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Companion to Urban Design
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Companion to Urban Design

E-bookPDFDRM AdobeE-book
Ranking79529inBiologie
CHF152.20

Description

Today urban design has emerged as an important area of intellectual pursuit, with applications at many different scales - ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes. The field interfaces with many aspects of contemporary public policy - multiculturalism, economic development, climate change, energy conservation, sustainable development, community livability, and related issues. The Companion to Urban Design includes original contributions from a select group of internationally renowned scholars and practitioners.
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9781136920097
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatPDF
Format noteDRM Adobe
Publishing date17/03/2011
Edition11001 A. 1. Auflage
Pages736 pages
LanguageEnglish
File size12559 Kbytes
Illustrations21 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 75 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 5 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 19 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Article no.1411011
CatalogsVC
Data source no.173106
Product groupBiologie
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Author

Tridib Banerjee holds the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning and Development. His research focuses on the design and planning of the built environment and the related human and social consequences. In particular, he is interested in the political economy of urban development, and the effects of globalization in the transformation of urban form and urbanism from a comparative international perspective.



Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is Professor of Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Urban Planning. Her research focuses on the public environment of the city, its design, social meaning, and impact on urban residents. In particular, her work is characterized by a "user focus" in that she seeks to analyze and understand the built environment from the perspective of those who live and work there.