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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Book SynopsisAs the Regional Plan Association embarks on a Fourth Regional Plan, there can be no better time for a paperback edition of David Johnson's critically acclaimed assessment of the 1929 Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs. As he says in his preface to this edition, the questions faced by the regional planners of today are little changed from those their predecessors faced in the 1920s.Derided by some, accused by others of being the root cause of New York City's relative economic and physical decline, the 1929 Plan was in reality an important source of ideas for many projects built during the New Deal era of the 1930s.In his detailed examination of the Plan, Johnson traces its origins to Progressive era and Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago. He describes the making of the Plan under the direction of Scotsman Thomas Adams, its reception in the New York Region, and its partial realization.The story he tells has important lessons for plaTrade Review'Deals with matters of major interest both to geographers and to planners...a fascinating...vivid and spellbinding story...I strongly recommend this well-written and provocative book. The answers about events and ideas of seventy years ago are relevant today.' - Environment and Planning, 1998...provides the reader with a detailed case study of the plan-making process...a rich resource...Professor Johnson is to be commended for the meticulous research and interesting writing and presentation..." - Town Planning ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition. Preface. 1. Introduction 2. The Making of the New York Metropolitan Region 3. The Emergence of a Planning Tradition 4. First Steps Towards a Metropolitan Regional Plan 5. The Search for Scope and Substance 6. Technological and Ideological Inputs 7. From Survey to Plan 8. Conflict Amidst Planning: Three Decisions 9. Carrying Out the Plan: 1929 to 1941 10. Plan and Reality: 1965 11. The Regional Plan as an Artefact and Process

