Built Environment Products

By Tricia Austin

This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments. This a new and distinct area of practice that weaves together and extends narrative theory, spatial theory and design theory. Examples of narrative…

Hardback – 2020-06-01 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Design Studies

By Ghazi Gaseem Al-Khateeb

Traffic and Pavement Engineering presents the latest engineering concepts, techniques, practices, principles, standard procedures, and models that are applied and used to design and evaluate traffic systems, road pavement structures, and alternative transportation systems to ultimately achieve…

Hardback – 2020-06-01 
CRC Press

By Ghazi Gaseem Al-Khateeb

Highway Planning, Survey, and Design presents the latest engineering concepts, techniques, practices, principles, standard procedures, and models that are applied and used to design and evaluate alternatives of transportation systems and roadway horizontal and vertical alignments and to forecast…

Hardback – 2020-06-01 
CRC Press

By Caroline Dove

Radical Housing explores the planning, technical, financial, health-based and social background for developing multi-generational homes and co-living. Abundantly illustrated with case studies and plans from projects across the UK and abroad, this book inform sand inspires the delivery of…

Hardback – 2020-06-01 
RIBA Publishing

By Antigoni Katsakou

This book proposes alternative interpretations of broadly-debated concepts within architectural modernity. Bringing into view the work of lesser-known architects from across the globe, alongside previously unexplored aspects of mainstream masters of the Modern, Rethinking Modernity puts forward a…

Paperback – 2020-06-01 
RIBA Publishing

By Ombretta Romice, Sergio Porta, Alessandra Feliciotti

Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change and rapid urbanisation. However, this idea has still not been fully integrated in to practice. This book presents a practical approach to masterplanning the city and its areas (existing and new) as…

Hardback – 2020-06-01 
RIBA Publishing

Edited by Sallie Westwood, John M Williams

First published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology, cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped around four major themes: The theoretical imagination Ethnic diversity and the politics of…

Paperback – 2020-05-31 
Routledge
Routledge Library Editions: British Sociological Association

Edited by Yeqiao Wang

Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, the Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life. Based on the content of the…

Hardback – 2020-05-31 
CRC Press
The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition

By Peggy Deamer

Through a collection of 13 essays, Peggy Deamer examines the profession of architecture not as an abstraction, but as an assemblage of architectural workers. What forces prevent architects from empowering ourselves to be more relevant and better rewarded? How can these forces be set aside by new…

Paperback – 2020-05-21 
Routledge

By Joe Ravetz

Deeper City is the first major application of new thinking on ‘deeper complexity’, applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change, and rising inequality. The author provides a new framework for the collective intelligence – the capacity for learning and synergy – in…

Paperback – 2020-05-07 
Routledge

Edited by Tim Edensor, Ares Kalandides, Uma Kothari

The handbook presents a compendium of the diverse and growing approaches to place from leading authors as well as less widely known scholars, providing a comprehensive yet cutting-edge overview of theories, concepts and creative engagements with place that resonate with contemporary concerns and…

Hardback – 2020-05-05 
Routledge

Edited by Nicole Gurran, Paul J Maginn, Paul Burton, Crystal Legacy, Carey Curtis, Anthony Kent, Geoffrey Binder

Disruptive Urbanism examines how different forms and modes of the so called "sharing economy" are manifesting in cities and regions throughout the world, and how policy makers are responding to these disruptions. The emergence of the so called "sharing economy" and the "disruptive technologies"…

Hardback – 2020-05-04 
Routledge