City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Civic Spaces and Desire presents an original and critical appraisal of civic spaces for a novel theoretical intersection of architecture and human ...

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores cultural shifts that result from gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of racially ...

First published in 1985, this book presents seven games for use in the teaching and study of planning, urban studies or land administration. These ...

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of t...

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

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the ...

Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award!In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as p...

In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change. Strategies for urb...

The hawari of Cairo - narrow non-straight alleyways - are the basic urban units that have formed the medieval city since its foundation back in 969...

In Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre put forward his ideas on the relationship between time and space, particularly how rhythms characterize space. He...

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...

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research. Architects and spatial thinkers from the arts, social s...

This edited volume defines and compares central aspects of governance and management related to urban open spaces (UOSs) such as long-term manageme...

Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional, highly absorptive construction materi...

Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'. This book argues ...

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...

People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned ne...

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

America is facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, with troubling effects on our mental and physical health. Welive in one of the most divi...

This book provides an urgent framework and collective reflection on understanding ways to reconsider and recast architecture within ideas and polit...

designing networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging from years of prac...

How do we provide for and nurture millions of people without destroying the planet in the process? Author Doug Kent, an environmental specialist, b...

Challenging mainstream architectures understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the ideas centrality, in a...

Challenging mainstream architectures understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the ideas centrality, in a...

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Po...

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Po...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transf...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transf...

The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy examines the multidisciplinary overlap between the spatial disciplines and the studies of science and technolog...

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

The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (19242009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select proj...

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contempor...

Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question: What is planning? and as part of this What are its key features as a st...