City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook gathers the best sustainability practices and latest research from the fields of architecture, landscape arch...

Arguably one of the most iconic mega-cities in Asia, Tokyo, the capital of Japan, plays an important economic and cultural role. It has been featur...

An enthralling guide to one of the worlds great cities that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most ast...

An enthralling guide to one of the worlds great cities that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most ast...

As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of...

Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life-threatening impact, especially for older adults generally speaking, people 65 or older. O...

Transport and the spatial location of population and activities have been important themes of study in engineering, social sciences and urban and r...

What makes strolling down a particular street enjoyable? The authors of Measuring Urban Design argue it's not an idle question. Inviting streets ar...

Culture refers to not only the arts but also other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. It similarly refers to t...

Landscape and Infrastructure examines the relationships between landscape painting and landscape design from the seventeenth century to the present...

River Cities in Asia uncovers the intimate relationship between rivers and cities in Asia from a multi-disciplinary perspective in the humanities a...

Condoland casts CityPlace a massive residential development of more than thirty condominium towers just outside Torontos downtown core as a micro...

Suburbanised cities share a common dilemma: how to transition to more densely populated and socially connected urban systems while retaining low-ri...

The book takes the reader on an intellectual adventure through a carefully curated selection of 120 places that can be understood as metaphors of ...

Mindy Thompson Fullilove presents ways to strengthen neighborhood connectivity and empower marginalized communities through investigation of urban ...

This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social rental housing. Social housing estates as develo...

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

Researching urban space and the built environment is an accessible guide for historians keen to explore the spatial dimensions of the past. Written...

Sydney has some of the world's best examples of brutalist architecture. Heidi Dokulil explores these brutal beauties.While modernism is much celebr...

Visual pollution is an emerging, multi-dimensional, subjective, and under studied area of manmade environments that has recently received researche...

This study adopts a spatial lens to shed light on weaknesses in competitiveness that have left Latin America unprepared to fully realize the potent...

Making Places for People explores 12 social questions crucial to environmental design. Authors Christie Johnson Coffin and Jenny Young bring perspe...