City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent ...

The Fifth Biennial Linear Parks Conference was held in Boone, North Carolina, on September 8-11, 1993. Contributors to the proceedings are Edward T...

This study reassesses modern architecture and town planning in mid-twentieth-century England, highlighting ideas and debates that were in circulati...

When Philadelphia's iconoclastic city planner Edmund N. Bacon looked into his crystal ball in 1959, he saw a remarkable vision: "Philadelphia as an...

Decades of economic prosperity in the United States have redefined the American dream. Paul Knox explores how extreme versions of this dream have c...

Drawing on archaeology, literary and epigraphic evidence, professional and technical literature, and descriptions of cities by travellers and geogr...

Many American democratic ideals are embodied in the public spaces of its cities, especially in Washington, D.C. In L'Enfant's Legacy architect and...

The Routledge Companion to Modernity, Space and Gender reframes the discussion of modernity, space and gender by examining how "modernity" has been...

Foreword by Adrian Forty.The Algarve is not only Portugal’s foremost tourism region. Uniquely Mediterranean in an Atlantic country, its building cu...

With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed of twenty-three 'megapolitan' areas that w...

The Middle East is well-known for its historic gardens that have developed over more than two millenniums. The role of urban landscape projects in ...

In this work, Carl Anthony shares his perspectives as an African-American child in post-World War II Philadelphia; a student and civil rights activ...

Environmental quality is one of the most important issues faced by contemporary urban and regional policy. Amenities such as access to the natural ...

By focusing on the skyscraping transnational building, this book bridges two key debates on the transformation and emerging problems besetting majo...

Diasporic Agencies addresses the neglected subject of how architecture and urban design can respond to the consequences of increasing migration. Ar...

This book is an interdisciplinary research work designed to be of interest to a broad range of academics. The book examines the relationship betwee...

This collection of essays explores the history, implications, and usefulness of phenomenology for the study of real and virtual places. While the i...

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighbor...

What is Manchester? Moving far from the glitzy shopping districts and architectural showpieces, away from cool city-centre living and modish cultur...

Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy liv...

Social housing has long been delivered through mixed economy mechanisms, but there has been little focus in housing studies on what this means for ...

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the worldwide mass protest movements of 1968—against war, imperialism, racism, poverty, misogyny, and h...

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the worldwide mass protest movements of 1968—against war, imperialism, racism, poverty, misogyny, and h...

Second and revised edition The publication rethinks climate control – a key concern of the discipline of architecture – through the lens of city cl...

Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the west coast of Africa to its east ...

This landmark study in the sociology of religion sheds new light on the question of what has happened to religion and spirituality since the 1960s ...

This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the co...

People with disabilities are one of the poorest groups in Western societies. In particular, they lack power, education and opportunities. For most ...