City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

In visually cataloging the endearing and enigmatic ways in which the built environment takes shape, Best Practices proposes a new way of thinking a...

In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking--small-scale interventi...

Religious communities inscribe themselves into the cityscape not only socially and politically, but also acoustically and architecturally. Global P...

What is a city? What determines its specifi city? What shapes its quality? The evolution of the contemporary city does not follow a linear movement...

Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and m...

Urban character is frequently cited by planners, developers and architects as something they wish to protect and enhance. But little or no effort i...

Expanding Disciplinarity in Architectural Practice presents an argument for the role of an architect as a generalist with a particular ability to b...

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement—and a bold vision for its...

Architecture China is a journal focusing on the leading architectural design projects with regional characteristics in contemporary China. This i...

Hailed as "extraordinarily learned" (New York Times), "blithe in spirit and unerring in vision," (New York Magazine), and the "definitive record of...

Jean-Michel Wilmotte and his collaborators are leading more than 100 projects in 27 different countries, from the biggest to the smallest, from the...

Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the ...

Dream Cities is a lively, unique and accessible cultural history of modern cities which allows us to view them through the planning, design, archit...

The Harvard GSD Aecom Project on China was a three-year research and design project premised on two fundamental ambitions: recuperating an idea of ...

As a response to the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale challenging theme, Portugal presented a site-specific pavilion occupying an urban front in p...

The city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and romanticism, concrete express...

Small Scale, Big Change focuses on designing and building in underserved communities around the globe. Rooted in the traditions of early Modernism,...