<p>The book examines the contemporary Asian city through the prism of urban design in assimilating new and established drivers of growth. This includes intensified forms of residential development, specialised commercial centres and technology parks, that drive the momentum of the contemporary city, while acting to restructure and reshape forms of capital investment. New spatial patterns are facilitated by tranches of urban expansion, redevelopment, regeneration and suburbanisation that have emerged as by-products of both formal and informal development processes. The book also examines the Asian city language embodied in the local morphology ¿ the essential values of the street, block, temple precinct and monument, and how these can be incorporated as drivers of new urban identities that relate to the changing culture and configuration of city neighbourhoods. All of these continue to impose different levels of impact on the creation of livable cities and the quality of life for their
Pris: kr 399.00 fra Norli
Butikk | Pris | |
---|---|---|
kr 399.00 | Besøk butikk |
The book focusses initially on the philosophical, artistic and scientific forces that impacted on the humanism of the late Medieval and Renaissance period.
kr 339.00
Mer informasjon
<P>This much-anticipated fifth edition of <I>Exploring Education</I> offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre- and in-service teachers will find a...
kr 1099.00
Mer informasjon
With photographs, track layouts, operating instructions and timetables brought to life by the reminiscences of people who worked in the area, "Railway Memories No 15" recalls the busy railway network serving the West Yorkshire towns of Pontefract,...
kr 199.00
Mer informasjon
With bygone railway scenes from all over Yorkshire, 184 pictures - 11 of them colour - illustrate the wide variety of diesel locomotives and multiple units to be found in the white rose county prior to the end of British Rail steam on 11th August 1968.
kr 229.00
Mer informasjon