Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: matthew carmona

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  • PUBLIC PLACES URBAN SPACES
    MATTHEW CARMONA
    Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear and systematic guide. In this new edition the book has been extensively revised and restructured. Carmona advances the idea of urban design as a continuous process of shaping places, fashioned in turn b...

    $1,179.00

  • EXPLORATIONS IN URBAN DESIGN
    MATTHEW CARMONA
    Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances an interdisciplinary and innovative approach, which is of direct importance to understanding the urban forms, conditions, practices and processes. It enthuses and inspires users who are grappling with urban design research problems, but who need inspir...

    $1,179.00

  • DESIGN GOVERNANCE
    MATTHEW CARMONA / CLAUDIO DE MAGALHAES / LUCY NATARAJAN
    Design Governance focuses on how we design the built environment where most of us live, work, and play and the role of government in that process. To do so, it draws on the experience of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), a decade-long, globally unique experiment in the governance of design. This book theorises design governance as an arm and aspi...

    $1,699.00

  • THE DESIGN DIMENSION OF PLANNING
    MATTHEW CARMONA / JOHN PUNTER
    This book examines the design policies in current development plans. With design quality of growing importance to the public, consumers, developers and their clients, and high on the Secretary of State's agenda, this book makes an important practical contribution to improving design control. With the increasing importance attached to district-wide development plan policies sinc...

    $1,179.00

  • CAPITAL SPACES
    MATTHEW CARMONA / FILIPA MATOS WUNDERLICH
    In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the needs of wider society. Whether it is the privatization of public space through commerical developments like shopping malls and business parks, the gentrification of existing spaces by campa...

    $1,259.00

  • PUBLIC SPACE
    CARMONA, MATTHEW / MAGALHÃES, CLAUDIO DE / HAMMOND, LEO
    In both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and pessimism about the state of urban environments, particularly with the quality of everyday public spaces. Explanations for this have emphasized the poor quality of design that characterizes many new public spaces; spaces that are dominated by parking, roads infrastructure, introspective buildings, a lack of enclo...

    $1,259.00

  • URBAN DESIGN READER
    STEVE TIESDELL / MATTHEW CARMONA
    Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the auth...

    $1,339.00

  • MEASURING QUALITY IN PLANNING
    MATTHEW CARMONA / LOUIE SIEH
    This book deals with one of the current major debates in planning: how to measure the quality and effectiveness of the output of the planning process. It deals with issues of defining quality, public sector management, the use of indicators and the planning process. Although case study material is drawn from UK practice this topic is universal and the authors include discussion...

    $2,200.00

  • HOUSING DESIGN QUALITY
    MATTHEW CARMONA
    This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England increases, a widespread desire to improve the design of the resulting residential environments becomes evermore apparent with increasing condemnation of the standard products of the volume housebuilders. In ...

    $2,600.00