Schlichting ...

"Rich in historical, sociological, and economic detail . . . a new way to look at the ascendancy and growth of America's most important city." — Civil EngineeringWith its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world's busiest port. It was a world of docks, ships, tugboats, and ferries, ... Read more

$12.39 USD

"Rich in historical, sociological, and economic detail . . . a new way to look at the ascendancy and growth of America's most important city." — Civil EngineeringWith its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world's busiest port. It was a world of docks, ships, tugboats, and ferries,
... Read more
Growing Cooler

The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change

by Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman, Jerry Walters, Don Chen ...

Based on a comprehensive study review by leading urban planning researchers, this investigative document demonstrates how urban development is both a key contributor to climate change and an essential factor in combating it—by reducing vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. ... Read more

$36.89 USD

Based on a comprehensive study review by leading urban planning researchers, this investigative document demonstrates how urban development is both a key contributor to climate change and an essential factor in combating it—by reducing vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
... Read more
A History of Boston

by Daniel Dain ...

“Dain’s A History of Boston helps the reader understand how land-use and environment contribute to shaping a community. Dain’s Boston is the go-to book.” - R.J. LymanBoston is today one of the world’s greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life science companies, and sports teams. It was the home of the Great Puritan Migration, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, ... Read more

$8.69 USD

“Dain’s A History of Boston helps the reader understand how land-use and environment contribute to shaping a community. Dain’s Boston is the go-to book.” - R.J. LymanBoston is today one of the world’s greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life science companies, and sports teams. It was the home of the Great Puritan Migration, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution,
... Read more
Space, Time and Architecture

The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition

by Sigfried Giedion ...

Series Book 27 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
"The standard work on the development of modern architecture."—Walter Gropius"Giedion’s accomplishment remains unmatched."—José Luis SertSigfried Giedion was an unlikely candidate for the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry at Harvard. Trained as a mechanical engineer and an art historian, the Swiss polymath had a tenuous command of English and little name recognition when he accepted the ... Read more

$45.09 USD

"The standard work on the development of modern architecture."—Walter Gropius"Giedion’s accomplishment remains unmatched."—José Luis SertSigfried Giedion was an unlikely candidate for the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry at Harvard. Trained as a mechanical engineer and an art historian, the Swiss polymath had a tenuous command of English and little name recognition when he accepted the
... Read more

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Planning eBooks

A Pattern Language

Our Voices II

Passive Cooling of Buildings

Multi-Unit Housing in Urban Cities

Sustainable Nation

Science and the City

築覺：閱讀香港建築（增訂版）

Cities for People

Transnational Architecture and Urbanism

Housing for Humans: A Book to Imagine, Create and Design a New Housing Model in America

Detroit City Is the Place to Be

Shift Change

Walkable City

101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School

Topothesia

Who Owns England?

Construir y habitar

Borrowed Spaces

The Place Economy - Volume 3

Green Oslo

Waterfront Manhattan

Growing Cooler

A History of Boston

Space, Time and Architecture