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Book SynopsisThe newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed. The expanded volume continues to make available many of the original and foundational works that underpin the research field, while expanding coverage to familiarize students with new theoretical and epistemological positions as well as emerging research foci and horizons. It contains 38 new chapters, including key writings on globalizing cities from leading thinkers such as John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells, Anthony King, Jennifer Robinson, Ananya Roy, and Fulong Wu. The new Reader reflects the fact that world and global city studies have evolved in exciting and wide-ranging ways, and the very notion of a distinct global class of cities has recently been called into question. The sections examine the foundationTable of ContentsList of PlatesLists of figuresList of tablesList of contributors Editor’s Introduction to Second EditionAcknowledgementsPART 1 FOUNDATIONSIntroduction to Part One1.0 PrologueThe Metropolitan Explosion Peter Hall1.1 Divisions of Space and Time in Europe Fernand Braudel1.2 World City Formation: An Agenda for Research and ActionJohn Friedmann and Goetz Wolff1.3 Locating Cities on Global Circuits Saskia Sassen1.4 Urban Specialization in the World SystemNestor Rodriguez and Joe Feagin1.5 Accumulation and Comparative Urban SystemsJohn Walton1.6 The World-System Perspective and UrbanizationMichael Timberlake1.7 Global City Formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: An Historical PerspectiveJanet Abu-Lughod1.8 Global and World Cities: A View from Off the MapJennifer Robinson1.9 Space in the Globalizing CityPeter MarcusePART 2 PATHWAYSIntroduction to Part Two2.0 PrologueIstanbul was our past, Istanbul is our futureHamid Dabashi2.1 The City as a Landscape of Power: London and New York as Global Financial CapitalsSharon Zukin2.2 Detroit and Houston: Two Cities in Global PerspectiveRichard C. Hill and Joe Feagin2.3 The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: A Contemporary Comparison of Amsterdam and Los AngelesEdward Soja 2.4 Global City Zurich: Paradigms of Urban DevelopmentChristian Schmid2.5 From ‘State-Owned’ to ‘City Inc.’: The Re-territorialization of the State in ShanghaiFulong Wu 2.6 The Dream of Delhi as a Global CityVeronica Dupont 2.7 ‘Fourth World’ Cities in the Global Economy: The Case of Phnom PenhGavin Shatkin 2.8 Medellín and Bogotá: The Global Cities of the Other GlobalizationEduardo MendietaPART 3 RELATIONSIntroduction to Part Three3.0 PrologueSpecification of the World City NetworkPeter Taylor3.1 Local and Global: Cities in Network SocietyManuel Castells3.2 Comparing London and Frankfurt as World Cities: A Relational Study of Contemporary Urban ChangeJonathan V. Beaverstock, Michael Hoyler, Kathryn Pain, and Peter J. Taylor3.3 Global Grids of Glass: On Global Cities, Telecommunication and Planetary Urban NetworksStephen Graham3.4 Global Cities and the Spread of Infectious Disease: The Case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto, CanadaS. Harris Ali and Roger Keil3.5 Flying High (in the Competitive Sky): Conceptualizing the Role of Airports in Global City-Regions through ‘Aero-Regionalism’Jean-Paul Addie3.6 One Package at a Time: The Distributive World CityCynthia Negrey, Jeffery L. Osgood, and Frank Goetzke3.7 Global Cities between Biopolitics and Necropolitics: (In)Security and Circuits of Knowledge in the Global City NetworkDavid Murakami-Wood3.8 The Virtual Palimpsest of the Global City NetworkMark Graham3.9 Relationality/territoriality: Toward conceptualization of cities in