Urban Planning & Development
epub |eng | 2016-08-05 | Author:Michael Ableman

There is no place to sit down at our market stand. We like to stay on our feet and meet eye-to-eye with eager eaters. Our market display requires hours to ...
( Category: Urban September 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Marcuse & Peter Marcuse

This is the richest and best developed country in the world. Who made it so? The rich? No. The Police Commissioner? No. The poor made it so. The only cure ...
( Category: Social Policy September 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-12 | Author:Carlo Ratti & Matthew Claudel

Plan of Brasília by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa Building a city entirely from scratch allows the planner to selectively use only the most advanced technology of the time. Recalling ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development August 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Michael Batty [Batty, Michael]

Figure 8.1 Constructing a space-filling curve: The Koch snowflake curve. (a) Successive displacement of the central section of a line at ever-finer scales. (b) Application of the displacement rule to ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Kotkin, Joel

WHY WE NEED BOTH GEOGRAPHIES Ultimately, urban policy should be about choices, and developers should respond to market signals and preferences rather than government edicts that suggest how people should ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development June 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Hardin Kapp

CHAPTER EIGHT Rethinking Storm Water A MODEL FOR SYNERGICITY JAMES H. WASLEY In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development June 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-28 | Author:Amy Edmondson

Sensors to the Rescue One of the transformative innovations in the building space is the use of sensors in the construction process. Meanwhile recent advances in building controls integrate sensors ...
( Category: Communications May 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:de-Shalit, Avner, Bell, Daniel A.

Cricket on a Sunday, by Christ Church College, Oxford. Photograph © Douglas Freer. Courtesy of Shutterstock. The colleges try to stimulate their fellows (lecturers and students) to creativity by supplying ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Charles Montgomery [Montgomery, Charles]

First We Shape Our Streets, Then They Shape Us A white male living in Midtown (left), near Atlanta’s downtown, is likely to weigh ten pounds less than his identical twin ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 5,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sergei R. Grinevetsky, Igor S. Zonn, Sergei S. Zhiltsov, Aleksey N. Kosarev & Andrey G. Kostianoy

“Knorr” the US (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) research vessel that in May-June 1988 conducted explorations in B.S. Equipped with the modern precision measuring instruments they managed to unveil the interaction ...
( Category: Geology January 31,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alice Alexiou [Alice Sparberg Alexiou ]

But Jacobs and Abrams were wrong to think that nothing was changing. Scientific revolutions happen, Kuhn argued, in response to a crisis. Then follows the “crisis-state”—something that “demands the competence ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development September 6,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-05-11 | Author:Alice Alexiou

But Jacobs and Abrams were wrong to think that nothing was changing. Scientific revolutions happen, Kuhn argued, in response to a crisis. Then follows the “crisis-state”—something that “demands the competence ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development September 6,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Flint, Anthony. [Anthony., Flint,]

154 T H I S L A N D America’s world-famous big-box shopping strips are spread out and cheaply constructed. They offer millions of acres of parking lots—and unrivaled convenience ...
( Category: Regional Planning June 12,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Giffords, Gabrielle; Kelly, Mark [Giffords, Gabrielle; Kelly, Mark]

CHAPTER EIGHT NRA, INC. Political meddling is one thing, but there’s another side to the NRA that Gabby and I began to find even more troubling. The National Rifle Association, ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development May 24,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Giffords, Gabrielle; Kelly, Mark

CHAPTER EIGHT NRA, INC. Political meddling is one thing, but there’s another side to the NRA that Gabby and I began to find even more troubling. The National Rifle Association, ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development May 24,2015 )