Landscape Art & Architecture

Collective Urban Planning in Research, Teaching and Practice This practice orientated handbook aims at all urban actors wishing to develop and r...

Collective Urban Planning in Research, Teaching and Practice This practice orientated handbook aims at all urban actors wishing to develop and r...

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forests influence on architect...

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forests influence on architect...

Throughout the twentieth century architectural models served as the miniature playgrounds in which the future of Britains built environment was ima...

Free thinking, unconstrained by facts The book is based on the thesis that we live in a world of abundance, full of natural riches, and cultural ...

Todays China is experiencing massive urban growth: new towns are built, extensive suburbanization processes occur in many regions, and agricultural...

In wachsenden Städten haben Schulstandorte das Potenzial, polyvalente Anlagen sowie lebendige Quartierszentren zu werden. UMBAU 31 untersucht sowoh...

The question of what heritage is and how we deal with it is not a neutral one. Recent events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the toppli...

This anthology aims to destabilize the limits of the discipline of architecture by focusing on the core concepts of inhabitation and displacement....

Kirchengast betrachtet in seinem Buch drei Projekte mit modellhaftem Charakter: Max Dudler, Franz Riepl und Jonathan Sergison demonstrieren auf den...

A classic in German for the first time China has a long history of garden design, resulting in the emergence of a unique style and diverse forms o...

Chinese modernity a defining overview Rowes third volume on the architecture of the Far East deals with the development of modern architecture an...

The Prater a centerpiece of Viennese history as a reflection of changing times The Prater represents like no other place the history of Vienna a...

Urban reuse, creative production, consumerism, and heritage protection have formed an alliance for the transformation of inner-city districts of Sh...

We know the specific strengths of various cities, are aware of their ranking, are able to discuss their density and growth. But what do all cities ...

Urban Change investigates the massive change processes in urban spacewithin a world of rapidly progressing urbanization. In the face of the complex...

Park Muskau, Prince Pücklers extraordinary nineteenth-century creation on both sides of the River Neisse, together with Hints on Landscape Gardenin...

News on Ludwig Hilberseimer! Ludwig Hilberseimer (18851967) is regarded as one of the leading theorists of the Neues Bauen movement in pre-War Ge...

Barcelona ist eine pulsierende Werkstatt für zukunftsweisende Architektur undStadtplanung. Wie kaum anderswo in Europa werden in der katalonischen ...

Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and con...

Rutgers University has come a long way since it was granted a royal charter in 1766. As it migrated from a parsonage in Somerville, to the New Brun...

Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness? Is it true, as ideologues like Friedrich Von Hayek, Milton Friedman...

This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics. Focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in Londons tall-...

The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or e...

Domicide = the systematic and deliberate killing of home. So much architectural response to war has focused on cultural heritage, the destruction ...

Picasso and Miró revolutionized modern art in the early 20th century. Although trained in Barcelona, it was in Paris where both were consecrated as...

Rirkrit Tiravanija has created the second Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission artwork for National Gallery Singapore. Featuring an interlocking bam...

Planning for Community A comprehensive exploration of community planning that integrates todays social and economic issues with policy and governan...

This book offers a discussion of the screens, installations, and media architecture that populate contemporary urban public spaces. It proposes a m...

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experien...

Architektur ist ein langwieriges Geschäft was heute gebaut wird, wurde schon vor Jahren geplant; was heute geplant wird, wird erst viel später geb...

Trees are ideal sources of shade; where they cannot be used, their function is taken over by tents, pergolas, and pavilions. In the context of glob...

The goal of advancing eco cities often remains confined to political or technological issues. This book establishes a focus on architectural and in...

Barcelona is a vibrant hotbed of forward-looking architecture and urban planning. The Catalan metropolis is home to more bold concepts for climate ...

South Tyrol is a memorable place: climatically, culturally, and from a culinary standpoint, the region epitomises well-being in a stunning, mountai...

Introduction to Residential Layout is ideal for students and practitioners of urban design, planning, engineering, architecture and landscape seeki...

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) can be key to planning decisions by identifying the effects of new developments on views and on the l...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of areas with elevated levels of crime, which we consider risky places. These can be facilities, nodes, o...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of areas with elevated levels of crime, which we consider risky places. These can be facilities, nodes, o...