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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Designing arid cities: cope, embrace, reverse.- Chapter 2. A regional planning response to water scarce cities: the case of Monterrey, Mexico.- Chapter 3. Importing the Desert into the Urban: Architectural Narratives from the Middle East.- Chapter 4. Fragments and loading docks: Examining the relationship between urban climate change policy and design tools in a hotter, dryer climate of Melbourne, Australia.- Chapter 5. Maguey landscape: regeneration of the desert.- Chapter 6. Dry Urbanism Solutions for arid environments.- Chapter 7. Urban arid green: A nature-based solutions proposal for Ecocity development in arid regions. Case study Tamansourt, Morocco.- Chapter 8. Transforming Cities: The Impact of Small-Scale Green Interventions.- Chapter 9. Integrating Dry Urbanism in Qatar's Urban Development: A Model for Sustainable Growth in Arid Regions.- Chapter 10. Projects for the future city: a design framework for climate justice.- Chapter 11. From Oasis to Paradise: An Introduction to the Multiscale and Multifaceted Adaptation Aspects of Iranian Architecture and Urbanism in Dry Cities.- Chapter 12. Evapotranspiration impacts on summer surface urban heat island distributions and trends in Santa Clara, California: moderating effects of the human environment.- Chapter 13. Towards drought-sensitive cities.

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Book SynopsisPlacemaking has become a key concept in many disciplines. Due to an increase in digitization, mobilities, migration and rapid changes to the urban environments, it is important to learn how planning and social experts practice it in different contexts. Placemaking in Practice provides an inventory of practices, reflecting on different issues related to placemaking from a pan European perspective. It brings different cases, perspectives, and results analysed under the same purpose, to advance knowledge on placemaking, the actors engaged and results for people. It is backed by an intensive review of recent literature on placemaking, engagement, methods and activism results - towards developing a new placemaking agenda. Placemaking in Practice combines theory, methodology, methods (including digital ones) and their application in a pan-European context and imbedded into a relevant historical context. Contributors are: Branislav Antonić, Tatisiana Astrouskaya,Lucija Ažman Momirski, Anna Louise Bradley, Lucia Brisudová, Monica Bocci, David Buil-Gil, Nevena Dakovic, Alexandra Delgado Jiménez, Despoina Dimelli, Aleksandra Djukic, Nika Đuho, Agisilaos Economou, Ayse Erek, Mastoureh Fathi, Juan A. García-Esparza, Gilles Gesquiere, Nina Goršič, Preben Hansen, Carola Hein, Conor Horan, Erna Husukić, Kinga Kimic, Roland Krebs, Jelena Maric, Edmond Manahasa, Laura Martinez-Izquierdo, Marluci Menezes, Tim Mavric, Bahanaur Nasya, Mircea Negru, Matej Nikšič, Jelena Maric, Paulina Polko, Clara Julia Reich, Francesco Rotondo, Ljiljana Rogac Mijatovi, Tatiana Ruchinskaya, Carlos Smaniotto Costa, Miloslav Šerý, Reka Solymosi, Dina Stober, Juli Székely, Nagayamma Tavares Aragão, Piero Tiano, Cor Wagenaar, and Emina Zejnilović

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Book SynopsisThe last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging that are challenging some of the accepted urban design norms; urban design is at a watershed. Urban Design Futures presents essays from an international cast of authors to review progress and explore emerging ideas: should urban design reflect the future rather than recreate the past? What are the new driving forces that will shape urban living and hence urban design in the future? This book explores new concepts and points the way towards a series of urban design paradigms for the twenty-first century.Trade Review'The urban design primer of the year ... This is a book covering the richness of the urban design debate with ideas ranging from the inspiring to the absolutely barmy - It is a vital introductory read for students of urban design and a valuable pot pourri of the current urban design debate.' - Green Places'The value of this collection ... is that it does not limit itself to recount what is but to challenge established orthodoxies - including those of existing urban designers.' - Urban Design'The urban design primer of the year ... This is a book covering the richness of the urban design debate with ideas ranging from the inspiring to the absolutely barmy – It is a vital introductory read for students of urban design and a valuable pot pourri of the current urban design debate.' – Green Places'The value of this collection ... is that it does not limit itself to recount what is but to challenge established orthodoxies – including those of existing urban designers.' – Urban DesignTable of ContentsPart 1: Urban Design Comes of Age: The Bigger Picture Part 2: Connecting Social Spaces: Creating the Public Realm Part 3: Sustainability Through Technology: Creating New Typologies Part 4: Networks Expand Choice: New Frameworks for Urbanism

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Book SynopsisIn both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and pessimism about the state of urban environments, particularly with the quality of everyday public spaces. Explanations for this have emphasized the poor quality of design that characterizes many new public spaces; spaces that are dominated by parking, roads infrastructure, introspective buildings, a lack of enclosure and a poor sense of place, and which in different ways for different groups are too often exclusionary.Yet many well designed public spaces have also experienced decline and neglect, as the services and activities upon which the continuing quality of those spaces have been subject to the same constraints and pressures for change as public services in general. These issues touch upon the daily management of public space, that is, the coordination of the many different activities that constantly define and redefine the characteristics and quality of public space.This book draws on three empirical projects to examine the questions of public space management on an international stage. They are set within a context of theoretical debates about public space, its history, contemporary patterns of use and changing nature in western society, and about the new management approaches that are increasingly being adopted.Table of ContentsPart 1: Conceptualising Public Space and its Management 1. The Use and Nature of Public Space 2. Public Space through History 3. Contemporary Debates and Public Space 4. A Typology of Management Approaches Part 2: Investigating Public Space Management 5. Three Studies, Three Related Research Approaches 6. One Country, Multiple Endemic Problems 7. One Country, Twelve Innovative Authorities 8. Eleven Countries, Eleven Innovative Cities 9. Eleven Innovative Cities, Many Ways Forward 10. Two World Cities, Three Iconic Spaces 11. Three Iconic Spaces, Two In-Depth Analyses 12. Debates, Problems and Possible Solutions

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Book SynopsisThese essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects for the first decades of the twenty-first century, the authors open up a broad international dialogue on civic art, which relates historical practice to the contemporary meaning of civic art and its application to community building within todayâs multi-cultural modern cities.The volume brings together the rich perspectives on the thought, practice and influence of leading figures from the great era of civic art that began in the nineteenth century and blossomed in the early twentieth century as documented in the works of Werner Hegemann and his contemporaries and considered fundamental to contemporary practice. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Civic Art Then and Now Part 1: Camillo Sitte and the Picturesque: Precedents and Perspectives Part 2: International Exchanges Camillo Sitte Part 3: The Metropolitan Context

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