City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Roma Traversata analyzes pathways to decipher the complexity of Rome's urban layout. Nearly all of the prehistoric country paths converging on what...

Roma Traversata analyzes pathways to decipher the complexity of Rome's urban layout. Nearly all of the prehistoric country paths converging on what...

Founded by Swiss settlers in 1845, New Glarus in Wisconsin evolved from being a dairy farming and cheese production village to a popular tourist de...

How should a diverse metropolitan region such as the German capital Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg reinvent itself, while preservi...

The Survey of London returns to the East End to chronicle Whitechapel, shedding new light on this widely misunderstood district In these volumes, t...

The room is dim, the chairs are in perfectly lined rows. The city planner puts up a color-coded diagram of the street improvement project, dreading...

Parks and recreation systems have evolved in remarkable ways over the past two decades. No longer just playgrounds and ballfields, parks and open s...

Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. The...

Making a city that works for children creates a city that better serves all of its residents, across ages and abilities. Yet we have created unsafe...

Climate change continues to impact our health and safety, the economy, and natural systems. With climate-related protections and programs under att...

This follow-up volume A Guide to Planning for Community Character addresses actual designs in the three general classes of communities set forth in...

The New Normal (2017-2019) was a post-graduate program and Speculative Urbanism think-tank within Moscow''s renowned Strelka Institute of Media, Ar...

Swiss architecture is commonly conotated with the names of celebrated architects such as Marion Botta, Peter Zumthor, or Herzog & de Meuron, an...

An authoritative and fascinating investigation into the spatial and social dynamics of cities at a global scale Shaping Cities in an Urban Age is...

Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits ...

This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call the progressive nonsense of the Big Socie...

Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role in Singapore's u...

'City Riffs' traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book also ...

Beautiful Villages gives a comprehensive review of rural construction practices in contemporary China through a number of projects, such as the int...

Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bai...

2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities a...