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Taylor & Francis Ltd Olympic Cities 2012 and the Remaking of London Design and the Built Environment
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Taylor & Francis Steering Sustainability in an Urbanising World
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Taylor & Francis Ecosystem Planning in Florida Solving Regional Problems through Local Decisionmaking
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory
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Taylor & Francis Ltd planningacrisis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Terrorism Risk and the Global City Towards Urban Resilience
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Taylor & Francis Public Transport and its Users The Passengers Perspective in Planning and Customer Care Transport and Society
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Taylor & Francis Music Festivals and Regional Development in Australia
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Taylor & Francis Towards Enabling Geographies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Neohistorical East Berlin
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Maps
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ports in Proximity Competition and Coordination among Adjacent Seaports 4 Transport and Mobility
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Taylor & Francis Institutional Barriers to Sustainable Transport Transport and Mobility
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Taylor & Francis African Identity in PostApartheid Public Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Tourists Signs and the City The Semiotics of Culture in an Urban Landscape New Directions in Tourism Analysis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Local Heritage Global Context Cultural Perspectives on Sense of Place Heritage Culture and Identity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Colonial Frames Nationalist Histories
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modernist Semis and Terraces in England Ashgate Studies in Architecture
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Taylor & Francis Stories of Practice Tourism Policy and Planning
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Climate Change Crossroads
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cooperative and Collective in Chinas Rural Development
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Taylor & Francis Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation
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Taylor & Francis Regional Policy
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Taylor & Francis The Governance of Sustainable Rural Renewal
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Taylor & Francis Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Transportation
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Taylor & Francis Planning and Citizenship
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Taylor & Francis Paris Under Construction
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Taylor & Francis Placemaking
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Taylor & Francis Place and Placelessness Revisited
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Taylor & Francis The Common Place
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Taylor & Francis Transnational Buildings in Local Environments
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Taylor & Francis Winning and Losing
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Taylor & Francis Land Use and the Constitution
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Taylor & Francis Qualitative Research Methods for Community
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development teaches the basic skills, tools, and methods of qualitative research with special attention to the needs of community practitioners. This book teaches students entering planning, community development, nonprofit management, social work, and similar applied fields the core skills necessary to conduct systematic research designed to empower communities and promote social change.Focusing on the basic elements of qualitative research, such as field observation, interviewing, focus groups, and content analysis, this second edition of this book provides an overview of core methods and theoretical underpinnings of successful research. It also includes two new chapters on qualitative data analysis software and techniques for conducting online qualitative interviews and focus groups.From housing, community organizing, neighborhood planning, and urban revitalization, this book gives students the Trade Review"Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development is an accessible text on qualitative methods suitable to undergraduates, master’s students, and even professionals. With a unique focus on community development, social work, and planning, the book makes qualitative research and data analysis techniques approachable. The discussion of online research tools and methods is a valuable addition to the new edition."Alessandro Rigolon, Department of City and Metropolitan Planning, the University of Utah"New content on online engagement techniques is a very useful addition to the second edition of Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development. This is increasingly forming the cornerstone of participation strategies in professional practice, so understanding its potential is essential for practitioners. The online approach is also now ever-present in students' projects and something that is integral to research."Nick Croft, charted town planner (MRTPI) with 19 years professional planning practice in the UK. He has worked as a university senior lecturer since 2006, leading online distance learning master's programs"Succinct, accessible, and full of good examples of how mixed methods for community research is actually done, Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development is useful to all students who want to take on a project that involves participatory research and/or civic engagement. With notes on participatory action research and ethics, and a particular emphasis on writing and presentations, community groups will also find the book helpful. A particular strength of the new edition is the added analysis of online tools, which are becoming increasingly important."Louise Jezierski, associate professor of social relations and policy and comparative cultures and politics, James Madison College, Michigan State UniversityTable of Contents1. Qualitative Research for Students and Professionals 2. Qualitative Analysis as an Iterative Process 3. An Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis Software 4. Field Notes and Observations 5. Semi-Structured Interviewing 6. Focus Groups 7. Online Qualitative Interviewing and Focus Groups 8. Content Analysis 9. Dissemination of Qualitative Findings
