City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by ...

The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States is a detailed analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosy...

This book is an essential primer to help those involved in the planning process secure higher standards of urban design and the delivery of better ...

The Art of Building a Garden City is a well-researched guide to the history of the garden city movement and the delivery of a new generation of com...

How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from street...

Congestion is the life of the city . . . it is what we came for, what we stay for, what we hunger for, wrote Charles Downing Lay, prominent America...

American's landscape is undergoing a profound transformation as demand grows for a different kind of American Dream - smaller homes on smaller lots...

A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to re...

These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only ...

In an age of glossy architectural visualizations and slick photography, todays media is saturated with images of projects mummified in their ideal,...

This book is about managing the infrastructure development cycle from project initiation to the end of the operation and maintenance phase. It focu...

This book is about managing the infrastructure development cycle from project initiation to the end of the operation and maintenance phase. It focu...

Racial strife, increased social and economic discrimination, amplified political friction, and growing uncertainty around the impacts of the COVID-...

The typology of the townhouse originated in the late 19th century yet still represents a viable and attractive alternative to the detached single-...

Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-ninet...

What if cities around the world actively worked to promote the health and healing of all of their residents? Cities contribute to the traumas that ...

Londoners Making London tells the story of nine projects that have transformed urban neighbourhoods. Countering the expectation that the developmen...