Author: Robert Llewellyn
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 178352006X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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In this eagerly-awaited sequel to News From Gardenia, Gavin Meckler is trying to get back to the present, but something is amiss. He soon realises he has travelled sideways through time to another possible future, as unlike Gardenia as our own era. Arriving in a teeming megacity, Gavin discovers a highly technologically developed society in a vast urban landscape constructed around a seemingly endless series of squares dense with lush vegetation and trees. Much of what Gavin sees is recognisable. But there is one important difference. Here, women make up the majority of the global population and run the majority of institutions, including the vast and mysterious Institute of Mental Health where Gavin is required to live...
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Category : Alfalfa industry
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Author: Jon Lang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317337883
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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To attract investment and tourists and to enhance the quality of life of their citizens, municipal authorities are paying considerable attention to the quality of the public domain of their cities – including their urban squares. Politicians find them good places for rallies. Children consider squares to be playgrounds, the elderly as places to catch-up with each other, and for many others squares are simply a place to pause for a moment. Urban Squares as Places, Links and Displays: Successes and Failures discusses how people experience squares and the nature of the people who use them. It presents a ‘typology of squares’ based on the dimensions of ownership, the square’s instrumental functions, and a series of their basic physical attributes including size, degree of enclosure, configuration and organization of the space within them and finally based on their aesthetic attributes – their meanings. Twenty case studies illustrate what works and what does not work in different cities around the world. It discusses the qualities of lively squares and quieter, more restorative places as well as what contributes to making urban squares less desirable as destinations for the general public. The book closes with the policy implications, stressing the importance and difficulties of designing good public places. Urban Squares offers how-to guidance along with a strong theoretical framework making it ideal for architects, city planners and landscape architects working on the design and upgrade of squares.
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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