City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

Nine years after the first major monograph on the work of the architectural office Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei, a second volume marks the tentative c...

Overcrowding, noise and air pollution, long commutes and lack of daylight can take a huge toll on the mental well-being of city-dwellers. With ment...

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

Gion Caminada is well-known far beyond Switzerland’s borders: as an architect, whose work is developed out of – and gives new life to – its context...

While the history of São Paulo dates back more than 450 years, most of its growth took place after World War II as the city’s major economic engine...

In 1933 the United States government created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and gave it jurisdiction over a demarcated region – the watershed...

This book explores various pedagogical viewpoints and dialectical positions within the field of design education and the concept of proximity it ha...

In the demonology of the contemporary city, is there anything more toxic than the expressway? Dividing neighbourhoods, depressing land values, conc...

This book examines the city and its rapid growth, as well as the sustainability issues it poses, in several ways. First, there is a critical approa...

Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco’s portal to the world—the terminus of the transcontinental railway ...

This book provides an intellectual history of the modernist "minimum dwelling", exploring how early modernism saw mass housing as a primary vehicle...

People often bemoan the spread of malls, suburban strips, subdivisions, and other sprawling places in contemporary America. But are these places as...

Manual for Urban Design Second and revised edition of the successful edition with new projects Urban design is based on planning and design pr...

The new Prater Museum – the exhibition publication At the center of the Wurstelprater amusement park, on the site of a former amusement arcade, t...

Informed by the work of writers such as Henri Lefebvre, Paul Ricoeur and Michel de Certeau, this collection of essays examines through multiple len...

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