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Seamless 3D Navigation in Indoor and Outdoor
Book SynopsisThis book presents the current research on space-based navigation models and the contents of spaces used for seamless indoor and outdoor navigation. It elaborates on 3D spaces reconstructed automatically and how indoor, semi-indoor, semi-outdoor, and outdoor spaces can mimic the indoor environments and originate a network based on the 3D connectivity of spaces. Case studies help readers understand theories, approaches, and models, including data preparation, space classification and reconstruction, space selection, unified space-based navigation model derivation, path planning, and comparison of results.Features: Provides novel models, theories, and approaches for seamless indoor and outdoor navigation path planning Includes real-life case studies demonstrating the most feasible approaches today Presents a generic space definition framework that can be used in research areas for spaces shaped by built structurTable of Contents1 Introduction. 2 Spaces for Seamless Navigation. 3 Space-based Navigation Models. 4 Unified Space-based Navigation Model. 5 Four New Path Options. 6 Reconstruction of 3D Spaces. 7 Implementation and Case Studies. 8 Conclusion and Recommendations.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Examining the COVID Crisis from a Geographical
Book SynopsisThis book presents several perspectives on the COVID-19 crisis as it impacted the United States, focusing on policies, practices, and patterns. It considers the relationship between government policies and neo-liberalism, (anti)federalism, economies of scale, and material culture.The COVID-19 crisis became the primary current event in the United States in March 2020 and continued for several years. In the early days of the crisis, the United States lacked a cohesive, comprehensive approach to combating its spread. As a result, the pandemic was experienced differently in different parts of the United States and at different scales. The chapters in this volume include both quantitative and qualitative explorations of the pandemic as it occurred in the United States. Collectively, they help the reader to better understand this geographically salient issue and provide lessons to learn from so as to improve upon responses to crises in the future.This book will be of interesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Geographical Perspectives on the COVID-19 Crisis 1. The Coronavirus Pandemic and American Neoliberalism 2. Anti-Federalist Federalism: American “Populism” and the Spatial Contradictions of U.S. Government in the Time of COVID-19 3. What are the Impacts of COVID-19 on Small Businesses in the U.S.? Early Evidence Based on the Largest 50 MSAs 4. Masks and Materiality in the Era of COVID-19 5. COVID-19 Mortality in New York City across Neighborhoods by Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity Status 6. Understanding the Spatial Patchwork of Predictive Modeling of First Wave Pandemic Decisions by U.S. Governors
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Geographic Information Systems to Spatial Data
Book SynopsisThis book draws on author's wealth of knowledge working on numerous projects across many countries. It provides a clear overview of the development of the SDI concept and SDI worldwide implementation and brings a logical chronological approach to the linkage of GIS technology with SDI enabling data. The theory and practice approach help understand that SDI development and implementation is very much a social process of learning by doing. The author masterfully selects main historical developments and updates them with an analytical perspective promoting informed and responsible use of geographic information and geospatial technologies for the benefit of society from local to global scales.Features Subject matter spans thirty years of the development of GIS and SDI. Brings a social sTable of ContentsGeographical Information Systems: Introduction. 1 Urban Planning and Geographic Information Systems. Theory. 2 The Regioinal Research Laboratory Intitiative: An Overview. 3 Data Integration Research: Overview and Future Prospects. 4 Brave New GIS Worlds. 5 Geographic Information: A Resource, a Commodity, an Asset or an Infrastructure. Practice. 6 The Development of Geographic Information Systems in Britain: The Chorley Report in Perspective. 7 The Impact of GIS on Local Government in Great Britain. 8 Information Sharing and Implementation of GIS: Some Key Issues. 9 The Diffusion of GIS In Local Government in Europe. Spatial Data Infrastructures: Introduction. 10 Managing Our Urban Future: The Role of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems. Theory. 11 All Shapes and Sizes: The First Generation of National Spatial Data Infrastructures. 12 The Future of Spatial Data Infrastructures. 13 What’s Special About SDI Related Research? 14 Changing Notions of Spatial Data Infrastructures. Practice. 15 A European Policy Framework for Geographic Information. 16 Reflections on the Indian National Spatial Data Infrastructure. 17 Geographical Information and the Enlargement of the European Union: Four National Case Studies. 18 Operational SDI: The Subnational Dimension in the European Context. 19 Learning from INSPIRE.
