City and town planning: architectural aspects

Walking is an essentially human activity.

Culture refers to not only the arts but also other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

During the last few years, Greece has become a subject of increasing attention worldwide.

This book presents a critical vision of the role of architecture and design in constantly changing cities, territories and societies from a Latin American perspective.

This foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent movements toward recovery.

This book provides an urgent framework and collective reflection on understanding ways to reconsider and recast architecture within ideas and politics of the commons and practices of commoning.

Die Entwicklung neuer Produktions-, Transport- und Kommunikationstechnologien führt zu einem permanenten räumlichen Anpassungsprozess des Gewerbes in den Städten.

Historic preservation, whether of landscapes or buildings, was an important development of the nineteenth century in many countries.

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As British cities lose the cultural connections with their industrial past, many seek to build new postindustrial futures through urban regeneration.

This book provides an analysis of nature satisfaction, nature relatedness, and the motivations for using urban green spaces.

Studies of compact cities have evolved along with the rising awareness of climate change and sustainable development.

Justin O'Connor and Lily Kong The cultural and creative industries have become increasingly prominent in many policy agendas in recent years.

Architects, landscape designers, builders, gardeners and teachers have all at some time been called upon to design a play area.

Water City offers practical solutions to some of the environmental challenges facing 21st-century cities as a result of climate change.

Redesigning the Unremarkable is a timely and necessary reminder that the often neglected elements and spaces of our built environment - from trash bins, seats, stairways, and fences to streets, bikeways, underpasses, parking lots, and shopping centres - must be thoughtfully redesigned to enhance human and planetary health.

This book examines the use of big data in regenerative urban environment and how data helps in functional planning and design solutions.

Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places; 'Responsive Environments' - as opposed to the alienating environments often imposed today.

This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central and Eastern European cities.

First published in 1994, this book brings together the papers presented at the International Forum on 'Future Visions of Urban Public Housing' held on November 17-20, 1994 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirds of the world's population and current modes of planning for these municipalities are facing challenges of both philosophy and form.

This book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions.

Since the first edition was published in 1992, Nick Robinson's The Planting Design Handbook has been widely used as a definitive text on landscape architecture courses throughout the world.

By improving our understanding of how the tangible and intangible dimensions of heritage are correlated, we could develop a relationship with heritage that goes beyond the mere act of conservation.

Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion.

This book helps quench the quest of knowledge of academicians, researchers, and others interested in developing a complete and critical understanding of consumer happiness.

Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South.

This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city.

In recent years, there has been a growing debate on the various ways that architecture and urbanism have served the triad of colonialism, nationalism and modernity.

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity.

Shaping Places explains how towns and cities can turn real estate development to their advantage to create the kind of places where people want to live, work, relax and invest.

Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture: Designing in Mixed Realities presents a curated selection of projects and texts contributed by leading international architects and designers who are using virtual reality technologies in their design process.

The need for a human-orientated approach to urbanism is well understood, and yet all too often this dimension remains lacking in urban design.

The constant in architecture's evolution is change.

Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.

Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism - negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite.

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As people increasingly migrate to urban settings and more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, it is vital to plan and provide for sustainable and resilient food systems which reflect this challenge.

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Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region.

Investigating Jewish spatial practices by exploring the symbol of the house in Judaism, this book examines two groups of houses: ritual objects based on the iconology of the house (ritual houses) and house metaphors (the text, community and the covenant with god as house).

The development of railway stations and their surroundings is an emerging feature in current urban projects.