City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Le Corbusier is well-known for his architectural accomplishments, which have been extensively discussed in literature. Towards a Public Space inste...

Pemba: Spontaneous Living Spaces looks at self-built dwellings and settlements in the case study city of Pemba in the Cabo Delgado region of Mozamb...

After the end of the Second World War, migrants were critical to the spatial making of modern Australia. Major federally funded industries drivin...

After the end of the Second World War, migrants were critical to the spatial making of modern Australia. Major federally funded industries drivin...

This completes Ed Soja's trilogy on urban studies, which began with Postmodern Geographies and continued with Thirdspace. It is the first comprehen...

During Manhattan’s crisis years between the 1960s and early 1980s, the city’s great park networks, sanitarian projects of light, air, and water, an...

Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architectur...

Picture a beautiful, green neighborhood where most of your needs could be met by walking, rolling, or accessing transit.There is a diversity of hou...

This book redresses the under-representation in existing English-language literature, of the global formation and development of global cities whic...

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process...

In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement ded...

Guest-edited by Neil Leach What is the impact of digital technologies on the design and analysis of cities? For the last 15 years, the profound im...

Company towns - those associated with textiles, mining, or tool manufacturing, for example - can be found worldwide and from antiquity to the prese...

Widely known for his award-winning design work, the Los Angeles-based architect Craig Hodgetts has distinguished himself as one of the key voices o...

The mind’s eye as a design principle Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) outlined his theory of the “smallest possible intervention” back in the early 1...

Montreal in Evolution presents the rich and complex history of Montreal's architectural and environmental development from the first fort of Ville-...

The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate multiple functions ...

The concept of the urban parterre plays a central role in considering what makes a city liveable. The urban parterre is the zone of the city at eye...

Critics have long voiced concerns about the wisdom of living in cities and the effects of city life on physical and mental health. For a century, p...

The Changing Image of the City describes urban planning and development from the end of World War II to 1973, when major elements of the design of ...

Europe’s current crisis is also a crisis of the European city. Economic, social, and political insecurities have changed our perception of territor...