City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

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, ...

The central hypothesis behind the book concerns the capacity of urban as well as territorial design, of the "project" in the sense of design activi...

Jan Gehls fast fünfzig Jahre umspannendes Werk untersucht die Wechselwirkung von öffentlichem Raum und öffentlichem Leben. Die Analyse des Lebens i...

Proceedings of an international seminar, Bordeaux, France, Oct. 1987. Around half the papers are in French (some with English abstracts) so that th...

Als „Bauen im Bestand“ ist die Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen der Altbauerneuerung in den letzten Jahren zum vielbeachteten Thema architektonischer ...

Noch immer erweist sich der Platz als Ort der gesellschaftlichen Selbstvergewisserung, an dem Denkmalsetzungen, Bilderstürze und andere soziale wie...

City dwellers are direct agents in the making of cities; yet how do they actually constitute and sustain the urban and its forms? How do they pract...

The concepts of metabolism, ecosystems, and circular economy are currently challenging the discipline of urbanism. As the shift from linear to circ...

In the last third of the nineteenth century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly everybody walked to work, to the modern divid...

In "The Exploding Metropolis", first published in 1958, William H. Whyte, Jane Jacobs, Francis Bello, Seymour Freedgood, and Daniel Seligman addres...

From the 1950s, Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) focused on planning, design, and construction in a democracy. His astute observations and critical an...

"The city," according to urban design scholar Gideon Golany, is"the largest and most complicated project ever produced byhumankind." In Ethics and ...