Landscape Art & Architecture

Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that di...

A leading-edge guide to thinking about and planning for twenty-first-century cities in all their social, political, and ecological complexity The ...

HOPSCA, composed of a great number of different functional spaces - hotels, offices, parks, shopping, convention centres and apartments - is a comp...

'Human Cities: Celebrating Public Space' combines theoretical, practical and artistic approaches related to public space. The first part - Public f...

Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, on...

All Over the Map is an urgent response to the radical changes in contemporary architecture and the built environment witnessed in the twenty-firs...

Graphic Design in Urban Environments introduces the idea of a category of designed graphic objects that significantly contribute to the functioning...

Ever lived in or visited a great city and wondered what makes it tick? Over the next 15 years China is set to urbanise 300 million people and build...

Does wellness make business sense as a development objective? How have developers pursued this objective? What has the market response been? And ho...

Modern American Housing: Tower, Reuse, Infill provides a unique look at some of the best practices and latest developments in the design and constr...

Broadly defined, urban planning today is a process one might describe as half design and half social engineering. It considers not only the aesthet...

City and countrythese terms are generally regarded as opposites. The urban, with its constructed spaces and places, is separated from nature, with ...

A lavishly illustrated practical guide for understanding bridges, with case studies of the world's most famous bridges. How to Read Bridges is a ...

A definitive intellectual history of landscape urbanismIt has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one anotheror to t...

Skyline Park is the first book in our new Masterworks of Modern Landscape series. Designed by acclaimed landscape designer Lawrence Halprin in the ...

Cities and towns are among humanity''s largest and most complex achievements. The buildings, public works, plazas and parks of even a small town em...