City and town planning: architectural aspects

Smart Cities are fascinating, but they also have a dark side that little is said or written about.

Memories of Cities is a collection of essays that explore different ways of writing about the political and economic history of the built environment.

The book addresses conceptual issues around urban transportation policy and practice in selected west African cities.

This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architecture to understand and unleash potential means to open up creativity in the field.

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health.

This book shows that the problem of climate adaptation, which is described in social planning terms as 'wicked,' is at odds with the contemporary practice of spatial planning.

This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old.

From street-markets and pop-up shops to art installations and Olympic parks, the temporary use of urban space is a growing international trend in architecture and urban design.

Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness to colonize the night, doubling the hours available for purposeful and industrious activities.

This volume considers the making of settlement as a process of identity formation.

While often seen as unplanned or spontaneous, informal settlement is better understood as a mode of production: a co-evolution of architecture, urban design and planning that embodies informal rules and shapes urban development.

With the impending demise of modernist planning, the footprints and corpses of failed modernist visions are littered everywhere.

Real estate development shapes the way people live and work, playing a crucial role in determining our built environment.

While the trend towards the growth of megacities creates huge challenges, it also offers the opportunity for reshaping mobility patterns in cities, promoting energy efficiency and principles of low carbon development.

In the contemporary moment, smart cities have become the dominant paradigm for urban planning and administration, which involves weaving the urban fabric with digital technologies.

The remarkable family of proteins that can make us very illbut can also be linked to long-term memory, immunity, and the origin of lifeOver the last decade, scientists have discovered the importance and widespread presence in the body of a remarkable family of proteins known as prion proteins.

Readers interested in urban studies and recent Detroit history will appreciate this thoughtful assessment of the best practices and obvious errors when it comes to reinventing our cities.

A New Way of Living tells the broad story of the development of new towns in the Scottish Highlands and Islands post-1750.

Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life's work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world's most exciting urban thinkers.

An innovative look at design solutions for building lifelong neighborhoods Livable Communities for Aging Populations provides architects and designers with critical guidance on urban planning and building design that allows people to age in their own homes and communities.

This book reflects the way in which the city interacts with the sacred in all its many guises, with religion and the human search for meaning in life.

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress.

The globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a fundamental shift in understandings of healthy urbanism.

This book looks at the current trends in Athens, the capital city of Greece, and focuses on the processes of globalization it has been undergoing during the last two decades.

Design Pedagogy explains why it is vital for design students that their education helps them construct a 'passport' to enter the professional sphere.

Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres.

State-of-the-Art Bridge and Highway Rehabilitation and Repair MethodsThis authoritative volume offers up-to-date guidance on the latest design techniques, repair methods, specialized software, materials, and advanced maintenance procedures for bridges and highway structures.

This volume introduces the notion of 'relational planning' through a collection of theoretical and empirical contributions that explore the making of heterogeneous associations in the planning practice.

A volume on the history of the English urban environment that will appeal to both general readers and academic specialists.

Taming the Oriental Bazaar examines the public market-hall as a key architectural feature of colonial South Asia.

Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore examines the role of the contemporary public school as an instrument of urban design.

This book offers the first, comprehensive guide to planning and conducting intracranial EEG studies, and analyzing intracranial EEG data.

Wildness and Wellbeing explores the dynamic relationships between urban nature and mental health, offering practical strategies for urban design.

Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political philosophy or social agenda that the author intended.

The town hall or city hall as a place of local governance is historically related to the founding of cities in medieval Europe.

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.

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression.

Temporary and Tactical Urbanism examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century.

This book is an interdisciplinary research work designed to be of interest to a broad range of academics.

Critics have long voiced concerns about the wisdom of living in cities and the effects of city life on physical and mental health.

Traditional approaches to understand space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses.

This series of essays outlines a number of case studies from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia and provides first hand accounts of the experiences that planners, architects and politicians have had in reshaping cities.

This book underlines the importance of establishing, in the planning and urban policies oriented towards sustainability, a relationship between the urban expansion - observed in its different forms and dynamics - and the ability of soil and landscape to support agricultural productivity and interface processes.

In einer Welt, die zunehmend von Urbanisierung und Dichte geprägt ist, stehen Städteplaner und Architekten vor der Herausforderung, Lebensräume zu schaffen, die nicht nur funktional, sondern auch lebenswert sind.

This book explores the methodological strategies for linking philosophy and neuroscience concerning the study of the conscious brain.

Helmut Holzapfel's Urbanism and Transport, a bestseller in its own country, now available in English, examines the history and the future of urban design for transport in major European cities.

This book presents an architectural overview of Dublin's mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s.

This important work, now available in paperback, from Professor Geoffrey Broadbent, provides a clear analysis of the nature of many of today's design problems, identifying their causes in history and suggesting a basis for co-ordinated solutions.