City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

This book offers a discussion of the screens, installations, and media architecture that populate contemporary urban public spaces. It proposes a m...

By focusing on the skyscraping transnational building, this book bridges two key debates on the transformation and emerging problems besetting majo...

Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for gov...

Design Pedagogy explains why it is vital for design students that their education helps them construct a ’passport’ to enter the professional spher...

Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment o...

Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic...

In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned ...

This book advocates an approach to lighting design that focuses on how people experience illumination. Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces cont...

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

This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual en...

Hotel Plans contains more than 300 floor and elevations plans, as well as constructive details of 35 hotels projects from around the world, selecte...

Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of new kinds of retail space. Retail space has cropped up just about everywhere in the urban...

During the twentieth century, an increasingly diverse range of buildings and spaces was used for theatre. Theatre architecture was re-formed by new...

Bringing together an international range of contributors from the fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh look at occupatio...

Extended methods of analysis for urbanisation processes illustrated in eight world regions. Urbanisation processes are unfolding far beyond the re...

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term ‘transgression’ and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenario...

The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief, insightful and lively history of the peoples, events ...

The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief, insightful and lively history of the peoples, events ...

In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and pl...

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...

Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book ...