City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

For so long we were floundering and taking ad hoc measures, but the minute I understood what a downtown plan really was I said 'We need one of thos...

In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned ...

The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City, by...

Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesth...

This title was published in 2000: This text offers a standpoint on communicative, participatory planning called consensus planning. The discussion ...

This book advocates an approach to lighting design that focuses on how people experience illumination. Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces cont...

Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela explores the changes cities face when they become metropolises, forming expanding regions which create bot...

New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in todays world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consi...

Civic Spaces and Desire presents an original and critical appraisal of civic spaces for a novel theoretical intersection of architecture and human ...

This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space. Despite the best intentions of designer...

In this extraordinarily wide-ranging, insightful, and revelatory book, Tony Hiss is the much-praised author of The Experience of Places delves into...

Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in landscape and urban design. UAS or drones can be deployed with direct ap...

Civic Spaces and Desire presents an original and critical appraisal of civic spaces for a novel theoretical intersection of architecture and human ...

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores cultural shifts that result from gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of racially ...

First published in 1985, this book presents seven games for use in the teaching and study of planning, urban studies or land administration. These ...

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of t...

This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual en...

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the ...

Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award!In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as p...

In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change. Strategies for urb...

The hawari of Cairo - narrow non-straight alleyways - are the basic urban units that have formed the medieval city since its foundation back in 969...

In Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre put forward his ideas on the relationship between time and space, particularly how rhythms characterize space. He...

Hotel Plans contains more than 300 floor and elevations plans, as well as constructive details of 35 hotels projects from around the world, selecte...

Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of new kinds of retail space. Retail space has cropped up just about everywhere in the urban...