First published in 1999, Everyday Urbanism has become a classic in the discussion of cities and real life. Within the context of history, theory, and practice of urban design, the essays explore the city as a social entity that must be responsive to daily routines and neighborhood concerns and offer both an analysis of and a method for working within the social and political ...(展开全部)

本书为提出可替代和可持续的城市化形式，设问：生态城市主义的主要原则是什么？如何组织这些原则？设计与规划将在此过程中扮演什么样的角色？ 尽管气候变化，可持续建筑，和绿色技术等越来越受到关注，而与城市的可持续性相关的话题却相对门庭冷落。本书的写作前提是：我们迫切需要一种生态的途径来拯救当代城市并为新的城市建立原则。生态城市主义对待城市化并没有统一的方式，而是从全球的视角，多尺度和多学科的途径来应对。设计提供了一个综合性的解决方案，将生态与城市联系起来，而不与环境相冲突。 本书汇集了设计从业人员和理论家，经济学家，工程师，艺术家，决策者，环境科学家和公共卫生专家，以期更全面地理解生态城市主义及其未来。 With the aim of projecting alternative and sustainable forms of urbanism, the ...(展开全部)

This text examines the issues that directly affect cities and neighbourhoods. Since the 1960s, many architects and urban planners have reacted against the drab universalism and inhuman scale of modern architecture and urbanism, seeking instead to recover a sense of community and place. It is apparent to these architects and planners that something needs to be done to improve th...(展开全部)

Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious—even liberating—book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden con...(展开全部)

With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discipline has emerged: landscape urbanism. In "The Landscape Urbanism Reader", Charles Waldheim - long at the forefront of this new movement - has assembled the definitive colle...(展开全部)

With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discipline has emerged: landscape urbanism. In "The Landscape Urbanism Reader", Charles Waldheim - long at the forefront of this new movement - has assembled the definitive colle...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 World-renowned design and innovation firm IDEO uses first-hand observations to inform and inspire its work. As it did with the groundbreaking observational primer Thoughtless Acts? , IDEO once again brings its instructive methods to bear on the world around us, this time with an eye toward the inherent but unheralded presence of modern engineering. By observing the b...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 World-renowned design and innovation firm IDEO uses first-hand observations to inform and inspire its work. As it did with the groundbreaking observational primer Thoughtless Acts? , IDEO once again brings its instructive methods to bear on the world around us, this time with an eye toward the inherent but unheralded presence of modern engineering. By observing the b...(展开全部)

译者 衣俊卿，教授、博士生导师，中央编译局局长。1982年毕业于北京大学哲学系，1987年获贝尔格莱德大学哲学博士学位。曾先后担任黑龙江大学哲学系主任，《求是学刊》主编，黑龙江大学副校长，黑龙江大学校长、党委副书记。2007年3月起任黑龙江省委宣传部部长、省社会科学界联合会党组书记，2007年4月起担任黑龙江省委常委、省委宣传部部长、省社会科学界联合会党组书记。2010年2月起担任中央编译局局长。现兼任中国现代外国哲学学会副会长、中国俄罗斯东欧中亚学会副会长、中国辩证唯物主义学会常务理事、中国人学学会常务理事、中国马克思主义哲学史学会理事。 长期从事马克思主义文化哲学、国外马克思主义的研究工作，主要研究领域：马克思的实践哲学、当代马克思主义、现代化进程中的日常生活批判理论。主要著作有：《实践派的探索与实践哲学的述评》、《东欧的新马克思主义》、《现代化...(展开全部)