the worldEugene McCann and Kevin Ward PART 4 REGULATIONSIntroduction to Part Four4.0 PrologueThe Global City as World OrderWarren Magnusson4.1 Globalization and the Rise of City-regionsAllen J. Scott4.2 Global Cities, ‘Global States’: Global City Formation and State Territorial Restructuring in Contemporary EuropeNeil Brenner 4.3 Global Cities and Developmental States: Tokyo and SeoulRichard Child Hill and June Woo Kim4.4 World City Formation on the Asia Pacific Rim: Poverty, "Everyday" Forms of Civil Society and Environmental ManagementMike Douglass4.5 New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban StrategyNeil Smith4.6 Between World History and State Formation: New Perspectives on Africa’s CitiesLaurent Fourchard 4.7 The ‘Right to the City’: Institutional Imperatives of a Developmental StateSusan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse4.8 Global Cities’ vs. ‘global cities:’ Rethinking Contemporary Urbanism as Public EcologyTimothy W. LukePART 5 CONTESTATIONSIntroduction to Part Five5.0 PrologueFrom Tahrir Square to Emaar Square: Cairo's private road to a private cityMohamed Elshahed5.1 Local Actors in Global PoliticsSaskia Sassen5.2 The Right to the CityDavid Harvey5.3 Urban Social Movements in an Era of GlobalizationMargit Mayer5.4 São Paulo: The City and its ProtestTeresa Caldeira5.5 Global City Building in China and its DiscontentsXuefei Ren 5.6 Between Ghetto and Globe: Remaking Urban Life in AfricaAbdouMaliq Simone5.7 World Cities and Union RenewalSteven Tufts 5.8 Blockupy Fights Back: Global City Formation in Frankfurt am Main after the Financial CrisisSebastian Schipper, Lucas Pohl, Tino Petzold, Daniel Mullis, and Bernd BelinaPART 6 CULTUREIntroduction to Part Six6.0 Prologue: High Culture and Hard LaborAndrew Ross6.1 World Cities: Global? Postcolonial? Postimperial? Or Just the Result of Happenstance? Some Cultural CommentsAnthony King6.2 "Global Media Cities": Major Nodes of Globalising Culture and Media IndustriesStefan Kratke 6.3 Willing the Global City: Berlin’s Cultural Strategies of Inter-Urban Competition after 1989Ute Lehrer6.4 The Transnational Capitalist Class and Contemporary Architecture in Globalizing CitiesLeslie Sklair 6.5 Shanghai Nightscapes and Ethnosexual Contact ZonesJames Farrer and Andrew Field6.6 Graffiti or Street Art? Negotiating the Moral Geographies of the Creative CityCameron McAuliffe 6.7 Spaces and Networks of Musical Creativity in the city Allan Watson, Michael Hoyler and Christoph Mager6.8 Provincializing the Global City: From Bombay to MumbaiRashimi VarmaPART 7 FRONTIERSIntroduction to Part Seven7.0 PrologueWorld CityDoreen Massey7.1 The Global Cities Discourse: A Return to the Master Narrative?Michael Peter Smith7.2 External Urban Relational Processes: Introducing Central Flow Theory to Complement Central Place TheoryPeter J. Taylor, Michael Hoyler and Raf Verbruggen7.3 Beyond the Global City Concept and the Myth of ‘Command and Control’Richard G. Smith7.4 World Cities under Conditions of Financialized Globalization: Towards an Augmented World City HypothesisDavid Bassens and Michiel van Meeteren7.5 Can the Straw Man Speak? An Engagement with Postcolonial Critiques of ‘Global Cities Research’Michiel van Meeteren, Ben Derudder, and David Bassens7.6 Global SuburbanizationRoger Keil7.7 What is Urban about Critical Urban Theory?Ananya Roy7.8 Planetary UrbanizationNeil Brenner and Christian Schmid7.9 New Geographies of Theorizing the Urban: Putting Comparison to Work for Global Urban StudiesJennifer Robinson7.10 Governing the Informal in Globalizing Cities: Comparing China, India, and BrazilXuefei Ren7.11 The Urban RevolutionHenri LefebvreIndex

