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Availability:In StockContributor:Brian McGrathSeries:AD ReaderPublish date:2013-01-14Pages:320
Languages:EnglishPublisher:WileyISBN-13:9780470974056ISBN-10:470974052UPC:9780470974056Book Category:Architecture, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Urban & Land Use Planning, Public PolicyBook Topic:City Planning & Urban DevelopmentSize:9.50 x 6.60 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCXM8H8A51
Der Urban Design Ecologies Reader stellt Architekten und Stadtplanern wichtige Tools zum besseren Verständnis heutiger städtebaulicher Ma nahmen bereit. Essays führender Experten spannen den Bogen zwischen historischen Entwicklungen und innovativen Ansätzen zur Bewältigung der globalen Herausforderungen rasanter Urbanisierungsprozesse und des Klimawandels. Die neuesten Ansätze in den Bereichen Stadtentwicklung, darunter Kernkonzepte wie Stadtarchitektur, Architektur gro er Metropolen (Stichwort "Gro architektur"), Wucherung der Städte, Megastädte (oder die informelle Stadt) und Metastädte, die von digitalen Technologien und dem Ökologiegedanken getragen werden, werden im Detail erörtert.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:WileyISBN-13:9780470974056ISBN-10:470974052UPC:9780470974056Book Category:Architecture, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Urban & Land Use Planning, Public PolicyBook Topic:City Planning & Urban DevelopmentSize:9.50 x 6.60 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCXM8H8A51

Brian McGrath is an Associate Professor of Urban Design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. He taught at Columbia University in the Urban Design Studios for 15 years in a programme that grew 500% in student population between 1991 and 2005. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Thailand in 1998/99. He is currently a co-investigator on an interdisciplinary team on the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a Long Term Ecological Research project where he coordinates a working group linking science research, public policy and design. McGrath has authored and contributed to many books and journals, he also teaches and lectures internationally.


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