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...