The revitalization of Miami's South Beach Art Deco District is one of the great success stories of twentieth-century architecture and urban design. In the wake of this success, a mdoernist building boom resulted to complement the existing Art Deco gems, and the development Aqua …
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Large housing estates: for some people these three words symbolise all that is wrong in urban planning. Large is wrong, because many people prefer a living surrounding that reflects the human scale. Housing as a single function is wrong, because mixed areas are livelier. And est…
Large housing estates: for some people these three words symbolise all that is wrong in urban planning. Large is wrong, because many people prefer a living surrounding that reflects the human scale. Housing as a single function is wrong, because mixed areas are livelier. And est…
"In Designing Sustainable Communities, Judy and Micheal Corbett offer an inside look at the development of the project from start to finish, describing how it came about, design approaches they took, and changes that have occurred over the years. The book represents an invaluabl…
"In Designing Sustainable Communities, Judy and Micheal Corbett offer an inside look at the development of the project from start to finish, describing how it came about, design approaches they took, and changes that have occurred over the years. The book represents an invaluabl…
"In Designing Sustainable Communities, Judy and Micheal Corbett offer an inside look at the development of the project from start to finish, describing how it came about, design approaches they took, and changes that have occurred over the years. The book represents an invaluabl…
This book looks beyond the Aylesburys public face by examining its rise and fall from the perspective of those who knew it, based largely on the oral testimony and memoir of residents and former residents, youth and community workers, borough Councillors, officials, police offic…
This book looks beyond the Aylesbury's public face by examining its rise and fall from the perspective of those who knew it, based largely on the oral testimony and memoir of residents and former residents, youth and community workers, borough Councillors, officials, police offi…
"This book defines the new paradigm of integrated sustainable water, energy, and solids management in future cities, and proves its implementation will reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero, provide better water quality of fresh and reclaimed water, and diminish the need f…
"This book defines the new paradigm of integrated sustainable water, energy, and solids management in future cities, and proves its implementation will reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero, provide better water quality of fresh and reclaimed water, and diminish the need f…
The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.
The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch
The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch
"In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to export America itself. Fordlandia, as the settlement was …