City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

The topic of wildfire is currently receiving a lot of attention in international media. This is the case right now with conflagrations stretching a...

Towards Territorial Transition presents new spatial strategies, concepts, and approaches for shaping large-scale and transnational developments in ...

Temporary urban uses innovative ways to transform cities or new means to old ends? The scale and variety of temporary or meanwhile or interim ur...

This book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on...

Amid Japans political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenz Tanges Pla...

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that str...

Liverpool grew rapidly in the Georgian period as it was a major port for Atlantic trade, rivalling any other city in the UK outside London in terms...

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposalfrom burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in s...

This book is a critical reflection on the Smart City Mission in India. Drawing on ethnographic data from across Indian cities, this volume assesses...

Climate change, increasing resource scarcity, and rising traffic volumes are forcing us to develop new environmentally friendly and people-oriented...

In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a c...