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An Illustrated Handbook of Buddhist Architecture - Including Architecture fro…
Buddhist temples are some of the most beautiful and awe inspiring examples of religious architecture ever created. This helpful handbook is a guide to the finest examples from around the world. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high qualit…
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Practical Pattern Making
"Practical Pattern Making" by Paul N. Hasluck was first published in 1905. Written in simple, concise language and full of helpful diagrams, this timeless volume will be of considerable utility to anyone with an interest in designing and creating foundry patterns. "A foundry pattern is a counterpart of a casting and is used to form the mould into which the molten metal is poured. Patten-making …
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La arquitectura religiosa de la improvisaciónCentros de culto no católicos …
¿Cuáles son y cómo manifiestan su existencia los centros de culto no católicos en una sociedad predominante e históricamente católica como la zacatecana? ¿De qué manera viven esta realidad los ministros de culto? El presente análisis tiene como objetivo efectuar una visibilización de los centros de culto y proponer una tipología de los mismos a partir de: las características arquite…
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Die nachhaltige StadtStädte als Laboratorien des Wandels
Die Klimakrise zeigt deutlich: Städte spüren sie früh und werden zu Laboren des Wandels. Entsprechend dringend stellen sich Fragen zur nachhaltigen, klimafitten Stadt. Zukunftsperspektiven sind häufig geprägt von Bildern der Gegenwart. Um den Blick auf die urbanen Zentren der Zukunft freizugeben, müssen aber gegenwärtige Vorstellungen von Stadt hinterfragt werden. Welche Mythen und Vorur…
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Sustainability and CitiesOvercoming Automobile Dependence
Sustainability and Cities examines the urban aspect of sustainability issues, arguing that cities are a necessary focus for that global agenda. The authors make the case that the essential character of a city's land use results from how it manages its transportation, and that only by reducing our automobile dependence will we be able to successfully accommodate all elements of the sustainabilit…
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Health and Community DesignThe Impact Of The Built Environment On Physical Ac…
Health and Community Design is a comprehensive examination of how the built environment encourages or discourages physical activity, drawing together insights from a range of research on the relationships between urban form and public health. It provides important information about the factors that influence decisions about physical activity and modes of travel, and about how land use patterns …
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Managing Growth in America's CommunitiesSecond Edition
In this thoroughly revised edition of Managing Growth in America's Communities, readers will learn the principles that guide intelligent planning for communities of any size, grasp the major issues in successfully managing growth, and discover what has actually worked in practice (and where and why). This clearly written book details how American communities have grappled with the challen…
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Planning for a New CenturyThe Regional Agenda
Across the United States, issues such as sustainability, smart growth, and livable communities are making headlines. Planning for a New Century brings together leading thinkers in the fields of planning, urban design, education, welfare, and housing to examine those issues and to consider the ways in which public policies have helped create—and can help solve—many of the problems facing our…
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The New Transit TownBest Practices In Transit-Oriented Development
Transit-oriented development (TOD) seeks to maximize access to mass transit and nonmotorized transportation with centrally located rail or bus stations surrounded by relatively high-density commercial and residential development. New Urbanists and smart growth proponents have embraced the concept and interest in TOD is growing, both in the United States and around the world. New Transit Town b…
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Houses for a New WorldBuilders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945–1965
The fascinating history of the twentieth century's most successful experiment in mass housing While the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and their contemporaries frequently influences our ideas about house design at the midcentury, most Americans during this period lived in homes built by little-known builders who also served as developers of the communities. Often dismissed as "lit…
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