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51. Urban Identity

    Learning from Place

    Edited by Brian Evans, Frank McDonald, David Rudlin

    Urban Identity is the second in the successful Learning from Place series that draws upon the wealth of experience in the Academy of Urbanism. This edition deals with the subject of urban identity and character. Why is it that all modern towns and cities look the same, as they become dominated by...

    Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge
52. Computer Modelling for Sustainable Urban Design

    Physical Principles, Methods and Applications

    By Darren Robinson

    This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modeled and optimized. Starting with an introduction to the importance and key aspects of the topic, it moves on to a detailed consideration of the urban climate and pedestrian comfort...

    Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge
53. Short Stories: London in Two-and-a-half Dimensions

    By CJ Lim, Ed Liu

    Combining place and fiction in an imaginative interpretation of ten sites in the city of London, CJ Lim and Ed Liu take well-known institutions, epochs and lifestyles in the British capital and renders them fantastic in a string of architectural short stories. The medium is an intersection...

    Published March 17th 2011 by Routledge
54. Urban Coding and Planning

    Edited by Stephen Marshall

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces. Historically, their use has helped create some of our best-loved urban environments, while recent advances in coding have been a growing focus of attention, particularly...

    Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge
55. The EcoEdge

    Urgent Design Challenges in Building Sustainable Cities

    Edited by Esther Charlesworth, Rob Adams

    Presenting diverse case studies of contemporary sustainable urban practice from Europe, Africa, India, South America, the USA and Australia, this book offers the reader a fantastic wealth of practical material from a range of internationally renowned authors. Each practical case study has...

    Published February 16th 2011 by Routledge
56. Companion to Urban Design

    Edited by Tridib Banerjee, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

    Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive identity with applications at many different scales – ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes. Urban design interfaces many aspects of contemporary public policy – multiculturalism,...

    Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
57. City Design

    Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives

    By Jonathan Barnett

    The world is urbanizing faster than current city design practices can sustain, climate change has introduced a new dynamism into what once appeared to be a stable environment, and – with effective city design more important than ever - there are controversies and uncertainties about the best way to...

    Published January 18th 2011 by Routledge
58. Patrick Geddes and Town Planning

    A Critical View

    By Noah Hysler-Rubin

    Patrick Geddes is considered a forefather of the modern urban planning movement. This book studies the various, and even opposing ways, in which Geddes has been interpreted up to this day, providing a new reading of his life, writing and plans. Geddes' scrutiny is presented as a case study for...

    Published January 12th 2011 by Routledge
59. Implementing Sustainability

    The New Zealand Experience

    By Caroline L. Miller

    Series: RTPI Library Series

    New Zealand’s Resource Management Act (RMA) was hailed as a radical new approach to planning that would both achieve better environmental outcomes and benefit developers by working rapidly and more efficiently. This book examines the lessons that can be learned by planning practitioners...

    Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
60. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

    Volume 4

    Edited by Thomas L. Harper, Michael Hibbard, Heloisa Costa, Anthony Gar-On Yeh

    Series: Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

    Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 4 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning....

    Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge