Collection: Tech Book

Identifies a wide range of drainage and erosion problems which affect urban areas and presents a variety of techniques available for dealing with them.

This series focuses on physical urban design strategies. It concentrates on ideas, information and ways to increase understanding of urban structure and urban form, and to better inform decisions about these elements.

Better cities program is not aimed solely at local urban planning and development initiatives in its 26 area strategies. One of the goals is ecologically sustainable develoment.

The professional urban designer is distant from the ultimate user, and often at odds with the other actors in the decision-making process. The designer may only implement decisions already made, or may wield substantial power, because of his personal prestige and his ability to frame the terms o...