City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Investigating Jewish spatial practices by exploring the symbol of the house in Judaism, this book examines two groups of houses: ritual objects bas...

In recent years, the social sciences have taken a mobilities turn. There has been a developing realisation that mobilities do not just happen. Mobi...

Contemporary cities in the Iberian Peninsula have gone through a period of dramatic changes during the last decade. A period of upward economic ind...

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...

Originally published in 1992, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...

This open access book describes the complex dynamics that coevolve in cities and from cities, to inform agendas for urban research and urban policy...

Urban Mobility sheds light on mobility in twenty-first-century Canadian cities. The book explores the profound changes associated with technologica...

Schinkel in Athens: Meta-Narratives of 19th-Century City Planning proposes a fresh appraisal of Karl Friedrich Schinkels urban design legacy and hi...

Exploring creative responses to community challenges Creative Instigation is a collection of in-depth case stories focused on effective and innovat...

Exploring creative responses to community challenges Creative Instigation is a collection of in-depth case stories focused on effective and innovat...

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Wie kommen wir von vernachlässigten, brachliegenden, leeren, stigmati...

Gerontopia examines contemporary architectural and urban mutations that have emerged as a consequence of one of the key demographic transformations...

This key planning textbook on designing healthy and sustainable communities informs planners about community life and the processes of planning and...

Today, the new Indonesian capital city, Nusantara, planning is being anticipated as representing national identity, a model city, or a gift to the ...

Carved out of century-old farmland near Chicago, the Prairie Crossing development is a novel experiment in urban public policy that preserves 69 pe...

This book introduces an indispensable tool: the carbon footprint calculator for urban planning. In the face of the escalating climate crisis, urban...

This book provides a thorough guide to building resilient cities, through the use of smart solutions enabled by information and communication techn...