City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that str...

For the past 30 years, The Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emergi...

Chinas rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architect...

Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and ...

Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and ...

The focus of this book is on understanding and explaining the way that our increasingly networked world impacts on the legibility of cities; that i...

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places. To help improve such proposals, Fore...

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church ...

FRONT TO BACK sees urban housing as places to live rather than individual buildings. Using a unique design agenda it provides a step by step approa...

In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned ...

This volume discusses the nuances of cultural phenomena in the transforming urban landscape of Indian cities. It focuses on the role of globalizati...

Bringing together case studies ranging across the globe, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Ken...

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity. The book examines several L...

This edited volume delves into the intricate challenges that cities face in the midst of evolving socio-political, economic, and environmental land...

The best streets in the world's villages, towns, and citieswhether modest or grandcontinually remind one that simplicity is part of the recipe for ...

Designs by Simon Henley and Gavin Hale-Brown are inspired by the dominant social structures of the location as well as its cultural and architectu...

Barbara Brown Wilson looks at community engagement methods that are less conventional, but often more effective than traditional approaches to make...

What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green r...

The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash w...

Walker is a realist, and Human Transit is a spirited guideprescriptive but with a righteous dash of polemicto what we get wrong about transit. --To...

The SMOTIES network is a partnership of ten design universities, research centres, creative agencies, and national associations. Each partner selec...