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Thinking, planning and urbanism
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Beth Moore Milroy |
"' 'Thinking planning and urbanism' reconstructs the process of an urban core area redevelopment in order to show how city planning was involved in the decisions taken... This book exposes the cracks… |
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Aerotropolis
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John D. Kasarda |
Outlines a panoramic view of what the authors predict will be the next phase of globalization, describing transportation-centric urban regions designed to keep workers, suppliers, and goods networked… |
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La gestion municipale au Québec
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Pierre Prévost |
Toute la problématique de la gestion municipale au Québec. Les services municipaux, la gestion des ressources humaines, la gestion financière, la gestion des contrats et des achats, la capacité admin… |
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Making people-friendly towns
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Francis Tibbalds |
Making People-Friendly Towns explores the way our towns and cities, particularly their central areas, look and feel to all their users and discusses their design, maintenance and management. Francis … |
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Ça se bouscule dans les villes
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Bruno Goldman |
Pourquoi a-t-on inventé les villes? Ça veut dire quoi, vivre en ville? Ma ville est-elle polluée? Des réponses pour tout comprendre sur l'aventure de l'urbanisme. |
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L'invention de la ville occidentale
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Vittorio Franchetti Pardo |
Si la ville n'est pas l'habitat de prédilection de toutes les régions du monde, elle n'en constitue pas moins la manifestation la plus éclatante et tangible du foisonnement et de la grandeur du génie… |
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The city in the world of the future
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Hal Hellman |
Discusses the definition of a city and examines how limited resources and a growing population will influence the way cities are planned and built in the future. |
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The image and the region
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Agnes Förster,Alain Thierstein |
"Mega-city regions are an emerging large-scale urban phenomenon of strategic importance for economic, social and cultural development, at the European and national level. However to politicians, admi… |
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Urban planning and cultural identity
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William J. V. Neill |
Urban Planning and Cultural Identity reviews the intense spatiality of conflict over identity construction in three cities where culture and place identity are not just post-modernist playthings but … |
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Urban design
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Cliff Moughtin |
xii, 238 p. : 20 cm |
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Rainforest cities
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John O. Browder |
"Comprehensive and useful analysis of region's urbanization process. Compares eastern and western segments, and illustrates heterogeneity of urban frontier. Concludes that current theories of urbaniz… |
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The architecture of the Roman Empire
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William Lloyd MacDonald |
Examines Roman architecture as a party of overall urban design and looks at arches, public buildings, tombs, columns, stairs, plazas, and streets. |
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Second metropolis
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Blair A. Ruble |
"By exploring and comparing North America's, Russia's, and Japan's "second cities" - Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka - Second Metropolis discloses the extent to which social fragmentation, frequently view… |
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A pattern language
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Christopher Alexander |
Alexander and his co-authors present us with over two hundred (roughly 250) "patterns" that they believe must be present in order for an environment to be pleasing, comfortable, or in their words, "a… |
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The Image of the City
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Kevin Lynch |
What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr… |
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The Seduction of Place
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Joseph Rykwert |
"No other place on earth is as full both of promise and of dread as the city; it is at once alienating and exciting. These concentrations of people have not, however, come about as the result of vast… |
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Rebuilding our communities ..
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Walter Gropius |
An "ID Book - Institute of Design." |
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The Plan of Chicago
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Carl Smith |
Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of … |
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Chicago Metropolis 2020
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Elmer W. Johnson |
"In the late nineteenth century, Chicago was a commercial colossus, a city growing more quickly than New York, flooded with industrial money and brassy confidence but ravaged by great income disparit… |
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The death and life of great American cities
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Jane Jacobs,Gerd Albers |
The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as “perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . . [It] can also be seen in a much lar… |
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