City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

What can planners do to restore equity to their craft? Drawing upon the perspectives of a diverse group of planning experts, Advancing Equity Plann...

Public urban spaces vary widely in type, form and size, encompassing plazas, squares and streetscapes. They serve pedestrians and flaneurs, accommo...

A leading-edge guide to thinking about and planning for twenty-first-century cities in all their social, political, and ecological complexity The ...

HOPSCA, composed of a great number of different functional spaces - hotels, offices, parks, shopping, convention centres and apartments - is a comp...

'Human Cities: Celebrating Public Space' combines theoretical, practical and artistic approaches related to public space. The first part - Public f...

All Over the Map is an urgent response to the radical changes in contemporary architecture and the built environment witnessed in the twenty-firs...

Ever lived in or visited a great city and wondered what makes it tick? Over the next 15 years China is set to urbanise 300 million people and build...

Does wellness make business sense as a development objective? How have developers pursued this objective? What has the market response been? And ho...

Modern American Housing: Tower, Reuse, Infill provides a unique look at some of the best practices and latest developments in the design and constr...

Broadly defined, urban planning today is a process one might describe as half design and half social engineering. It considers not only the aesthet...

A lavishly illustrated practical guide for understanding bridges, with case studies of the world's most famous bridges. How to Read Bridges is a ...

Cities and towns are among humanity''s largest and most complex achievements. The buildings, public works, plazas and parks of even a small town em...

Formerly Urban is a collection of essays grounded in the belief that design, in all its manifestations, must play a central role in the revitalisat...

Two experienced educators offer a general introduction to planning, including the elements of the comprehensive plan, and the tools of plan impleme...