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Book SynopsisHeterotopia, literally meaning âother placeâ, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. Heterotopia and the City seeks to clarify this concept and investigates the heterotopias which exist throughout our contemporary world: in museums, theme parks, malls, holiday resorts, gated communities, wellness hotels and festival markets. With theoretical contributions on the concept of heterotopia, including a new translation of Foucaultâs influential 1967 text, Of Other Space and essays by well-known scholars, the book comprises a series of critical case studies, from Beaubourg to Bilbao, which probe a range of (post)urban transformations and which redirect thTable of ContentsPart 1: Heterotopology: ‘A Science in the Making’ Part 2: Heterotopia Revisited Part 3: The Mall as Agora: The Agora as Mall Part 4: Dwelling in a Postcivil Society Part 5: Terrains Vagues: Transgression and Urban Activism Part 6: Heterotopia in the Splintering Metropolis Part 7: Heterotopia After the Polis

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Book SynopsisThroughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat. But this is frequently leading to controversy, as energy and planning policies are revised to support new energy sources or technologies (e.g. offshore wind, tidal, bioenergy or hydrogen energy) and communities face the prospect of unfamiliar, often large-scale energy technologies being sited near to their homes. Policy makers in many countries face tensions between ''streamlining'' planning procedures, engaging with diverse publics to address what is commonly conceived as ''NIMBY'' (not in my back yard) opposition, and the need to maintain democratic, participatory values in planning systems. This volume provides a timely, international review of research on public engagement, in contexts of diverse, innovative energy technologies. Public engagement is conceived broadly - as the interaction between how developers Trade Review'Public acceptance is key to the development of the renewable energy we need to meet our climate goals. Simple stereotypes of NIMBY opposition may work in newspaper headlines, but developers and policymakers need a more sophisticated understanding of what makes people tick and how best to engage. This new volume meets a pressing need - both academics and practitioners will gain from it.' Prof Jim Skea, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre 'This book provides a broad survey of public perceptions and community reactions to building new low-carbon energy facilities. The chapters treat community resistance (and support) as systematic phenomena to be scientifically studied, opening possibilities for creative action. This is a welcome antidote to the typical reaction by engineers and project developers, treating public opinion as an immutable black box.' Prof. Willett Kempton, Center for Carbon-free Power Integration, University of Delaware, USA 'Extensive research has been done over the last decades on both mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the built environment, but the outputs of much of this research have failed to result in the wider uptake of effective greenhouse gas emission reduction solutions. This book introduces 'fresh thinking' on how this may be done- with chapters from leading experts in fields ranging from philosophy, the social, political and physical sciences, engineering, architecture, mathematics and complexity science.' Renew Magazine 'Patrick Devine-Wright's Renewable Energy and the Public: From NIMBY to Participation takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the issue of public engagement for renewable energy products. A multitude of contributors offer a variety of theoretical and empirical analyses of the issue, all of which support Devine-Wright's core argument that traditional means of conceptualizing public and stakeholder positions on renewable energy are overly simplistic, and public engagement processes based on these depictions are insufficient for pursuing the goal of increased renewable energy use in a fair and democratic way.' - Damian Pitt, Journal of Planning Education and ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction (Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Section 1: Conceptual approaches 1. Symmetries, expectations, dynamics and contexts: a framework for understanding public engagement with renewable energy projects (Walker, University of Lancaster, UK, and colleagues) 2. The principles, procedures, and pitfalls of public engagement in decision-making about renewable energy (Haggett, University of Edinburgh, UK) 3. Beyond consensus? Agonism, republicanism and a low carbon future (Barry and Ellis, Queens' University, Belfast, N. Ireland) 4. Public roles and socio-technical configurations: diversity in renewable energy deployment in the UK and its implications (Walker and Cass, University of Lancaster, UK) 5. From Backyards to Places: Public engagement and the emplacement of renewable energy technologies (Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Section 2: Empirical studies of public engagement Part 1: Stakeholder and media representations of public engagement 6. Discourses on the implementation of wind power: Stakeholder views on public engagement (Wolsink, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 7. Governing the Reconfiguration of Energy in Greater London: Practical Public Engagement as 'Delivery' (Hodson and Marvin, University of Salford, UK) 8. Envisioning public engagement with renewable energy: an empirical analysis of images within the UK National Press 2006/7 (Hannah Devine-Wright, University of Manchester, UK) 9. NIMBYism and community consultation in electricity transmission network planning (Cotton and Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Part 2: Case studies of public beliefs and responses Future energy scenarios 10. Turning the heat on: Public engagement in Australia's energy future (Ashworth, Littleboy, Graham & Niemeyer, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) Solar energy and microgeneration 11. Shaping people's engagement with microgeneration technology: the case of solar photovoltaics in UK homes (Abi-Ghanem, Imperial College London and Haggett, University of Edinburgh, UK) 12. Siting Solar Power in Arizona: A Public Value Failure? (Pasqualetti and Schwartz, Arizona State University, USA) 13. Socio-Environmental Research on Energy Sustainable Communities: Participation Experiences of Two Decades (Schweizer-Ries, University of Saarland, Germany) 14. Yes in my back yard: UK householders pioneering microgeneration heat (Roy and Caird and Roy, Open University, UK) Wind energy 15. Socio-environmental impacts of Brazil's first large-scale wind farm (Improta and Pinheiro, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil) 16. Perceptions and Preferences Regarding Offshore Wind Power in the United States - The Leading Edge of a New Energy Source for the Americas (Firestone, University of Delaware, USA) Hydrogen energy: 17. The limits of upstream engagement in an emergent technology: lay perceptions of hydrogen energy technologies (Flynn, Bellaby and Ricci, University of Salford, UK) 18. Public engagement with wind-hydrogen energy technology: a comparative study (Sherry-Brennan, Devine-Wright and Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Marine energy 19. Symbolic interpretations of wave energy in the UK: surfers' perspectives (McLachlan, University of Manchester, UK) Bioenergy 20. Heat and light: understanding bioenergy siting controversy (Upham, University of Manchester, UK) Nuclear and low carbon energy 21. From the Material to the Imagined: Public Engagement with Low Carbon Technologies in a Nuclear Community (Butler, Parkhill and Pidgeon, Cardiff University, Wales, UK) Conclusions (Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK)

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Book SynopsisThrough the analysis of several commemorative acts in space, matter and image, namely museums and memorials, this book reflects on the ways in which architecture as a discipline, a practice and a discourse represents the Holocaust. In doing so, it problematises how one presents an extreme historical case in a contemporary context and integrates the historical into actuality. By examining several cases, the book defines the issues faced by various architects who dealt with this topic and discusses their separate and distinctive approaches. In each case, it analyses the ways in which the cultural and political contexts of commemoration led to a different interpretation of the condition. Focusing on the Ghetto Fighters' House, the world's first Holocaust museum; Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem; the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington; and the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, the book discusses how the representation of history by architecture creates a Trade Review'In this personal, yet deeply learned exploration of Holocaust commemoration on the cusp of "new media," Eran Neuman examines an age when physical memorials and architectural representation of Holocaust memory become something else altogether. Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust is a sensitive meditation on the ways aesthetic spaces in the landscape conjure internal memory spaces within us.' James E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA ’This book studies Holocaust museums on the premise that their location away from the site of trauma poses an intriguing set of representational, philosophical and even political problems. Neuman’s brilliant and thorough analysis brings the reader into the heart of the multi-layered contestations about what architecture should or should not do in these contexts.’ Mark Jarzombek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Holocaust Commemoration and Architectural Representation; Chapter 1 Dwelling in Monumentality: Presence and Memory in the Ghetto Fighters’ Kibbutz; Chapter 2 Monumental Holocaust Landscapes at Yad Vashem; Chapter 3 “The Events you are about to Experience are Real”: Authenticity at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum; Chapter 4 Diagramming Memory: Peter Eisenman’s Holocaust Memorial in Berlin; epi Epilogue: Presencing the Holocaust;

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Book SynopsisNew Mobilities Regimes analyses how global mobilities are changing the world of today and the role of political and economic power. Bringing together essays by leading scholars and social scientists, including Mimi Sheller and BÃlent Diken with the work of well-known artists and art theorists such as Jordan Crandall, Ursula Bieman, GÃlsÃn Karamustafa and Dan Perjovschi this book is a unique document of the cross-disciplinary mobility and power discourse. The specific design, integrating the text and art elements to create a singular dialogue makes for an exciting intellectual and aesthetic experience. Illustrated by a range of studies which examine the regulation and structure of mobility, such as the daily routines of teleworkers, Ukrainian cleaners in Western Europe, the mobility policies of global corporations, and the impact of bicycle policies on public space, New Mobilities Regimes emphasizes the routes and crossroads of migration flows as well as at the interaction of mobility Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, List of Figures, Notes on Contributors, Preface, Drawings by Dan Perjovschi precede each Part of the book, Introduction, 1. Mobility and the Image-Based Research of Art, 2. The New Mobilities Regimes, Prologue, 3. Agency, Mobility, and the Timespace of Tracking, Work in Motion, 4 An Enterprise in Her Own Four Walls: Teleworking, 5. Aeromobility Regimes in Commercial Aviation: The Mobile Work and Life Arrangements of Flight Crews, 6. Beyond Privilege: Conceptualizing Mobilities Inside Multinational Corporations, 7. One-Way Ticket? International Labor Mobility of Ukrainian Women, Modalities of Migration, 8. Stopover: An Excerpt from the Network of Actor-Oriented Mobility Movements, 9. Lisl Ponger’s Passages – In-between Tourism and Migration, 10. Unawarded Performances, 11. Counter-Geographies in the Sahara, 12. Transnational Migration, Clandestinity, and Globalization – Sub-Saharan Transmigrants in Morocco, Camp Politics, 13. DMZ Embassy: Border Region of Active Intermediate Space, 14. Mobility and the Camp, 15. X-Mission, 16. The Politics of Mobility: Some Insights from the Study of Protest Camps, 17. All Aboard! Exploring the Role of the Vehicle in Contemporary Spatial Inquiry, Spacing Mobilities – Mobilization of Space, 18. Physics of Images – Images of Physics + “Rundum” Photography, 19. Mobility Regimes and Air Travel: Examples from an Indonesian Airport, 20. The Power of Urban Mobility: Shaping Experiences, Emotions, and Selves on a Bike, 21. Experiencing Mobility – Mobilizing Experience, 22. Airport-Studies, Intercontinental, Territorium, 23. Mobile Mediality: Location, Dislocation, Augmentation, Epilogue, 24. Mobility Futures: Moving On and Breaking Through on an Empty Tank, Appendices: Abstracts English/German, Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape as engines of regeneration. Promising much to their fading locales, these spaces locate culture in the space where production once ruled in order to revitalise post-industrial urban provinces. With close attention to four sites across the UK, Urban Constellations engages with the work of Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard, to read these spaces and in so doing, offer a critical intervention into the theory and experience of contemporary cityscapes. Developing the notion of surface ethnography as a methodological approach to examining the form of cultural experience produced by urban cultural spaces, the author sheds light on the manner in which they transform cultural spectatorship, express wider political and ecological concerns and offer differing views to the 'native' and the 'tourist' in the construction of local history. The book also examines the decline of the idea that iconic projTrade Review’Nobody concerned with the contemporary city can afford to ignore Urban Constellations. Its analyses of the dreamscapes of regeneration are timely, exacting, and critical in the best sense of that term; they are also deeply moving.’ Ben Highmore, University of Sussex, UK ’Fizzing with ideas, this inspired analysis investigates the spectacular cultural temples erected in British post-industrial cities at the turn of the 20th century. Such flagship projects are often depicted as hollow shrines to superficial consumption, yet here, drawing on theories from Benjamin and Baudrillard, they are read against the grain. While Zoë Thompson acknowledges the banal commodification of place and culture inherent in these grand designs, her sophisticated exploration reveals overlooked ecologies and histories, unexpected fragments of the past and unforeseen twists that disrupt dreams of seamlessness and offer alternative approaches for critical scrutiny.’ Tim Edensor, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsUrban Constellations

