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Cities for LifeHow Communities Can Recover from Trauma and Rebuild for Health
Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Place Book Award Winner (2022) What if cities around the world actively worked to promote the health and healing of all of their residents? Cities contribute to the traumas that cause unhealthy stress, with segregated neighborhoods, insecure housing, few playgrounds, environmental pollution, and unsafe streets, particularly for the poor and resi…
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The Essential Ian McHargWritings on Design and Nature
The Essential Ian McHarg brings together a series of short essays that reveal the full range of Ian McHarg's thoughts on design and nature. Adapted from the comprehensive book of his work, To Heal the Earth, these carefully selected essays provide an ideal reader for undergraduate and graduate students in planning and landscape architecture.
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Urban DevelopmentThe Logic Of Making Plans
With increased awareness of the role of plans in shaping urban and suburban landscapes has come increased criticism of planners and the planning profession. Developers, politicians, and citizens alike blame "poor planning" for a host of community ills. But what are plans really supposed to do? How do they work? What problems can they successfully address, and what is beyond their scope? In Urba…
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Public ProduceThe New Urban Agriculture
Public Produce makes a uniquely contemporary case not for central government intervention, but for local government involvement in shaping food policy. In what Darrin Nordahl calls "municipal agriculture," elected officials, municipal planners, local policymakers, and public space designers are turning to the abundance of land under public control (parks, plazas, streets, city squares, parking …
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Community PlanningAn Introduction to the Comprehensive Plan, Second Edition
This book introduces community planning as practiced in the United States, focusing on the comprehensive plan. Sometimes known by other names—especially master plan or general plan—the type of plan described here is the predominant form of general governmental planning in the U.S. Although many government agencies make plans for their own programs or facilities, the comprehensive plan is th…
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New Geographies of the American WestLand Use and the Changing Patterns of Place
Reconciling explosive growth with often majestic landscape defines New Geographies of the American West. Geographer William Travis examines contemporary land use changes and development patterns from the Mississippi to the Pacific, and assesses the ecological and social outcomes of Western development. Unlike previous "boom" periods dependent on oil or gold, the modern population explosion in t…
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Restoring Streams in CitiesA Guide for Planners, Policymakers, and Citizens
Restoring Streams in Cities equips readers with the tools to transform degraded urban waterways into vibrant ecological and community assets—without relying on costly, destructive infrastructure. Whether you're a planner, engineer, advocate, or homeowner, this book rewards you with a smarter, more sustainable way to address flooding, erosion, and stream degradation. Instead of outdated metho…
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People Habitat25 Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities
With over 80 percent of Americans now living in cities and suburbs, getting our communities right has never been more important, more complicated, or more fascinating. Longtime sustainability leader Kaid Benfield shares 25 enlightening and entertaining essays about the wondrous ecology of human settlement, and how to make it better for both people and the planet. People Habitat explores topics…
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Treacherous TransparenciesThoughts and Observations Triggered by a Visit to F…
Treacherous Transparencies analyzes transparency as expressed in architecture and art in an attempt to understand the intentions and objectives that underlie its use by pertinent architects and artists. The publication looks at a few important works by selected artists and architects who work with transparency as an artistic strategy, which they implement primarily by using glass and mirrors bu…
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Die Pfarrkirche Gut Hirt in der Neustadt von Zug
Die 1936/37 von den bedeutenden Zuger Architekten Alois Stadler und Walter F. Wilhelm errichtete Kirche Gut Hirt gilt als Arbeiterkirche. Infolge der Industrialisierung mit starkem Bevölkerungswachstum entstand sie im sich neu herausbildenden Arbeiterquartier Neustadt ausserhalb der Stadt Zug. 1944 wurde sie Zentrum einer neu gegründeten Pfarrei und damit zur Pfarrkirche. In der präzisen Set…
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