City and town planning: architectural aspects

This book explores the built environment through aspects of spatial planning, ecology, infrastructure, and urban identity.

This book examines the role that time plays in the life of buildings, adopting a comparative study of this influence between European and Chinese traditions.

The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design.

Triggered in part by contemporary experiences in the Balkans, the Middle East and elsewhere, there has been a rise in interest in the blitz and the subsequent reconstruction of cities, especially as many of the buildings and areas rebuilt after the Second World War are now facing demolition and reconstruction in their turn.

The ambition of the book is to give a contemporary insight in the state of the art when it comes to designing our cities and landscapes for dry conditions.

Our cities, and the systems that support them, have not been designed to address the FWE nexus.

Neurocognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and traumatic brain injuries, have a significant global impact, causing significant challenges for healthcare systems and families.

This book uses blending theory in math cognition, and assesses the main aspect of this theory, called image schema theory.

Mit ihrem schnellen Wachstum unterliegen die Stadte Chinas einem hohen Entwicklungsdruck.

This volume presents innovative work on innovative methods, tools and practices aimed at supporting the transition of Asian and Middle Eastern cities and regions towards a more smart and sustainable dimension.

This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize.

The built environment influences health and well-being in a myriad of ways.

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Women continue to be extremely under-represented in the architectural profession.

This book critically examines 'smart city' discourse in terms of governance initiatives, citizen participation and policies which place emphasis on the 'citizen' as an active recipient and co-producer of technological solutions to urban problems.

La presente edición es un compendio muy valioso que reúne ejemplos destacados para innovar el concepto de vivienda sustentable de interés social en México y que contribuye a alimentar el debate para transformar la inercia del modelo fallido de vivienda, que todavía hace estragos en la periferia de nuestras ciudades y que condena a millones de familias a vivir en condiciones indignas.

Reading this book will lead to new insights compelling to an international audience into how cities address the sustainability challenges they face.

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

Sustainable Cities is about the challenges faced by our urban environments and how these can be met.

Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green investigates the potential of nature-based technology for shaping the evolution of contemporary architecture and design.

Wenn Daten der größte kollektive Schatz einer digitalen Gesellschaft sind, Grundmaterial für Wirtschaft und Politik: Warum sind die Orte, an denen sie gespeichert werden, immer noch so unsichtbar?

The dynamics of globalization brought a radical change in megacities and tensions between the stakeholders and dwellers against top-down urban renewal policies.

Back to the Future explores new urbanism and urban revitalization within the context of public policy trends such as regional governance and the role of nonprofits.

The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial role in supporting urban creativity and contributing to the new creative economy - has become central to most regional and urban development strategies in recent years.

In the face of the ongoing climate emergency, can humanity keep chipping at its food sheds via urbanization?

There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology.

The first guide to the terminology of sustainable design.

Through a specific architectural lens, this book exposes the role the British Empire played in the development of apartheid.

A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years.

Dieses Buch stellt am Beispiel des Hamburger Stadtteils Wilhelmsburg einen strategischen Ansatz zum energetischen Quartiersumbau mit dem Ziel einer fast hundertprozentigen Versorgung durch erneuerbare und lokal erzeugte Energie bis zum Jahr 2050 vor.

The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development.

Creating Urban Agriculture Systems provides you with background, expertise, and inspiration for designing with urban agriculture.

This book presents a case study of one of Latin America's most important and symbolic spaces, the Zocalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic events and corresponding morphological changes in the urban environment.

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term 'transgression' and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios.

This book delves into the power relations between computational practices, technology infrastructures, knowledge, and their reproductions of bias in design at multiple scales.

'Sense of place' has become a familiar phrase, used to describe emotional attachment to a particular location.

City of Play shows how play is built into the very fabric of the modern city.

The resulting cultural differences can often create problems and conflict.

Through a specific architectural lens, this book exposes the role the British Empire played in the development of apartheid.

Experiential Landscape offers new ways of looking at the relationship between people and the outdoor open spaces they use in their everyday lives.

The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos.

With the exponential rise in leisure mobility, tourism has increasingly become of great economic significance.