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Courtyard Housing : Past, Present and Future
Brian Edwards
Hardcover - $211.95
Courtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of the world. Traditionally associated with the Middle East where climate and culture have given shape ...
Integral Urbanism
Nan Ellin
Paperback - $69.95
"Integral Urbanism" is an ambitious and forward-looking theory of urbanism that offers a new model of urban life. Nan Ellin's model stands as an antidote to the pervasive problems engendered by modern and postmodern urban planning and architecture: s ...
Planning Middle Eastern Cities : An Urban Kaleidoscope in a Globalizing World
Yasser Elsheshtawy
Hardcover - $246.95
Has globalization replaced colonization as a threat to the heritage and identity of the Middle East City of the twenty-first century? How did colonial influences change the urban form of the Arab capitals? And is today's hybridization of architectura ...
Hypothetical City Workbook III : Exercises and GIS Data to Accompany Urban Land Use Planning with CDROM
Ann-Margaret Esnard
Paperback - $75.95
This workbook is designed to guide the user through the formulation of the components of a future land use plan. It provides hands-on experience with the application of GIS technology for land analysis at various scales; guides the user through the p ...
Designing Public Consensus : The Civic Theater of Community Participation for Architects, Landscape Architects, Planners, and Urban Designers
Barbara Faga
Hardcover - $148.95
— From the Foreword by Alexander Garvin, former vice president for planning, design and development for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
A key reference for successfully managing public process in design projects
Designing Publ ...
Sustainable Urbanism : Urban Design with Nature
Douglas Farr
Hardcover - $143.95
This book provides clear direction for urban designers, urban planners, and architects to design cities and developments that are sustainable and reduce environmental harms. The text includes background on sustainability, standards for sustaina ...
Architecture for the Poor : An Experiment in Rural Egypt
Hassan Fathy
Paperback - $63.95
"Architecture for the Poor" describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy ...
Talking Cities : The Micropolitics of Urban Space
F. Ferguson
Paperback - $30.95
Featuring innovative international design, architecture and spatial interventions in a trans-disciplinary platform, the magazine Talking Cities stretches the boundaries of architecture and urban design and shifts our perceptions of contemporar ...
Urban Fiction : Urban Utopias from the Antiquity Until Today
Gunther Feuerstein
Hardcover - $209.95
Dissatisfied with the world we live in, we have been longing since time immemorial for two opposing environments: the peaceful garden--a carefree paradise--and the New City--a harmonious community. For Gunther Feuerstein, all these cities and towns, ...