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Book SynopsisPeter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture. While much has been written about his built works and his philosophies, most books focus on one or the other aspect. By structuring this volume around the concept of form, Stefano Corbo links together Eisenman's architecture with his theory. From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman argues that form is the sphere of mediation between our body, our inner world and the exterior world and, as such, it enables connections to be made between philosophy and architecture. From the start of his career on, Eisenman has been deeply interested in the problem of form in architecture and has constantly challenged the classical concept of it. For him, form is not simply a cognitive tool that determines a physical structure, which discriminates all that is active from what is passive, what is insidTrade Review'Despite his significant impact on architecture through both built and theoretical works, most studies of Peter Eisenman's career focus on either one aspect or the other. In From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman, Stefano Corbo attempts to redress this balance, connecting themes in the design and the theory of the influential architect across the many stages of his 50-year career.' arch dailyTable of ContentsFrom Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman

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Book SynopsisIn his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin's Monument to the Third International and Borromini's dome for Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza. The values shared between the baroque age and the modern were thus encapsulated on a single page spread. As Giedion put it, writing of Sant'Ivo, Borromini accomplished ''the movement of the whole pattern [...] from the ground to the lantern, without entirely ending even there.'' And yet he merely ''groped'' towards that which could ''be completely effected'' in modern architecture-achieving ''the transition between inner and outer space.'' The intellectual debt of modern architecture to modernist historians who were ostensibly preoccupied with the art and architecture of earlier epochs is now widely acknowledged. This volume extends this work by contributing to the dual projects of the intellectual history of modern architecture and the history of architectural historiography. It consideTable of ContentsChapter 1 Defining a Problem: Modern Architecture and the Baroque Chapter 2 Engaging the Past: Albert Ilg’s Die Zukunft des Barockstil Chapter 3 Großstadt as Barockstadt: Art History, Advertising and the Surface of the Neo-Baroque Chapter 4 The “Restless Allure” of (Architectural) Form: Space and Perception between Germany, Russia and the Soviet Union Chapter 5 Geoffrey Scott, the Baroque, and the Picturesque Chapter 6 Against Formalism: Aspects of the Historiography of the Baroque in Weimar Germany, 1918–33 Chapter 7 Riegl and Wölfflin in Dialogue on the Baroque Chapter 8 Beyond the Vienna School: Sedlmayr and Borromini Chapter 9 Pevsner’s Kunstgeographie: From Liepzig’s Baroque to the Englishness of Modern English Architecture Chapter 10 The Future of the Baroque, c. 1945 Chapter 11 Giedion as Guide: Space, Time and Architecture and the Modernist Reception of Baroque Rome Chapter 12 Reading Aalto through the Baroque: Constituent Facts, Dynamic Pluralities, and Formal Latencies Chapter 13 Taking the Sting out of the Baroque: Wittkower, 1958 Chapter 14 Pierre Charpentrat and Baroque Functionalism 15 From Spatial Feeling to Functionalist Design: Contrasting Representations of the Baroque in Steen Eiler Rasmussen’s Experiencing Architecture Chapter 16 From Michelangelo to Borromini: Bruno Zevi and Operative Criticism Chapter 17 Between History and Design: The Baroque Legacy in the Work of Paolo Portoghesi Chapter 18 Steinberg’s Complexity Chapter 19 The “Recurrence” of the Baroque in Architecture: Giedion and Norberg-Schulz’s Approaches to Constancy and Change Chapter 20 The Future of the Baroque, c. 1980

