City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Americans are committing 'country-cide', says Rick Pruetz, FAICP, converting farms into suburban yards and channeling streams that once provided fl...

First published in 1984, this book presents a survey of housing problems in various European countries and how individual states have responded. Ea...

Decentralization in Environmental Governance is a critical reflection on the dangers and risks of governance renewal; warning against one-sided cri...

Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes. It...

In the decades following the 1997 Asian economic crisis, South Korea sought segyehwa (globalization). Evidence of this is no more evident than in t...

Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts...

This title was published in 2000: This text offers a standpoint on communicative, participatory planning called consensus planning. The discussion ...

This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, ...

This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context. Most models are rooted in ...

Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will take place in suburbia. The critical challenge is how to accommodate this growth in...

Making Use of Deleuze in Planning translates and re-creates some of Gilles Deleuzes most abstract philosophical concepts to form a new, practicable...

What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary? Why are some urban spaces more vital and restorative? Wonderful landscapes, inspiring works of arch...

This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlan...

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of t...

Long-sighted, radical and provocative, this book offers a foundational framework of concepts, principles and methods (exemplified with selected too...

After 1945 it was not just Europes parliamentary buildings that promised to house democracy: hotels in Turkey and Dutch shopping malls proposed new...

This book is for the well-meaning idealists city planners, urban designers, municipalities, and developers who are frustrated working within the ...

This book advocates an approach to lighting design that focuses on how people experience illumination. Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces cont...

This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to tho...

Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities brings together scientific reflections on the relations of art and urban mobilities and artistic research on...

UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory discusses one of the greatest challenges for twenty-first-century society: what is to be done...

The aim of this book is to construct a framework of understanding for those coming to the field of recreational land management from a non-land man...

What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary? Why are some urban spaces more vital and restorative? Wonderful landscapes, inspiring works of arch...

Istanbul: Informal Settlements and Generative Urbanism analyzes two informal housing settlements in Istanbul, Turkey Karanfilköy and Fatih Sultan ...