City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

The best streets in the world's villages, towns, and citieswhether modest or grandcontinually remind one that simplicity is part of the recipe for ...

Designs by Simon Henley and Gavin Hale-Brown are inspired by the dominant social structures of the location as well as its cultural and architectu...

Barbara Brown Wilson looks at community engagement methods that are less conventional, but often more effective than traditional approaches to make...

What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green r...

The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash w...

Walker is a realist, and Human Transit is a spirited guideprescriptive but with a righteous dash of polemicto what we get wrong about transit. --To...

The SMOTIES network is a partnership of ten design universities, research centres, creative agencies, and national associations. Each partner selec...

urality Re-imagined is divided into four loosely-themed sections: Villagers, Farmers, Wanderers, and Wild Things. Each comprises five or six divers...

How do you experience a public space? Do you feel safe? Seen? Represented? The response to these questions may differ based on factors including yo...

This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aest...

Guest-edited by Marcus White and Jane Burry Cities are facing several coinciding global crises. There is the dominant existential narrative of the ...

Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places; 'Responsive Environments' - as op...

Today, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWI...

Makris and Gatta engage in a rich ethnographic investigation of Asbury Park to better understand the connection between jobs and seasonal gentrific...

The 2007 bridge collapse in Minneapolis-St. Paul quickly became symbolic of the debilitated interstate highway system, and of what many critics see...

Short-term, community-based projects - from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives - have become a powerful and adaptable new tool of urban activ...

What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change...

Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visio...

Tim Beatley has long been a leading advocate for the greening of cities. But too often, he notes, urban greening efforts focus on everything except...

The book addresses the contribution of Intangible Cultural Heritage to the sustainable management of historic cities and towns. Through the unique,...

Die Abteilung da (die architektur) an der Kunstuniversität Linz ist seit 1990 Österreichs jüngste und kleinste Architekturschule. In der Stadt an d...

This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities ...

This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities ...

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

This is a book about urban complexity how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin citie...

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthou...

Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaughs Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It ...

Urban design and planning involves the arrangement, appearance and functionality of towns and cities, with a particular focus on public spaces such...

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health. ...

Originally published in 1988, reissued now with a new series introduction, New Directions in Environmental Participation was the third in a trilogy...