Landscape Art & Architecture

The City That Never Was considers the increasingly speculative nature of contemporary urbanization by exploring the consequences of the massive bui...

The idea of a Greater London emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the city's suburbs. In Landscapes of London, Elizabeth McKellar trac...

What is a city? What determines its specifi city? What shapes its quality? The evolution of the contemporary city does not follow a linear movement...

Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and m...

Today, there are more than three parking spaces for every car in the United States. No one likes searching for a space, but in many areas, there is...

The key theme of the papers in this book concerns the prospects of building new urban environments and creating new societies in Europe during the ...

With three billion more humans projected to be living in cities by 2050, all design is increasingly urban design. And with as much data now produce...

An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today...

Urban character is frequently cited by planners, developers and architects as something they wish to protect and enhance. But little or no effort i...

North Shields and Tynemouth today, like most towns and cities, are products of history. Their shops, offices, residential areas, transport and leis...

The story of the Singapore River, the other rivers flowing into the Kallang Basin, and Marina Bay. It covers their commercial role over the centuri...

The Coventry Blitz of 14 November 1940 was a key event of the Second World War and in the growth of public consciousness of the destructive power o...

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movementand a bold vision for its ...