City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

First published in 1983. An easy-to-read book about zoning that cuts the jargon out but leaves the wisdom in. Smith explains the fundamental princi...

With increasing population and its associated demand on our limited resources, we need to rethink our current strategies for construction of multif...

This volume argues that the city cannot be captured by any one mode of analysis but instead is composed of the mobile, relational, efficient, senti...

In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid an...

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jar...

A sweeping historical study, Building Paradise seeks to construct a garden ethic for the design arts. It is an ethic predicated on the idea that, w...

In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and pl...

Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focus...

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (19342015). Vesely was a leading authority on phil...

The Metaphysical City examines the metaphorical existence of the city as an entity to further understand its significance on urban planning and geo...

This book demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in integrated, climate-optimised urban development. Agriculture within urban gro...

This book investigates the history of Arabian sqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence from archaeological ruins, ...

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio. It provi...

The Storming of the Capitol was, for many, the culminating media performance of the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. His presidency and its fi...

The Storming of the Capitol was, for many, the culminating media performance of the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. His presidency and its fi...

This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlan...

Open Architecture for the People explores Japanese architecture and the three different phases of development between the years 1950 and 2018. Chan...

The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points ...

In recent years, Baghdad has been viewed as a battleground for political conflicts; this interpretation has heavily influenced writings on the city...

This book is recommended reading for planners preparing to take the AICP exam. Too often, no one is happy with new development: Public officials mu...

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jar...

Through an exploration of emancipation in recent processes of capitalist urbanization, this book argues the political is enacted through the everyd...

This edited volume defines and compares central aspects of governance and management related to urban open spaces (UOSs) such as long-term manageme...

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their...

What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present...

As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabón-Charneco explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken pl...

The Emerging Politics of (Re) making Cairo's Old Quarters examines postcolonial planning practices that aimed to modernise Cairos urban spaces. The...

In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively mediated city. Today, more than ever before, the omn...

Big Data, Code and the Discrete City explores how digital technologies are gradually changing the way in which the public space is designed by arch...

This new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of he...

Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves a...

European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological c...

Americans are committing 'country-cide', says Rick Pruetz, FAICP, converting farms into suburban yards and channeling streams that once provided fl...

First published in 1984, this book presents a survey of housing problems in various European countries and how individual states have responded. Ea...

Decentralization in Environmental Governance is a critical reflection on the dangers and risks of governance renewal; warning against one-sided cri...

Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes. It...