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Taylor & Francis Building Communities Routledge Revivals
Book SynopsisBuilding Communities: The Co-Operative Way, first published in 1988, sets the flourishing of housing co-operatives throughout the 1980s in a theoretical and historical framework that suggests that tenant control is the best way out of the still-problematic issue of housing policy.Before the First World War, co-operative housing was poised to become a potent force in government policy, but instead municipal housing rose to prominence. However, alongside a growing crisis of confidence in state housing and a continued decline in the private rented sector, a new political consensus has emerged that has placed co-ops firmly at the top of the agenda. Setting out the argument for collective dweller-control of housing, Birchall demonstrates that the arguments for co-operatives are strong, based on a broad spectrum of political thought. He charts the early and recent history of co-operative housing, and shows how they provide a flexible and stable means of meeting housTable of ContentsForeword by Michael Young; Acknowledgments; Introduction 1. Housing Needs and Co-Operative Solutions 2. Human Nature and Co-Operative Values 3. Democracy, The State and Co-Operative Welfare 4. Co-Operative Housing in Britain: The Early Stages 5. Co-Operative Housing in Britain: The Later Stages 6. Co-Operation in Practice: Six Case Histories 7. A Framework for Evaluation; Conclusion: A Co-Operative View of Housing Policy in Britain; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis SubUrban Sexscapes
Book Synopsis(Sub)Urban Sexscapes brings together a collection of theoretically-informed and empirically rich case studies from internationally renowned and emerging scholars highlighting the contemporary and historical geographies and regulation of the commercial sex industry. Contributions in this edited volume examine the spatial and regulatory contours of the sex industry from a range of disciplinary perspectivesâurban planning, urban geography, urban sociology, and, cultural and media studiesâand geographical contextsâAustralia, the UK, US and North Africa. In overall terms, (Sub)urban Sexscapes highlights the mainstreaming of commercial sex premisesâsex shops, brothels, strip clubs and queer spacesâand productsâsex toys, erotic literature and pornographyânow being commonplace in night time economy spaces, the high street, suburban shopping centres and the home. In addition, the aesthetics of commercial and alternative sexual practicesâBDSM and pornographyâpermeate Trade ReviewThis book is an impressive collection of studies of the geographical and regulatory dimensions of commercial sex. The breadth of the book is reflected in both the various kinds of sexual commerce examined and in its coverage of different nations. The tension between mainstreaming the sex industry and resistance to its growth, is a theme highlighted in several chapters and the book should be of interest to policy makers as well as scholars. Highly recommended. Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University, USAThis book opens up a series of windows on the sex industry. Readers can dip in and out or read as a whole. Either way(Sub)Urban Sexscapes successfully highlights the importance of spatiality in commercialising sex. It is a must read for anyone interested in issues of sex, sexuality and space.Robyn Longhurst, University of Waikato, New ZealandThis book is a valuable resource that prompts rethinking sex, work, sexuality, policies, bodies, place and space. Original and empirically rich, the collection advances theorising of commercial sex, adult entertainment, and subcultural sexual practices. Authors draw on contemporary themes and debates in geography, sociology, policy studies, planning, media studies, feminist and queer theories in order to engage with (sub)urban landscapes of sex work. Crucially, at the heart of the book is the critique of heteronormativity and an exposure of the regulation of bodies and places. