City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do? In 1974 the politicians, merchants...

Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asiamassive, privately built planned urban developments that have ca...

Community involvement in planning and placemaking through early, inclusive participatory Charrette processes can build consensus, speed up planning...

Savamala, a district of Belgrade that is rich in tradition but has been neglected since the nineteen-fifties, has recently been experiencing a rapi...

According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the islands first Catholic mass an...

Eine der wohl wichtigsten herausforderungen fur die europaischen Grossstadte war und ist die Anpassung und Umgestaltung des stadtischen Raums an di...

Keeping Up with Technologies to Improve Places brings together a selection of papers presented at the First International Academic Conference on Pl...

This monograph discusses the role that ruins play in urban centres in terms of their meaning, testimony, and value, and the opportunities they prov...

This volume investigates one of the most significant shifts in contemporary urban research: the shift from an object- to an action-related perspect...

Public landscapes are an integral part of city life. They not only add beauty to city, but also maintain a harmony and balance between human and en...

The Fourth Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Charlottesville, Virginia, on November 12-14, 1991. Contributors to the proceedings are Phi...