City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

A classic in German for the first time China has a long history of garden design, resulting in the emergence of a unique style and diverse forms o...

Urban reuse, creative production, consumerism, and heritage protection have formed an alliance for the transformation of inner-city districts of Sh...

Urban Change investigates the massive change processes in urban space　within a world of rapidly progressing urbanization. In the face of the comple...

News on Ludwig Hilberseimer! Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) is regarded as one of the leading theorists of the Neues Bauen movement in pre-War Ger...

Domicide = the systematic and deliberate killing of home.So much architectural response to war has focused on ‘cultural heritage’, the destruction ...

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...