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  • Integral Urbanism

    by Nan Ellin ...
    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: sprawl, anomie, a pervasive culture - and architecture - of fear in cities, and a disregard for environmental issues. Instead of the reactive and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Good Urbanism

    Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places

    by Nan Ellin ...
    Series series Metropolitan Planning + Design
    We all have a natural nesting instinct—we know what makes a good place. And a consensus has developed among urban planners and designers about the essential components of healthy, prosperous communities. So why aren’t these ideals being put into practice?In Good Urbanism, Nan Ellin identifies the obstacles to creating thriving environments, and presents a six-step process to overcome them: ... Read more

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    Series series Island Press E-ssentials
    In this provocative collection of essays, renowned architect Daniel Solomon delves into the complexities of what makes a city vibrant. Acknowledging that a city is not a static thing, he argues we need to pay more attention to nurturing what he calls “continuous cities.” In such a city, he says, “new buildings, new institutions, and new technologies don’t rip apart the old and wreck it. They ... Read more

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  • Understanding Green Building Guidelines: For Students and Young Professionals

    Summarizes the main issues and strategies of the forceful and fast-paced green building movement.Many professions are increasingly producing tools to assist clients in breaking down and understanding the different elements that reside under the umbrella of the sustainability movement. For the design and construction professions, this unpacking often takes the form of green building guidelines and ... Read more

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  • The Past and Future City

    How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities

    At its most basic, historic preservation is about keeping old places alive, in active use, and relevant to the needs of communities today. As cities across America experience a remarkable renaissance, and more and more young, diverse families choose to live, work, and play in historic neighborhoods, the promise and potential of using our older and historic buildings to revitalize our cities is ... Read more

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  • Rochdale Village

    Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing

    Series series American Institutions and Society
    From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the world's largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens County. The moderate-income cooperative attracted families from a diverse background, white and black, to what was a predominantly black neighborhood. In its early years, Rochdale was widely hailed as one of the few successful large-scale efforts to ... Read more

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  • Urban Landscape Strategies

    Series Book 2 - EUROPEAN PRACTICE
    The projects illustrated here exemplify the way contemporary urban planning is moving in practice, and how it is precisely in the effective transformation of cities and landscapes that it is finding the theoretical and practical forms of its action. An urban planning that, as has recently been pointed out, having emancipated itself from the typo-morphological tradition focused on the built, is now ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Environmental Policy Evaluation

    Policy evaluation is an important and well-established part of the policy process, facilitating and feeding back to promote the ongoing effectiveness of policies that have been implemented or anticipating policies in the making. Environmental policy is a special case, presenting new complexities uncommon to other areas, which standard evaluation tools are ill-equipped to grapple with. It is also ... Read more

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  • Resilient Sustainable Cities

    A Future

    Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world’s people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live in and technology we use will all determine how sustainable our cities will be. Bridging the increasing divide between cross-disciplinary academic insights and the latest practical innovations, Resilient Sustainable ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Communities

    Creating a Durable Local Economy

    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    With a foreword written by Senator Bernie SandersWhat is a durable economy? It is one that not only survives but thrives. How is it created, and what does it take to sustain over time? Sustainable Communities provides insight and answers to these questions.Citing Burlington, Vermont's remarkable rise to award-winning status, this book explores the balance of community planning, social enterprise ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Sprawl Repair Manual

    There is a wealth of research and literature explaining suburban sprawl and the urgent need to retrofit suburbia. However, until now there has been no single guide that directly explains how to repair typical sprawl elements. The Sprawl Repair Manual demonstrates a step-by-step design process for the re-balancing and re-urbanization of suburbia into more sustainable, economical, energy- and ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Utopian England

    Community Experiments 1900-1945

    by Dennis Hardy ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims. Two world wars, an economic depression, and the emergence of fascist states in Europe were all a spur to idealists to seek new limits - to escape from the here and now, and to create sanctuaries for new and better lives.Dennis Hardy explores this fascinating history of ... Read more

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