City & Town Planning – Architectural Aspects

This richly illustrated book is a monument to modern urban construction in Naples. It features some 50 new photos by celebrated French photographer...

New in the architectural series (previous published in this series: The Fast Guide to Architectural Form) is The Fast Guide to Accessibility Design...

Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and m...

Franco Albini’s works of architecture and design, produced between 1930 and 1977, have enjoyed a recent revival but to date have received only spor...

The Art of City Sketching: A Field Manual guides readers through the process of freehand architectural sketching and explains orthographic, diagram...

Data, Matter, Design presents a comprehensive overview of current design processes that rely on the input of data and use of computational design s...

Management of big cities is a relatively unresearched area, as compared to city planning and city governance. A study of Warsaw city management rev...

In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid an...

Design Pedagogy explains why it is vital for design students that their education helps them construct a �€�passport�€� to enter the professional s...

Anthropological perspectives are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologists have been contributing actively to theor...

Over the past fifty years professional understanding of planning has changed markedly. In the past, planning was primarily described as a technical...

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

Expanding Disciplinarity in Architectural Practice presents an argument for the role of an architect as a generalist with a particular ability to b...

While sectarian violence has greatly diminished on the streets of Belfast and Derry, proxy battles over the right to define Northern Ireland’s id...

Concerning architecture and the city, built, imagined and narrated, this book focuses on Manhattan and Venice, but considers architecture as an int...

How does the design of a neighborhood affect the people who live there? In this thoughtful, engaging book, the author explains how a neighborhood’s...

Some thirty years ago the small Metropolitan County of Grotton found itself bathed in the bright glare of publicity as The Grotton Papers lifted th...

American servicemen and -women are currently stationed in more than 140 countries from Central America to Western Europe to the Middle East, often ...

Amazonia has undergone a significant urban transformation since the late 1970s. This is the first comprehensive analysis of urbanization in the Bra...

Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been—the “Next Detroit”—Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the p...

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It’s a study of architecture and urbanism as cultural activity t...

Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged ...

Once dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been—the “Next Detroit”—Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the p...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current housing practices across Asian cities based on facts and trends in the market. For many countr...

By the 1970s, 42nd Street in New York was widely perceived to be unsafe, a neighborhood thought to be populated largely by drug dealers, porn shops...

The Art of City Sketching: A Field Manual guides readers through the process of freehand architectural sketching and explains orthographic, diagram...

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It’s a study of architecture and urbanism as cultural activity t...

Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design is the result of a five-year design research project undertaken by professor Joan Busquets and Dingli...

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers have long ma...

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers have long ma...

Data, Matter, Design presents a comprehensive overview of current design processes that rely on the input of data and use of computational design s...