City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

During the nineteenth century many of Europe's capital cities were subject to major expansion and improvement schemes. From Vienna's Ringstrasse to...

Visit any large metropolitan area in the world, and you'll feel theurgent need for innovative solutions to the many problems that facethe modern ur...

Ask people what they remember most about the physical surroundingsof their childhood and they're likely to describe a special placeout of doors--a ...

Şehrengiz is an Ottoman genre of poetry written in honor of various cities and provincial towns of the Ottoman Empire from the early sixteenth cent...

A lively, thought-provoking exploration of the contemporary regeneration of London Plans to regenerate East London and transform the capital are in...

Liverpool is one of the most famous trading cities in the world. The view of its Pier Head with the Liver Building has become iconic: it has been c...

China is undergoing a process of unprecedented urbanisation, with cities often being built from scratch in just three to five years. It is projecte...

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Während die meisten Hochhäuser nach wie vor in China und den USA ge...

Urban growth is changing the condition of humanity and the face of the earth. Half the world's people now live in cities, with most of the other ha...

Berlin's power stations are architectural marvels--but technical and economic progress has made many of them either obsolete or economically unviab...

Making Cities Work brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livab...

RESIDENSITY: A Carbon Analysis of Residential Typologies is the culmination of a seven-year study analysing nine building typologies to understand ...

Die Neue Nationalgalerie am Berliner Kulturforum ist eine Architekturikone von Weltrang sowie der Schluss- und Höhepunkt im Lebenswerk des Archite...

[re]TOKYO explores a wide, understanding vision of the transformative processes of one of the most influential and unknown metropolitan areas in th...

This book traces the historic evolution of urban form, principles, and design; it serves as a compendium, or reference, of city design; and is a po...

Urban interventions establish strong links between the social and spatial spheres of cities, giving place to interactions by which art and architec...

This is the first comprehensive study of the rebuilding of West Germany's cities following the Second World War. Most major urban centres had been ...

In this radical new look at the theory and practice of urban design, Christopher Alexander asks why our modern cities so often lack a sense of natu...

A story of the ’70s: when six New York ex-gangsters met Buckminster Fuller and built a geodesic dome In 1970 a meeting took place in an empty loft...

Talking Architecture (Revised Edition) is one of the latest additions in the series of Ramin Jahanbegloo's interviews of prominent intellectuals wh...