City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Rudolf (von) Alt painted people, landscapes, villages and towns in the countries of the Habsburg monarchy as well as in Crimea, Italy and Germany. ...

In the 19th century railroads and canals provided both structure and motor for city development. This role has been taken over today by the global ...

Triggered in part by contemporary experiences in the Balkans, the Middle East and elsewhere, there has been a rise in interest in the blitz and the...

Die Geschichte der europaischen Stadt ist durch standigen Wandel gepragt. Bauliche Reaktionen auf gesellschaftliche Bruche, verursacht durch Naturk...

In the first half of the twentieth century, urban elevated highways were much more than utilitarian infrastructure, lifting traffic above the stree...

New solutions to the way in which the resources within the city can be best used. Resources are the stuff of which the future is made. The city it...

Public protests are a vital tool for asserting grievances and creating temporary, yet tangible, communities as the world becomes more democratic an...

Public places provide the stage for the social life of a city, and this is why they have always been the preferred site for the display of sculptur...

Across the world, the risks of wildfires are increasing and expanding. Due to past and current human actions, we dwell in the age of fire the Pyro...

The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate multiple functions ...

Envisioning what we need, when it doesnt yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better worldfun...

Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for those new to the subject a...

The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis ...

Design thinking is a powerful process that facilitates understanding and framing of problems, enables creative solutions, and may provide fresh per...

Aimed at students and instructors, alongside practitioners and researchers, in landscape architecture and its allied disciplinary fields, this book...

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nations politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain ...

During the 1920s, enterprising realtors, housing professionals, and builders developed the models that became the inspiration for the subdivision t...

Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of...

Despite a modest revival in city living, Americans are spreading out more than ever - into exurbs and boomburbs miles from anywhere, in big houses ...

In addition to senior scientists, who have summarised their main results in the five volumes of the Future Megacities Book Series, ambitious young ...

How has Berlins urban landscape changed in its remarkable transformation from divided city to creative capital? Despite the monumental heritage and...