City and town planning: architectural aspects

Diversity and Design explores how design - whether of products, buildings, landscapes, cities, media, or systems - affects diverse members of society.

The amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combining fantasy architecture, new technology, ersatz danger, spectacle and consumption in a new mass experience.

Solving Critical Design Problems demonstrates both how design is increasingly used to solve large, complex, modern-day problems and, as a result, how the role of the designer continues to develop in response.

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event.

This book investigates China's railway transformation through history, along with culture changes and urban development.

Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics, human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this book deals with some key subjects in urban design: the multidimensional effects of the spatial form of cities, ways of appropriating urban space, and the different material factors involved in the emergence of social life.

Today, 55% of the world's human population lives in urban areas.

The late twentieth century saw rapid growth in consumption and the expansion of retailing and services.

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.

This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics.

Landschaften werden oftmals als ›romantisch‹ wahrgenommen − und Städte?

FRONT TO BACK sees urban housing as places to live rather than individual buildings.

This book presents papers from the 10th Applied Research Conference in Africa (ARCA), showcasing the latest research on education and inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable communities.

A richly illustrated architectural biography of one of DCs most important boulevardsSixteenth Street NW in Washington, DC, has been called the Avenue of the Presidents, Executive Avenue, and the Avenue of Churches.

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

Through speeches, articles and interviews, this book highlights some of the more significant considerations that have run parallel with Vassilis Sgoutas' own steps in architecture.

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

For the past 30 years, The Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emerging architects based in private design firms who were committed to new material, theoretical and pedagogical practices.

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

In 1938 the U.

The "e;new community"e; movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing.

"e;A thorough education in how to move from simply maximizing the economic output of cities to improving the well-being of all urban residents.

Middle Eastern Cities: A Symposium on Ancient, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Urbanism is an essential exploration of the enduring relationship between urban centers and their surrounding societies throughout the history of the Middle East.

Space, place and territory are concepts that lie at the core of geography and urban planning, environmental studies and sociology.

Landscape and Infrastructure examines the relationships between landscape painting and landscape design from the seventeenth century to the present, and contemporary infrastructure projects around the globe.

The professional practice as well as the academic discipline of planning has been fundamentally re-invented all over the world in recent decades.

From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition.

In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are experts in their field.

End-users provide the most valuable perspective and insights into how public social space should function.

What is Manchester?

The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new nation state of India.

Experiential Landscape offers new ways of looking at the relationship between people and the outdoor open spaces they use in their everyday lives.

In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed.

Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art, environmental psychology, geography, political science, and social work.

Entender como se establecen las relaciones simbolicas en y con el paisaje urbano, como se lee la ciudad y se establecen empatias y apatias, que se expresan en geografias semioticas, imaginarios y relatos urbanos simbolicos, es el objetivo de esta investigacion; y para lograrlo, se establecieron tres dimensiones que la ciudad propone, la espacial o topologica, la objetual o plastica y la social; todas ellas simbolicas, se implican y determinan reciprocamente, en un proceso de construccion de identidades sociales de los habitantes con sus espacios, y a partir de estas, con ellos mismos, asi se entiende el espacio como mediador de lazos sociales que consolidan el paisaje y la realidad social urbana.

This highly original work examines the rise of the urban food planning movement in the Global North and provides insights into the new relationship between cities and food which has started developing over the past decade.

Originally published in 1985 this book explores, in four interwoven essays, the many ways human life and built form interact and the place that professional designing takes in this interaction.

This book uses blending theory in math cognition, and assesses the main aspect of this theory, called image schema theory.

Remaking Metropolis examines examples of both urban decay and destruction as well as urban rebirth.

In this basic textbook, prospective architects, urban and landscape planners receive assistance in working on urban development projects and designs.

The Berlin Tenement and the City describes the development of the Berlin tenement from 1860 to 1914, showing how it became both Berlin's standard housing type and its principal urban component - the city's ubiquitous typology.

Nirgends wachsen die Städte heute so schnell wie auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent.

Since its sudden and dramatic formation upon winning the competition to design Paisley Civic Centre in 1963, Hutchison, Locke and Monk (HLM Architects) has consistently served and adapted to the changing requirements of Britain's welfare state, and has instinctively dedicated its professional services to community architecture.