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Ordnance: War + Architecture & Space investigates how strategies of warfare occupy and alter built and other landscapes. Ranging across the modern period from the eighteenth century to the present day, the book presents a series of case-studies which operate in and between a number of settings and scales, from the infrastructures of the battlefield to the logistics of the domestic realm. The book explores the patterns, forms and systems that articulate militarised spaces, excavates how these become re-circulated and reconfigured within other domains and discusses the often ephemeral legacies and residues of these architectures. The complexities of unpicking the spaces of the 'fog of war' are addressed by an inter-disciplinary approach which deploys graphic and textual analyses and techniques to provide new and unique perspectives on a hitherto underexplored aspect of architectural and spatial discourse: the tactics and programmes through which the built environment has historically been made to respond to the imperatives and threats of conflict and, in the context of the 'war on terror', continues to be so in ever more pervasive ways."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Architecture --- Design urbain --- Philosophie

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Manuel pratique de conception architecturale et urbanistique proposant aux usagers plusieurs niveaux de choix : perméabilité (où aller ou ne pas aller), variété (le choix des usages), lisibilité (compréhension aisée des opportunités offertes), solidité (utilisation d'un lieu donné pour différents buts), propriétés visuelles (comment l'apparence détaillée d'un lieu peut avertir des choix disponibles), richesse (le choix des expériences sensorielles) et personnalisation, dans la mesure où l'on peut apposer sa marque sur un lieu. The authors first examine what is meant by the concept of a "responsive environment", and then provide an illustrated step-by-step guide on how to achieve it in real-life design. The book demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible and controllable places.

Ontwerpen --- Conception architecturale --- Manuel --- Environnement --- Urbanisme --- Design urbain

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City planning --- Design urbain --- City planning. --- Great Britain.

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Public landscapes are an integral part of city life. They not only add beauty to cities, but also maintain a harmony and balance between human and environment. This book contains the most recent representative works of numerous excellent designers from across the world. The spaces illustrated include parks, streets, squares, commercial spaces, educational spaces, and cultural spaces. It illustrates the most unique landscape designs from design concept to detailed description, and from overall landscapes to partial features.

Urbanisme --- Design urbain --- City planning --- Public spaces --- Espaces publics --- Design --- urban landscapes --- Environmental planning --- urban planning --- Urbanisme. --- Design urbain. --- Design.

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Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities' locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services and infrastructure that have dominated for the past two centuries are increasingly infeasible. Conventional arrangements for understanding and managing water in cities are being subverted by a range of natural, technological, political, economic and social changes. The prognosis for water in cities remains unclear, and multiple visions and discourses are emerging to fill the space left by the certainty of nineteenth century urban water planning and engineering. This book documents a sample of those different trajectories, in terms of water transformations, option, services and politics. Water is a key element shaping urban form, economies and lifestyles, part of the ongoing transformation of cities. Cities are faced with a range of technical and policy options for future water systems. Water is an essential urban service, but models of provision remain highly contested with different visions for ownership of infrastructure, the scale of provision, and the level of service demanded by users. Water is a contentious political issue in the future of cities, serving different urban interests as power and water seem to flow in the same direction. Cities in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America provide case studies and emerging water challenges and responses. Comparison across different contexts demonstrates how the particular and the universal intersect in complex ways to generate new trajectories for urban water. [Publisher]

Municipal water supply --- Urban landscape architecture --- City planning. --- Approvisionnement urbain en eau. --- Paysage urbain --- Design urbain.