City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the...

Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the...

First published in 1992, this book collects together the papers presented at the International Symposium on Design Review which was held to address...

In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively ‘mediated’ city. Today, more than ever before, the o...

This important work, now available in paperback, from Professor Geoffrey Broadbent, provides a clear analysis of the nature of many of today's desi...

This book was first published in 1986.

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associa...

In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz ...

With the impending demise of modernist planning, the footprints and corpses of failed modernist visions are littered everywhere. A vacuum of implem...

Cairo, Baghdad, Algiers and Dubai cannot be easily lumped together as a single group. Cities in the Arab world are too diverse and hybrid, ranging ...

The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of capital cities worldwide. This book explores what makes capital cities d...

Le Corbusier is well-known for his architectural accomplishments, which have been extensively discussed in literature. Towards a Public Space inste...

Pemba: Spontaneous Living Spaces looks at self-built dwellings and settlements in the case study city of Pemba in the Cabo Delgado region of Mozamb...

After the end of the Second World War, migrants were critical to the spatial making of modern Australia. Major federally funded industries drivin...

After the end of the Second World War, migrants were critical to the spatial making of modern Australia. Major federally funded industries drivin...

This completes Ed Soja's trilogy on urban studies, which began with Postmodern Geographies and continued with Thirdspace. It is the first comprehen...

During Manhattan’s crisis years between the 1960s and early 1980s, the city’s great park networks, sanitarian projects of light, air, and water, an...

Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architectur...

Picture a beautiful, green neighborhood where most of your needs could be met by walking, rolling, or accessing transit.There is a diversity of hou...

This book redresses the under-representation in existing English-language literature, of the global formation and development of global cities whic...

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process...

In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement ded...

Guest-edited by Neil Leach What is the impact of digital technologies on the design and analysis of cities? For the last 15 years, the profound im...

Company towns - those associated with textiles, mining, or tool manufacturing, for example - can be found worldwide and from antiquity to the prese...

Widely known for his award-winning design work, the Los Angeles-based architect Craig Hodgetts has distinguished himself as one of the key voices o...

The mind’s eye as a design principle Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) outlined his theory of the “smallest possible intervention” back in the early 1...

Montreal in Evolution presents the rich and complex history of Montreal's architectural and environmental development from the first fort of Ville-...

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

The concept of the urban parterre plays a central role in considering what makes a city liveable. The urban parterre is the zone of the city at eye...

Critics have long voiced concerns about the wisdom of living in cities and the effects of city life on physical and mental health. For a century, p...

The Changing Image of the City describes urban planning and development from the end of World War II to 1973, when major elements of the design of ...

Europe’s current crisis is also a crisis of the European city. Economic, social, and political insecurities have changed our perception of territor...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Oerlikon, a district in the north of Zurich, marks the start of a lin...

Revolutionizing landscape architecture through the use of intelligent materials and technologies Living Systems surveys a wide array of innovati...

In "one of the best books available on the changing physical form of the nineteenth-century city in America (Arnold R. Alanen, University of Wiscon...

Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela explores the changes cities face when they become metropolises, forming expanding regions which create bot...

This new edition of "the best anthology in planning" includes 33 selections by many of the profession's most respected thinkers and eloquent writer...

Nairobi, in its short history spanning just over one hundred years, has grown to be one of the most varied and international cities of our contempo...

In the 1980s, Bilbao, metropolis of the Basque Country in Spain, was considered the country's most polluted city and its mining and iron industries...

Daylight, Design and Place-Making examines the role of daylight in creating and revealing the wonders of heritage and contemporary architecture. Sh...

Ports have been and continue to be critical in not just the global movement of goods, but also the global movement of ideas, social change, and cul...

The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory...

Increasingly the world around us is becoming ‘smart.’ From smart meters to smart production, from smart surfaces to smart grids, from smart phones ...