City and town planning: architectural aspects

At the intersection of architecture, art, public culture, and political theory, Socializing Architecture urges architects and urbanists to mobilize a new public imagination toward a more just and equitable urbanization.

Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012.

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

This book compiles a curated selection of texts authored by architects and scholars hailing from Asia, Europe, and North America.

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement—and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement.

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.

For the last seven decades, urban settlement policy worldwide has been increasingly dominated by modernist precepts and by urban decisions made in discipline-specific 'silos'.

Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination.

Given current projections of population and household numbers, housing has become arguably the most important issue in planning.

This book studies the increasing use of data analytics and technology in urban planning and development in developing nations.

Since the late 1990s, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been hailed as a potentially revolutionary feature of the planning and management of Western cities.

Socially Sustainable Neighbourhood Design for Children and Youth explores social sustainability in neighbourhood design, with a particular focus on providing practical design recommendations to improve the lives of children and youth.

Städtische Orte und Räume sind so verschieden wie die Wahrnehmung ihrer Differenz.

Winner of the 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University Located Research This book is the long awaited sequel to "e;Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities"e;.

This compelling resource, which was first published in 1993, was the first book on facility programming to design parameters and specifications over a broad range of project types.

This book addresses Naples' relationship with Italy, since the introduction of direct mayoral election in 1993 and as articulated in cultural production.

First published in 1992, this book collects together the papers presented at the International Symposium on Design Review which was held to address the growing tendency of local governments to institute programs of aesthetic control.

This book explores how Malaysia, as a multicultural modern nation, has approached issues of nationalism and regionalism in terms of physical expression of the built environment.

Mobilising Place Management makes an important contribution to the mobilities field by arguing for the need to rethink place management.

Waste management has become a great challenge for cities and urban areas, especially in countries with a high population density.

From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of architecture.

'Nature' and the 'city' have most often functioned as opposites within Western culture, a dichotomy that has been reinforced (and sometimes challenged) by religious images.

Here Sir Terry Farrell, who has built an international career as an architect-planner, encourages other planners and architects to follow the biologists look at, learn from, and, indeed, admire the nature of the forces that drive the change, and then with humility and respect work with them to nudge, anticipate and prepare for where it takes us.

Planning is described as being increasingly sidelined by the impacts of neo-liberal restructuring.

Budapest compte plusieurs quartiers urbains qui, à des époques variées, ont été qualifiés d’« historiques ».

The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points that can be used to further the agenda of transport planning.

Les micro-espaces de la santé incitent à renouveler l’approche géographique de l’habitat.

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

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.

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

Based on the recovery of the three key words: professionalism, professionals, professions, the narration is organised in the form of a voyage of reconnaissance in discovery, which attempts to recompose a puzzle that is today completely dispersed.

Urban Transformations through Exceptional Architecture focusses on the nexus between architecturally exceptional projects and the city.

This richly illustrated book examines the full potential of Digital Twins (DTs) as a means of creating more sustainable urban habitats.

Decolonising the Built Environment: Process, Product, and Pedagogy provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, in practice, and as a process/project today.

My dog understands me!

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.

Which new institutions do we need in order to trigger local- and global sustainable urban development?

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.

The shop/house - the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings - appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world.

Cities in both North and South America are confronting tremendous challenges in urban growth and management as they enter the new century.

Set within a wider British and international context of post-war reconstruction, The Everyday Experiences of Reconstruction and Regeneration focuses on such debates and experiences in Birmingham and Coventry as they recovered from Second World War bombings and post-war industrial collapse.

Riyadh has set its sights on becoming a world city befitting the twenty-first century.

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a retrospective view of women street vendors and their urban environments in Baguio City, designed by American architect and planner Daniel Burnham in the early twentieth century, and established by the American imperial government as a place for healing and well-being.