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Architecture > Urban Design
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Drawing for Urban Design
Lorraine Farrelly
Laurence King
ISBN: 1856697185
RRP Price: £22.50
Paperback
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Drawing for Urban Design explores a wide range of ways to represent the city, from freehand sketching to sophisticated computer models. Architects and urban planners need to describe cities in the course of their work, be it through maps, diagrams, sketches, computer renderings, or models. This book....MORE
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City - A Guidebook for the Urban Age
P.D. Smith
Bloomsbury
ISBN: 1408801914
RRP Price: £25.00
Hardback
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For the first time in the history of the planet, more than half the population - 3.3 billion people - are now living in cities. Two hundred years ago only 3 per cent of the world's population were urbanites, a figure that had remained fairly stable (give or take the occasional plague) for about 1000....MORE
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The Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme
Philip Jodidio
Prestel
ISBN: 3791344064
RRP Price: £50.00
Hardback
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The extraordinary accomplishments of the Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme are celebrated in this generously illustrated volume that includes hundreds of photographs, maps, and drawings along with informative text, offering fascinating insight into the built environment of Muslim societies around t....MORE
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Everyday Urbanism
John Chase, Margaret Crawford, Kaliski John
Monacelli Press
ISBN: 1580932010
RRP Price: £30.00
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First published in 1999, Everyday Urbanism has become a classic in the discussion of cities and real life. Within the context of history, theory, and practice of urban design, the essays explore the city as a social entity that must be responsive to daily routines and neighborhood concerns and offer....MORE
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Delirious New York
Rem Koolhaas
Monacelli Press
ISBN: 1885254008
RRP Price: £23.50
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Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration a....MORE
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Living in the Endless City
Ricky Burdett, Deyan Sudjic
Phaidon
ISBN: 0714861189
RRP Price: £39.95
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In 2050, over three quarters of the world’s population will live in cities. This follow-up to Phaidon’s successful The Endless City is a close look at the issues that affect cities, and thus human life across the globe in the twenty-first century. Based on a series of conferences held by the London ....MORE
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Post-Traumatic Urbanism: Architectural Design
Charles Rice , Adrian Lahoud , Anthony Burke
Architectural Design
ISBN: 0470744987
RRP Price: £22.99
Paperback
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Urban trauma describes a condition where conflict or catastrophe has disrupted and damaged not only the physical environment and infrastructure of a city, but also the social and cultural networks. Cities experiencing trauma dominate the daily news. Images of blasted buildings, or events such as Hur....MORE
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Public Places Urban Spaces - 2nd Edition
Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Taner Oc , Steve Tiesdell
Architectural Press
ISBN: 1856178277
RRP Price: £34.99
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PART I: THE CONTEXT FOR URBAN DESIGN; 1. Urban design today, 2. Urban change, 3. Contexts for urban design; PART II: THE DIMENSIONS OF URBAN DESIGN, 4. The morphological dimension, 5. The perceptual dimension, 6. The social dimension, 7. The visual dimension, 8. The functional dimension, 9. The temp....MORE
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Asia Beyond Growth
Edited by AECOM
Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500288607
RRP Price: £19.95
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For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and most of these cities are in Asia.
Here are the challenges – population explosion, pollution, destruction of eco-systems, water shortages, sanitation, inhuman social environments – and here are some of the....MORE
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Contemporary Urban Design
daab
ISBN: 3866540248
RRP Price: £34.95
Hardback
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The architectural discipline of urban design falls into the broad category of landscape architecture and is applied as a social and esthetic means for interpreting the shape of cities and towns and their public spaces. The structure of a city is not the sum of its architectural shapes but the integr....MORE
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