City and town planning: architectural aspects

Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking.

This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in post-independence India.

After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.

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

This book combines theory and practice with typical cases study.

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.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Geschichte einer Stadt, die seit Jahrtausenden das Herz Europas schlägt.

This book explores the molecular mechanisms of iron hemostasis in the brain and discusses the cognitive and behavioral implications of iron deficiency.

Increasing urbanization and increasing urban density put enormous pressure on the relationships between people and place in cities.

The theory of anticipation suggests that systems, both biological and social, can adapt and update based on predictive models.

En région bruxelloise, les demandes architecturales de densification verticale à travers la surélévation d’un bâti existant font leur retour en force depuis quelques années.

The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Community Planning: How to Solve Urban and Environmental Problems covers the basic theoretical principles of community planning and how planning has evolved in the United States.

This new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of heritage planning and conservation.

Bringing to light the debt twentieth-century modernist architects owe to the vernacular building traditions of the Mediterranean region, this book considers architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1980s.

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

Today, the increasing mobility of capital, people and information has changed the space relations of urban societies.

Paris between the wars: our impression is one of gaiety, frivolity, fashion, of exuberant living - a city whose lights were put out by the terrifyingly rapid advance of the German panzers in 1940.

Circular Design for Zero Emission Architecture and Building Practice: It is the Green Way or the Highway presents the main concepts of circular architecture and building design, focusing on emerging trends in zero-emission buildings, particularly zero- and minus- carbon practice.

For a long time, urban agriculture initiatives have been explored and novel policy and planning practices have been investigated.

This book answers the question of how to design a sharing system that can promote sustained, meaningful, and socially constructive sharing practices in today's cities.

This unique volume presents the practical tools for architects and urban designers to improve the work processes of architectural design-from conception to construction, taking into consideration the personalized world of users, architects, and urban designers.

Introducing a new concept of urban space, Cities and Metaphors encourages a theoretical realignment of how the city is experienced, thought and discussed.

This is the first book ever to examine the architecture and urbanism of the Persian Gulf as a complete entity, dealing equally with conditions on the eastern Iranian shoreline as in Arabic countries on the western side.

The notion of data is increasingly encountered in spatial, creative and cultural studies.

A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry.

The Shenzhen Phenomenon is a comprehensive and systematic study about how Shenzhen, the world's fastest growing city, has developed into an international metropolis from scratch within 40 years.

In the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic planned to construct a city center that was simultaneously modern and historical, consisting of both redesign of old buildings and new architectural developments.

The hawari of Cairo - narrow non-straight alleyways - are the basic urban units that have formed the medieval city since its foundation back in 969 AD.

Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment of the future.

While global urban development increasingly takes on the mantle of sustainability and "e;green urbanism,"e; both the ecological and equity impacts of these developments are often overlooked.

This volume discusses the patterns and trends of urbanization in West Bengal - one of the most urbanized states of India in the early part of the 20th Century.

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

Memorials are more diverse in design and subject matter than ever before.

Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the streets of your city?

Along with globalization, urban transitions have been central in the southward shift in economic power towards the newly emerging economies.

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

This book examines the inclusiveness of city planning and design to address gaps in policies, strategies and design guidelines for developing trans-generational urban communities in India.

The book discusses how division affect the fabric of cities, and people's sense of identity and agency, and are reflected in physical features, architecture, and urban planning.

This is the first volume exclusively dedicated to planning education, with a focus on India and learning from global experiences for India.

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?

New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in today's world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consider the role of Islamism rather than Islam in shaping - and in return being shaped by - the built environment.

There is a strong case today for a specific focus on mental public health and its relation to social and physical environments.