Cardiff, Springer, 2022. 254p. ISBN: 978-3-031-07946-7. This book challenges current views that public life is in decline and that contemporary urban design trends reliant on privatization, control, events, and thematic designs are to be blamed. Drawing on a detailed and extensive analysis of a case study that illustrates well such urban design trends, it shows that informal...
Penguin Press HC, 2005. — 240 p. A behind-the-scenes account of the interconnected technology, transportation, and utility systems supporting New York City pairs detailed graphic images with accessible explanations of behind-the-scenes mechanisms and processes for key structures and everyday arenas. 60,000 first printing. The Works contains a section on pretty much every aspect...
Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2009, 132 p., ISBN: 978-1-61728-522-6 There are various definitions of what constitutes infrastructure, but generally infrastructure refers to the large-scale public systems, services, and facilities of a country or region that are necessary for economic activity. The sector tends to be separated into two broad subsets - economic and social....
Architectural Press, 2007. — 384 p. Essential reading for architects, planners, and anyone else involved in urban design Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become...
Architectural Press. 2003. 380 p. This is a unique text providing both design guidance and policy direction for the provision and design of public toilets covering city-wide, district-level and site-specific principles. It highlights the role of urban design in reversing the trend of inadequate toilet provision, and sets out guidelines for design which meets both user need and...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. — 398 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-06382-7 Brings together leading thinking on issues of new professional practice and on the future of a sustainable built environment This book focuses on both construction and development issues, and examines how we can transition to a sustainable future by the year 2050 — bringing together leading research and practice at...
Editors: Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J. Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto. Springer, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London, 2013. - 771 p. ISBN: 978-94-007-7087-4 We have entered the Anthropocene – an era when humans are a dominant geological force – and at the same time...
3rd Edition, Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2009, 249 p., ISBN: 0470230584 The nonsurveyor′s definitive land survey sourcebook — now extensively updated Over the last several decades, the Internet has allowed individuals with a non–technical background to assume more control of land surveys. But without a clear understanding of how to accurately use land survey data, and faced...
Wiley, 2018. — 389 p. — ISBN: 9780470537176. As 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 Sustainable Nation is to accelerate the pace...
Three Rivers Press, 2018. — 211 p. — ASIN B073R25NKW, ISBN 0451496698. Providing unique, accessible lessons on urban design, this title in the bestselling 101 Things I Learnedseries 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...
Princeton University Press, 2001 - 267 p. American metropolitan areas today are divided into neighborhoods of privilege and poverty, often along lines of ethnicity and race. City residents traveling through these neighborhoods move from feeling at home to feeling like tourists to feeling so out of place they fear for their security. As Gerald Frug shows, this divided and...
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013. — 332 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-397168-5 Underground facilities, such as tunnels, sewer, water and gas networks form the backbone of the economic life of the modern city. In densely populated areas where the demands for transportation and services are rapidly increasing and the construction of new roads and railways are prohibited, the construction of a...
Harper, 2016. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0062196316. — ISBN13: 978-0062196316 From the acclaimed landscape designer, historian and author of American Eden, a lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities-from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and "sustainable" developments-that allows us to view them through the planning, design,...
CRC Press, 2014. — 572 p. — ISBN10: 1466592044. — ISBN13: 978-1466592049 Represents the State of the Art in Urban Lifeline Engineering Urban lifelines are buried or aboveground network systems used for water, sewerage, gas, power, and telecommunications. Dedicated to preserving the functions of lifeline systems against natural disasters, the Critical Urban Infrastructure...
W. W. Norton, 2005. — 512 p. A companion to the man-made landscape that reveals how our industrial environment can be as dazzling as the natural world. Replete with the author's striking photographs, Infrastructure is a unique and spectacular guide, exploring all the major "ecosystems" of our modern industrial world, revealing what the structures are and why they're there, and...
Editors: Dietrich Henckel, Susanne Thomaier, Benjamin Könecke, Roberto Zedda, Stefano Stabilini. Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, 2013. - 332 p. ISBN 978-94-007-6424-8 With Information Society, the use of time and urban rhythms changes but also the forms of inhabiting urban space, which creates new disparities based on the access to knowledge and to the services...
SAGE Publications, Inc., California, 2010, 1039 p., ISBN: 1412914329 The United Nations estimates that by 2030, more than two-thirds of the total world population will live in urban areas. Most of this increase will take place not in Europe or in the United States but in the megacities and newly emerging urban regions of what used to be called the developing world. Urban...
Urban Land Institute, 2008. - 300 p. ISBN: 087420996X Using verifiable figures and drawing on professional experience, this argument for the "dividend" generated from high-quality, preinvestment design investigates the benefits and impact of good design upon all facets of an urban area — the community, businesses, employees, the general public, city officials, and the developer.
Architectural Press (November 1, 2005), 400 p. Explains what is meant by Urban Design and explores the variety of types of urban design that has taken place during the last 50 years. Urban Design provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, presenting a 3 dimensional model with which to categorise the processes and products involved. It not only defines...
Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2014, 1032 p., ISBN: 0470530634 This book presents an integrated systems approach to the evaluation, analysis, design, and maintenance of civil engineering systems. Addressing recent concerns about the world's aging civil infrastructure and its environmental impact, the author makes the case for why any civil infrastructure should be seen as part of...
Chicago Review Press, 2000. — 129 p. How does a city obtain water, gas, and electricity? Where do these services come from? How are they transported? The answer is infrastructure, or the inner, and sometimes invisible, workings of the city. Roads, railroads, bridges, telephone wires, and power lines are visible elements of the infrastructure; sewers, plumbing pipes, wires,...
CRC Press/Balkema, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2012, 315 p., ISBN: 0415683947 Underground infrastructure undoubtedly constitutes one of the most important engineering equipments of urbanized areas. Such infrastructure includes energy distribution, communications and water, carry away sewage, elements of transportation systems of goods and people, storage facilities of articles,...
Third Edition, - Architectural Press; 3 edition (July 3, 2003), 320 p. Review of the first edition 'This book offers a detailed analysis of urban design, covering the streets, squares and buildings that make up the public face of towns and cities. It includes the arrangement, design and details of these elements and the roles they play in city planning. Superb examples of...
InTech, 2012. — 308 p. This book highlights some of these problems and discusses possible solutions in terms of organisation, planning and management. The purpose of the book is to present selected chapters, of great importance for understanding the urban development issues, written by renowned authors in this scientific field. All the chapters have been thoroughly reviewed and...
Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, 2001, - 392 p. ISBN 978-90-481-5739-6 Pu Miao Introduction Unique Public Places of the Asia Pacific Region Hidenobu Jinnai The Waterfront as a Public Place in Tokyo Hikaru Kinoshita The Street Market as an Urban Facility in Hong Kong Norma I. Alarcon The Roles of the Plaza: The Philippine Experience Tanya Hidaka and Mamoru Tanaka...
Wiley-ISTE, 2018. — 229 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-55097-6. The intelligence of a city is the capacity to learn: to learn the past, its history and the culture of its territory. Unlike the smart city, we do not build a city from scratch and there is nothing, there is no smart city standard car intelligence is measured this ability to fit into a territorial dynamic, a story and a...
Harper, 2017 — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0061957801, ISBN13: 978-0061957802 One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience. Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best...
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009. - 230 p. ISBN: 1848559062 As cities all over the world have urbanized rapidly after the industrial revolution, most cities have confronted environmental problems such as poor air and water quality, high levels of traffic congestion and ambient noise, poor-quality built environment, derelict land, greenhouse gas emissions, urban sprawl,...
Springer International Publishing, 2019. — 276 p. This volume presents innovative work on innovative methods, tools and practices aimed at supporting the transition of Asian and Middle Eastern cities and regions towards a more smart and sustainable dimension. The role of the built and urban environment are becoming more pronounced in Asia and Middle East as the regions...
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014. - 301 p. ISBN: 978-3-642-37660-3 Urbanism and the design of Cities for Smart Environmental and Energy Futures form the basis of an ongoing effort upon which interdisciplinary architectural planning and philosophy as well as engineering design are developed. As cities are aimed nowadays to be ever smarter, they are designed to offer...
MIT Press, 2017 — 254 p. — ISBN: 978-0-262-03574-3 The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian...
2nd Ed. — Springer, 2019. — 463 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030248-41-0. This book seeks to deepen readers’ understanding of world history by investigating urbanization and the evolution of urban systems, as well as the urban world, from the perspective of historical analysis. The theoretical framework of the approach stems directly from space-economy, and, more generally, from location...
McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002, 1124 p., ISBN: 9780071375252 Planning Magazine : How to develop. "Forty years ago, for a typical suburban house, the cost of engineering, planning, and surveying, including fees paid to agencies, was about the cost of a refrigerator today. Today it is probably greater than the total cost of all of kitchen and other electronic appliances...
4th Ed. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2019. — 913 p. — ISBN: 9781260440768, ASIN B07QNSWWN7. The definitive guide to land development — fully updated to cover the latest industry advances. This thoroughly revised resource lays out step-by-step approaches from feasibility, through design and into permitting stages of land development projects. The book offers a holistic view of the...
4th Ed. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2019. — 913 p. — ISBN: 9781260440768, ASIN B07QNSWWN7. The definitive guide to land development — fully updated to cover the latest industry advances. This thoroughly revised resource lays out step-by-step approaches from feasibility, through design and into permitting stages of land development projects. The book offers a holistic view of the...
4th Ed. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2019. — 913 p. — ISBN: 9781260440768, ASIN B07QNSWWN7. The definitive guide to land development — fully updated to cover the latest industry advances. This thoroughly revised resource lays out step-by-step approaches from feasibility, through design and into permitting stages of land development projects. The book offers a holistic view of the...
4th Ed. — McGraw-Hill Education, 2019. — 913 p. — ISBN: 9781260440768, ASIN B07QNSWWN7. The definitive guide to land development — fully updated to cover the latest industry advances. This thoroughly revised resource lays out step-by-step approaches from feasibility, through design and into permitting stages of land development projects. The book offers a holistic view of the...
This book is a collaborative project between the University of Minnesota Press and Harvard Design Magazine. Most of the essays published here previously appeared in Harvard Design Magazine, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Peter G. Rowe, Dean, 1992–2004; Alan Altshuler, Dean, 2005–7; Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean since 2008.
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