City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

There is almost nothing new left to say about the urgent need to reduce our devastating impact on the biosphere that supports us. In architectural ...

Before there were sponge cities, there were sponge parks. Brooklyns Gowanus Canal is the site of the Sponge Park master plan and pilot projects, in...

Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric centered on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York. He promised to value the needs of poor and working-cla...

When a city is pursuing high-speed development and putting massive infrastructure into construction and operation to enable rapid economic growth a...

This volume outlines the urban development of eight cities in the Middle East and North Africa: Aleppo, Alexandria, Ankara, Cairo, Casablanca, Duba...

The garden as inspiration The garden embodies a condensed version of nature, just as, in Japanese philosophy, the entire world is thought to be re...

The garden as inspiration The garden embodies a condensed version of nature, just as, in Japanese philosophy, the entire world is thought to be re...

Suburbanization, affordable housing, mass transportation, loss of fertile lands -- these are modern problems, yet they are not new. Thomas Adams gr...

The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook gathers the best sustainability practices and latest research from the fields of architecture, landscape arch...

US cities are faced with the joint challenge of our climate crisis and the lack of housing that is affordable and healthy. Our housing stock contri...

Journalist and urban analyst James Russell argues that we'll slow global warming more quickly - and blunt its effects - by retrofitting cities, sub...

How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that l...

Given the realities of climate change and sea level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, ...

The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritise safe driving and transit, cyclin...

Innovation districts and anchor institutions, like hospitals, universities, and technology hubs, are celebrated for their ability to drive economic...

Liu Thai Ker: A Life By Design is the memoir of Singapore's Father of City Planning, who was responsible for leading Singapore's largest vertically...

Liu Thai Ker: A Life By Design is the memoir of Singapore's Father of City Planning, who was responsible for leading Singapore's largest vertically...

Today, 55% of the world's human population lives in urban areas. By 2030, up to 90% of the global human population will live in cities and the glob...

A deep exploration on how questions of time and its organisation affect planning practice, this book is aimed at public and private planning practi...

An unprecedented look at the central role one man played in the transformation of New York City Daniel L. Doctoroff served as New York Citys Deputy...