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Book SynopsisWritten for use in undergraduate and postgraduate planning courses and for those involved in all aspects of the planning process, this comprehensive textbook focuses on environmental impact assessment and design and in particular their impact on planning for the landscape. Table of ContentsPreface PART 1 Landscape Planning 1 Will planning die? 2 Landscape plans 3 Context theories PART 2 Environmental Impact Design 4 Public open space 5 Reservoirs 6 Mineral working 7 Agriculture 8 Forests 9 Rivers and floods 10 Transport 11 Urbanization Appendix: Environmental impact questions

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Book SynopsisPractical how-to information for conservation-minded urban-planning professionals is provided in this invaluable guide. The importance of natural lands or open space in master-planned communities is thoroughly explained and coupled with examples of conservation-oriented housing developments that incorporate this key component.

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Book SynopsisDespite all the talk of sustainability, there has not been enough action to halt or reverse the impacts of climate change. Decades after the Rio Earth Summit and despite the many policies and commitments to move toward sustainable development, there continues to be a serious implementation gap.Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenges of turning international commitments and policy promises into local action. Through global examples and cases, the authors examine not only the core principles, but also successful and failed efforts to address the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainable development. They systematically guide readers through the technical, legal, economic, administrative, political, ethical, and cultural feasibility of putting sustainable development solutions in place. Based on broad research, Claudia María Vargas and Phillip J. Cooper offer a practical and useful approach to identifying and addressing policy implementation challengeswhat works, what doesn't, and why.Features of this thoroughly revised second edition include: Dozens of case studies from the throughout the world An overview of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Action-oriented solutions to the challenges of sustainable development Careful consideration of local and indigenous knowledge Key issues of equity, equality, and the importance of community involvement

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Book SynopsisDespite all the talk of sustainability, there has not been enough action to halt or reverse the impacts of climate change. Decades after the Rio Earth Summit and despite the many policies and commitments to move toward sustainable development, there continues to be a serious implementation gap.Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenges of turning international commitments and policy promises into local action. Through global examples and cases, the authors examine not only the core principles, but also successful and failed efforts to address the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainable development. They systematically guide readers through the technical, legal, economic, administrative, political, ethical, and cultural feasibility of putting sustainable development solutions in place. Based on broad research, Claudia María Vargas and Phillip J. Cooper offer a practical and useful approach to identifying and addressing policy implementation challengeswhat works, what doesn't, and why.Features of this thoroughly revised second edition include: Dozens of case studies from the throughout the world An overview of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Action-oriented solutions to the challenges of sustainable development Careful consideration of local and indigenous knowledge Key issues of equity, equality, and the importance of community involvement

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Book SynopsisThis title explains an alternative living arrangement that provides shelter and security, convenience, comfort and meaning. The author (and architect) describes existing pocket neighbourhoods and provides inspiration for new ones. This title is suitable for architects and homeowners who crave a greater sense of community where they live. The typical American neighbourhood is impersonal, made up of large houses on large lots, with large garages whose remote openers provide residents instant access inside. There's never any need to see or be seen! The good news is that a growing number of homeowners are saying they want more. Pocket neighbourhoods are alternative living arrangements that provide shelter and security, convenience, comfort and meaning. In a typical pocket neighbourhood, parking is intentionally separated from houses, which surround a landscaped common area. Homeowners walk to their doors, past the neighbours they might otherwise never know. This book by architect and author Ross Chapin describes existing pocket neighbourhoods and co-housing communities and provides inspiration for creating new ones.

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