City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Oerlikon, a district in the north of Zurich, marks the start of a lin...

Revolutionizing landscape architecture through the use of intelligent materials and technologies Living Systems surveys a wide array of innovati...

In "one of the best books available on the changing physical form of the nineteenth-century city in America (Arnold R. Alanen, University of Wiscon...

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

This new edition of "the best anthology in planning" includes 33 selections by many of the profession's most respected thinkers and eloquent writer...

Nairobi, in its short history spanning just over one hundred years, has grown to be one of the most varied and international cities of our contempo...

In the 1980s, Bilbao, metropolis of the Basque Country in Spain, was considered the country's most polluted city and its mining and iron industries...

Daylight, Design and Place-Making examines the role of daylight in creating and revealing the wonders of heritage and contemporary architecture. Sh...

Ports have been and continue to be critical in not just the global movement of goods, but also the global movement of ideas, social change, and cul...

The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory...

Increasingly the world around us is becoming ‘smart.’ From smart meters to smart production, from smart surfaces to smart grids, from smart phones ...

The political climate of our time is being shaped by a dwindling ability to engage in public dialogue, putting democratic practices under increasin...

The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory...

Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. In reality ...

The reality of urban life can be rather banal. We all have to wait for the bus on cold winter days, do the washing up, take out the bins, or spend ...

Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. In reality ...

Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory.Recent events have forced a major reassessment of ec...

Climate change and increasing resource scarcity together with rising traffic volumes force us to develop new environmentally friendly and people-or...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) After its foundation in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus developed into an...

1950 wurde im Deutschen Bundestag, aber auch in der Volkskammer der DDR die obligatorische Beteiligung bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler bei sta...

For plenty years, many popular mountain resorts have seen largely uncontrolled development consisting of the multiplication of archetypal chalet-s...

Die Prämisse der `postfundamentalistischen Überlegung´ ist es, dass es kein eindeutiges Fundament gibt, auf dem alles andere aufbaut: keinen Gott, ...