City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

A profound social change can be observed in the areas of mobility, work and trade, as well as in the practice of faith, especially in cities. As a ...

More than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency: Architecture, Urbanism, and the...

The twenty-first century has so far been characterized by ongoing realignments in the organization of the economy around housing and real estate. M...

In Istanbul, urban transformation and housing production processes are so intricatelyentwined and intertwined that they elicit a plethora of predic...

Originally published in 1995, Land and Property Markets in Sweden looks at the growing demand for an understanding of the urban land and property m...

This companion to Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses shows how the principles and concepts of urban design can be applied and im...

This book is an exploration of how urban life in Copenhagen, in the period known as the Golden Age (c. 1800 to 1850), was experienced and structure...

Planners hate uncertainty. The objective of their work is to devise a course of action that will reduce uncertainty on a public scale. However, com...

Following the Second World War, modern systems of urban and regional planning were established in Britain and most other developed countries. In th...

This title shows how to strengthen and revitalize our historic commercial districts and suburban centers, too. Public space and street design in co...

Artist and architect, Marshall Brown reimagines the future by revisiting the legacy of modern architecture in this selection of four visionary arch...

With the IBA_Vienna 2022, which was announced in 2016, the Austrian capital is taking on the challenges of an International Building Exhibition fo...

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Die gesellschaftliche Vielfalt in Europas Städten nimmt zu – und dam...

This book offers a detailed record of one of the world's oldest environmental pressure groups. It raises questions about the capacity of pressure g...

Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples explores a more inclusive his...

For more than a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning "Chicago Tribune" architecture critic Blair Kamin has been writing fiery, intelligent essays on the ...

Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban r...

In recent years, visual urbanism has emerged as a new research field. Photographers and researchers had been experimenting with critical visual met...

Urban riverbanks are attractive locations and highly prized recreational environments. However, they must meet the requirements of flood control, o...

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...

Criticism on the textual and iconographic construction of the city is extensive, yet the problem of historical change in representations of "the ur...

Through the analysis of several commemorative acts in space, matter and image, namely museums and memorials, this book reflects on the ways in whic...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) In 2010, the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Fürst-Pückler-La...

Accessible and comprehensive, written by the current President of the International Planning History Society, this volume provides readers with a h...

Accessible and comprehensive, written by the current President of the International Planning History Society, this volume provides readers with a h...

In an age of virtual offices, urban flight, and planned gated communities, are cities becoming obsolete? In this passionate manifesto, Moshe Safdie...

As the first inclusive study of how women have shaped the modern Indian built environment from the independence struggle until today, this book rev...

In recent years many nations have asked why not enough housing is being built or, when it is built, why it isn't of the highest quality or in the b...

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Dichte und Mischung der Bevölkerung" verfügbar.

This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighbourho...

This is the go-to guide for planners in small towns. For decades, this book has helped small towns and rural communities plan for change. It is a s...

Computer-based transportation applications and databases have been a fact of life for several decades. Transportation information, however, has oft...

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associa...

Japan has led the world in urban innovation, design and planning, successfully combining high population with functionality, cleanliness and low le...

This book assesses the effects of spatially concentrated programs for housing and neighborhood improvement. These programs provide direct assistanc...

Criticism on the textual and iconographic construction of the city is extensive, yet the problem of historical change in representations of "the ur...

Regional Innovation Strategiesoffers the first comprehensive analysis of the new wave of innovation-oriented regional policies. It draws conclusion...

This book, the result of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 6th World Congress: Cities in the Third Millennium, examines the issues wh...

Drawing on detailed design, construction and financial histories of six prominent Performing Arts buildings with budgets ranging from £3.4 million...

This title was first published in 2003:  Modernist architecture claimed to be the 'international style' but the relationship between modernism and ...

Cities in both North and South America are confronting tremendous challenges in urban growth and management as they enter the new century. Curitiba...