City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

'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...

Taking examples from major European cities, Public Spaces and Urbanity is a practical guide demonstrating what urban development with a human face ...

In Chandigarh and Le Corbusier Remi Papillaut is studying in detail the conception of the city to find out the link between the buildings as built ...

Berlin was shaped by the events of the twentieth century in a process of automatic urbanism. More than any other metropolis, the city absorbed the ...

In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty ...