Landscape Art & Architecture

The city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and romanticism, concrete express...

The NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Second Edition is based on the experience of the best cycling cities in the world. The designs in this book w...

Conflicts around urban development and planning issues represent an important dimension of urban politics. Issues of social cohesion and democratic...

Desire lines are the paths that people create through regular usage. They appear where people repeatedly choose to walk and usually signify a route...

The United States is over eighty percent urbanised, yet over half of the population still lives in suburban settings, characterised by low-density,...

The first in-depth analysis of how urban agriculture can contribute to the creation and development of cities in Europe. How can agriculture con...

This book shifts the emphasis on how we choose to read Japanese architecture and urbanism: It focuses on phenomena and meanings rather than objects...

A visionary of sustainable urbanism reflects on the innovative projects that uplift cities in this meditative journey through vibrant communities a...

Urban highways are unique windows from which to grasp a city s identity. They can however be responsible for the fragmentation of cities and the de...

What makes a great city? Not a good city or a functional city but a great city. A city that people admire, learn from, and replicate. City planner ...

What makes a great city? Not a good city or a functional city but a great city. A city that people admire, learn from, and replicate. City planner ...

The third edition of a best-selling book on the Port Sunlight Village, with a new chapter on the Lady Lever Art Gallery, further information on key...

Situated on Broadway between Fourteenth and Seventeenth Streets, Union Square occupies a central place in both the geography and the history of New...

Community and regional planning involve thinking ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others, according to Frederick R. St...

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, to govern urban life, to solve urban iss...

The name of the architect Victor Baltard is inseparable from the Halles Centrales of Paris, the complex of iron-and-glass pavilions built between 1...

Barcelonas transformation into the worlds leading smart city is explained by one of its chief protagonists. SMART CITY Barcelona provides an essent...