Landscape Art & Architecture

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...

Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment o...

In her study of the interactions between tools of urban sustainability governance in key cities, Lisa Pettibone argues that a new factor-sustainabi...

This book examines new tenementsdense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since t...

Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobss legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs,...

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...

Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic...

Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfoldi...

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century Chi...

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglect...

Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for ...

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress. But do they all provide the same benefits or are some better tha...

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress. But do they all provide the same benefits or are some better tha...