City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Throughout the twentieth century architectural models served as the miniature playgrounds in which the future of Britains built environment was ima...

Free thinking, unconstrained by facts The book is based on the thesis that we live in a world of abundance, full of natural riches, and cultural ...

Todays China is experiencing massive urban growth: new towns are built, extensive suburbanization processes occur in many regions, and agricultural...

In wachsenden Städten haben Schulstandorte das Potenzial, polyvalente Anlagen sowie lebendige Quartierszentren zu werden. UMBAU 31 untersucht sowoh...

The question of what heritage is and how we deal with it is not a neutral one. Recent events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the toppli...

This anthology aims to destabilize the limits of the discipline of architecture by focusing on the core concepts of inhabitation and displacement....

Kirchengast betrachtet in seinem Buch drei Projekte mit modellhaftem Charakter: Max Dudler, Franz Riepl und Jonathan Sergison demonstrieren auf den...

A classic in German for the first time China has a long history of garden design, resulting in the emergence of a unique style and diverse forms o...

Chinese modernity a defining overview Rowes third volume on the architecture of the Far East deals with the development of modern architecture an...

The Prater a centerpiece of Viennese history as a reflection of changing times The Prater represents like no other place the history of Vienna a...

Urban reuse, creative production, consumerism, and heritage protection have formed an alliance for the transformation of inner-city districts of Sh...

We know the specific strengths of various cities, are aware of their ranking, are able to discuss their density and growth. But what do all cities ...

Urban Change investigates the massive change processes in urban spacewithin a world of rapidly progressing urbanization. In the face of the complex...

News on Ludwig Hilberseimer! Ludwig Hilberseimer (18851967) is regarded as one of the leading theorists of the Neues Bauen movement in pre-War Ge...

Barcelona ist eine pulsierende Werkstatt für zukunftsweisende Architektur undStadtplanung. Wie kaum anderswo in Europa werden in der katalonischen ...

Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and con...

Rutgers University has come a long way since it was granted a royal charter in 1766. As it migrated from a parsonage in Somerville, to the New Brun...

Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness? Is it true, as ideologues like Friedrich Von Hayek, Milton Friedman...

This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics. Focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in Londons tall-...

Domicide = the systematic and deliberate killing of home. So much architectural response to war has focused on cultural heritage, the destruction ...