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Rudibooks is the online bookshop for RUDI. The bookshop service is now open with new features and special discount for RUDI members. Classic urban literature:- for discerning collectors, we have made a small but careful selection of second hand / out of print items available from Inch's Books, the specialist urban planning and design bookseller, including some from the collection of the late Gordon Cherry. More Associated Book Suppliers: Still can't find the book you are looking for? Click here for sources of rare, out of print or semi-published titles. |
PLACEmaking 2008
PLACEmaking| 2008 | RUDIEditor: Juliana O'Rourke
Description
A synthesis of professional practice and case studies about better living environments.A review of the key issues and challenges placemaking professionals face at the beginning of 2008, with project examples showing how these have been innovatively approached.
Cover Price: £20.00 | Download order form
Public Space and the Culture of Childhood
Gill Valentine | 2004 | AshgateDescription
Children are at the heart of popular and public debates in North America and Europe about the culture of public space. On the one hand there is increased anxiety about children's vulnerability to stranger danger, on the other there is a rising tide of fear about out of control and dangerous youth. <more>Purchase
Offer Price: £50.00
Londons Turning: the Making of Thames Gateway
Philip Cohen and Michael J. Rustin (eds.) | 2008 | AshgateDescription
This book provides a comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames Gateway plan, but at the same time, it uses the plan as a lens through which to look at a series of important questions of social theory, urban policy and governmental practice. <more>Purchase
Offer Price: £55.00
The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville
Derek S. Hyra | 2008 | Chicago University PressDescription
Two of the most celebrated black neighborhoods in the United States - Harlem in New York City and Bronzeville in Chicago - were once plagued by crime, drugs, and abject poverty. But now both have transformed into increasingly trendy and desirable neighborhoods, with old buildings being rehabbed, new luxury condos being built, and banks opening branches in areas that were once redlined. <more>Purchase
RRP: £11.50 Offer Price: £10.35
Urban Forests and Trees: a Reference Book
Cecil C. Konijnendijk et al. (eds.) | 2005 | Springer-Verlag Berlin HeidelbergDescription
This book covers all aspects of planning, designing, establishing and managing forests and trees and forests in and near urban areas. The disciplinary background of the authors is varied, ranging from forestry and horticulture to landscape ecology, landscape architecture and even plant pathology. <more>Purchase
RRP: £122.50 Offer Price: £116.37
The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design
John V. Punter | 2004 | University of British Columbia PressDescription
This book examines the development of Vancouver's unique approach to zoning, planning, and urban design from the early 1970s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. By the late 1990s, Vancouver had established a reputation in North America for its planning achievement, especially for its creation of a participative, responsive, and design-led approach to urban regeneration and redevelopment. <more>Purchase
RRP: £27.50 Offer Price: £26.12
Link and Place: A Guide to Street Planning and Design
Peter Jones, Natalya Boujenko and Stephen Marshall | 2008 | Landor PublishingDescription
Streets are the lifeblood of our towns and cities. Street planning is about much more than just providing good transport infrastructure: it is also about quality place making, supporting liveability, urban vitality and sustainability. <more>Paperback edition of Link & Place: £49.26 | Buy the book now
Hardback edition of Link & Place: £69.26 | Buy the book now
Temporary Urban Spaces: Concepts for the Use of City Spaces
Robert Temel and Florian Haydn (eds.) | 2006 | Birkhauser Verlag AGDescription
For some time now, a new approach has been emerging to questions of town planning and the use of public and private space. The focus is no longer on the master plan, the strategy, and the making of long-term arrangements. Instead, the ephemeral, trial and error, and the unplanned are gaining legitimacy.. <more>Purchase
Offer Price: £24.90
Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the City
Katherine Shonfield | 2000 | RoutledgeDescription
Every day films are made in cities, building and rooms, and every day architects and urbanists make decisions about cities, buildings and rooms. Their skills are addressed to the same subject but they inhabit different worlds. Now, for the first time, this book brings the insights, methodlogies and visions of film to the practice of architecture. <more>Purchase
RRP: £28.99 Offer Price: £27.54
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