Bøger af Rob Imrie

This accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building. Exploring the proliferation of building and construction, Imrie sets out its many degrading impacts on both people and the environment. Using examples from around the world, he illustrates how construction is motivated by economic and political ideologies rather than actual need, and calls for a more sensitive, humane and nature-focused culture of construction. This compelling book calls for radical changes to city living and environments by building less, but better.

Offers a critique of the knowledge business, and describes and evaluates its different manifestations in, and impacts on, the university sector. This book focuses on the social sciences and, in particular, housing and urban studies.

This text makes sense of the multiple ways in which urban issues and problems have been addressed in different places at different times. From initiatives that focus on social tensions within the urban realm, to those which seek to develop cities as economic entities, it provides an accessible discussion and critique of some key approaches.

Inclusive Design is a documentation of the attitudes, values, and practices of property professionals, including developers, surveyors and architects, in responding to the building needs of disabled people.

This study analyses the shift in the relationship between large and smaller firms from confrontation and conflict, to cooperation and mutual assistance. It charts the pace of the adaption of Japanese style buyer-supplier relations in North American and Western European organizations.

Considers the relationships between disability and housing design with a focus on the role of policy in addressing the housing needs of disabled people. This book and sets out debates about the nature of housing, quality and design. It brings a range of approaches to accessible design in housing to the forefront of debate.