Landscape Art & Architecture

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...

Formerly Urban is a collection of essays grounded in the belief that design, in all its manifestations, must play a central role in the revitalisat...

Two experienced educators offer a general introduction to planning, including the elements of the comprehensive plan, and the tools of plan impleme...

Taking examples from major European cities, Public Spaces and Urbanity is a practical guide demonstrating what urban development with a human face ...

In Chandigarh and Le Corbusier Remi Papillaut is studying in detail the conception of the city to find out the link between the buildings as built ...

Berlin was shaped by the events of the twentieth century in a process of automatic urbanism. More than any other metropolis, the city absorbed the ...

The Swiss capital Bern has seen a fast architectural development in recent years. A vast number of new buildings have been constructed and existing...

A highly-illustrated, pocket-sized guide to understanding the forces that have shaped the worlds cities from the dawn of civilisation to the presen...

In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty ...

Architects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navar...