City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

What is a city? What determines its specifi city? What shapes its quality? The evolution of the contemporary city does not follow a linear movement...

Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and m...

Today, there are more than three parking spaces for every car in the United States. No one likes searching for a space, but in many areas, there is...

The key theme of the papers in this book concerns the prospects of building new urban environments and creating new societies in Europe during the ...

With three billion more humans projected to be living in cities by 2050, all design is increasingly urban design. And with as much data now produce...

An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today...

Urban character is frequently cited by planners, developers and architects as something they wish to protect and enhance. But little or no effort i...

North Shields and Tynemouth today, like most towns and cities, are products of history. Their shops, offices, residential areas, transport and leis...

The Coventry Blitz of 14 November 1940 was a key event of the Second World War and in the growth of public consciousness of the destructive power o...

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movementand a bold vision for its ...

Architecture China is a journal focusing on the leading architectural design projects with regional characteristics in contemporary China. This iss...

Hailed as extraordinarily learned (New York Times), blithe in spirit and unerring in vision, (New York Magazine), and the definitive record of New ...

Until the 1980s, Vancouver was a typical mid-sized North American city. But between Expo 86 and the Olympic Games in 2010, something extraordinary ...