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Concise Townscape
Gordon Cullen
Paperback - $71.95
"Townscape" is the art of giving visual coherence and organisation to the jumble of buildings, streets and spaces that make up the urban environment. Its concepts were first developed by Gordon Cullen in The Architectural Review and were later embodi ...
Time-Saver Standards Site Construction Details Manual
Nicholas T. Dines
Spiral - $125.95
350 Ready-To-Use Details For Efficient, Beautiful Site Design. This efficiency-boosting resource gives you fast access to 350 of the most commonly used site construction details. It's all here: details for curbs, steps, lighting fixtures, walls, and ...
New Waterscapes : Planning, Building and Designing with Water
Herbert Dreiseitl
Hardcover - $128.95
After decades of being banished from residential areas, water has become an increasingly significant feature in urban design. Architects, urban planners, and the general public have shown a renewed interest in the creative use of water for climatic p ...
The Renewable City : A Comprehensive Guide to an Urban Revolution
Peter Droege
Paperback - $105.95
Despite the intolerable costs of climate change and inevitably declining oil, natural gas and uranium reserves, the vast majority of cities and urban communities are planned and managed as if such existential crises did not exist. Hence the transitio ...
Suburban Nation : The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Andres Duany
Paperback - $30.95
Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of the New Urbanism movement, and in "Suburban Nation" they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. 115 illustrations.
The New Civic Art : Elements of Town Planning
Andres Duany
Hardcover - $129.95
Patterned on "The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art (1922), one of the most successful and well-known architecture books ever published, "The New Civic Art, with 1,200 new illustrations and all new text for over 1,000 entries, ...
The Visual Language of Spatial Planning : Exploring Cartographic Representations for Spatial Planning in Europe
Stefanie Duhr
Paperback - $146.95
Strategic special planning is undergoing a renaissance in Europe. Stakeholders at all levels-transnational, national and regional - are faced with the challenge of communicating policy principles for sustainable and integrated development to a wide a ...
The Visual Language of Spatial Planning : The Form, Style and Use of Cartographic Representation in Strategic Spatial Planning
Stefanie Duhr
Hardcover - $304.95
Strategic special planning is undergoing a renaissance in Europe. Stakeholders at all levels-transnational, national and regional - are faced with the challenge of communicating policy principles for sustainable and integrated development to a wide a ...
The Bureaucracy of Beauty : Design in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility
Arindam Dutta
Paperback - $92.95
"Designing the Present "is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. Professor Ananya Roy of UC Berkeley calls it a "fantasti ...
New American Urbanism : Re-Forming the Suburban Metropolis
John A. Dutton
Paperback - $57.95
Over the past few decades, many American architects have reclaimed urban and suburban land development as an important, contemporary architectural issue. This renewed interest in "town planning" focuses on the relationships between buildings and open ...