City and town planning: architectural aspects

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based 'company town' projects built in association with the 'Big Three' powers of World War II.

The history of post Second World War reconstruction has recently become an important field of research around the world; Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction is a provocative work that questions the orthodoxies of twentieth century design history.

The focus of this book is on understanding and explaining the way that our increasingly networked world impacts on the legibility of cities; that is how we experience and inhabit urban space.

This book examines the best available empirical evidence regarding one of the most challenging and pervasive questions throughout ages, cultures, and religions: the survival of human consciousness after death.

In the mid-1990s, the state government of Maharashtra introduced an innovative strategy of slum redevelopment in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay).

Stadtischer Raum ist ein Gemeingut, ein commons"e;: ein Ort der Zusammenarbeit und des Verhandelns von Menschen und zugleich deren Ergebnis.

Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives.

Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings.

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

The Speculative City explores property speculation as a key aspect of financialization and its role in reshaping the contemporary built environment.

This volume of essays explores how the global city is confronting new forms of crises and disruption.

During the twentieth century, an increasingly diverse range of buildings and spaces was used for theatre.

This book sets out to explore the political and social potential of intercultural policy for cities by bringing together advances in the areas of urban planning and intercultural theory.

Written by leading design philosopher Tony Fry, Writing Design Fiction: Relocating a City in Crisis is both an introduction to the power of design fiction in the design process, and a novella-length work of fiction in itself-telling the dramatic story of the relocation of the City of Harshon.

The traditional Chinese city is undergoing an identity crisis.

This book explores the complex relationship between urban commons - understood as a repertoire of collective action that fosters a politics of antagonism - and the local state.

The introduction of iron - and later steel - construction and decoration transformed architecture in the nineteenth century.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of affectivity and human learning by bridging the gap between neuroscience, cultural and cognitive psychology.

Global City Typologies explores the historical, cultural and socio-economic transactional forces in the development of existing cities through to newly planned and emerging cities.

Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture?

GNSS can detect the seismic atmospheric-ionospheric variations, which can be used to investigate the seismo-atmospheric disturbance characteristics and provide insights on the earthquake.

The central premise of Design for Transport is that the designer's role is to approach design for transport from the point of view of the user.

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.

Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townhouses.

Cet ouvrage présente quelques contraintes auxquelles sont confrontées les villes congolaises.

Les « Sciences du design » regroupent les disciplines universitaires professionnelles qui partagent un dispositif pédagogique historique et unique, celui de l’Atelier de design, dans lequel on dispense un enseignement appelé le « projet » de design.

An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to todayAmerica's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades-celebrated and scorned as one of the hippest destinations in the world.

If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of affectivity and human learning by bridging the gap between neuroscience, cultural and cognitive psychology.

This book works with two contrasting imaginings of 1960s London: the one of the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, the other of the radical and experimental cultural politics generated by the city's counterculture.

Challenging the widely held notion of a hospice as a building or a place, this book argues that it should instead be a philosophy of care.

This book aims to fill the knowledge gap on how to plan, develop and manage innovation districts that are competitive in terms of both productivity and quality of living, justifying the massive investment put into place and at the same time doing both in a delicate and harmonious way.

Spatial Implications and Planning Criteria for High-speed Rail Cities and Regions evaluates the varied experiences that HSR systems have brought about to different station-cities and their regional territories around the world, with an eye towards better future planning and policy of such systems.

This book highlights the citizens' continuous participation in a wide range of urban affairs, especially outside institutional frameworks.

Latinos are one of the largest and fastest growing social groups in the United States, and their increased presence is profoundly shaping the character of urban, suburban, and rural places.

The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction.

This book demonstrates that contracts, community intermediaries, and participatory processes are closely interlinked, and they can change urban politics.

There is endless talk about the need for an urban renaissance; can it happen in the real world?

The book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling into the divides architecture/society, nature/culture, materiality/meaning?

Remaking Post-Industrial Cities: Lessons from North America and Europe examines the transformation of post-industrial cities after the precipitous collapse of big industry in the 1980s on both sides of the Atlantic, presenting a holistic approach to restoring post-industrial cities.

Breslau, eine der attraktivsten und dynamischsten Städte in Polen, übt auf Bewohner wie Besucher einen besonderen Reiz aus.

This double-volume work focuses on socio-demographics and the use of such data to support strategic resource management and planning initiatives.

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on art's dialectical and evolving relationship with urban regeneration processes.

Designing the Compassionate City outlines an approach to urban design that is centred on an explicit recognition of the inherent dignity of all people.

The New Towns Programme of 1946 to 1970 was one of the most substantial periods of urban development in Britain.

The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists in the Soviet Union to the technocratic and austere vision of Le Corbusier.