City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It’s a study of architecture and urbanism as cultural activity t...

Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged ...

Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been—the “Next Detroit”—Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the p...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current housing practices across Asian cities based on facts and trends in the market. For many countr...

By the 1970s, 42nd Street in New York was widely perceived to be unsafe, a neighborhood thought to be populated largely by drug dealers, porn shops...

The Art of City Sketching: A Field Manual guides readers through the process of freehand architectural sketching and explains orthographic, diagram...

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It’s a study of architecture and urbanism as cultural activity t...

Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design is the result of a five-year design research project undertaken by professor Joan Busquets and Dingli...

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers have long ma...

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers have long ma...

Data, Matter, Design presents a comprehensive overview of current design processes that rely on the input of data and use of computational design s...

New York Unbound is a critical examination of the problems and prospects of New York City as it approaches the twenty-first century and a call to a...

Always the focal point in modern times for momentous political, social and cultural upheaval, Berlin has continued, since the fall of the Wall in 1...

This important work brings together a range of perspectives in contemporary urban analysis. The field of urban analysis is characterized by the mul...

Examining Chicago as a model for urban economic development in the post–World War II era, Joel Rast challenges the conventional belief that structu...

Every New York City tour bus stops at Strawberry Fields; countless movies have been filmed at Bethesda Terrace; and concerts from the Great Lawn ar...

This book provides a thorough analysis of cities and the entire metropolitan region, considering how both are intrinsically linked and influence on...

Here is a book about the practical design of communities and housing in which people can enjoy a good quality of life, free from crime and fear of ...

This collection of twenty-one essays, written by colleagues and former students of the architectural historian Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), presents c...

In an era of the globalization of finance, production and distribution networks, cities have become increasingly competitive. The business environm...

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