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of agency and processes of regulation by which (im)moral geographies are constituted. Lynda Johnston, Professor in Geography, University of Waikato One of the most interesting developments in the recent study of sexuality has been an increasing focus on its spatial dimensions. Suburban Sexscapes ranges across the spaces and places of commercial sex, in private, public and virtual worlds and in mainstream and alternative spheres. This is a fascinating, thorough and comprehensive collection which will inspire and stimulate the future study of sexscapes.Feona Attwood, Middlesex University, UK(Sub)Urban Sexscapes... is a timely reminder of the value of a diverse range of international perspectives on a topic that has become increasingly contentious for policy-makers and communities... This collection is a very vigourous contribution to the field with chapters presenting both theoretical and empirically original work.Paul Ryan, Maynooth University, Ireland, Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Spatial and Regulatory Contours of the (Sub)Urban Sexscape Part I: Geographies of the Sex Industry 2. Cosmo-Sexual Sydney: Global city status, urban cosmopolitanism and the (sub)urban sexscape 3. Sex Shops in England’s Cities: From the backstreets to the high streets. 4. Conflict and Coexistence? Strip Clubs and Neighbors in ‘Pornland’, Oregon 5. Telecommunications Impacts on the Structure and Organisation of the Male Sex Industry 6. Housing Sex within the City: The placement of sex services beyond respectable domesticity? 7. The Landscape of BDSM Venues: A view from down under Part II: Regulation of the Sex Industry 8. Sexual Entertainment, Dread Risks and the Heterosexualization of Community Space 9. Sex and the Virtual Suburbs: The pornosphere and community standards. 10. Planning prostitution in colonial Morocco: Bousbir, Casablanca’s Quartier reserve 11. Regulating Adult Business to Make Spaces Safe for Heterosexual Families in Atlanta 12. Legal Landscapes of Erotic Cities: Comparing legal ‘prostitution’ in New South Wales and Nevada 13. From Perception to Reality: Negative secondary effects and effective regulation of sex businesses in the US Conclusions 14. Conclusion: Towards pragmatic regulation of the sex industry
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Taylor & Francis Public Places Urban Spaces
Book SynopsisPublic Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear and systematic guide. In this new edition the book has been extensively revised and restructured. Carmona advances the idea of urban design as a continuous process of shaping places, fashioned in turn by shifting global, local and power contexts. At the heart of the book are eight key dimensions of urban design theory and practicetemporal, perceptual, morphological, visual, social, functionaland two new process dimensionsdesign governance and place production.This extensively updated and revised third edition is more international in its scope and coverage, incorporating new thinking on technological impact, climate change adaptation, strategies for urban decline, cultural and social diversity, place value, healthy cities and more, all illustrated with nearly 1,000 carefully chosen images. Trade Review‘The third and the newest edition of the book is one of the best documentations of urban design discourse, not just because of the sheer volume of the materials covered, but also because it helps to "make sense of the complex overlapping and sometimes confusing urban design literature- Hooman Foroughmand Araabi, Journal of Urban DesignTable of ContentsChapter 1. Urban Design Process: Shaping Better PlacesChapter 2. The Shifting Contexts for Urban DesignChapter 3. The Temporal DimensionChapter 4. The Perceptual DimensionChapter 5. The Morphological DimensionChapter 6. The Visual DimensionChapter 7. The Social DimensionChapter 8. The Functional DimensionChapter 9. The Design Governance DimensionChapter 10. The Place Production Dimension
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Rural Planning provides a critical account and state of the art review of rural planning in the early years of the twenty-first century. Looking across different international experiences â from Europe, North America and Australasia to the transition and emerging economies, including BRIC and former communist states â it aims to develop new conceptual propositions and theoretical insights, supported by detailed case studies and reviews of available data. The Companion gives coverage to emerging topics in the field and seeks to position rural planning in the broader context of global challenges: climate change, the loss of biodiversity, food and energy security, and low carbon futures. It also looks at old, established questions in new ways: at social and spatial justice, place shaping, economic development, and environmental and landscape management. Planning in the twenty-first century must grapple not only with the challenges presented byTrade Review"Despite today’s intensifying globalisation, the traits of rural areas and perspectives of rural planning are still highly varied in different countries. The comprehensive scope of Companion to Rural Planning well captures such multiplicity of contemporary rural areas. The richly detailed essays in the companion