City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Countering the phenomenon of sprawl in the often anonymous or chaotic urban periphery, the Oassis neighborhood in Lausanne takes a unique approach ...

Nature belongs in cities, but how do we put nature first without pushing people aside? Nature-First Cities reveals the false dichotomy of that ques...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Discourse about water and power in the modern era have lar...

What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? The Industrial Ephemeral presents the untold stor...

Inner Empire explores the impact of imperial cultures on the landscapes and urban environments of the British Isles from the sixteenth century thro...

A groundbreaking book by one of the world's leading historians of Chinese architecture Translated by Alexandra Harrer Fu Xinian is considered by ...

Open urban spaces are an ideal stage for public events. An important prerequisite for their design in an increasingly heterogeneous multicultural c...

Community and regional planning involve thinking ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others, according to Frederick R. Stei...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Do plants improve the climate in cities? How can greenery in archite...

Eco-Urban Design focuses on the unprecedented challenges currently faced by architects and designers. In a world where climate change, diminishing ...

As central places of human interaction, cities influence the reality of our lives like no other phenomenon. They are in a highly complex, reciproca...

2022 On the Brinck Book Award, University of New Mexico School of Architecture + PlanningSpecial Mention, First Book Prize, International Planning ...

In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city...

Matt Hern argues that the changing relationship between the urban center and the suburban periphery forces us to rethink the entire identity of the...

This thought-provoking book exhorts planners to establish community development programs that achieve greater social and economic equity. Some of t...

The Speculative City explores property speculation as a key aspect of financialization and its role in reshaping the contemporary built environment...

Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architectur...

Flexible Use Timeless Buildings The architectural firm Atelier Kempe Thill is renowned for designs that are neutral and economical, as well as enj...