Landscape Art & Architecture

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...

By focusing on the skyscraping transnational building, this book bridges two key debates on the transformation and emerging problems besetting majo...

The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City, by...

Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for gov...

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

Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking a...

In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors b...

Illustrated by a range of case studies of affordable housing options in Canada, this book examines the liveability and affordability of twenty-firs...

The conservation of old Sanaa is a major cultural heritage initiative that began in the 1980's under the auspices of UNESCO; it continues today, l...

Designs for gardens and landscapes need to contain accurate information to ensure that both the designer's intent is clear and to enable the highes...

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the ...

As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It...

Collage and Architecture remains an invaluable resource for students and practitioners as the first book to cover collage as a tool for analysis an...