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  • Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action

    Series series Elements in Climate Change and Cities
    Embedding climate resilient development principles in planning, urban design, and architecture means ensuring that transformation of the built environment helps achieve carbon neutrality, effective adaptation, and well-being for people and nature. Planners, urban designers, and architects are called to bridge the domains of research and practice and evolve their agency and capacity, developing ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Dry Urbanism

    Designing for Drought in the City

    Edited by Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The ambition of the book is to give a contemporary insight in the state of the art when it comes to designing our cities and landscapes for dry conditions. Water, or the absence thereof, is an important issue to consider. Many cities around the world are increasingly suffering heat, droughts and occasional severe flooding and rainfall. This asks for new approaches, and methodologies to (re)design ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Trends in Urban Design

    Insights for the Future Urban Professional

    Edited by Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Urban planning practice will undergo significant changes in the upcoming decades, due to major changes and challenges the world has to deal with, such as loss of biodiversity loss, climate change impacts, agricultural transformation, water management issues and health. The way the urban professional has to relate to this new order is explored in this book by collecting a series of conversational ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • The Coming of Age of Urban Agriculture

    Edited by Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    For a long time, urban agriculture initiatives have been explored and novel policy and planning practices have been investigated. With the global food crisis the role urban agriculture has to play becomes more and more urgent. The potentials are large: it brings social justice, it limits climate change, it provides a healthy urban condition, it stimulates biodiversity and gives disadvantaged ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Design for Regenerative Cities and Landscapes

    Rebalancing Human Impact and Natural Environment

    Edited by Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book discusses the way to design and plan for regenerative cities and landscapes. Where sustainability aims to safeguard the resources for future generations, and the resilience concept focuses on dealing with shocks to keep the system functioning, regeneration aims to give back more than it takes from the system. This principle is often used in analytical and assessment literature, but not ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urbanization

    Edited by Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book discusses a spectrum of approaches to designing the food-energy-water nexus at different spatial-urban scales. The book offers a framework for working on the FEW-nexus in a design-led context and integrates the design of urban neighbourhoods and regions with methodologies how to simultaneously engaging residents and stakeholders and evaluating the propositions in a FEW-print, measuring ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Designing Sustainable Cities

    Edited by Rob Roggema ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book emphasizes new ways of designing for a sustainable city and urban environment. From several angles the future of our urbanism is illuminated. From a philosophical point of view, the city is seen as an organism, following complex ecosystemic principles, shining light on indigenous perspectives to become beneficial for sustainable design and core questions are asked whether current ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Smart and Sustainable Cities and Buildings

    Edited by Rob Roggema, Anouk Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together the papers presented at the Smart and Sustainable Built Environments Conference, 2018 (SASBE).This latest research falls into two tracks: smart and sustainable design and planning cities; and the technicalities of smart and sustainable buildings. The growth of smart cities is evident, but not always linked to sustainability. This book gives an overview of the latest ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Swarm Planning

    The Development of a Planning Methodology to Deal with Climate Adaptation

    by Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book shows that the problem of climate adaptation, which is described in social planning terms as ‘wicked,’ is at odds with the contemporary practice of spatial planning. The author proposes a new adjusted framework which is more adaptable to unpredictable, wicked, dynamic and non-linear processes. The inspiration for this new method is the behaviour of swarms: bees, ants, birds and fish are ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Tsunami and Fukushima Disaster: Design for Reconstruction

    Edited by Rob Roggema, Wanglin Yan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book consists of two parts. The first part describes the context in which the Prefectures of Minamisoma and Kesennuma need to operate and what the meaning is of the multiple disasters that occurred in the area. The second part illuminates the design process and content of the Minamisoma and Kesennuma designs. Thirdly, the chapters are alternated with reflections on the design and analyses of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Nature Driven Urbanism

    Edited by Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Contemporary Urban Design Thinking
    This book discusses the way that a nature-driven approach to urbanism can be applied at each of the urban scales; architectural design, urban design of neighborhoods, city planning and landscape architecture, and at the city and regional scales. At all levels nature-driven approaches to design and planning add to the quality of the built structure and furthermore to the quality of life experienced ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The Design Charrette

    Ways to Envision Sustainable Futures

    Edited by Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book was written to support community involvement in the design process, to help prevent negative outcomes that can result from a top-down design approach. The combination of community involvement and design is, at least in literature, not very extensive. Although much has been written about stakeholder involvement, this is often not directly related to design processes, which – most ... Read more

    $89.09 USD