City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

This book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsid...

Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive re...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we design, develop and adapt urban environments to better meet the needs and as...

What if urban planning and design were to prioritize rather than merely accommodate the unbuilt environment? Territorial Urbanism Now! calls for a ...

Almost one billion people live in conditions that UN-Habitat classifies as slum households, out of almost four billion people who live in cities to...

How do you actually build a peoples theatre? As simple as necessary, so as not to cause any fear about entering in the audience, and as chic as pos...

This book emphasises the value of design in the urban regeneration of Shanghai. It approaches the conundrum of urban transformation flexibly and pr...

The book presents a comprehensive vision of the impact of ICT on the contemporary city, heritage, public spaces and meta-cities on both urban and m...

Everyone is a designer. But while many practitioners may be looking for solutions or ideological certainties, Easterling argues that solutions are ...

The MIT based SENSEable City Lab under Carlo Ratti is one of the research centers that deal with the flow of people and goods, but also of refuse t...

Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England is still one of the most urbanized countries in the w...

Winner of the International Labor History Association (ILHA) 2023 Book of the Year Award for labor historyFor more than a century, municipal social...

At the heart of Memphis lies Overton Park, a 342-acre public space that contains the world-class Memphis Zoo, an old-growth forest, the Memphis Col...

Since 2014, the Human Cities network has been working on Challenging the City Scale: a pan-European project led by Citédu design Saint-Étienne and ...

Innate Terrain addresses the varied perceptions of Canadas natural terrain, framing the discussion in the context of landscapes designed by Canadia...

The book delves into the realpolitik(s) of conservation endeavours in complex urban settings. It highlights discrepancies between formal policies a...

A fresh and innovative perspective on urban issues and creating sustainable cities In The 15-Minute City: A Solution for Saving Our Time and Our Pl...

The commons as a contested political idea has been continually articulated and reproduced in many disciplines and in relation to specific historica...

Global challenges instigated by climate change and urbanisation are driving research seeking appropriate and effective strategies for social, econo...