City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

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 ...

The Swiss capital Bern has seen a fast architectural development in recent years. A vast number of new buildings have been constructed and existing...

A highly-illustrated, pocket-sized guide to understanding the forces that have shaped the worlds cities from the dawn of civilisation to the presen...

Architects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navar...

Raising the Roof addresses one of the key issues of our era - the UK's housing crisis. Housing costs in the United Kingdom are among the highest on...

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmo...

Mediating Environments examines fundamental and radical environmental conditions in the Arctic and provides a spectrum of innovative design approac...

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...