City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Formation is ideal and utopian thinking, whereas Transformation is the adaptation of the ideal to the real or existing conditions. Are the two mut...

The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model “Aryan” society in Norway during World War I...

While benefiting from the efficient and convenient urban life brought by the highly urbanised society, people are suffering from traffic congesti...

For his new book 07:27:47, photographer Jonas Dahlström studied urban environments in Sweden. With the immediacy of street photography, he captured...

This book is a study of architecture and urban design across the Mediterranean Sea from the 12th to the 14th Century, a time when there was no s...

An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today...

A lavishly illustrated practical guide for understanding bridges, with case studies of the world's most famous bridges.How to Read Bridges is a pr...

Real estate developers are integral to understanding the split narratives of twentieth-century American urban history. Rather than divide the decli...

An exploration of the abandoned tributaries of London’s vast and vital transportation network through breathtaking images and unexpected storiesHid...

A highly-illustrated, pocket-sized guide to understanding the forces that have shaped the world’s cities from the dawn of civilisation to the prese...

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmo...

Mediating Environments examines fundamental and radical environmental conditions in the Arctic and provides a spectrum of innovative design approac...

In Setting the Stage: North Korea photographer Eddo Hartmann shows the North Korean regime's ambitions to build the ultimate socialist city and to...

In Urban Hallucinations, architects Koning Eizenberg take on the idyll of local and neighbourhood through the design of recent projects in the Los ...

Once the third largest lake in California, and among the world's greatest air pollution offenders, the deadened Owens Lake was for decades merely a...

In 2050, over three quarters of the world’s population will live in cities. This follow-up to Phaidon’s successful The Endless City is a close look...

Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get t...

Of all the elements of a neighborhood, the pattern of streets and their infrastructure is the most enduring. Given the 20th century's additions ...