City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

As urbanisation progresses, urban environments have been confronted with many challenges, such as air pollution and stormwater disaster. The latter...

Traditional country parks, which originated in the United Kingdom, are very different to the country parks we know today. With the development of u...

The garden suburb has its origins in London, and, contrary to widespread belief, its earliest phase took place not at the beginning of the 20th cen...

'Green space in the community' refers to the public space that is located in sections of residential land, often a space providing entertainment fa...

Walking and cycling are becoming a fashionable lifestyle choice - both as a low-impact exercise and a healthy means of travel. There is ever-growin...

A major social and political phenomenon of how a community overcame overwhelming opposition and obstacles to build the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Stret...

Over the past two decades, the status of public housing in the UK has dramatically improved. Responding to a severe affordable home shortage and es...

A practical guide to delivering green infrastructure from the ground up and bringing nature in to the built environment. Exploring the process of d...

Colin Rowe is acknowledged to be the most influential figure in architectural theory in the last half of the 20th century. Although his contributio...

Collaboration and leadership strategies for long-term success Fueled by the popularity of permaculture and agroecology, community food forests are...

The Harvard GSD Aecom Project on China was a three-year research and design project premised on two fundamental ambitions: recuperating an idea of ...

Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities. From the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's global metropol...

Real-estate development is a highly regulated, high-value industry: this book examines its efficiency, its role in shaping the built environment an...

In modern-day society the main threats to public health are now considered avoidable illnesses, which are often caused by a lack of exercise and ph...

The suburban dream of a single-family house with a white picket fence no longer describes how most North Americans want to live. The dynamics that ...

The suburban dream of a single-family house with a white picket fence no longer describes how most North Americans want to live. The dynamics that ...

As a response to the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale challenging theme, Portugal presented a site-specific pavilion occupying an urban front in p...