City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Formation is ideal and utopian thinking, whereas Transformation is the adaptation of the ideal to the real or existing conditions. Are the two mut...

Offers a comprehensive survey of affordable housing across the world. Presents numerous case-studies and best-practices on affordable housing desig...

The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model Aryan society in Norway during World War IIB...

Town planning. Interest-led, open-minded education. Preservation of buildings with historical worth. All are so central to modern society that our ...

Green areas of all kinds have gained significance for contemporary urban planning. In addition to the importance for the structure and appearance o...

Float! Building on Water to Combat Urban Congestion and Climate Change proposes a new way of building: on water instead of on land. Although the co...

Architecture Asia, as the official journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia, aims to provide a forum not only for presenting Asian phenomena...

For his new book 07:27:47, photographer Jonas Dahlstroem studied urban environments in Sweden. With the immediacy of street photography, he capture...

EUROPAN is an initiative that puts on competitions for young architects. Founded in 1989 and supported by 13 countries in the EU, it runs a competi...

This issue focuses on: 1) Exploring the significance of territorial spatial planning by stressing its necessity and main ideas under the contempo...

This book serves as a critical review of Social Urbanism, defined as a socio-political and practical approach to urban globalisation, deriving fr...

Too close to the wiles and calculations of consumption, stores and shopping centers are generally relegated to secondary, pedestrian status in the ...

In summer 2012, Architects Group Krokodil, a group of Zurich-based architects from various firms with a special interest in urban planning, publish...

Between 2008 and 2014, ETH Studio Basel, under the guidance of Roger Diener and Marcel Meili, has been investigating theprocess of urbanisation tak...

This book is a study of architecture and urban design across the Mediterranean Sea from the 12th to the 14th Century, a time when there was no s...

Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates ...