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  • 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

    R885,60

  • Darwin Comes to Town

    by Professor Menno Schilthuizen ...
    See your city through fresh eyesWe are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, and a large portion of the planet's landmass is urbanized. With much of the rest covered by human-shaped farms, pasture, and plantations, where can nature still go? To the cities -- is Menno Schilthuizen's answer in this remarkable book. And with more and more wildlife carving out new ... Read more

    R250,80

  • Small Change

    About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities

    by Nabeel Hamdi ...
    What exactly is 'small change'?Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects.This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, small-scale actions. Written by Nabeel Hamdi, the guru of urban ... Read more

    R1 095,65

  • The Urban Improvise

    Improvisation-Based Design for Hybrid Cities

    by Kristian Kloeckl ...
    A book for architects, designers, planners, and urbanites that explores how cities can embrace improvisation to improve urban lifeThe built environment in today’s hybrid cities is changing radically. The pervasiveness of networked mobile and embedded devices has transformed a predominantly stable background for human activity into spaces that have a more fluid behavior. Based on their capability ... Read more

    R495,87

  • The Great Rent Wars

    New York, 1917-1929

    by Robert M. Fogelson, Robert M. ...
    A groundbreaking account of the early history of rent controlWritten by one of the country’s foremost urban historians, The Great Rent Wars tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation’s largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were triggered by the post-war housing shortage, which prompted landlords to raise rents, drove ... Read more

    R713,79

  • Green Urbanism In Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers

    by Peter Newman, Anne Matan ...
    The world is facing an age of scarcity which will challenge all cities to reduce their resource footprint, especially carbon, improve biodiversity and at the same time continue to create economic opportunities and liveable places. This is green urbanism. Asian urban growth is leading the world in the rapidity of its change but how is it doing on green urbanism? This book finds emerging innovations ... Read more

    R308,99

  • Infinite Suburbia

    by MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism ...
    Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's yearlong study of the future of suburban development. Extensive research, an exhibition, and a conference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors from twenty different fields, including, but not limited to, design, architecture, landscape, ... Read more

    R799,81

  • Gentrification Down the Shore

    by Molly Vollman Makris, Mary Gatta ...
    Makris and Gatta engage in a rich ethnographic investigation of Asbury Park to better understand the connection between jobs and seasonal gentrification and the experiences of longtime residents in this beach-community city. They demonstrate how the racial inequality in the founding of Asbury Park is reverberating a century later. This book tells an important and nuanced tale of gentrification ... Read more

    R402,37

  • Minoru Yamasaki

    Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World

    by Dale Allen Gyure ...
    The first book to reevaluate the evocative and polarizing work of one of midcentury America’s most significant architectsBorn to Japanese immigrant parents in Seattle, Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986) became one of the towering figures of midcentury architecture, even appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1963. His self-proclaimed humanist designs merged the modern materials and functional ... Read more

    R920,79

  • Reclaiming Backlanes: Design Vision For Increasing Building Performance And Reprogramming Common Spaces

    by Marcel Bruelisauer, Sonja Berthold ...
    Take a shortcut! Explore the pop-up market! Breathe the fresh scents of flowers in a secret garden! What if backlanes were far from the state they are in today — lively chatter and laughter replacing the heat and noise of air-conditioning condensers and foul smells from trash bins?Reclaiming Backlanes presents design visions for future development of shophouse neighbourhoods, reprogramming ... Read more

    R738,98

  • Generøs by

    by Karsten R. S. Ifversen, Jens Markus Lindhe ...
    Københavns bedste nye arkitektur handler om mennesker. Den leger og anstrenger sig for at give plads til, at vi kan udfolde os. Bygninger træder til side for offentlige rum eller trækker dem hen over sig og giver nye oplevelser af, hvordan livet og naturen i byen kan være.I løbet af de sidste tyve år er havnens nedslidte industribygninger blevet udskiftet med store kulturhuse, erhvervsdomiciler og ... Read more

    Was R108,33 Now R90,72

  • Montecatini in Val di Nievole: Terre e Acque svelate con gli occhi di Leonardo

    by Bruna Rossi Montagnani ...
    Il Paesaggio con fiume, primo disegno firmato da Leonardo da Vinci, datato 5 agosto 1473 (Gall.degli Uffizi,Fi.), pur nella sua armonica visione d'insieme, è il risultato di una pluralità di elementi sapientemente assemblati. Analisi morfologiche e geografiche,storiche,religiose,mitologiche, astronomiche ed anche un po' magiche, ci guidano a collocare il luogo rappresentato,identificandolo con il ... Read more

    R258,44

  • Die vernetzte Stadt

    Wie Big Data und KI die urbane Zukunft prägen

    by Martin J. Emmer ...
    Unsere Städte stehen an der Schwelle zu einer neuen Ära – einer Ära, in der Algorithmen, Sensoren und riesige Datenmengen den urbanen Alltag prägen. In Die vernetzte Stadt analysiert Martin J. Emmer, wie digitale Technologien und künstliche Intelligenz das Gesicht unserer Städte grundlegend verändern – von der Verkehrssteuerung über Energieeffizienz bis hin zur Bürgerbeteiligung. Das Buch bietet ... Read more

