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Cities Designed for Winter
Author | : Jorma Mänty,Norman Pressman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Architecture and climate |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013190189 |
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Series of papers which describe approaches to cold climate habitability from various northern nations including examples from Canada, China, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Japan, Mongolia, Norway, Soviet Union, Sweden and the United States.
Shaping Cities for Winter
Author | : Norman Pressman,Winter Cities Association |
Publsiher | : Prince George, B.C. : Winter Cities Association |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105121573542 |
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Northern Cityscape
Author | : Norman Pressman,Winter Cities Association |
Publsiher | : Yellowknife, NT : Winter Cities Association |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : UOM:39015037285726 |
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Reshaping Winter Cities
Author | : Livable Winter City Association |
Publsiher | : Livable Winter City Association |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Architecture and climate |
ISBN | : UOM:39015047364248 |
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Collection of papers by Canadian experts concerning development policies, strategies, concepts and trends that will ameliorate important features of daily life in cities, with special emphasis on the winter season. Highlights critical issues related to cold climate urban environments.
Frostbike
Author | : Tom Babin |
Publsiher | : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781771600484 |
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The bicycle is fast becoming a ubiquitous form of transportation in cities all over the world, making our urban spaces more efficient, more livable and healthier. But many of those bicycles disappear into basements and garages when the warm months end, parked there by owners fearful of the cold, snow and ice that winter brings. But does it have to be that way? Canadian writer and journalist Tom Babin started questioning this dogma after being stuck in winter commuter traffic one dreary and cold December morning and dreaming about the happiness that bicycle commuting had brought him all summer long. So he did something about it. He pulled on some thermal underwear, dragged his bike down from the rafters of his garage and set out on a mission to answer a simple but beguiling question: is it possible to happily ride a bike in winter? That question took him places he never expected. Over years of trial and error, research and more than his share of snow and ice, he discovered an unknown history of biking for snow and ice, and a new generation designed to make riding in winter safe and fun. He unearthed the world's most bike-friendly winter city and some new approaches to winter cycling from places all over the world. He also looked inward, to discover how the modern world shapes our attitudes toward winter. And perhaps most importantly, he discovered the unique kind of bliss that can only come by pedalling through softly falling snow on a quiet winter night.
The Image of the City
Author | : Kevin Lynch |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1964-06-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0262620014 |
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The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Why Cities Look the Way They Do
Author | : Richard J. Williams |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2019-08-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780745691848 |
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We tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners and builders. But what if the look of cities had less to do with design, and more to do with social, cultural, financial and political processes, and the way ordinary citizens interact with them? What if the city is a process as much as a design? Richard J. Williams takes the moment construction is finished as a beginning, tracing the myriad processes that produce the look of the contemporary global city. This book is the story of dramatic but unforeseen urban sights: how financial capital spawns empty towering skyscrapers and hollowed-out ghettoes; how the zoning of once-illicit sexual practices in marginal areas of the city results in the reinvention of culturally vibrant gay villages; how abandoned factories have been repurposed as creative hubs in a precarious postindustrial economy. It is also the story of how popular urban clichés and the fictional portrayal of cities powerfully shape the way we read and see the bricks, concrete and glass that surround us. Thought-provoking and original, Why Cities Look the Way They Do will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the contemporary city, shedding new light on humanity’s greatest collective invention.
Inside Smart Cities
Author | : Andrew Karvonen,Federico Cugurullo,Federico Caprotti |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-09-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781351166188 |
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The era of the smart city has arrived. Only a decade ago, the promise of optimising urban services through the widespread application of information and communication technologies was largely a techno-utopian fantasy. Today, smart urbanisation is occurring via urban projects, policies and visions in hundreds of cities around the globe. Inside Smart Cities provides real-world evidence on how local authorities, small and medium enterprises, corporations, utility providers and civil society groups are creating smart cities at the neighbourhood, city and regional scales. Twenty three empirically detailed case studies from the Global North and South – ranging from Cape Town, Stockholm and Abu Dhabi to Philadelphia, Hong Kong and Santiago – illustrate the multiple and diverse incarnations of smart urbanism. The contributors draw on ideas from urban studies, geography, urban planning, science and technology studies and innovation studies to go beyond the rhetoric of technological innovation and reveal the political, social and physical implications of digitalising the built environment. Collectively, the practices of smart urbanism raise fundamental questions about the sustainability, liveability and resilience of cities in the future. The findings are relevant to academics, students, practitioners and urban stakeholders who are questioning how urban innovation relates to politics and place.