City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultura...

In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship betwe...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Contemporary and future forms of living together urgently need new co...

This fascinating book explains the processes of suburbanization in the context of post-socialist societies transitioning from one system of socio-s...

The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the c...

For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the ...

Michel Desvigne is the most renowned French landscape architect in the world. Based in Paris, he has held guest professorships at such distinguish...

Urbanizing Suburbia erforscht die Beziehung zwischen drei aktuellen Prozessen in globalen Städten: Hyper-Gentrifizierung der Innenstädte, Finanzial...

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

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

This book examines Budapest’s urban development, planning, and governance between 1990 and 2010. In the face of socialist urbanization’s structural...

In 4 decades, Elsa Prochazka completed a range of projects of varying sizes: from furniture design through Architecture to urban design projects. I...

This book offers a scholarly guide to the tangible and intangible heritage of the 19th- and 20th-century district of Downtown Cairo. For the first ...

Urban microclimates cannot be explained solely on the basis of scientific phenomena, but are also affected materially and spatially by the city’s l...

The Bauhaus Building in Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius in 1926, represents a "built manifesto of Bauhaus ideas" and is one of modernism’s most...

In formulating a design concept into a viable plan, architects oscillate constantly between two planes of observation: the actual design task in th...

Climate change is one of the major challenges facing cities in the future. Landscape architecture is particularly in demand here because it offers...