City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transf...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transf...

The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy examines the multidisciplinary overlap between the spatial disciplines and the studies of science and technolog...

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term transgression and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios....

The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (19242009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select proj...

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contempor...

Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question: What is planning? and as part of this What are its key features as a st...

Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts...

The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief, insightful and lively history of the peoples, events ...

The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief, insightful and lively history of the peoples, events ...

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposalfrom burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in s...

Urban Wildscapes is one of the first edited collections of writings about urban wilderness landscapes. Evolved, rather than designed or planned, th...

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

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

Community Visioning for Place Making is a groundbreaking guide to engaging with communities in order to design better public spaces. It provides a ...

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on arts dialecti...

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing. However, urban manufacturing is often invisible and poorly ...

In this volume, the author draws from more than a decade of editing experience to explain how to craft clear, understandable, and highly readable p...

Biophilic Urbanism provides readers with the tools to create more nature-based urban environments that are climate positive, sustainable, and healt...

In recent years, many countries all over Europe have witnessed a demand for a more direct form of democracy, ranging from improved clarity of infor...

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating. Urban heat lowers the quality of urban life, increases energy needs, and affects the urban socio-e...

Giulio Verdini, PhD in Economics, Urban and Regional Development, from the University of Ferrara, is Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Desi...

Today, the increasing mobility of capital, people and information has changed the space relations of urban societies. Contractual relations have in...

Space, place and territory are concepts that lie at the core of geography and urban planning, environmental studies and sociology. Although space, ...