City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Residents and visitors in todays Seattle would barely recognize the landscape that its founding settlers first encountered. As the city grew, its l...

Accelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters. Floods, earthquakes, storms and conflicts affecting densely populated area...

Angesichts des Landschaftsverbrauchs und wachsender Verkehrsströme wird die Diskussion um das sinnvolle Maß der baulichen Dichte heftig geführt. Be...

The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of t...

Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-colorThe Gaza Strip is one ...

Mass housing and urban planning constitute a key element of the material foundation of North Korea. In the post-war era, the country attempted to s...

This book investigates the substantial changes that can be perceived within the urban fabric and its surrounding territory in the transition period...

As a main urban centre of one of the most dynamic European regions, Milan is a key location from which to study narratives of innovations and conte...

Urbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and todays city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In Th...

The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattles architects by showcasing the work of those who...

Written by leading design philosopher Tony Fry, Writing Design Fiction: Relocating a City in Crisis is both an introduction to the power of design ...

In the midst of our cities, on waste ground between city and landscape, streets of traffic and port or industrial areas, there are some exciting ur...

Monumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and significant symbol of human progress. The geography on and aro...

The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for re...

The notion of ecology has become central to contemporary design discourse. This reflects contemporary concerns for our planet and a new understandi...

Australia has long been a highly (sub)urbanized nation, but the major distinctive feature of its contemporary settlement pattern is that the great ...

Avoid unnecessary costs and traffic by accurately estimating the parking requirements for mixed-use projects according to the types of tenants they...

Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts. Whilst they have increasingly been taken...

Winner, Robert Motherwell Book Award, Outstanding Book on Modernism in the Arts, The Dedalus Foundation, 2019As Latin American elites strove to mod...

This is the first book ever to examine the architecture and urbanism of the Persian Gulf as a complete entity, dealing equally with conditions on t...

Obwohl der öffentliche Raum im Osten Deutschlands nach der Wende aufwendig saniert wurde, leiden viele Kleinstädte und Dörfer unter Wegzug und Leer...

Kensington and Chelsea - one of the wealthiest spots on planet Earth - is also one of the most unequal. A short walk from Harrods, families cannot ...

In Vienna after WWI and Berlin after WWII, the provision of mass housing not only was a response to a dire social need but also served as a key lev...