provide a range of new insights about economy, social changes, energy and resources in today’s rural society. The companion will offer a valuable intellectual stimulus not only to scholars, but also actors engaged in rural development in Asian countries including Japan, where rural planning is generally lagging." - Tokumi Odagiri, Professor of Rural Policy and Governance, Meiji University, Japan"The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning presents 54 chapters on the complex relationship between planning and rural land uses. Covering a huge variety of topics, the Companion is an invaluable source of information on the economic, social, legal, and political aspects of life in the countryside. This book is an excellent contribution to planning literature!" - Ben Davy, Professor of Land Policy, Land Management, and Municipal Geoinformation, University of Dortmund, Germany"This is a hugely impressive tome that fully succeeds in its aim of arguing for the reinvention of rural planning. The editors’ passionate belief in this recasting of rural planning shines through at every stage, not just in their opening and closing chapters and their introductions to each of the books’ nine sections but also in their input to seven of the other 52 chapters and getting on board 77 other contributors from 21 countries to provide critical reviews of the current state of play. This book should be essential reading for all those involved in rural planning and, because of its espousal of holistic approaches, it deserves to be read by urban planners too and indeed by everyone concerned with the future of Planet Earth." - Tony Champion, Emeritus Professor of Population Geography, Newcastle University, UK "The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning is a brilliant piece of work! This 'state-of-the-art' book is essential reading for anyone in either research or practice with an interest in rural vitalization and integrated rural and urban planning. The book presents a particularly useful focus on rural planning issues across developing countries." - Hualou Long, Professor of Human Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China"Providing an inclusive perspective, The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning provides a fresh approach to analyzing rural realities. This edited volume should be mandatory reading for all planning curriculum whether it is in a rural-, regional- or urban-focused program. Not only is this book an outstanding resource for researchers, but it is an eye opening read for practicing planners, sociologists, and rural studies faculty and students. READ IT! You will never look at the countryside in the same way again." - Ann Ziebarth, Professor of Housing Studies, University of Minnesota, USA Table of ContentsNew Horizons in Rural Planning Section 1: CONCEPTS AND FOUNDATIONS Section 2: THE STATE AND RURAL GOVERNANCE Section 3 PLANNING FOR THE RURAL ECONOMY Section 4: SOCIAL CHANGE AND PLANNING Section 5 PLANNING THE INCLUSIVE COUNTRYSIDE Section 6: RURAL SETTLEMENT, PLANNING AND DESIGN Section 7: LANDSCAPE, AMENITY AND THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT Section 8: ENERGY AND RESOURCES Section 9: REFLECTIONS AND FUTURES Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd On Frank Lloyd Wrights Concrete Adobe
Book SynopsisDuring the years 1919 into 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright worked on four houses and a kindergarten located in metropolitan Los Angeles using concrete blocks as the main building material. The construction system has been described by Wright and others as 'uniquely molded', 'woven like a textile fabric' and perceived as ground breaking, truly modern, unprecedented. Many have attempted to uphold these claims while some thought the house-designs borrowed from old exotic buildings. For the first time this book brings together Wright's declarations, the support of upholders and inferences in order to determine their accuracy and correctness, or the possibility of feigned or fictional stories. It examines technical developments of concrete blocks by Wright and others before his experiences in Los Angeles began in 1919. It also studies the manner of Wright's design process by an examination of relevant pictorial and textual documents. A unique, in-depth and critical analysis of the houses is Trade Review’Don Johnson is an authority on Frank Lloyd Wright. He is also an experienced architectural historian who takes nothing for granted, and tenaciously goes back to basics - the original documents, the buildings themselves, and their historical context - when investigating tendentious historical claims. This challenging study of Wright’s five concrete block houses deals with what was perhaps a minor phase in Wright’s prodigious output, but Johnson’s highly original conclusions have very wide implications for our understanding of architectural mythology, the regional architecture of the south-west, and the character and reputation of Frank Lloyd Wright himself.’ Gilbert Herbert, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, IsraelTable of ContentsContents: Preface; introduction; Questions, events ... and precast concrete; The buildings; The Taylors and the Griffins; Tiles and blocks; Wright’s fiction; Historians’ fiction; Irving Gill, regionalism and concrete adobe; Closure ... Schindler and resurgence; Appendices; References; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Planners Encounter with Complexity
Book SynopsisSpatial planning is about dealing with our ''everyday'' environment. In A Planner''s Encounter with Complexity we present various understandings of complexity and how the environment is considered accordingly. One of these considerations is the environment as subject to processes of continuous change, being either progressive or destructive, evolving non-linearly and alternating between stable and dynamic periods. If the environment that is subject to change is adaptive, self-organizing, robust and flexible in relation to this change, a process of evolution and co-evolution can be expected. This understanding of an evolving environment is not mainstream to every planner. However, in A Planner''s Encounter with Complexity, we argue that environments confronted with discontinuous, non-linear evolving processes might be more real than the idea that an environment is simply a planner''s creation. Above all, we argue that recognizing the ''complexity'' of our environment offers an entirelTrade Review'The challenges of complexity to our understandings of and approaches to planning are increasingly hard to ignore. Complexity has moved beyond the heuristic to a cogent analysis of how people and places interact and is now exploring ways of conceiving, planning and governing space from spatial modelling to property rights. A Planner's Encounter with Complexity strikes a fine balance between an overview and contemporary research and is a must read for all those involved in place-making.' Phil Allmendinger, University of Cambridge, UK 'What is specifically interesting about A Planner's Encounter with Complexity is that while past studies have looked at planning from the perspective of complexity, this collection illuminates the various ways planners see complexity and the possible links between the two domains. This is an important step forward towards a fruitful discourse between the two domains out of which might emerge a complexity of theory of planning.' Juval Portugali, Tel Aviv University, Israel ’... this is an interesting and useful book that provides a decent overview of what planners think about complexity and what they are doing with it.’ Journal of Regional ScienceTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Planning and complexity: an introduction, Gert de Roo; Being or becoming? That is the question! Confronting complexity with contemporary planning theory, Gert de Roo; Dealing with society's 'big messes', Jens-Peter Grunau and Walter L. Schönwandt; Complexity in spatial planning practice and theory: the case of Kiruna mining town, Kristina L. Nilsson; Complex systems, evolutionary planning?, Luca Bertolini; Complexity in city systems: understanding evolution and design, Michael Batty; Emergence, spatial order, transaction costs and planning, Chris Webster; Spatial planning processes: applying a dynamic complex systems perspective, Menno Huys and Marcel van Gils; The awakening of complexity in conceptualisations of space in planning, Janneke E. Hagens; Process and transient scenarios in collaborative planning: managing the time dimension, Adele Celino and Grazia Concilio; Complexity and cellular automaton: exploring its practical application, Elisabete A. Silva; Complexity and travel behaviour: modelling influence of social interactions on travellers' behaviour using a multi-agent simulation, Yos Sunitiyoso, Erel Avineri and Kiron Chatterjee; Complexity theory and transport planning: fractal traffic networks, Erel Avineri; Going beyond the metaphor of the machine: complexity and participatory ecological design, Joanne Tippett; Rethinking brownfields: discourses, networks and space-time, Nikos Karadimitriou, Joe Doak and Elisabete Cidre; Urban governance and social complexity, Joris van Wezemael; Waves of complexity: theory, models, and practice, Elisabete A. Silva; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Building a World Heritage City
