City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

The experiences we enjoy, endure, or miss out on are influenced by what our surroundings allow and invite us to do. Just like our food diet, our ex...

The experiences we enjoy, endure, or miss out on are influenced by what our surroundings allow and invite us to do. Just like our food diet, our ex...

A new framework for understanding how airports interact with their surrounding region. Airports are major drivers of economic development. While fi...

Hermann Czech belongs to the small group of architects that are equally prolific in theory and design. Over the course of six decades, he has creat...

Russian architect and draughtsman Sergei Tchoban has always striven to understand the laws which govern the development of cities such as his nativ...

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls wilderburbs have offered residents both the pleasures o...

Monterrey means mountain king, a name befitting its location surrounded by the Sierra Madre in north-eastern Mexico. It was founded in 1596 near th...

After the discovery of oil, the Kuwaiti State estab­lished a means of wealth distribution for its citizens through housing programs aimed at improv...

In the post-war decades, Hong Kong architects, many of them having migrated from Mainland China or studied overseas, embraced modern principles whe...

An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skys...

Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southe...

Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southe...

Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization. In Modernisms Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how mod...

Washington, D.C. has long been known as a frustrating and sometimes confusing city for its residents to call home. The monumental core of federal o...

An industrial city on the outskirts of Stockholm, Södertälje is the global capital of the Syriac Orthodox Christian diaspora, an ethnic and religio...

On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins dÉole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of ...