City and town planning: architectural aspects

This book explores demographic changes in Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) in Poland since 1990.

Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s.

** Honorable Mention at the 2019 ERDA Great Places Awards ** Making Places for People explores twelve social questions in environmental design.

This book presents eleven case studies of success about Latin America tourism.

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries-all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps.

With a practical approach to theory, Designing the City of Reason offers new perspectives on how differing belief systems and philosophical approaches impact on city design and development, exploring how this has changed before, during and after the impact of modernism in all its rationalism.

The book presents a comprehensive vision of the impact of ICT on the contemporary city, heritage, public spaces and meta-cities on both urban and metropolitan scales, not only in producing innovative perspectives but also related to newly discovered scientific methods, which can be used to stimulate the emerging reciprocal relations between cities and information technologies.

In the latter part of the C20th, a series of seminal books were written which examined Los Angeles by the likes of Reyner Banham, Mike Davis, Edward Soja, Allen Scott, Michael Dear, Frederick Jameson, Umberto Eco, Bernard-Henri Levy, and Jean Baudrillard which have been hugely influential in thinking about cities more broadly.

Processes of Creating Space is a workbook for beginning designers that shows how to generate space with user experiences in mind.

Amid Japan's political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism.

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the implementation of design strategies and increased pedestrian activity.

Current planning and design modes of cities are facing challenges of philosophy and form.

By 2025, China will have built fifteen new 'supercities' each with 25 million inhabitants.

Visual technology saturates everyday life.

PROSE Award Finalist 2019Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly ExcellenceAs a follow up to his widely acclaimed Sustainable Urbanism, this new book from author Douglas Farr embraces the idea that the humanitarian, population, and climate crises are three facets of one interrelated human existential challenge, one with impossibly short deadlines.

Cities are built over the remnants of their past buried beneath their present.

During recent years, the topic of participation has increasingly been gaining importance in Iran - in the scientific field, in practice and rhetoric.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Territoriale Strategien" verfügbar.

This fascinating book traces the relationship of European-Australian culture to this ancient river system.

Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the enduring relationship between class and the urban.

Architecture and designed landscapes serve as grand mnemonic devices that record and transmit vital aspects of culture and history.

The book focuses on original approaches intended to support the development of biologically inspired cognitive architectures.

Over the past two decades, city economies have restructured in response to the decline of older industries.

Windows Upon Planning History delves into a wide range of perspectives on urbanism from Europe, Australia and the USA to investigate the effects of changing perceptions and different ways of seeing cities and urban regions.

Creating Urban Agriculture Systems provides you with background, expertise, and inspiration for designing with urban agriculture.

What makes a city?

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.

Este libro es a la vez un manual para los que ejercen su profesión en el campo del transporte y de la movilidad urbana, y una obra de reflexión para quienes se interrogan acerca de los problemas actuales de las ciudades.

European cities are changing rapidly in part due to the process of de-industrialization, European integration and economic globalization.

If data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics: Why are the places where it is stored still so invisible?

The constant in architecture's evolution is change.

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies.

This edited collection investigates gender-sensitive spaces, design practices, and provocations that challenge the complex social and material structures that shape inequities of access and inclusion in the urban environment.

The fourth book in Nadia Amoroso's Representing Landscapes series, this text focuses on traditional methods of visual representation in landscape architectural education.

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

Urban Wildscapes is one of the first edited collections of writings about urban 'wilderness' landscapes.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

This book offers a multivocal and interdisciplinary arena that brings together a wide range of thoughts and approaches addressing the intricacies of dealing with the historical city today.

Trotz ihrer Größe zählen die Kleinbauten zu den wesentlichen Bestandteilen der Großstadt und zeugen von ihrer Entwicklung.

How to Build a Human Brain takes a developmental approach to understanding brain structure and function.

Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability explores and unravels the phenomena, links and benefits between density, compactness and the sustainability of cities.

The last twenty years have witnessed an important movement in the aspirations of public policy beyond meeting merely material goals towards a range of outcomes captured through the use of the term 'wellbeing'.

Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time.

As towns and cities worldwide deal with fast-increasing land pressures, while also trying to promote more sustainable, connected communities, the creation of green spaces within urban areas is receiving greater attention than ever before.