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Curbing TrafficThe Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherlands. They had packed up their family in Vancouver, BC, and moved to Delft to experience the biking city as residents rather than as visitors. A year earlier they had become unofficial ambassadors for Dutch cities with the publication of their first book Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Bluepr…
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Conserving the Historic Environment
Why do we decide that parts of our built environment are worth the special attention that heritage designation brings? How can the character of conservation areas and other historic places continue to evolve to provide new housing, release their economic potential and enhance communities? What are the principles to understand when judging the impact of new development or alterations to our sign…
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Planning and Participation
Why should the public participate in planning? And who are the stakeholders who are required to participate in the planning process? This guide assesses public and stakeholder participation in the planning process, which is a statutory requirement across the entire scope and scale of planning activities in many global contexts. It provides a historical overview of participation and outlines how…
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Il Duomo di MilanoL'ultima delle grandi cattedrali gotiche
Il Duomo è l'icona di Milano. Tra i numerosi monumenti del capoluogo lombardo è infatti la cattedrale quello più emblematico della città e della sua storia. Edificio di immenso valore artistico, merita di essere conosciuto anche per le complicate vicende della sua costruzione.Nel 1386 l'Arcivescovo, Antonio da Saluzzo, e il Duca si accordarono sulla necessità di costruire una nuova chiesa …
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Unbuilt Hamilton
Finalist for a 2017 Hamilton Literary Award, the Kerry Schooley Award Unbuilt Hamilton presents the Ambitious City at its most ambitious, exploring the origins and fates of unrealized building, planning, and transportation proposals from the early nineteenth century to the early twenty-first. Marvel at the sweeping vista down Hamilton's own version of the Champs-Élysées as you enjoy a conce…
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TorontoThe Way We Were
For decades Toronto historian Mike Filey has regaled readers with stories of the city's past through its landmarks, neighbourhoods, streetscapes, social customs, pleasure palaces, politics, sporting events, celebrities, and defining moments. Now, in one lavishly illustrated volume, he serves up the best of his meditations on everything from the Royal York Hotel, the Flatiron Building, and the N…
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For the RecordThe First Women in Canadian Architecture
When Marjorie Hill graduated in 1920 as Canada's "first girl architect," she was entering a profession that had been established in Canada just 30 years earlier. For the Record, the first history of women architects in Canada, provides a fascinating introduction to early women architects, presented within the context of developments in both Europe and North America. Profiles of the women who g…
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Morphologie von StadtlandschaftenGeschichte, Analyse, Entwurf
Die Stadtmorphologie untersucht Siedlungs- und Stadtformen. Diese verändern sich nicht von heute auf morgen, sondern in einem Prozess, der bestimmten Gesetzmäßigkeiten folgt. Es gibt kaum etwas Komplexeres und in sich Widersprüchlicheres als Stadt. Gerade aufgrund dieser Komplexität besteht wenig Einigkeit über Definitionen und Vorgehensweisen. Dies gilt in besonderem Maße für den Städ…
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The Morphology of Urban LandscapesHistory, Analysis, Design
In The Morphology of Urban Landscapes, author André Bideau explores the intricate relationship between urban design and the physical environment. Drawing on his extensive experience as an urban planner and architect, Bideau offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which cities are shaped by their natural surroundings, as well as the ways in which they shape those surroundings in turn. Th…
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SpatialitiesThe Geographies of Art and Architecture
Spatialities: The Geographies of Art and Architecture draws on a distinguished panel of artists, cultural theorists, architects, and geographers to offer a nuanced conceptual framework for understanding the ever-evolving spatial orderings that materially constitute our world. With chapters covering a wide range of topics, including the interstitial, the liminal and the relational processes of n…
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