Book SynopsisThe conservation of old Sanaa is a major cultural heritage initiative that began in the 1980''s under the auspices of UNESCO; it continues today, led by local agencies and actors. In contrast to other parts of the world where conservation was introduced at a later date to remediate the effects of modernization, in Yemen the two processes have been more or less concurrent. This has resulted in a paradox: unlike many other countries in the Middle East that abandoned traditional construction practices long ago, in Yemen these practices have not died out. Builders and craftsmen still work in ''traditional'' construction, and see themselves as caretakers of the old city. At the same time, social forms that shaped the built fabric persist in both the old city and the new districts. Yemenis, in effect, are not separated from their heritage by an historical divide. What does it mean to conserve in a place where the ''historic past'' is, in some sense, still alive? How must international aTrade ReviewThis is the first thoroughgoing critical treatment of Sanaa’s modern preservation history, which skilfully makes sense of the overlapping layers of the city's more recent urban amendments. Lamprakos lucidly shows that the city’s preservation was (and still is) an unresolved process of negotiation between various bodies each with their own interests, concerns, and perspectives on the heritage industry. This subtle investigation, based on first-hand interviews and extensive fieldwork in Yemen, instructs on the past, while also shedding crucial light on preservation directives for the future.’ Nancy Um, Binghamton University, USA ’In this richly documented account of conservation in a living city, Michele Lamprakos portrays a vast array of voices and skills; we encounter local builders, architects, planners, bureaucrats, politicians, and various foreign nationals who have influenced Sanaa’s evolution to its present condition. Building a World Heritage City is a stunning and critically important achievement.’ Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, USATable of ContentsContents: Prologue; The old city of Sanaa: an overview; The campaign to save old Sanaa; The old city as jewel, as stigma; Old and new professionals; The evolution of local practice; Lessons from Sanaa; Appendix: major projects implemented under the UNESCO campaign to save old Sanaa, 1984-1994; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Planners Use of Information
Book SynopsisFor more than 35 years, planners have depended on The Planner''s Use of Information to help them address their information needs. While the ability to manage complex information skillfully remains central to the practice of planning, the variety and quantity of information have ballooned in the last two decades. The methods of accessing and handling informationalthough often ultimately easier and fasterrequire new technical savvy. At the same time, planners themselves, and the constituents they serve, have changed.This completely revised and updated third edition of this popular book will serve the new generation of planners who work in a world where social media, cell phones, community-embedded development, and a changing population have revolutionized the practice of planning. Edited again by Hemalata C. Dandekar, with chapters by leading experts in data collection, analysis, presentation, and management, The Planner''s Use of Information empowers practitionTrade Review"This edition significantly upgrades the previous edition, incorporating advances in planning like team building, the growing importance of technology in planning, and creating physical concepts. The focus on process throughout the new material ensures that readers know basic concepts as well as how to use it to achieve desired outcomes." —Jesse Saginor, AICP, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida Atlantic University, USA"A heavily revised and updated version of a book destined to stay within arm’s reach." —Harold Henderson, Planning MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction A Planning Case Study Part I: Information Collection Chapter 1. Field Methods for Collecting Information Chapter 2. Survey Methods for Planners Chapter 3. Information from Secondary Sources Part II: Information Organizing Chapter 4. Analytical Methods in Planning Chapter 5. Working with Teams Chapter 6. Public Participation Chapter 7. Technology and Techniques Chapter 8. Physical Planning and Visioning Part III: Information Communication Chapter 9. Speaking Skills for Presentations Chapter 10. Written Communication Chapter 11. Graphic and Visual Communications
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