Articles

Cities and towns | Rhine River Region Economic conditions | Reformation | Group identity | Peasants' War, 1524-1525

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing... 
Mathematical models | City planning | Geography | Architecture | Cities, Countries, Regions | Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry | Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning | Urbanism | Economic Geography

Tracing the social, political and environmental factors that amplified the ruinous impact of Hurricane Katrina, this study judges an increase in similarly... 
Evaluation | Architecture | Flood control | Geology | Environmental sciences | Environmental aspects | Louisiana | Emergency management | New Orleans | Economic development | Environmental economics | Environmental management | Economic development - Environmental aspects - Louisiana - New Orleans | Environmental Economics | Cities, Countries, Regions | Environment | Natural Hazards | Environmental Management | Political Science, general

Architecture of Brazil: 1900-1990 examines the processes that underpin modern Brazilian architecture under various influences and characterizes different... 
Architecture | History | Architecture, Modern | Brazil | 20th century

A look at how to bring the beauty and character of a natural environmental approach into more structured urban landscape designs, using five fundamental... 
Psychological aspects | Landscape design | Urban landscape architecture | Environmental aspects | Sustainable urban development | Public spaces | City planning | Cities, Countries, Regions | Environment | Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning | Interaction Design | Sustainable Development | Landscape Architecture

This book presents an interdisciplinary method of transforming urban spaces that considers issues of ecology and sustainability alongside urban form. It... 
Urban ecology (Sociology) | Ecological landscape design | City planning | Cities, Countries, Regions | Environment | Design, general | Urbanism | Environmental Management | Urban Ecology

When we think of green building, we tend to picture new construction. But Robert A. Young argues that the greenest building is often the one that has already... 
Urban renewal | Remodeling for other use | Historic preservation | Public buildings

Nearly half the buildings that wll be standing in 2030 do not exist today. That means we have a tremendous opportunity to reinvent out urban areas, making them... 
Urban renewal | City planning | United States | Land use, Urban | Land use, Urban - United States | Fertility rates | Compact development | Smart growth | Sustainable communities | Multi generational households | Revitalized suburbs | Transit-oriented development | Millennials | Mixed-use | Home ownership | Telecommuting | YIMBY | Accessory dwelling units | NIMBY | Reshape America Index | Population trends | American Dream | Gen X | Gen Y | Baby Boomers | Land use regulations | iGeneration | Great Recession | Development trends | Eisenhowers

Jonathan Barnett and Larry Beasley seek to demonstrate that a sustainable built and natural environment can be achieved through ecodesign, which integrates the... 
Environmental aspects | City planning | Environment, general | Cities, Countries, Regions | Architecture / Design

The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking,... 
City traffic | Planning | Streets | Traffic congestion | Traffic calming | Environment, general | Cities, Countries, Regions | Environment | Urbanism

Superstorm Sandy sent a strong message that a new generation of urban development and infrastructure is desperately needed, and it must be designed with... 
Urban policy | Sustainable urban development | Architecture | Environment, general | Cities, Countries, Regions | Environment | Urbanism

This volume provides an examination of various aspects of green roads, from transportation policy to the basics of road design, public involvement, road... 
Ecological landscape design | Roads | Traffic safety | Human factors | Highway planning | Context sensitive solutions (Transportation) | Design and construction | Roads - Design and construction - Human factors

Michele Arnaboldi, an architect from Ticino, who has worked for Luigi Snozzi, among others, founded his own firm in Locarno in 1995. He has made his reputation... 
Architecture | History | Arnaboldi, Michele, 1953 | Architects | Cities, Countries, Regions

The author examines the two most advanced eco-city projects: the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in China, and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. These are the most... 
Sustainable urban development | Geography | Urban economics | Sociology/Urban | Urban Studies, Cities and Planning | Environment & Energy Policy Economics | Historical Geography | Asian Geography | Urban Sociology | Urban Studies and Planning | Geography, urban studies, sustainable cities, nature and the city, resilience, the green economy, China, eco-cities, low-carbon economy, energy security, climate change, hyper-urbanization, demographic shifts, global crises. | Urban and Real Estate Economics | Environmental Economics | Sustainable Development and the Environment | Urban ecology (Sociology) | Sustainable development

This book was written to support community involvement in the design process, to help prevent negative outcomes that can result from a top-down design... 
Climate Change Impacts | Cities, Countries, Regions | Environment | Charrettes | City planning | Sustainable development | Landscape Architecture | Business Strategy/Leadership | Urbanism