City and town planning: architectural aspects

Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in landscape and urban design.

This book focuses on understanding how a megacity like Seoul can be read as a formal architectural composition and not an endless urban sprawl.

This book thoroughly examines the aims of green urbanism, providing a perspective to help responding to the growing environmental challenges posed by the enormous increase in human needs.

Through illustrated case studies and conceptual re-framings, this volume showcases ongoing transformations in public space, and its relationship to the public realm more broadly in the world's most populous urban megaregion-the Greater Bay Area of southeastern China-projected to reach eighty million inhabitants by the year 2025.

This book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape as engines of regeneration.

Learn how to conduct and evaluate a successful Phase I ESA to identify existing or potential environmental hazards and 'special resources' for a subject property.

CoDesign: People, Participation, Practice explores the past, present, trends, and future potential of codesign and participatory practices globally.

Hong Kongs Grenze zu Shenzhen befindet sich in Auflosung: bis 2047 wird sie verschwunden sein.

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

In the context of mounting challenges stemming from a rapid transformation of the urban-regional landscapes in many Asian countries, this book highlights a multifaceted array of issues that increasingly engage the academic and planning communities in search of viable solutions to complex problems facing us.

Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a consensual perspective on this complex matter.

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.

This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture.

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

This book concerns the study of open-air accommodation facilities.

Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process.

Given the rapid evolution of concepts such as smart cities, who are the architects riding the wave of new possibilities for urban design?

The City has long been the main generator of London's wealth and, needless to say, the impact of the Economic Crisis in the recent years on the City has greatly affected the wider urban and surrounding region, not to say country as a whole.

What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean?

Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most compelling imagery, while photography profoundly influences how architecture is represented, imagined and produced.

Die Tower Bridge – mehr als nur eine Brücke, sie ist ein Symbol für Londons Ingenieurskunst, architektonische Schönheit und historischen Wandel.

This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of 'placemaking' in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years.

Exploring Food and Urbanism looks at the ways food and cities interconnect in a diversity of places across the globe.

Three Cultural Ecologies reverses common conceptions of modern architecture.

La inteligencia es un tema que ocupa gran parte de nuestras vidas.

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.

Here is a book about the practical design of communities and housing in which people can enjoy a good quality of life, free from crime and fear of crime.

Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city's uniqueness and make it instantly recognisable.

This book thoroughly examines the aims of green urbanism, providing a perspective to help responding to the growing environmental challenges posed by the enormous increase in human needs.

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest's influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of "e;forest thinking"e; for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today.

Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "e;sustainable urbanism"e;--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and buildings.

Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces.

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.

How Drawings Work cheekily explains that what architects make is information that enables other people to make buildings.

The Affective Agency of Public Space explores the pivotal role that public spaces play in fostering social inclusion and community cohesion within various settings, including Europe and the United States.

Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians' safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts on street, path, and park aesthetics and neighborhood sense of place.

Authored by two architects, Polish Architecture in Contemporary Innovation: Thoughts, Dreams and Places tells a story of buildings that were built in Poland between 1980 and 2020, as architecture developed in the Western world and Japan.

This book explores the concept of livable cities, where people enjoy living and being, and examines indicators of citizens' well-being in relation to the urban environment.

Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela explores the changes cities face when they become metropolises, forming expanding regions which create both potential and problems within settlements.

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.