City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

This open access book aims to present the cutting-edge research of scholars from the Global South, where scholars from developing countries have be...

Design interventions for the reuse of existing structures must face the question of the past and the extent to which it should be included in the d...

As with so many facets of contemporary western life, architecture and space are often experienced and understood as a commodity or product. The pre...

Studies of compact cities have evolved along with the rising awareness of climate change and sustainable development. Relevant debates, however, re...

Historically, many architects, planners, and urban designers solicit idealistic depictions of a controllable urban environment made from highly reg...

Teaching Landscape: The Studio Experience gathers a range of expert contributions from across the world to collect best-practice examples of teachi...

The Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design. What do the...

This collection is an essential guide to, and critique of, visual arts regeneration strategies mobilized by local and national governments attempti...

Urbanism Beyond 2020 explores numerous questions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic: Why is city making a health project? How are ecological and hu...

Virtual cities are places of often-fractured geographies, impossible physics, outrageous assumptions and almost untamed imaginations given digital ...

Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, a...

Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, a...

The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design explores contemporary research, policy, and practice that highlight critical aspects of strategy-making, ...

This collection of essays highlights current debates for cities undergoing urban renewal, focussing on regional cities as places that lead change. ...

This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific Rim, drawing connections around the what, why, and ...

A major urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar de...

The Affective Agency of Public Space explores the pivotal role that public spaces play in fostering social inclusion and community cohesion within ...

Constant change is what marks the history of the European city. Over centuries, architecture's reactions to social disruptions-natural disaster, pl...