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The Life and Death of the Australian Backyard
A substantial backyard has long been considered an iconic feature of the Australian suburb. Nevertheless, during the 1990s, a dramatic change occurred: substantial backyards largely disappeared from new suburban houses in Australia. Whatever the size of lot, the dwelling now covers most of its developable area. Although the planning system does not actually promote this change, it does little …
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Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan
Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading 'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham, as their principal subjects, Simon Gunn and Susan C. Townsend show how cars changed the spatial form and individual experience of the modern city and reveal the…
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Understanding Land DevelopmentA Project-Based Approach
This book draws on the author's considerable expertise in land development processes and planning, and planning education. It takes a learning-by-doing studio approach and shows how to undertake a development feasibility study in three main stages: the preliminary proposal, a design and finally, a full report with a financially appraised proposal. Understanding Land Development shows how to ta…
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Assembling the ArchitectThe History and Theory of Professional Practice
Assembling the Architect explores the origins and history of architectural practice. It unravels the competing interests that historically have structured the field and cultivates a deeper understanding of the contemporary profession. Focusing on the period 1870 to 1920 when the foundations were being laid for the U.S. architectural profession that we recognize today, this study traces the form…
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Planning MelbourneLessons for a Sustainable City
For more than a decade, Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city. It is expanding outward while also growing upward through vast new high-rise developments in the inner suburbs. With an estimated 1.6 million additional homes needed by 2050, planners and policymakers need to address current and emerging issues of amenity, function, productive capacity and s…
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Il ministro e le sue mogliFrancesco Crispi tra magistrati, domande della stam…
Francesco Crispi sposa Rosalie Montmasson a Malta nel 1854. Lei lo sostiene, è intraprendente, decisa, coraggiosa, unica donna fra i Mille di Garibaldi. I due vivono insieme per oltre venticinque anni. L'unità d'Italia cambia la loro vita, Francesco diventa deputato e con Rosalie al seguito si sposta nelle diverse capitali del Regno: Torino, Firenze, Roma. Il tempo passa e lei sfiorisce. IL r…
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Australia's Metropolitan ImperativeAn Agenda for Governance Reform
Since the early 1990s there has been a global trend towards governmental devolution. However, in Australia, alongside deregulation, public–private partnerships and privatisation, there has been increasing centralisation rather than decentralisation of urban governance. Australian state governments are responsible for the planning, management and much of the funding of the cities, but the Comm…
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Il lungo regnoVita avventurosa di Federico III Re di Sicilia
Pochi sovrani hanno avuto la fortuna di godere di un così vasto e convinto consenso come quello di cui godette Federico III d'Aragona, re di Sicilia. Su di lui ricadono le conseguenze della rivolta del Vespro ed è proprio lui che, per circa quarant'anni è costretto a guerreggiare per difendere la Sicilia dagli Angioini. Federico, che a buona ragione viene considerato il fondatore della "Nazi…
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Positive Energy HomesCreating Passive Houses for Better Living
Positive energy homes enable people to live healthy and comfortable lives with energy left over to share. Creating a house you love that produces surplus energy is surprisingly easy with a thorough understanding of how buildings work and careful attention to detail in construction. The Passive House standard, with its well-proven track record, forms the basis for creating positive energy homes…
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Autostrada NovissimaArchitetture in sequenza lungo l'A4 tra Bergamo e Milano
"Dal secondo dopoguerra ad oggi, in Europa e in America, l'osservazione a "grande scala" delle infrastrutture di trasporto ha permesso alla cultura del progetto architettonico e urbano di conseguire notevoli risultati nella comprensione di quali siano state e quali potrebbero essere le dinamiche di trasformazione degli spazi densamente abitati. Allo stesso tempo sono pochi - e probabilmente per…
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