    R439,00

  • Lessico metropolitano

    by Gianni Biondillo ...
    Viviamo in un Paese fragile che ha un’idea autoassolutoria di sé, pensiamo che l’architettura sia una disciplina cool, buona solo per una rivista patinata. Ma di fronte agli stravolgimenti inflitti dalla crisi ambientale e da una inedita pandemia non possiamo lasciare agli specialisti temi come il consumo di suolo o il cambiamento fisico e sociale delle nostre metropoli. In questa raccolta di ... Read more

    R224,24

  • Views to Die For

    Murder, anarchy, and the battle for Sydney's future

    by Mark Skelsey ...
    How did a 1970s plan to raze and redevelop a historic Sydney suburb lead to a kidnapping, murder and urban warfare?And why does this tumultuous period still play a pivotal role in Sydney's planning today?These are the big questions explored in Views To Die For.Views To Die For has beenpublished alongside the 50th anniversary of the 1975 murder of outspoken Kings Cross activist and publisher ... Read more

    R198,48

  • Major French Cities facing Metropolization

    Edited by Alain Bourdin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book characterizes a type of city, i.e. the metropolis, by using characteristics which have very little to do with its size. It distinguishes between metropolises and megacities and defines these different characteristics by bringing together elements related to facilities, accessibility and economic power on one hand and other elements which relate more to the capacity for innovation and, ... Read more

    R2 783,91

  • Creating Cohousing

    Building Sustainable Communities

    by Kathryn McCamant, Charles Durrett ...
    The cohousing "bible" by the US originators of the concept.A man's home is his castle. But demographic and economic changes haveturned our castles into islands. How can we regain the elements of the traditional village – family, cooperation, community and a sense of belonging – within the context of 21st century life?Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities is an in-depth exploration ... Read more

    R558,08

  • Disincanto

    Critica delle ideologie dell'architettura contemporanea

    by Roberto Secchi, Enrico Castelli Gattinara ...
    Series Book 5 - Bauhaus 101. Intercultural Dialogue books
    L’autore si interroga sulla figura dell’architetto nella società contemporanea: può definirsi un intellettuale? In quali rapporti è con la politica e le istituzioni? In passato il suo ruolo, pur non risolutivo, aveva una funzione sociale: si poteva iscrivere nell’insieme di azioni concrete con le quali si costituiscono e si evolvono le città, dando forma agli spazi dell’abitare collettivo. È ... Read more

    R207,84 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Defying Gentrification Playbook

    A Memoir+Manifesto for Black Queer Feminist Disabled Urbanism

    by Kristen E. Jeffers ...
    A Black, Queer, FeminIst, Disabled, Urbanist, Guide, Toolkit, and Companion for modern life on Earth from one of the world's most notable contemporary urbanists and the creator of The Black Urbanist multimedia platform.We all know the rent is too damn high, and everything, from getting our hair done to eating our soul foods from across the African Diaspora, is increasingly out of reach and touch, ... Read more

    R310,03

  • Städte als Traum

    Vom Kosmischen Peking über das Himmlische Jerusalem bis zur Humanen Stadt

    by Michael Trieb, Anna Oelrichs ...
    Globalisierung, Uniformität, Umweltprobleme und Materialismus prägen die Städte heute weltweit. Seit einem Jahrhundert versucht man erfolglos, mit aufeinanderfolgenden einseitigen Lösungen, von der Gesunden Stadt bis zur Ökostadt, diese Probleme zu lösen. Der Grund wird hier in einem einseitigen Stadtverständnis gesehen, dessen Ursache in einem fehlenden, ganzheitlichen Menschenbild liegt. Vor ... Read more

    R279,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Guide to Planning and Managing Open Innovative Ecosystems

    Edited by Dr João Leitão, Vanessa Ratten, Jean Barroca ...
    Digital technology in the form of big data and data analytics is transforming the global economy. This book is the first to take an open innovation perspective to the study and practice of ecosystems, providing a novel way of understanding the impact data has on the way entrepreneurial firms develop. Governments are emphasising the use of open innovation ecosystems due to increased levels of ... Read more

    R1 897,60

  • Beyond Zuccotti Park

    Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space

    Edited by Ronald Shiffman, Rick Bell, Lance Jay Brown, Lynne Elizabeth ...
    In the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, leading planers and social scientists examine public space today and freedom of assembly.The Occupy Wall Street movement has challenged the physical manifestation of the First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly. Where and how can people congregate today? Forty social scientists, planners, architects, and civil liberties experts explore the ... Read more

    R318,88

  • Capital's Utopia

    Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916

    by Anne E. Mosher ...
    Series series Creating the North American Landscape
    In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company sought to gain tighter control over its workers not only at the factory but also in their homes. Drawing upon a philosophy of reform movements in Europe and the United States, the firm decided that ... Read more

    R998,88

  • Architecture of the Living Word

    Think and Grow Together, #4

    by Dwight Vaughn ...
    Series Book 4 - Think and Grow Together
    A systems-level exploration of language, meaning, and structure—examining how intent becomes architecture across technology, culture, and civilization. ... Read more

    R160,27 or Free with Kobo Plus